2008-2009 Lectures and Readings
All events are free and open to the public. Tickets are not required. Click on "News Archive" above to learn about past events.
Russell Banks: A Reading and Conversation
Tuesday, February 24 at 7 p.m. - UNLV Student Union Theatre (map)
Co-sponsored by the UNLV Department of English
Co-sponsored by the UNLV Department of English
Russell Banks is the founding president of Cities of Refuge North America and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His novels include The Reserve, Cloudsplitter, The Darling, The Relation of My Imprisonment, Continental Drift, Rule of the Bone, Affliction, and The Sweet Hereafter. The latter two works were adapted into feature films that received widespread critical acclaim, and The Darling is currently under development by Focus Features and Martin Scorsese. His work has been translated into twenty languages and has received numerous international prizes and awards, including the Ingram Merrill Award and the John Dos Passos Award. Banks lives in upstate New York and is the New York State Author. He will serve at the Elias Ghanem Chair in Creative Writing at UNLV from mid-February to mid-March.
"Books into Film"
Wednesday, March 11 at 7 p.m. - UNLV Student Union Theatre (map)
Co-sponsored by CineVegas
Co-sponsored by CineVegas
With film critic Elvis Mitchell, novelist Russell Banks, and other special guests to be announced.
Black Mountain Institute Fellows: a Conversation
Monday, April 27 at 7 p.m. - Barrick Museum Auditorium (map)
With Luljeta Lleshanaku, Mary Palevsky, and Robert Rosenberg: 2008-09 BMI Fellows. (more information)
Generous support for Black Mountains's public programming is provided by the National Endowment for the Arts, the Harrah's Foundation, Nevada Public Radio, Las Vegas CityLife, and the Las Vegas Review-Journal.
