This year the DePaul Humanities Center’s annual Humanities Laureate Award will be given to the Natives at Standing Rock in recognition of the ethical, political, and cultural importance of their heroic resistance against the Dakota Access Pipeline and continued struggle against state oppression of Native Americans. Three Native activists will be accepting the award on…Continue reading DHC Presents Laureate Award to the Natives at Standing Rock
Category: Campus Events
This Friday Join Building Communities, Ending Violence for The Practices of Healing
Building Communities, Ending Violence is hosting an event featuring professors and community members discussing healing justice practices, self-love in movement building. The event takes place May 5 in Arts and Letters Room 306. The event will feature a roundtable and conversation with Laila Farah, Ann Russo, Misty De Berry, Mary Hazboun, and Shana Bahemat as well as Misty…Continue reading This Friday Join Building Communities, Ending Violence for The Practices of Healing
May 11: Emoji Dick with Lisa Gitelman
On Thursday, May 11, Studio Chi will be hosting Lisa Gitelman, Professor of English at New York University, to present Emoji Dick: Prequels and Sequels. The talk will focus on Emoji Dick a crowd sourced and crowd funded translation of Melville’s great American classic, Moby Dick into Japanese emoticons. Challenging concepts of authorship, the culture…Continue reading May 11: Emoji Dick with Lisa Gitelman
The 7th Annual Spring English Conference, Friday!
This Friday, April 28, 2017 the DePaul English Department invites you to attend our eighth annual student-run conference from 10:00 am – 4:30 pm in Arts and Letters Hall! The Spring English Conference is an annual daylong event in which DePaul English undergraduate and graduate students showcase their academic and creative work from the previous…Continue reading The 7th Annual Spring English Conference, Friday!
Narrative Design is the New Game Design
DePaul’s School of Design is hosting an event discussing the merger of game design and narrative writing. “Narrative Design is the New Game Design” will take place 6-7:30 PM at 14 E Jackson. See the flyer above for more information, or find more online.
Monday: Poetry East Release Party
The award-winning poetry journal ran by DePaul creative writing faculty, staff, and students is hosting a release party for their special issue Food next Monday! The event takes place 6-7:30 in the Richardson library Room 115. See the flyer above for details.
Career Panel on Writing and Publishing, May 9
In collaboration with Chicago Women and Publishing (CWIP) the English Department will be hosting a career panel on writing and publishing. The event takes places Tuesday, May 9 from 6:30-7:30 PM in Arts & Letters Hall Room 109. It features DePaul alumna Meghann Workman of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, author and journalist Jeff Fleischer, and editor and video producer…Continue reading Career Panel on Writing and Publishing, May 9
Visiting Writer Marc Nieson
The Department’s Visiting Writers Program continues this Spring with Marc Nieson, author of Schoolhouse: Lessons of Love & Landscape. The event takes place Thursday, May 18 at 6:00 PM in the Richardson Library Room 400. See the flyer above for full details.
Tonight! Humanities in Space
The DePaul Humanities Center (DHC) continues their Spring 2017 Season with another Humanities in Spaaaace! event, “The Moon.” The event takes place tonight, Tuesday 11, in the Student Center room 120. The event includes a screening of Melies 1902 A Trip to the Moon, a performances and lectures from a group of moon scholars and…Continue reading Tonight! Humanities in Space
Next Monday: Reading Chicago Reading
The literary studies speaker series continues next week with a presentation by John Shanahan and Robin Burke. They will be presenting on their current project “Reading Chicago Reading,” a data-driven study of how, what, and who reads in the Chicago metropolitan area. See the flyer above for more details, or find out more online.
Spring Conference Deadline Extended to Friday!
Submissions to the Spring English Conference will now be accepted until this Friday, April 7! Send submissions to englishconference.dpu@gmail.com. Details here.
Facts and Fake News with Sigma Tau Delta
Sigma Tau Delta, the English honors society, will be hosting Professor James Fairhall next week to discuss Facts, Fake News, and Alternative Facts. The event takes place on Wednesday, April 19 from 4:30-5:50 in the Richardson Library Room 115.