The Jenny McKean Moore Reading Series presents two nonfiction writers: David and Margaret Talbot, on October 14th at 6:30 pm. Their book is By the Light of Burning Dreams: The Triumphs and Tragedies of the Second American Revolution. They will be in conversation with Professor Virginia Hartman.
Toni Morrison in a 2008 photograph. Nobel Prize laureate Toni Morrison will be visiting GW on Wednesday, September 21, where she will be honored by the University and the Toni Morrison Society with the dedication of a memorial bench in front of Lisner Auditorium. The event will be part of the society’s Bench by the…
George Pelecanos Reading Thursday, January 23rd in Marvin Center 301 at 7:30pm http://diariodellafenice.blogspot.com/2011/09/in-libreria-george-pelecanos-il.html A Washington native, Pelecanos worked many odds and ends jobs before publishing his first crime novel, A Firing Offense, in 1992. His novels plunge readers into the gritty world of murder and drugs that he constructs from personal observation and research. In a conversation Pelecanos explained, “My…
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An interactive session on fighting anti-Asian racism through film, led by Alexa Alice Joubin, on Friday May 21 at 3 pm eastern time. The event is free and open to the public. Sign up here. Direct Zoom link. To mark the AAPI (Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders) Heritage Month, Fulbright Alumni Ambassador and GW English professor…
WORKSHOP on Publishing Your Research by Ben Doyle, Global Head of Literature, Palgrave Macmillan Publishing your first article or book can seem like a daunting prospect and, for the uninitiated, the process can see somewhat arcane and unclear. Ben Doyle, Publisher and Global Head of Literature for Palgrave Macmillan’s Scholarly division, will be speaking about the publishing experience at…
TRANSVISCERAL The George Washington University February 6, 2015 Paper Proposal Deadline: December 12, 2014 Keynote speaker: Sharon P. Holland, Professor of American Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and author of Raising the Dead: Reading of Death and (Black) Subjectitivity (2000) and, most recently, The Erotic Life of Racism (2012). In…
