150 Scholars Gather for “Melville and Whitman in Washington: The Civil War Years and After,” June 4-7, 2013
Abraham Lincoln’s 1861 Inauguration Library of Congress – Civil War photos – Item 96511712 |
Abraham Lincoln’s 1861 Inauguration Library of Congress – Civil War photos – Item 96511712 |
This week’s edition of Stay Lit is all about film! Reel Affirmations is DC’s International LGBTQ Film Festival and it starts tonight and goes until Sunday. Held at the Gala Hispanic Theatre this festival will feature documentaries, shorts, and feature films. It starts tonight at 7pm with the feature film Signature Move, which won top…
Don’t miss out on the EGSA‘s 4th Graduate Symposium Friday, February 7th, 2014! This year the topic is “Posting: A Symposium on What Comes Next” This year’s EGSA symposium focuses on scholarly work that explores the “post”: of race, space, nationality, humanism, and queerness. We will attempt to answer difficult questions such as, What are we trying…
Professor Tara Wallace was interviewed last month in the Washington Post about The Complete Jane Austen, to be aired on PBS. The interview was reprinted in the Honolulu Advertiser, Buffalo News, Charleston Post, Tulsa World, San Jose Mercury, Columbus Dispatch and Miami Herald. Professor Wallace is a popular teacher of eighteenth-century literature as well as…
The South African Project, a benefit performance featuring youth performers from the Bokamoso Youth Center of Winterveldt, South Africa. The rural township of Winterveldt, South Africa is plagued with serious challenges, including a 50% unemployment rate and an HIV/AIDS infection rate that affects 25% of the population; teen pregnancy and family violence; and other social…
Join us for an interactive workshop on thinking beyond blackness and whiteness in the history of race at the GW Diversity Summit 2019 Please RSVP Beyond Black and White: Race in the World Alexa Alice Joubin 3:40-4:30 pm, Thursday, November 7, 2019 Marvin Center, Room 308 800 21st St NW, Washington, DC 20052 George Washington…
Join GW English and Creative Writing next Thursday at 7:30 PM for a reading by Assistant Professor Jennifer Chang. Professor Chang joined our faculty this year and teaches poetry in the Creative Writing Program. Check out our interview with her from last May here. And see you at the Honors Townhouse next week! Share on…