Chapman University celebrates its 150th anniversary with a year-long schedule of festive events, including a huge 150th birthday party and campus open house for the whole community on May 6. Kids events, Alley Cats concerts, festival booths, free food, student performances, a cake in the shape of Memorial Hall and fireworks made this a day
Chapman University’s Guggenheim Gallery proudly announces an exhibition of the paintings and drawings of 1961 Department of Art alumnus. CARSON GLADSON – The Musical Improvisations of the American Landscape, June 12 – July 14, 2011. Please join us at the opening reception, open to the public, for the artist on Sunday, June 12, 3 p.m.
On Friday, May 6, 2011, the annual 2011 Ludie and David C. Henley Social Sciences Awards Ceremony for Wilkinson College of Humanities and Social Sciences took place Sandhu Conference Center. Below is a list of the student winners. On behalf of Wilkinson College, congratulations! Communication Studies: For academic achievement in Communication Studies: Kyle Aldridge, Allyson
On March 26, 2011, Andrew Mauzey (’11) presented his paper titled, “The Economics of Black Masculinity in For Colored Girls and Topdog/Underdog,” at the Claremont Graduate University Student Research Conference (pictured below). The conference theme was The Balancing Act: Theory and Practice and Mauzey was on a panel with Chapman alumns Jenny Lau (’09) and Danielle Medina (’11). Danielle Walters (’11), Andrew Mauzey (’11) and Jenny Lau (’09).
On Thursday, May 5, 2011 – Dr. Laura Ruberto will give a lecture titled, “On Oranges and Organ Grinders: California’s Encounter with Italy and the Transnational Imagination of Cul-ture,” as part of the 3rd Annual Musco Italian Studies Lecture. Dr. Laura Ruberto, Berkeley City College, author of Gramsci, Migration, and the Representation of Women’s Work
Sigma Iota Rho (National Honor Society for International Studies) Information session is on Wednesday, May 4, 2011 at 10 a.m in Smith Hall 101A. Come learn more about what memberships in Sigma Iota Rho has to offer and meet current chapter members. Light refreshments will be served. Click here for more information on the MAIS Program
At the 2011 Sigma Tau Delta Gala where awards were announced. (Top L to R): Pace Gardner, Michael Schulze, Christian Bourgeois, Dr. Brian Glaser. (Bottom): Sara Hunt, Nicki Quinn, Lauren Benke, Sarah Faulkner. Congratulations are in order for graduate student Pace Gardner, who won 2nd Place in Original Fiction for his piece “First Step”, winning $250
On Tuesday, May 3, 2011, you are invited to hear a lecture titled, Tough Girls Love: Gender and Genre in Fan Fiction, given by Malin Isaksson, in Beckman Hall, 404 at 5 p.m. Malin Isaksson is a Research Fellow of French at the Department of Language Studies, Umeå University, Sweden. Her research interests span contemporary French
Sixty years ago this month, Israel’s Knesset established Yom HaShoah, or Holocaust Remembrance Day, to be the 27th of Nissan. And while commemorations around the world honor the survivors of one of the largest genocides in world history every year, this year, as the number of survivors dwindles, it is more important than ever to
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. This year’s 2011 literary series is devoted to