Abraham Lincoln’s 1861 Inauguration Library of Congress – Civil War photos – Item 96511712 More than 150 scholars and students from a dozen countries assembled last month on the George Washington University campus for the Melville Society’s Ninth International Conference, focusing on the Civil War poetry of Walt Whitman and Herman Melville, two giants of…
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…
For the first time since the creation of the English Department’s mini-residency, the Wang Distinguished Professor will give a seminar just for undergraduates! Simon Gikandi, 2014-15 Wang Distinguished Professor This year’s Wang Distinguished Professor, Simon Gikandi will be leading this special event on October 30 at 2:15 PM in Rome Hall 771. A specialist in the…
Sunil Yapa will read from his debut novel, Your Heart is a Muscle the Size of a Fist The Jenny McKean Moore Reading Series Wednesday, February 8th, 7:30 PM Gelman 702 A novel set amid the heated conflict of Seattle’s 1999 World Trade Organization protests. On a rainy, cold day in November, young Victor—a boyish, scrappy world traveler…
This coming Wednesday: an important panel and audience discussion sponsored by the Africana Studies Program and the Multicultural Student Services Center. Share on FacebookTweet
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