Schedule of Events

Washington and Lee University Alumni Engagement Lifelong Learning Campus Programs Past Programs Tom Wolfe Weekend Seminar: Night Watch Schedule of Events
Lifelong Learning

Tom Wolfe Weekend Seminar
Night Watch Featuring Jayne Anne Phillips

Winner of the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction

Sponsored by Washington and Lee University’s Class of 1951

Friday, April 11, 2025
2:30–3:30 PM Registration Early-Fielding Foyer
4:00–4:05 PM Program Introductions University Chapel
4:05–4:50 PM Night Watch
Jayne Anne Phillips		 University Chapel
4:50–5:05 PM Q&A with Jayne Anne Phillips University Chapel
5:15–5:45 PM Book Signing by Jayne Anne Phillips Washington Hall
5:15–6:15 PM Reception Evans Dining Hall
6:15–7:30 PM Dinner Evans Dining Hall
Saturday, April 12, 2025
8:30–9:00 AM Coffee and Refreshments Elrod Atrium
9:00–10:00 AM "Mirror as Companion Object: An Exploration of Trauma and Recovery in Jayne Anne Phillips’ Night Watch"
Sascha Goluboff, Director of Community-Based Learning and Professor of Cultural Anthropology		 Stackhouse Theater
10:00–10:10 AM Break
10:10–11:10 AM "Into the Wilderness: The 1864 Overland Campaign"
Barton Myers, Professor of History		 Stackhouse Theater
11:10–11:20 AM Break
11:20 – 11:50 AM Panel Q&A
Jayne Anne Phillips, Sascha Goluboff, and Barton Myers		 Stackhouse Theater
12:00–1:00 PM Lunch Evans Dining Hall