The Shaindy Rudoff Graduate Program
in Creative Writing
Ink, Inc.: History, Community, Text
May 13-15, 2018
Building 206, Bar-Ilan University
Conference Program
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Sunday, May 13
18:00 Reception
18:45
History and Fiction, Memory and Imagination:
Writing the Past Responsibly
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An Evening with Deborah Lipstadt and Rachel Kadish, in conversation with Ilana Blumberg
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Dvar Torah: William Kolbrener
Monday, May 14
12:00-13:30
Translation Workshop with Evan Fallenberg
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15:00-16:30
Hybrid Forms Workshop with Marcela Sulak and Erika Meitner
18:15 Reception
19:00
An Evening in Honor of Linda Zisquit
with Special Guest Alicia Ostriker
Moderator: Marcela Sulak
Introduction: Sharon Baris
Words in honor of Linda: Allen Hoffman
Sidra Ezrahi
Tuesday, May 15
10:00-11:30
Creative Nonfiction Workshop with Rachel Kadish
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12:00-13:30
Poetry Workshop with Linda Zisquit and Alicia Ostriker
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14:00-15:30
Fiction Workshop with Dalia Rosenfeld
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14:45-1500
Bar Ilan Campus Tour (for invited guests)
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16:00-17:30
The Andi Moriah Poetry & Dave Greber Non-Fiction Social Justice Awards Ceremony
Annual Alumni Reading
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18:15 Reception
19:00
12th Annual Shaindy Rudoff Memorial Evening
in memory of Founding Director Shaindy Rudoff, z”l
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Remembering Shaindy: Sara Rudoff Olshin
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Dvar Torah: Michael Kramer
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Conversation with Erika Meitner and Ilana Kurshan
Moderator: Ilana Blumberg
**Featured authors' books for sale by Sippur Pashut.
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The conference is held with the generous help of the Office of the Vice-President for Research; the Faculty of Humanities; the Kaplan Program in in American Literature; the Lechter Institute for Literary Research; and the Lewis Family Foundation for International Conferences in the Humanities.
