MLA public sessions in San Francisco

The Modern Language Association conference is in San Francisco at the Hilton through Tuesday, Dec 30th
and a number of sessions are free and open to the public. 

The website requires free registration to look at the conference program and isn't easy to
navigate, so I'll list a few of the open sessions here.

Sunday, Dec 28th

Public Shakespeares Noon to 1:15, Continental 1-2, Hilton

Grace Paley Writing the World: Literature and Legacy, 1:45 - 3:30 pm, Continental 1-2, Hilton
with Dorothy Allison, Thulani Davis, Gish Jen, & Galway Kinnell

Biocultures: Closing the Science-Humanities Gap, 1:45 - 3:30 pm, Continental 5, Hilton

Politics and the Classroom: A Roundtable 3:30 - 4:45 pm, Continental 5, Hilton

A Screening of the silent film When Lincoln Paid, 5:15 - 6:30 pm, Golden Gate 8, Hilton

Storytelling from Native California, 5:15 - 6:30 pm, Golden Gate 5, Hilton

A Reading by Three Black South African Women Writers, 5:15 - 6:30 pm, Golden Gate 3, Hilton
with Gabeba Baderoon, Yvette T. Chritanse, & Nadia Davids

The Impropriety of Faust: Marking the Two Hundredth Anniversary of Goethe's Play, 7:15 - 8:30 pm, Club Room, Marriott

The Presidential Address, 8:40 pm, Continental 5, Hilton

Monday, Dec 29tth

Return to Prince Edward Island: Anne of Green Gables at One Hundred, 8:30 - 9:45 am, Sutter, Hilton

The Story Hearer: Grace Paley's Poetry & Prose, 10:15 - 11:30 am, Golden Gate 3, Hilton

Literature of Immigrants, noon to 1:15 pm, Franciscan B, Hilton

Our Affection for Books, noon to 1:15 pm, Yosemite B, Hilton

The Responsibility of the Poet: Grace Paley Writing Social Change with Susan Griffin, 3:30 - 4:45 pm, Golden Gate 3, Hilton
 
Editing Manuscripts in Digital & Print Forms, 3:30 - 4:45 pm, Yosemite B, Hilton

Crossing Borders: Four Scottish Poets in Conversations, 5:15 - 6:30 pm
with Gerry Cambridge, David Kinloch, Alan Riach, & Fiona J Wilson

The Bay Area as a Site of Resistance in Native American Literature, 9 - 10:15 pm, Lombard, Hilton

Tuesday, Dec 30th

The Godfather at Forty: Retrospectives on Puzo's Italian America and Its Meanings for American Culture, 8:30 - 9:45 am, Union Square 24, Hilton

There was a panel on microblogging Sunday morning.