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National Churchill Library & Center, Gelman Library, 1st floor
National Churchill Library & Center, Gelman Library, 1st floor
From the English-Speaking Union, a nearby event that might interest you: BBC Radio 4’s ANY QUESTIONS? FRIDAY, JANUARY 16, at 12:30 p.m. JACK MORTON AUDITORIUM, George Washington University 805 21st Street NW in Washington Admission Free, but Reservations are Recommended On December 7, 2001, the British Broadcasting Corproation came to the Jack Morton Auditorium at…
GW English PhD (’08) Myra Remigio-Leonard is among the DC librarians working to organize a series of events in January titled “Orwellian America.” “Orwellian America is a series of programs focused on government transparency and personal privacy in the digital age during the last two weeks of January. Events include a screening of “The Internet’s…
October and early November are chock-a-block with English department or English-affiliated programming. Mark your calendars now for these upcoming events. October 4: E. Patrick Johnson The Northwestern University Professor and performer E. Patrick Johnson visits GW during the run of his critically acclaimed one-man show “Sweet Tea: Black Gay Men of the South” at Arlington’s…
Next month, Margaret Soltan will lead a discussion on the subject of trust, using the story “Trust Me” by John Updike, for a class organized through Books@Work, a non-profit which “brings professor-led seminars to workplaces and community settings.” In March and April, she’ll give a series of public lectures on poetry at the Georgetown Library. Here’s the…
The English Graduate Student Association welcomes graduates and undergraduates to attend the 2013 EGSA Symposium “Temporal Slippages and Spatial Slidings: A Symposium on Failed Fixities” The Symposium will be held on February 15th in Rome 771 and will start at 9 am and end at 5:30 pm! Here’s a sneak peek at some of the panels!…
Don’t miss a reading with award-winning writer and filmmaker David Bezmozgis Marvin Center Amphitheater 7:30pm Tuesday March 19th http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/a68a2684-f1fe-11e1-bba3-00144feabdc0.html#axzz2Np6oFdJg Bezmozgis is the author of the critically acclaimed books The Free World and Natasha and Other Stories, and is visiting GW as a guest of the Jewish Literature Live program. Natasha and Other Stories won the Toronto…