Reflections on a Summer in Taiwan
In the Summer of 2016, Amanda Lindsey ’19 traveled to Taiwan to study the Chinese language with Wilkinson Language Professor I-Ting Chao’s Chinese, Culture and Society Travel Course. Lindsey and other Chapman students spent the month of July living and studying in Taiwan. By traveling to multiple cities, students were given the opportunity to converse
Wilkinson’s BURN program is NOW accepting applications
Attention Faculty and Students! Wilkinson’s BURN program is NOW accepting applications for summer student researchers. The program encompasses both scholarship and creative activity and offers funding to faculty student partnerships that provide students with the opportunity to participate in original research/creative activity, develop their skills, and broaden their knowledge in practical and demonstrable ways. If
War and Society Represents Chapman
Four graduate students from the MA Program in War and Society presented their research at the annual Society for Military History (SMH) Conference this past weekend in Louisville, Kentucky. More than 650 people attended the conference at which Chapman University students discussed their work using materials from the Center of American War Letters. During the
People on the Move
The past decade has seen an upturn in global complex humanitarian emergencies. Armed conflict, authoritarian governance, human rights violations, natural disasters, and environmental deterioration have spiraled into complicated panoramas of widespread human suffering and displacement. On Monday, April 9, Wilkinson College and the Master of Arts in International Studies (MAIS) Program hosted a conference at
The Art of Stillness
Wilkinson College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences is excited to have author Pico Iyer joining us for this exciting Podcast Series, The Purpose of Past Tense on Tuesday, April 17, 6 p.m., at the 1888 Center, 115 N. Orange St. Orange. This podcast is dedicated to commitment and accomplishment. Focused on that movement of
Rethinking Cultural Centres in a European Dimension
Rethinking Cultural Centres in a European Dimension (RECcORD) is a research and action project about citizen participation in European cultural centres. Last week, Wilkinson College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences hosted Søren Søeborg, Head of Development at European Network of Cultural Centres (ENCC) in Denmark, in a round table discussion with Creative Culture Industries
Defining Mexico's Drug War
Wilkinson College, along with the History Department, MA Program in War and Society, Religious Studies Department and the Fish Interfaith Center present James Fredrick- on Tuesday, March 27 at 4 p.m. in the Wallace All Faiths Chapel. Mr. Fredrick is a freelance multimedia journalist in Mexico and his talk, Defining Mexico’s Drug War will be
CCI Roundtable with Søren Søeborg
Please join us for a very special round-table with Head of Development Cultural Centres in Denmark – Søren Søeborg, on Thursday, March 15, 10 a.m. – 12 p.m. in Beckman Hall 404 – George Bush Conference Center. Mr. Søeborg will be giving a presentation on the Danish and European association (activities, possibilities, development projects, etc.) including
4th Annual Local Government Conference
It’s hard to overstate the challenges posed by today’s California housing crisis. The average price of buying a house is now two-and-a-half times the national average, rents are at historic highs, and the state’s home-ownership rate is the lowest it’s been since the Second World War. But this crisis is even worse, as it impacts
Chapman Italian Studies Presents
When movies were first invented, no one took to them with as much style and panache as the Italians did. Italian cinema – from the gates of Rome’s dream factory, the Cinecittà studio, to the colorful, surrealistic visions of Federico Fellini (pictured right), the spaghetti Westerns of Sergio Leone and beyond – has long been