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The Thursday night and Friday convocation (10 a.m.) sessions are free and open to the public. Admission to all other sessions is by paid registration. Your official name tag will serve as your pass. Please do not disrupt sessions by entering after they have begun or leaving before they are over. All plenary sessions will meet in the sanctuary of the Goshen College Church-Chapel (CC) building.

8 a.m. - 3:30	Registration in CC south hallway
8:30 a.m.	PAPERS - THREE CONCURRENT SESSIONS Session A - Rudy Wiebe - CC 300-301 - Paul Dyck, chair Janne Korkka, "Rudy Wiebe's Mennonite Novels" J. D. Mininger, "Do Mennonites Have Passion? Or, Encountering the Ahistorical in Peace Shall Destroy Many" Edna Froese, "'Adam, who are you?': The Earth-Bound Protagonist of Rudy Wiebe's Sweeter Than All the World" Session B - Poetry - CC 141-42 - Ellen Kroeker, chair Doug Reimer, "Patrick Friesen: A Voice for His People" Ann Hostetler, "Coming into Voice: Three Mennonite Women Poets and the 20th Century Creation of an Ethnic Literary Tradition" Darlene Mathis Eddy, "Language of Light, Window of Metaphore: Ilumination and Insight in the Poetry of Jean Janzen" Jeff Gundy, "Heresy and the Individual Talent" Session C - Theory - CC 143-44 - Jo-Ann Brant, Chair Maurice Mierau, "Why Rudy Wiebe Is the Last Mennonite Writer"
10:00 a.m.	PLENARY SESSION - READINGS - Church-Chapel Patrick Friesen and Sandra Birdsell, S. A. Yoder Memorial Lectureship -- Beth Martin Birky presideing
10:45 a.m.	BREAK with refreshments in CC south hallway
11:15 a.m.	PLENARY SESSION - READINGS - Church-Chapel David Wright, Rosemary Nixon, David Kline --Jo-Ann Brant presiding
12:30	LUNCH
2 p.m.	PAPERS - THREE CONCURRENT SESSIONS Session D - Rudy Wiebe, CC 300-01 - Victor Jerrett Ens, chair Maryann Jantzen, "Believing Is Seeing: Re-Storying the Self in Rudy Wiebe's Sweeter Than All the World" Maurice Mierau, "Why Rudy Wiebe is the Last Mennonite Writer" Jane Robinett, "No Place Left to Go but Home: Telling His/story in Sweeter Than All the World" Session E - Julia Kasdorf, CC 141-42 -Margaret Loewen Reimer, chair Beth Martin Birky, "'Sloughing off Rib's: Revealing The Second Sex in Julia Kasdorf's Poetry" John Fisher, "Eve's Striptease: What's in a Name" Laura Weaver, "Transitional Spaces as Community in Julia Kasdorf's Poetry and Prose" Susan Fisher Miller, "Memory Lost and Found: Inspired Forgetfulness in Julia Kasdorf's The Body and the Book" Session F - Alternative Texts, CC 143-44 - Everett Thomas, chair Marilyn Lehman, "Writing the Everyday Self: Identity and Self-Consciousness in Amish Women's Diaries" Ruth Derksen Siemens, "Audience Design: The Censor as Reader of Russian Mennonite Letters in an Age of Terror (1930-38)" Daniel Born, "From Cross to Cross Stitch: The Ascendancy of the Quilt"
3:30 p.m.	BREAK with refreshments in CC south hallway
4 p.m.	PLENARY SESSION - READINGS IN Church-Chapel Omar Eby, Jeff Gundy, Barb Nickel, David Waltner-Toews --Jay B. Landis presiding
5:30 p.m.	SUPPER HOUR
7:30-9:30 p.m.	Informal readings, open to all conference participants Late-night readings and conversation in Leafraker (Union Building)

"Mennonite Artists," Goshen College Art Gallery, Music Center, Goshen College.
--Reception with light supper (contribution welcomed), Friday, 5-7 p.m.
"Friendship Quilts and Family Records," Library Gallery, Basement of Good Library, Goshen College.
Mennonite Historical Library, 3rd Floor of Good Library, Goshen College.
Goshen Archives of the Mennonite Church USA, Newcomer Center Annex, Goshen College.
Sale of books by conference participants in CC 306, Thurs. 6-10 p.m., Fri. 10:30-3:30, Sat. 10-3:30.
Displays of Broadsides, Pinchpenny Press books, Mennonite literary exotica in CC 306.

Co-Chairs Ervin Beck (Goshen College) and Hildi Froese Tiessen (Conrad Grebel University College); Paul Tiessen (Wilfrid Laurier University), Jeff Gundy (Bluffton College); Ann Hostetler, Beth Martin Birky, Kevin Saylor (Goshen College); Todd Davis (Iowa State university): student assistants Monika Smetanaand Melissa Dunne (Conrad Grebel) and Jessica Meyer and Jesse Conrad (Goshen College).

The conference is sponsored by Conrad Grebel University College, the English Department and Pinchpenny Press of Goshen College, the Marpeck Foundation, and anonymous donors through Mennonite Foundation and Conrad Grebel University College. We are also grateful to Rudy Wiebe for the gift of signed first editions of his books.

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For local telephone calls, use the wall phone (free) near the end of the southwest Church-Chapel corridor.
For long distance calls, use the payphone in the Union Building lobby.
ATM (Farm Bureau) is in the Union Building lobby.
The Goshen College business office window is open Th-Fri 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. (basement of Administration Bldg.)
For taxi service, call Ace Cab Line (Goshen Transit), 295-6886.
For bus service, hail The Bus from the kiosk on College Avenue--10 minutes past or 20 minutes till the hour.
--headed west, it goes downtown and to Elkhart; headed east, it goes to U.S. 33, Super Walmart, and hotels.

For meal service on campus or within 10-minute walking distance of the conference site:
Sodexho Dining Hall, Westlawn, Goshen College
-- Breakfast 7:30-9:00 (hot), to 10:30 a.m. (continental), $4.26 + tax (Sat-Sun, continental only).
-- Lunch M-F 11-1:15; Sat-Sun 12-1 p.m.; $5.96 + tax.
-- Supper M-Thurs 5-7; Fri. 5-6:30; Sat-Sun 5-6; $6.72 + tax.
Leafraker, Union Bldg., Goshen College, breakfast 8:30-11:30; lunch 11:30-1:15; snacks to 3 p.m.; M-Th 7-11 p.m.
South Side Soda Shop (diner), 1122 S. Main, 11 a.m. to 8 p.m., Tues-Sat.
Pie Pantry (soup, sandwich, pie), 1303 College Ave., M-F 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.; Sat 9-3 p.m.
College Avenue Food Court, 1303 College Ave., 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. daily - Blimpey, Noble Romans, TCBY
Goshen General Hospital Cafeteria (across highway from GC), breakfast 6:30 to 9:30 a.m.; lunch 10:45 to 2 p.m.; supper 4:30 to 7:45 p.m.
Food vending machines in Newcomer Center Lounge and in north hallway of the Union Building.

2 -10 p.m.	Registration in CC south hallway
7 p.m	PLENARY SESSION - READINGS - Church-Chapel "Welcome," Shirley Showalter, president of Goshen College. Readings by Di Brandt, Rudy Wiebe -- Hildi Froese-Tiessen, Conrad Grebel University College, presiding
8:15 p.m.	PLENARY SESSION - READINGS - Church-Chapel Readings by Ann Hostetler, Julia Kasdorf, Todd Davis -- Ervin Beck, Goshen College, presiding
9:15 p.m.	RECEPTION--CC south hallway
10 -10:30 p.m.	PERFORMANCE -- "Awakenings," by Carol Ann Weaver and Rebecca Campbell (poetry by Di Brandt and Dorothy Livesay), CC 300-301

8:30 a.m.	PAPERS - THREE CONCURRENT SESSIONS Session G - Joseph W. Yoder, CC 300-01 - John Sharp, chair Melanie Zuercher, "Editing Yoder" S. Duane Kauffman, "Rosanna: Fact or Fiction" Julia Kasdorf, "He Was a Bachelor" Session H - Fiction, CC 141-42 - Lauren Friesen, chair Elfrieda Schroeder, "The Victim/Perpetrator Syndrome and Its Effect on the Second Generation: A Comparative Study of Rudy Wiebe's Peace Shall Destroy Many and Jurek Becker's Bronsteins Kinder" Ervin Beck, "Reconciling Oppositions in David Bergen's Sitting Opposite My Brother" Carroll Yoder, "Searching for Intruders: The Story behind Stephen Byler's Novel" Session I - Poetry, CC 143-44 - Yujin Yaguchi, chair David Wright, "The Beloved, Ambivalent Community: Mennonite Poets and the Postmodern Church" Todd Davis, "Postmodern Rhapsody: Faithful Negotiations in the Poetry of Jeff Gundy" Wilbur Birky, "Yorifumi Yaguchi: International Mennonite Poet and Prophet of Peace"
10 a.m.	BREAK, with refreshments in CC south hallway
10:30 a.m.	PLENARY SESSION - READINGS - Church-Chapel Keith Ratzlaff, Dallas Wiebe, Maurice Mierau, Raylene Hinz-Penner --Harry Loewen presiding
12 noon	LUNCH
1:30 p.m.	PAPERS - THREE CONCURRENT SESSIONS Session J - Drama and Performance - CC 300-01 Lauren Friesen, "War, Revolution and Religious Oppression: Hermann Sudermann's The Storm Komrade Sokrates" Robert Hostetler and Di Brandt, "Mennonite/s Writing the Middle East" Session K - Fiction - CC 141-42 - John Roth, chair Paul Tiessen, "Mennonite/s Naming: New 'Mennonite' Fiction by Sandra Birdsell and Others" Dan Lehman, "The Construction of Mennonite/Amish Character in Contemporary American Fiction" Hildi Froese Tiessen, "The Public Disposal of Historical Waste: Acts of Memory in Fiction and the Photograph." Session L - Student Session - CC 143-44 - Ann Hostetler, chair [readings and papers to be announced]
3 p.m.	BREAK, with refreshments in CC south hallway
3:30 p.m.	CONCURRENT WORKSHOPS A - Creating Characters in Fiction, by James D. Yoder, CC141 B - Getting Published, by Phyllis and Merle Good, CC 142 C - How to Start and Nurture A Writing Group, by Linea Geiser (Poems for Breakfast group), CC 110-11 D - Journalism in Mennonite Contexts, by Gordon Houser and Margaret L. Reimer, CC 301 E - Performing Mennonite Literature, by Beth Martin Birky and Doug Liechty Caskey, CC 302 F - Publishing Mennonite Literature, by Michael King, Raylene Hinz-Penner, Victor Jerrett Enns, CC 143 G - Setting Mennonite Texts to Music, by Larry Warkentin, Cate Friesen, Carol Weaver, Sanctuary H - Teaching Creative Writing, by Armin Wiebe, CC 112-13 I - Teaching Mennonite Literature, by Hildi Froese Tiessen and David Wright, Newcomer 14 J - Rudy Wiebe in Conversation: An Open Forum, Newcomer 17
6 p.m.	SUPPER in CC Fellowship Rooms (buy ticket at time of registration)
7 p.m.	AFTER-DINNER PROGRAM, WITH HONORS, Ervin Beck presiding, CC Fellowship Rooms Yorifumi Yaguchi reads from his poetry Honors for contribution to Mennonite literature: Yorifumi Yaguchi by Wilbur Birky Barbara Claassen Smucker (in absentia) by Elaine Sommers Rich Harry Loewen by Paul Tiessen Rudy Wiebe by Hildi Froese Tiessen
8:30 p.m.	Armin Wiebe reading and performance by Cate Friesen and Bonnie Loewen, Rieth Recital Hall -- Paul Tiessen presiding
8:30 p.m.	Late-night gathering in Newcomer Lounge, hosted by David Wright

9:30 a.m.	SERMON by Rudy Wiebe, Church-Chapel, College Mennonite Church (singing begins at 9:15) Mennonite Heritage Sunday (This is the weekly worship service of CMC, Conferees are welcome to attend.)
10:45 a.m.	PLENARY SESSION - READINGS AND PERFORMANCE - Church-Chapel Readings by Sarah Klassen and Jean Janzen Performance of Jean Janzen poems set to music by Larry Warkentin Comments by Hildi Froese Tiessen -- Doug Liechty Caskey presiding