SPRING CONFERENCE IN NYC: Final Schedule

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Tomorrow, Mockingbird is hosting its 7th Annual Conference in New York City! The event has come together beautifully, and the full schedule is below. While we always welcome last minute walk-ins, we ask that if you plan to dine with us, you pre-register on the conference website by Monday, 3/31.

Thursday April 3^rd
2:00pm **	Pre-Conference Tour of the MoMA with Dan Siedell (email us at info@mbird.com to sign up)
5:00pm	Registration Opens!
6:30pm	“Can You See The Real Me?” – David Zahl
7:30pm	Dinner (click here for the jaw-dropping menu)

Friday April 4^th
8:15am	Coffee and Registration
9:00am	Morning Talks (30 minutes each) “The Chimera of Identity in an Anxious World” – Paul Walker “Communicating Grace Through Story” – Sally Lloyd-Jones
10:15am	Coffee Break and Book Signing with Sally
10:45am	Morning Breakouts I’m New Here! What’s Going On? – RJ Heijmen Everything New Is Moralism Again – Jacob Smith What’s My Faction? (Teen) Angst in Dystopian Young Adult Fiction & Film – Deborah Leighton National Lampoon: Stephen Colbert and the Ancient Pulpit of Satire – Ethan Richardson The Uglier Ditch: First-Century Love in the Present Tense – Jono Linebaugh
12:00pm **	Lunch
1:15pm	Afternoon Talks (30 minutes each) “Nietzsche & Me” – Tim Kreider “Thomas Cranmer’s Gospel of Divine Allurement” – Ashley Null
2:30pm	Afternoon Breakouts Grace in Identity-Induced Despair: The Literature of Reynolds Price – Win Bassett Ye Who Are Heavy Laden: Anxiety, Suffering, and the Gospel – Lauren Larkin Eden and Afterward: Introducing a Mockingbird Guide to Genesis – Will McDavid The Passion of the Childish Gambino: Online Honesty and Instagram Authenticity – Bryan Jarrell It Can’t Mean That: The Terrible Parables of Christ – Nick Lannon
3:45pm	Book Signing with Tim
5:30pm	Cocktail Reception in the St. George’s Chapel celebrating the release of Comfortable Words: Essays in Honor of Paul F.M. Zahl and PZ’s Panopticon (including Book Signing with Paul Zahl)
7:00pm	“Can You Say the Creed (And Still Call Your Soul Your Own)?” – Francis Spufford
7:40pm	Q&A and Book Signing with Francis
8:00pm	Dinner

Saturday April 5^th
8:45am	Coffee
9:30am	“The Rationalist Delusion and the Perils of Certainty” – Jonathan Haidt
10:15am	“On Not Being C.S. Lewis” – Francis Spufford
10:45am **	Q&A with Francis
11:30am	Conference Ends
12:30pm	Book Table closes