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WordTheatre at Chapman University Celebrated Authors’ Short Stories Brought to Life by Film and Television Celebrities & Chapman Students

September 22, 2016 by Laura Silva | News

WordTheatre’s fall series at Chapman University brings America’s finest short story writers to Orange for celebrity and student performances. On Monday, October 17, Hollywood actor -Jon Huertas (known for his work on Castle, Generation Kill, Sabrina The Teenage Witch) and student actors, Brandon James Somerville, Aurelio De Anda, and Danraj “Danny” Rajasansi— will bring to

Apocalypse Soon? With Dr. Bernd Fischer

September 22, 2016 by Laura Silva | News

Please join Wilkinson College and the Peace Studies Department on Tuesday, October 4, 2016 to hear The Honorable Dr. Bernd Fischer, Presidential Fellow in Peace Studies. He will discuss the state of world affairs and what impact it has on us. Dr. Fischer has been involved with Foreign Service and his career has included: German

Tabula Poetica: Oct. 6 Presents Alan Shapiro

September 13, 2016 by Mike Gravagno | News

Tabula Poetica continues on October 6th with poet, memoirist, and novelist Alan Shapiro. His most recent book is the collection of poems Life Pig. The Boston-born poet has published numerous collections, and his book of poems Reel to Reel was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2012. He works in both free verse and

Visual Thinker Lecture Series: Sept. 15 Mike Mignola, Comic Book Author and Illustrator

September 7, 2016 by Laura Silva | News

The Department of Art is excited to kick off their Visual Thinker Lecture Series with Mike Mignola, comic book author and illustrator on Thursday, September 15 at 7 p.m. in Argyros Forum 209 B&C. ABOUT THE SPEAKER: Mike Mignola is best known as the award-winning creator, writer and artist of Hellboy, now celebrating its 22nd

WordTheatre at Chapman University Celebrated Authors’ Short Stories Brought to Life by Film and Television Celebrities & Chapman Students

August 29, 2016 by Laura Silva | News

WordTheatre’s fall series at Chapman University brings America’s finest short story writers to Orange for celebrity and student performances. On Monday, Sept. 19, Hollywood actors Jackson Rathbone (Twilight Films, Finding Carter, The Last Airbender) and Vanessa Lengies (Glee, Hawthorne, Lego Stars, Stick It) — will bring to life acclaimed short stories written by author Brian

Tabula Poetica Poetry Series: 2016 Kicking off with Cecilia Woloch, Sept. 15

August 29, 2016 by Laura Silva | News

Tabula Poetica’s Annual Poetry Reading Series kicks off on Thursday, September 15, 2016 with poet Cecilia Woloch. Woloch is a poet, writer, teacher, and traveler based in Los Angeles. She has published six collections of poems, most recently Earth from Two Sylvias Press and Carpathia from BOA Editions. Her second collection, Tsigan: The Gypsy Poem, was published in French translation

Getting Out of the Classroom Professor and Student Give Presentation at UC Berkeley

August 25, 2016 by Laura Silva | News

Earlier this month Dr. Crystal Murphy (Political Science) and her student, Atty McLellan, gave a poster presentation at the Effective Altruism Global Conference at UC Berkeley. Dr. Murphy, Mclellan and Henley Lab fellow Sarah Lemay, worked together on the South Sudan World Food Program Cash Transfers research project over the summer, which stemmed from a

My Summer Before California Ms. Štěpánka Jislová, comic book author/illustrator

August 15, 2016 by Štěpánka Jislová | News

Here is the second blog posts from our first Scholar-in-Residence — Ms. Štěpánka Jislová, a comic book author/illustrator from Prague. Ms. Jislová will be joining us in October as part of the prestigious “Getting to Know Europe” grant that Wilkinson College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences was awarded from the European Union. We are

American Jews in the Aftermath of the Holocaust Learning to Memorialize

August 5, 2016 by Laura Silva | News

You’re invited to a very special evening with Hasia Diner, author of We Remember with Reverence and Love: American Jews and the Myth of Silence after the Holocaust – Winner of the National Jewish Book Award, on Tuesday, September 20, 2016 at 7 p.m. in the Fish Interfaith Center Chapel. In the two decades from

Professor Wood Visits Kyushu University

August 5, 2016 by Michael Wood | News

Assistant Professor of Japanese Studies Michael Wood delivered a presentation of his research on the cultural facets of ecological change and globalized neo-liberal capital to the monthly interdisciplinary forum of the Asian Studies Seminar at Kyushu University this past June. His talk was well attended by representatives from a diversity of fields including history, cultural