Wilkinson College is committed to leading the conversation in our community on issues of humanity, unity, and justice through our annual Engaging the World (ETW) event series. For the past five years, this important series has focused on topics such as the significance of race, environmental justice, ethnic studies, health equity, and, most recently, gender
This edition of From Our Eyes features Emily Kinney (‘25 Political Science, Communication Studies; Business Administration minor). Kinney is a Henley Research Lab Fellow and was recently invited to present her research at the National Conference of Undergraduate Research (NCUR) in Pittsburgh, PA. As I boarded the airplane to Pittsburgh, PA, to present at the
This edition of From Our Eyes features Taylor Love (‘25 Creative Writing). Love attended the 2025 John Fowles Reading Series featuring Italian author Andrea Bajani. Bajani is an award-winning novelist of contemporary Italian and European literature. He is best known for this novel, Se consider le colpe (Einaudi, 2007), published in English as If you
Wilkinson College of Art, Humanities, and Social Sciences and the Department of World Languages and Cultures recently hosted Taiwanese author Yang Shuang-zi and Taiwanese and American translator Lin King to discuss their 2024 award-winning novel, Taiwan Travelogue. The book follows the fictionalized story of a Japanese author visiting Taiwan in the 1930s during Japan’s colonization.
Chapman University welcomed back Human Rights activist, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, and Presidential Fellow in Peace Studies at Chapman, Nadia Murad, for a talk titled, “Towards Justice: Reparations for Survivors of Conflict-Related Sexual Violence (CRSV).” Joining her via Zoom was Esther Dingemans, executive director of Global Survivors Fund (GSF) and a leading expert on developing
This edition of From Our Eyes features Sam Thompson (‘25 Peace and Justice Studies). Thompson currently has an internship with Nobel Laureate and Presidential Fellow in Peace & Justice Studies Nadia Murad and has been offered a position with her following graduation. Murad will be speaking at Chapman on Tuesday, February 25 at 4 p.m.
Widlore Mérancourt, Editor-in-Chief of multilingual Haitian news organization AyiboPost, recently spoke at Chapman University as part of the War, Diplomacy, and Society Master’s Program and in recognition of Black History Month. His talk, “Haiti, Past and Present,” discussed the history of Haiti, its present situation, and its prospects for the future. Mérancourt was witty, spoke
Dr. Stefan Cristian Ionescu, Associate Professor (History) and Associate Director of Rodgers Center for Holocaust Education, is the author of Justice and Restitution in Post-Nazi Romania: Rebuilding Jewish Lives and Communities, 1944-1950 (Cambridge University Press, 2024). Ionescu’s work examines the relationship between Jews and gentiles and investigates “what happened with the confiscated Jewish assets, the
This edition of From Our Eyes features Akpa Arinzechukwu (‘25 MFA Creative Writing). Arinzechukwu attended the 6th Annual Ed Roberts Day at Chapman University, celebrating the late trailblazing advocate for disability rights, also known as the “Father of Independent Living”. Speaking at the event was Dr. Roxanne Varzi, author of Death in a Nutshell, a
This year’s Engaging the World: Leading the Conversation on Gender & Sexuality marked an incredible interdisciplinary and collaborative journey of exploring contemporary ideas of gender and sexuality, affirming that the arts, humanities, and social sciences are at the forefront of some of the most prominent conversations our nation and world are having today. Concluding this