The John Fowles Center presents Sergio Chejfec, March 26, 2012 at 7 p.m. in the Henley Reading Room. Chejfec currently lives in NYC and teaches in the Creative Writing in Spanish program at NYU. He has written novels, essays and a poetry collection. Among his works, one can mention Lenta biografía, Los planetas, Boca de
The John Fowles Center for Creative Writing promotes and advances the discipline of creative writing in all its aspects: fiction, poetry, drama, creative nonfiction and screenwriting. For fourteen years the center has invited international writers to Chapman as: Nobel Laureate, Wole Soyinka, Salman Rushdie, Maxine Hong Kingston among others. Each year access tothose writers is available not
You’reinvited to the WilkinsonCollege Alumni Book Club: TheHelp, February 16 at 6:30 p.m. at the Elliot Alumni House. Overview of the book to be discussed: ProfessorPat See, who lived in Mississippi during the 1960’s, shares her uniqueperspective on bestselling book and recent fi lm success, The Help. TheHelp, a novel written by American author Kathryn Stockett, explores thelives
Chapman University’s Wilkinson College of Humanities and Social Sciences professor in the Department of English, Tom Zoellner, gets a very positive review of his new book, A Safeway in Arizonza, in the Boston Globe as follows: “ASafeway in Arizona is a masterly work of reporting, historical analysis,and sly cultural criticism. Arizona celebrates its 100th birthday next
The Wilkinson College of Humanities and Social Sciences 2011-2012 Series presents, “A Night with…Caesar” on Thursday, April 12th at 7:00 PM in the Wallace All Faiths Chapel. Julius Caesar was perhaps the most fascinating and controversial personality of western antiquity. Pacifier of Gaul, military genius, and political revolutionary, Caesar, with undeniable aspirations of dictatorship, presided
The Wilkinson College of Humanities and Social Sciences 2011-2012 Series presents, “A Night with…Dante” on Wednesday, February 29th at 7:00 PM in the Wallace All Faiths Chapel. Italian poet, literary theorist, moral philosopher, and political thinker, Dante Alighieri is probably best known for his most famous work, the Divine Comedy, but he was also a
Women’s Studies and Chapman Feminists present, “I’m Not A Feminist, But…” on Monday, Dec. 5, 2011 at 7:30 – 9 p.m. in Argyrous Forum 209 A&B.; This event will include a faculty panel, student film and discussion followed by a question and answer session. Refreshments and snacks will be served.
Chapman University, Wilkinson College of Humanities and Social Sciences and the Department of English would like to invite you to the 2011 Tabula Poetica series final event which is an MFA Poetry Reading featuring Chapman University graduate students reading from their original poems. The poetry talks will begin at 1 p.m. in the Wilkinson Chapel
Author/Professor Alicia Kozameh has been invited to the Belles Latinas Festival, a yearly event that takes place simultaneously in different cities in France during the month of November, for Latin American authors translated into French. She will be presenting her poetry book Mano en vuelo (Hand in Flight), in French Main in vol, written during
Women’s Studies and Chapman Feminists host: That Takes Ovaries: Bold Women & Their Brazen Acts. Sponsored by the Student Government Association, Peace Studies, Dean of Students, Housing and Residence Life, Sociology, & Wilkinson College “That Takes Ovaries”– Dramatic readings from the book “That Takes Ovaries” by Rivka Solomon (performed by Chapman Students) and an Open