Events Update

February:

Feb. 20-24th

Natchez Literary and Cinema Celebration – Dedicated to Richard Wright

Copiah-Lincoln Community College

Natchez, Mississippi


March:

March 28-30th -- 8:30 a.m.

Conference on Black Writers

Medgar Evers College

Brooklyn, NY


March 29th -- 4:30 p.m.

“Richard Wright at 100: looking backward and forward”

Hosted by the Organization of America Historians

Schomburg Center

Harlem, NY




April:

April 12th -- 7:30 p.m.

Staged Reading of the Paul Green Adaptation of Native Son

University of North Carolina

Gerrard Hall

Chapel Hill, NC



April 13th -- 1:00 p.m.

Richard Wright Day

University of North Carolina

Gerrard Hall

Chapel Hill, NC



April 20-27th

Richard Wright Week

Various Locations

Philadelphia, PA



May:

May 29th -- 7:00 p.m.

Village Voice Bookshop

Paris, France



June:

June 9th -- 11:45 a.m.

“Celebrating the Centennial of Richard Wright, American Author”

American Corner: Universita Del Litorale

Koper, Slovenia




June 11th -- 1:00 p.m.

“Celebrating the Centennial of Richard Wright, American Author”

Public Library

Zagreb, Croatia



June 19-21st

International Richard Wright Centennial Conference

American University of Paris

Paris, France


June 25th -- 4:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.

Tsuru University

Yamanashi, Japan



June 28th -- 2:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.

Day 1: Japanese Black Studies Association Conference

Hiroshima Jogakuin University

Hiroshima, Japan



June 29th --- 9:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.

Day 2: Japanese Black Studies Association Conference

Hiroshima Jogakuin University

Hiroshima, Japan



July:

July 4th

Okinawa International University

Ginowan City, Okinawa


September:

September 4-12th

Jackson Mississippi Richard Wright Week

Various Venues


October:

October 1st

First DuBois Institute Colloquium – Harvard

Cambridge, MA

RICHARD WRIGHT EVENTS

This is a working schedule. Events to be updated as confirmed.

FEBRUARY:

Natchez, MS Literary and Cinema Celebration

Feb. 20 - 24
 

Jackson, MS Event at Richard Wright Library

Note: event still to be confirmed.

MARCH:

Medgar Evers College in NYC -- Conference of Black Writers: March 28-30

Schomberg Center for Research Panel Event

March 29 at 4:30 PM

APRIL:

Chapel Hill/UNC

April 13th

 

Texas Library Association Black Caucus: April 17

Philadelphia Richard Wright week Apr 21 - Apr 27 (Richard Wright Day is April 27)

JUNE:

University of Kansas – Summer Institute on How to Teach Wright

Note: event still to be confirmed.

Richard Wright Reading Circles

The American University in Paris conference

June 19

Seminar in Hiroshima, Japan, sponsored by the Japanese Black Studies Association: end of June

SEPT:

September 4 to 12: Jackson Richard Wright week at various venues.

OCT:

Dubois Institute / Harvard

1st week in October