Where: The Desmond Tutu Center Refectory, 180 10th Ave., New York City<\/p>\n
The Writer\u2019s Imagination and the Imagination of the State:<\/em> In 1986, Norman Mailer, PEN<\/span> American Center\u2019s then-president, organized a legendary conference titled, The Writer\u2019s Imagination and the Imagination of the State. In it he asserted that not only did writers use their imaginations naturally and gracefully to speak to one another across national boundaries, but that governments, too, were capable of using their visions to improve the world\u2019s troubles. To mark the 25th anniversary of this event, the PEN<\/span> World Voices Festival will hold a Working Day to revisit similar questions while addressing urgent issues facing writer-intellectuals in 2011. This workshop will begin with a panel discussion, including keynote addresses. It will be followed by five breakout sessions, each addressing topics related to how writers can respond to current predicaments and help find peaceful solutions. At the day\u2019s end, the participants will release a joint manifesto, drafted by one and signed by all\u2014the first of its kind in the festival\u2019s history.<\/p>\n Keynote speakers: Anthony Appiah, Toni Morrison, Charles Norman, Dale Peck, John Ralston Saul, Vladimir Sorokin, G. M. Tam\u00e1s, and Frank Westerman, with a message from Bard High School<\/p>\n Open to PEN<\/span> Members, Festival authors, heads of cultural agencies, and press. RSVP<\/span> to jessica@pen.org by April 22. Limited space. Please register early.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Where: The Desmond Tutu Center Refectory, 180 10th Ave., New York City The Writer\u2019s Imagination and the Imagination of the State: Writers Respond to What\u2019s Gone Wrong and How to Fix Things In 1986, Norman Mailer, PEN American Center\u2019s then-president, organized a legendary conference titled, The Writer\u2019s Imagination and the Imagination of the State. In […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":96,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67486],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-283776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/96"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=283776"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":345036,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283776\/revisions\/345036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nWriters Respond to What\u2019s Gone Wrong and How to Fix Things<\/em><\/p>\n