Chapman University has announced the schedule for its inaugural Big Orange Book Festival on the Chapman campus on Friday and Saturday, Sept. 21 and 22. The large-scale event will feature free talks and panels by acclaimed authors and literary figures from Orange County, Southern California and around the world, as well as festival booths throughout
Tabula Poetica kicks off it’s first of five events featuring poetry talks and readings from poets from around the globe. First up, Victoria Chang! Victoria Chang’s second book of poems, Salvinia Molesta , was published by the University of Georgia Press as part of the VQR Poetry Series. Her first book, Circle
On Saturday, Sept. 15, Art Professor Micol Hebron will be showing a piece of her art in a show called “Fix-It-Up Too“, a reprise of The Fix-It-Up Show, a project first developed by Jeffrey Vallance and Michael Uhlenkott for an exhibition at LACE in 1981. Several artists were asked to bring in works that they
On Friday, September 14, 2012, Chapman University is pleased to announce the Fourth Annual Closing th e Latino Achievement Gap Summit (CLAG) . This year’s theme is “En Colaboracción – A Call for United Action” and will begin at 8 a.m. – 4 p.m. at Chapman University in Beckman Hall, room 404. The purpose
Day 3: I snuck a few hours of research time today – a guilty pleasure! I’m aiming to finish up an afterward for a forthcoming book on Cinematic Terror and the Sublime; and there is also the writing up of a conference paper that I gave at a conference on Psychoanalysis and Poetry at Oxford
Day 2: It is the Labor Day weekend and I found myself in one of those crowded malls that Southern California does better than just about anywhere else in the world. As the sea of people criss-crossed before us, I asked my two sons (Noah, aged 9, and Joshua, just turned 7) what they could
(This is the first of many postings to come directly from new Wilkinson College Dean Patrick Fuery. We welcome your comments and encourage you to return often to see what Dean Fuery is up to and what he has planned for Wilkinson College.) Day 1: I have of late (to worryingly paraphrase Hamlet)
Chap man University and Wilkinson College of Humanities and Social Sciences is proud to announce that the Director of Undergraduate Writing, Doug Sweet’s, Contexts & Choices: A Guide to Practical Writing, was just published by Kendall-Hunt. Congratulations!
Guggenheim Gallery at Chapman University is pleased to announce LICK IT INTO SHAPE – Friending the Ephemeral, and art exhibit. The exhibition will be on view from August 20 through September 20, 2012. Please join us for the artist reception on Wednesday, Sept. 5 from 5-9 p.m. Lick it into shape is about shifting concepts
Editor’s Note: The following letter was released Friday, August 17, from the Office of the Chancellor announcing the passing of Marv Meyer, Ph.D., Griset Chair in Bible and Christian Studies professor, and director of the Albert Schweitzer Center. A video on his work has also been posted at Panther Productions. I have the incredibly sad