Lindsay Bernal Reads for the Jenny McKean Moore Series September 27

Dr. Jonathan Hope Please join us for the George Washington University’s Medieval & Early Modern Studies Institute’s Annual Shakespeare Lecture and reception with Dr. Jonathan Hope Monstrous Devices or Shakespeare Machines? Can Computers Read Hamlet for You? Friday, September 8, 2017 4-5:30 pm, Post Hall (on GWU’s Mount Vernon Campus) Free and open to the public; free…

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…

GW Professors Jennifer James and Jennifer C. Nash are part of a forum accessible online this month in Feminist Studies.  The forum is on “Teaching about Ferguson,” with six professors reflecting on the pedagogical challenges of teaching about state-sanctioned violence against people of color in the United States.  There is direct access to Feminist Studies…

Dear Faculty and Graduate Students: Don’t forget to mark your calendars for the  2016 EGSA Student Symposium, Border Crossings!  Friday, February 12th from   9 AM- 6:30 PM  Gelman 219   This year’s symposium features a cross-disciplinary smorgasbord of border crossings, from Historical and Economic exchanges to Crip/Queer crossings, Genre and Intertextual blending, and the power…

Reading Distance:  Port Louis, Cairo, Beijing A Public Lecture by Michael Gibbs Hill Friday, February 24, 2017 from 4-5 pm National Churchill Library & Center, Gelman Library, 1st floor This lecture explores a startling coincidence in world literature: the overlapping careers of Lin Shu 林紓 (1852–1924) and Muṣṭafā Luṭfī al-Manfalūṭī (1876–1924). Both men—who died in the…