| Featuring Author and Keynote Speaker: Chuck Palahniuk |
| April 6-7 @ Edinboro University of Pennsylvania |
News
Registration / Continental Breakfast
Special Events
Location
Name Badges
A Reading from Choke with Chuck Palahniuk
Conference Introduction
A Viewing of Fight Club with Chuck Palahniuk
Keynote Address and Luncheon
Postcards from the Future After Party
News
| LAST DAY FOR REGISTRATION IS APRIL 4TH, 2001. Print this form and sign up today! If not including payment with your registration, please indicate on the form. |
| The entire conference program is now online. Visit the schedule of events and presenters / abstracts portions of this site for details. |
| There will be a public viewing of Fight Club on Wednesday, April 4th at 7:00PM in Doucette Hall, room 119. Admission is $10.00. Reserve tickets by calling (814) 732-2981 or write fightclub@edinboro.edu. |
| If you have any further comments or questions, please contact us. |
| Conference packets and name badges will be distributed at the Registration Desk. A continental breakfast is available during registration. |
| On Friday the Registration Desk will be open from 8:00AM to 9:15AM in the Edinboro University Center 3rd Floor Lobby. |
| On Saturday the Registration Desk will be open from 8:00AM to 9:00AM in the Edinboro University Center 3rd Floor Lobby. |
| All conference events will take place on the third floor of the Edinboro University Center unless otherwise noted. For a map of the campus, click here. |
| Conference participants must wear their name badges (distributed during registration) to be admitted to conference events, including the reading from Choke with Chuck Palahniuk, the viewing of Fight Club and the Keynote Luncheon. |
| A Reading from Choke with Chuck Palahniuk – Friday, April 6 at 2:15PM in the Edinboro University Center, Room 306 |
| Chuck Palahniuk will read from his latest novel Choke, scheduled for release in May of this year. Hear a preview of the novel and discuss this material with the man himself. |
| A Viewing and Discussion of Fight Club with Chuck Palahniuk – Friday, April 6 at 6:00PM in Doucette Hall, Room 119 |
| The DVD film version of Fight Club will be presented on a theater-sized screen. The film will be followed by a question-and-answer session with Chuck Palahniuk. Copies of Chuck’s books as well as conference t-shirts will be available. This viewing is open to conference attendees only. There is a separate, public viewing scheduled for Wednesday, April 4th. Call (814) 732-2981 for details. |
| Keynote Address and Luncheon – Saturday, April 7 at 12:00PM in Van Houten Dining Hall, North. |
| The official conference luncheon will feature a general interest lecture from Chuck Palahniuk on writing and his novels. |
| Postcards from the Future After Party – Saturday, April 7 at 6:00PM in the Edinboro University Center 3rd floor lobby. |
| An informal, open gathering for attendees to get together or discuss the conference. All conference attendees / participants are welcome to stop by. The special edition DVD of Fight Club will be shown for anyone interested in reviewing the film. |
| Postcards from the Future: The Chuck Palahniuk Project is an interdisciplinary academic conference on the works of fiction author Chuck Palahniuk. |
| Chuck Palahniuk an Oregon-based writer and is the author of three novels, Fight Club, Survivor, Invisible Monsters and the forthcoming novel, Choke. For more information about Chuck Palahniuk, click here. |
| Scheduled for April 6th and 7th, 2001, the conference will host a wide variety of presentations and panel discussions from students, graduates, faculty and scholars from around the country. The conference will also feature a keynote lecture and luncheon with Palahniuk himself. |
| Sponsored by The University Honors Program at Edinboro University of Pennsylvania, Postcards from the Future will be the first study of Palahniuk’s works comissioned by a university. |
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Fight Club
Chuck Palahniuk exploded onto the American and international literary scene in 1996 with the release of his controversial first novel, Fight Club. Within the next three years, Palahniuk published two additional novels concurrent with the equally controversial release of the 1999 film adaptation of Fight Club. |
| Starring Edward Norton (American History X), Brad Pitt (Seven Years in Tibet), Helena Bonham Carter (Margaret’s Museum) and directed by David Fincher (Seven, The Game), Fight Club has received a firestorm of praise and condemnation from publications as diverse as The New York Times, The Christian Science Monitor, and Rolling Stone. |
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| Palahniuk’s rapid-fire writing style, mordant social commentary and apocalyptic tapestries has been compared by critics to such luminaries as Kurt Vonnegut, Don DeLillo and Tim O'Brien. |
| The Edinboro University Honors Program believes that Palahniuk’s work and the film adaptation of Fight Club has lasting literary and social value that cannot be separated from their relevance to Western Culture in the 21st century. |
