Amy Bloom Reads Thursday, September 18
This Thursday: Room 602, 1957 E Street NW, Elliott School for International Affairs Examining Violence against Women in India: Changes, Challenges, Futures 11 AM-1 PM The panel’s conversation will explore the many complexities of the situation of violence against women in India, and also allow for a discussion of it in a comparative frame, linking…
December 10 (10 a.m. – 1 p.m): One thousand copies of The Known World will be given away for FREE in the Marvin Center January 29 (5 PM) Edward P. Jones Inaugural Reading, introduced by GW President Steven Knapp (Jack Morton Auditorium, School of Media and Public Affairs) February 18 (6:30 PM) “Knowing The Known…
The Jane Austen Society of North America announces: Registration for our September 7 program ends Tuesday, September 2 [now extended to September 6]. Cost $20. Click here to pay with Paypal or download a reservation form. Professor Tara Wallace Austen’s Sea-Change: Re-Writing Sense and Sensibility with Tara Wallace, GWU Sunday, September 7 at 2:00 pm Classroom at Total Wine McLean Shopping…
Instruction and Reference Librarian Tolonda Henderson has sent us the following entry about her upcoming workshop on Harry Potter, this Tuesday at 4 PM in Gelman: One of the most basic ways we organize books is by fiction and non-fiction. My detective novels and sci-fi fantasy books live across my apartment from my textbooks from…
The JMM Reading series and the GW English Department present: MASTER CLASS: READING YOUR WORK ALOUD with Lloyd Schwartz Lenthall House, 606 21st Street April 18th 7:00 pm Join us for a talk/workshop to discuss and practice what makes a good poetry or fiction reading! Lloyd Schwartz is Frederick S. Troy Professor of English and…
GW Arts Initiative Program: Poetry Reading: The Best Dressed Girl in School “I could make you the best dressed girl in school,” my mother said, “but I won’t.” GW Professor of English Jane Shore grew up in the apartment over Corduroy Village, her parents’ dress store in North Bergen, New Jersey. She will read poems…