Artificial intelligence is growing more commonplace in our daily lives but the technology prompts many questions. Will AI take over the world? Should machines even think? Scholars, writers and film producers will explore these questions and more related to the development of artificial intelligence during Beyond Human: Emotion and AI, a free panel discussion at Chapman University on
Looking for Parent Spring Summit 2019! Visit the Parent Spring Summit Homepage Please Note: This information is for 2018. Join us for two-days designed to give parents the information most relevant to their student’s stage in college. Four separate tracks, each pertaining to a specific class year in school, are offered to give you insight on
Please join us for the 2018 Literary Arts Reading Series, featuring authors, Michal Ajvaz (Feb. 5); Dorota Maslowska (Feb. 19); Lucian Dan Teodorovici (Mar. 12); Aleksandar Hemon (Apr. 2); and Radka Denemarkova (Apr. 30). All readings are in Beckman Hall 404 at 5 p.m. and these events are free and open to the public. Feb. 5:
WordTheatre returns for a sixth season to Chapman University on Monday, Feb. 5, when film and television actors will bring to life the short stories of John Edgar Wideman, a writer widely acclaimed for his work exploring the African-American experience. Acclaimed actors Roger Guenveur Smith (Do The Right Thing, American Gangster, Dope) and Gary Dourdan
In collaboration with Wilkinson’s Interdisciplinary Series, Interstices 2018: Beyond Human, the Leatherby Library invites you to participate in a book club on The Positronic Man by Isaac Asimov and Robert Silverberg. Join us as we celebrate the 25th anniversary of this novel by discussing the work of these seminal science fiction writers to examine the
Author and Creative Writing Professor Alicia Kozameh has returned from a European book tour where the German translation of her novel 259 Leaps, the Last Immortal (259 Sprünge, Salto Immortale Inbegriffen) was just released, and presented in several cities. In Austria she held bilingual readings in Klagenfurt (Europahaus), Graz (Afro-Asiatisches Institut) and in Vienna. This
Tabula Poetica’s Annual Poetry Reading Series continues Monday, November 27, 2017 with poet Genevieve Kaplan. Genevieve Kaplan is the author of In the ice house (Red Hen Press, 2011), winner of the A Room of Her Own Foundation’s poetry publication prize, and three recent chapbooks: In an aviary (Grey Book Press, 2016); travelogue (Dancing Girl,
It’s that time of year again! Be sure to check out the Annual Holiday Ceramics Sale, presented by the Art Department on Monday, December 4-Friday, December 8, 11 a.m. – 4 p.m. in the Attallah Piazza. Give that one-of-a-kind gift to someone special this holiday season with a student-designed ceramic art piece. Pick of an
Little has changed since Stanley Kubrick made his legendary film “Dr. Strangelove” in the 1960s, and most people still accept – if not love–the bomb. Nukes are presented as security, as a deterrent. Yet accidents, miscalculations, and superpower escalations like the Cuba missile crisis have constantly reaffirmed the dangers of accidental, intentional, or unintended uses
The Department of Peace Studies invites you to hear author Carl Wilkens, I’m Not Leaving, a story about Rwanda through the eyes of the only American to remain in the country through the 1994 genocide. Join us on Monday, November 6 at 7 p.m. in Beckman Hall 404 to hear his incredible story.