“My home is what I carry around inside me,” said renowned journalist Pico Iyer. “Home is my wife, my favorite book, my favorite album, it’s what’s inside me.” On Thursday evening more than 20 students from the Orange High School Literacies Partnership, ranging from 14-17, learned just that and more about the esteemed travel writer
The John Fowles Center is pleased to be hosting author Ismet Prcic on Monday, March 2 at 7 p.m. in the Henley Reading Room on the second floor of the Leatherby Libraries, as part of the 2015 Literary Speaker Series. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Ismet Prcic (ISS-met PER-sick) was born in Tuzla, Bosnia-Herzegovina, in 1977 and immigrated to
Chapman University and Wilkinson College of Humanities and Social Sciences is pleased to be hosting four acclaimed Israeli poets on Tuesday, March 3, 2015. Please join us as we hear from Shimon Adaf, Tal Nitzan, Haviva Pedaya, and Anat Zecarya at 2:30 p.m. for a Poetry Talk in the J.E. and Flora Scott Wilkinson Founders
The John Fowles Center is please to be hosting author Dacia Maraini on Thursday, February 19, 2015 at 7 p.m. in the Henley Reading Room on the second floor of the Leatherby Libraries, as part of the 2015 Literary Speaker Series. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Dacia Mariani was born in Florence. Together with several other young
The spring 2015 version of Chapman University’s John Fowles Literary Series, presented by the John Fowles Center for Creative Writing in Wilkinson College for the Humanities and Social Sciences, will focus on three noted authors from Bosnia and Herzegovina — Ajla Terzic and Kenan Trebincevic — as well as on internationally acclaimed writers Dacia Maraini
There are only a few spots left at the 2nd Annual Institute for Excellence in Teaching & Learning Faculty Workshop on Friday, January 23, 2015, “Research-Based Strategies to Refresh and Enhance College Teaching” – in Argyros Forum, 209 A, starting at 8:30 a.m. This day of workshops and conversation with colleagues is sponsored by the
Wilkinson College of Humanities and Social Sciences is hosting INTERSTICES: The In-betweeness of Ethics, a one-night interactive forum allowing practical and personal engagement with ethics on Wednesday, February 25, 2015 in Beckman Hall 404 at 4 p.m. The Interstices series is a set of themed events and discussions that examine the cross-sections or rather “intersection”
Wilkinson College of Humanities & So…In May 2014, Communication Major, Jeff Cooper (double minor in English and Sociology) graduated from Chapman University and recently sent Communication Studies Professor, Nicholas Leighton, an email to tell him how he was doing. Check out what he had to say and how Chapman prepared him for his current position.
Tabula Poetica’s Annual Poetry Reading Series continues on Tuesday, November 11, 2014 with poet Lorene Delany-Ullman. Delany-Ullman’s talk will begin at 1 p.m. in the Wilkinson Chapel, Fish Interfaith Center, followed by a poetry reading at 4 p.m. in the Henley Reading Room. About the author: Lorene Delany-Ullman’s book of prose poems, Camouflage for the
The John Fowles Center presents documentary film maker, IIona Ziok on Monday, November 3, 2014 at 7 p.m. in Argyros Forum, 209 C. This event is free and open to the public. About Ziok … Ilona Ziok’s family emigrated from Poland in 1968 to Britain, where she continued her education. Between 1975-1977, she studied theater