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
The Istituto Italiano Di Cultura in Los Angeles presents Giuseppe Conte, in a conversation with Chapman Professor Robert Buranello, on Tuesday, April 26, 2011 at 6:30 p.m. Giuseppe Conte contributes to several Italian newspapers and magazines and lectures at universities around the world. One of the best regarded Italian poets since the Seventies, Conte’s collections of poetry include
The Orange County Italian Cultural Association (http://www.ocica.org/) invites you to the VICOLO DEI POETI, an afternoon of Italian Poetry on Sunday, May 1, 2011 at 4 p.m. in the Francoli Gourmet Restaurant in the city of Orange. Eight students from Chapman Associate Professor Dr. Robert Buranello’s ITAL343 course have submitted their poetry and will find
The M.A. in International Studies at Chapman University presents, Global Mobilization and Sustainable Solutions, Monday, May 2, 2011 in Sandhu Conference Center D, at 6:30 p.m. A panel discussion will address contemporary social movements in Latin America, mobilization for democracy in the Middle East, struggles for ethnic equality in Africa and the creation of politically feasible
This past week, March 22-27, 2011, the Chapman speech and debate team competed at the Pi Kappa Delta national forensics tournament, held in Portland, OR. This marked the first time that the university was represented at this national tournament, and Chapman University was officially inducted as a Chapter of Pi Kappa Delta – an honorary