Tabula Poetica’s Annual Poetry Reading Series begins on Thursday, September 10, 2015 with poet Carolyn Forché. Her books of poetry include The Country Between Us (which received the Poetry Society of America’s Alice Fay di Castagnola Award and was the Lamont Poetry Selection of the Academy of American Poets), The Angel of History (which received the
In October, Chapman University will be hosting The Dyslexia Summit: The Strength of Cognitive Diversity, to help spread awareness about cognitive diversity and to showcase the remarkable strengths of many dyslexics. The Summit will include personal stories of university students with dyslexia and scientific analysis, followed by a panel of experts to discuss the topic
By Ellen Webre, senior screenwriting major The sun rises over the hills onto where a fortress lies buried. Walls emerge from a blanket of thistles, and the scent of olive trees fill the air. Cástulo was once an Iberian city in Andalusian Spain that controlled the Guadalquivir river and its trade. The city possessed
On Thursday, September 10, 2015, you’re invited to a FREE screening of Woman in Gold starring Helen Mirren and Ryan Reynolds as part of the Memory, Meaning, and Justice Lecture Series. The Woman in Gold is a remarkable story of one women’s journey to reclaim her heritage and seek justice for what happened to
On Tuesday, September 29, 2015 #1 New York Times bestselling author, Cheryl Strayed, will be visiting Chapman University to discuss her book Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Coast Trail. Leading up to this exciting night we will be hosting micro events surrounding the WILD concept. On Monday, September 21, 2015, College of Educational Studies
Dean Patrick Fuery cordially invites you to the Wilkinson College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences 2015 Colloquium on Friday, August 28, 2015 at 10 a.m.- 12 p.m. in Sandhu Conference Center D & D1. Attendance by Faculty and Staff greatly desired! Please RSVP by August 17, 2015 to Mary Shockey or call her at
This past April, Associate professor of art history and archaeology Justin St. P. Walsh received a grant from the Loeb Classical Library Foundation at Harvard University to fund his fieldwork in Spain this summer. The money paid for travel, a new computer, as well as hiring two Spanish archaeologists and five Chapman students to
Art 393 Sustainable Design course begins today! This summer, the class has been asked to create and develop communication materials to help launch an awareness campaign in a pilot school program by their client, Lunar Mission One (LM1) in London. LM1 is charged with building a spacecraft to land on the moon and drill core
Wilkinson College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences is hosting a WILD Book Club in honor of author Cheryl Strayed and her #1 New York Times bestselling memoir WILD: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail. Strayed will be visting campus on Tuesday, September 29, 2015 to discuss her book as part of
Justin Walsh, Ph.D., associate professor of art history and archeology teaches a class called Poets, Philosophers and Citizens, Life in the Ancient Greek City – Art 347. It is more of an archeology class than an art history class. And this year, Walsh changed it up a little – rather a lot – by having