Laura Silva

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The Underground: A Bold New Digital Space for Experimental Art and Literature Launches Its First Issue

December 16, 2024 by Laura Silva | The Voice of Wilkinson

The experimental art and literary journal, The Underground, has officially launched its first issue. The Underground is a student-run all-digital space (under the supervision of faculty advisor Rebecca Goodman (English)) for creative minds to exist in one collaborative space. It is a platform for digitally accessible narratives, including video, visual, interactive, and trans-genre compositions. “I

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Latinx Revolutionary Horizons: Form and Futurity in the Americas Faculty Books

May 29, 2024 by Laura Silva | The Voice of Wilkinson

In Latinx Revolutionary Horizons: Form and Futurity in the Americas, Dr. Renee Hudson (English) offers a powerful look into what it means to be Latinx. Many scholars have discussed the incoherence of this label given that Latinxs have a wide range of identities and experiences -in addition to different races and different religions. So the

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The Underground: A Bold New Digital Space for Experimental Art and Literature Launches Its First Issue

December 16, 2024 by Laura Silva | The Voice of Wilkinson

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Latinx Revolutionary Horizons: Form and Futurity in the Americas Faculty Books

May 29, 2024 by Laura Silva | The Voice of Wilkinson

Faculty Book: Collection of Poems by Dr. Glaser

April 23, 2024 by Laura Silva | The Voice of Wilkinson

In his latest book of poems, Reparation Gate, Dr. Brian Glaser (English) offers a tribute to his father’s life and work as a theologian and teacher. Reparation Gate includes a series of poems on fatherhood, and many meditations on the concern for social justice shared by Dr. Glaser and his father, who was his hero

Hilbert Museum Exhibition Showcases 25 Years of Student Holocaust Art and Writing

April 22, 2024 by Laura Silva | The Voice of Wilkinson

“Messengers of Memory: A 25-Year Retrospective of the Annual Chapman University Holocaust Art & Writing Contest” is currently on display at the newly expanded Hilbert Museum of California Art at Chapman University through July 31, 2024. This special curated exhibition highlights 25 years of prize-winning entries in the Holocaust Art & Writing Contest. The contest,

Faculty Book: Dr. Angela Lederach’s Latest Book and Being Awarded a Peace Emerging Scholar

April 22, 2024 by Laura Silva | The Voice of Wilkinson

Dr. Angela Lederach (Peace Studies) completed decades of ethnographic and participatory research for her recent publication Feel the Grass Grow: Ecologies of Slow Peace in Colombia which offers insight into the politics of peacebuilding in Colombia. The book critically analyzes the peace accords signed between the Colombian government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia

New Fiber Lab in Art Department

April 1, 2024 by Laura Silva | The Voice of Wilkinson

Lorena Ochoa, Studio Manager for the Art Department,oversees the Painting, Drawing, and Sculpture Labs in Moulton Hall. She recently launched the Fiber Lab – an artistic practice that spans a wide range of techniques, such as quilting, thread painting, weaving, and soft sculpture, usually to create works made of natural or synthetic fibers such as

Faculty Book: The Sandinista Revolution, A Global Latin American History

March 21, 2024 by Laura Silva | The Voice of Wilkinson

Wilkinson College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences congratulates Dr. Mateo Jarquín (History) on his first published book, The Sandinista Revolution, A Global Latin American History (The University of North Carolina Press). “In my discipline (History), monographs are the name of the game; books are the main way that students and scholars consume research. So,

Chapman’s First Latina Sorority Provides Critical Support to Multicultural Community on Campus

February 23, 2024 by Laura Silva | The Voice of Wilkinson

First-generation students Natalia Trejo, Aizzy Portillo and Cintya Felix can add something else they have in common to their time at Chapman University: sisters in the university’s first multicultural Greek organization. Felix ’26 encountered Omega Phi Beta Sorority, Incorporated at a student organization fair during her first year. “I truly never saw myself pursuing Greek

Faculty Book: Ambiguous Cinema

February 23, 2024 by Laura Silva | The Voice of Wilkinson

The concept driving Dr. Kelli Fuery’s (Creative and Cultural Industries) latest book, Ambiguous Cinema: From Simone de Beauvoir to Feminist Film-Phenomenology (Edinburgh University Press) originated from one of her Film Theory classes when she and her students were discussing theories of spectatorship. “While many students were familiar with the ‘male gaze’ as coined by Laura

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Out of Hiding: Extremist White Supremacy and How It Can Be Stopped Faculty Book

February 9, 2024 by Laura Silva | The Voice of Wilkinson

Dr. Pete Simi (Sociology) is known for his expertise in political extremism and his research focuses on both violence and extremist groups in the United States and around the world. His previous book, American Swastika: Inside the White Power Movement’s Hidden Spaces of Hate, explores the difference between movements such as the Ku Klux Klan,

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