On Wednesday, March 30th, the Department of Communication Studies brought in Ralph Schroeder to discuss Big Data Communication. Schroeder is the Director of the Master’s degree program in Social Science and the Senior Research Fellow at the Oxford Internet Institute in the United Kingdom. He is also the author and/or co-author behind a long list
College students have often been warned of the inaccuracies and evils that lie in Wikipedia pages; it is looked upon as sophomoric to use such a website as an academic source. Despite the plea of professors, we (college students or not) still find ourselves typing the website into our URL to find out the name
This spring, the John Fowles Center for Creative Writing in the Department of Englis h has hosted a collection of truly thought provoking, educational and distinguished creative artists from South America. On Monday, April 4th, Andre Klotzel , Brazilian producer, screenwriter, and film director, spoke about his experience working in cinema in his home country
The Musco Chair in Italian Studies presents , Spaghetti & Meatballs – The invention of Italian-American Cuisine on Thursday, April 14 at 7:30 p.m. in Argyros Forum, Room 209A with Zachary Nowak from Harvard University. Does food provide a barometer to assess the integration of Italian-American immigrants to the United States? This talk focuses
Author and Chapman professor Alicia Kozameh gave two lectures out-of-state during the month of March. On Wednesday March 2, 2016 she spoke at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. Her talk, titled “Reading History through Fiction”, centered on how fiction has the potential to represent history as effectively as direct testimonies. The event was sponsored
Dr. Kent Lehnhof of the Chapman English Department spent his spring break this year in New Orleans, Louisiana. The city was full of tourists and revelers, but the big draw for Dr. Lehnhof was not the beignets and Bourbon Street but rather The Bard. He went to New Orleans to attend the 44th annual meeting
The John Fowles Center just added noted actor Malcolm McDowell (“A Clockwork Orange,” “Caligula,” “Time After Time,” “Star Trek: Generations,” “The Player” and a LOT of other movies, TV and voice-acting) to speak in Waltmar Theatre on Wednesday, April 20 at 7 p.m. McDowell will be starring in a film titled, MALARKEY, written by
The Department of English is proud to present, Les Standiford, an acclaimed mystery writer who recently published his book, Water to the Angels: William Mulholland, His Monumental Aqueduct, and the Rise of Los Angeles, on Tuesday, March 29 at 7 p.m. in the Doy and Dee Henley Reading Room, Leatherby Libraries. This event is
The Department of Communication Studies is proud to present, Ralph Schroeder, Director of the Master’s degree in Social Science of the Internet at the Oxford Internet Institute in the UK on Wednesday, March 30, 2016, 2:30 – 3:45 p.m. – Big Data and Communication Theory (Argyros Forum, Room 202). Publications about big data currently
This year’s Literary PUB(lishing) Crawl will take place Tuesday, April 12, from 3-8 p.m. in Beckman Hall, 404. This year’s lineup features four authors: Janna Levin, Chancellor Fellow and author of Black Hole Blues and Other Songs from Outer Space and the novel A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines; Pico Iyer, Presidential Fellow and