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Fake 2 Shadows Wednesday, February 7, 2018 DePaul Student Center, Room 120 2250 N Sheffield Avenue, Chicago 6:30 – 7:00 p.m. The “Gallery of Shadows” interactive art and science exhibit 7:00 – 9:00 p.m. Lectures and Performances From Biblical Hebrew to Ancient Greek and Latin, a shade is thought to be a shadow-self, the part that continues on into the afterlife. But our shadows, of course, are always with us—not a fake-self, not a specter of a thing, but part of what it means to be in the light, to be enlightened. Featuring a lecture… Read Article →
In Conversation with Great Minds: Michael Shannon Monday, January 29, 2018 DePaul Student Center, Room 120 2250 N Sheffield Avenue, Chicago 6:00 – 8:00 p.m. Screening of Take Shelter (2011, dir. Jeff Nichols) 8:00 – 9:00 p.m. Conversation Academy Award/Golden Globe nominee and SAG Award winner, Michael Shannon visits the DePaul Humanities Center and joins Center director H. Peter Steeves to talk about a career that has taken him from stage (“Bug”) to television (“Empire Boardwalk”) to film (Nocturnal Animals), establishing him as one of the most talented, compelling, creative, and original artists of our… Read Article →
The Biblical Humanities Holy Ingestions: Sacrificial Bodies, Communion, and The Eucharist Wednesday, January 17, 2018 St. Vincent DePaul Parish 1010 West Webster Avenue, Chicago 7:00 – 9:00 p.m. Lectures and Performances 9:00 – 9:30 p.m. Wine and cheese reception sponsored by Saint Vincent de Paul Parish A sacrifice and a sacrament, the Eucharist brings together faith and practice in a way that causes us to think about the manner in which a community is constituted by what its members eat and how that ingestion is made possible and understood as something more—understood as a community… Read Article →
TedxDePaulUniversity is now accepting speaker applications from all vision vanguards and idea-generators for the annual event returning May 1, 2018. Now in its third year, the event aims to unite the DePaul community for a half-day of idea-driven programming and to promote faculty, staff, student and alumni thought leaders through the world-famous TEDx platform. With over 91,000 views of TEDxDePaulUniversity videos on YouTube alone, the event’s online accessibility and affiliation with the TEDx brand spreads our community’s ideas across the globe. This year’s theme is “Reimagine” — a single word inviting speakers to develop talks… Read Article →
Angela Bourke, described by Jim Fairhall as “a notable feminist creative writer and critic [who] sails in the upper levels of the literary firmament in Ireland and the U.K.”, visits next week to discuss women’s voices in Irish literature. See the flyer above for more information.
Don’t miss the first EGSA meeting! This brief meeting will help to come up with upcoming events and student meetups. Come and meet other graduate students! Those interested in joining the EGSA team should attend. For more information, see flyer above. For questions, contact Lauren Rouse rouselaurenc@gmail.com or Camila Restrepo camilarestr@gmail.com.
Writing & Rhetoric Across Borders Speaker Series Join the Writing, Rhetoric & Discourse Department and author Candice Rai on: Friday, October 27 from 1:00-2:30 PM, McGowan South 105 Drawing on fieldwork that documents contests over public space and affordable housing initiatives in Chicago’s Uptown neighborhood, this presentation explores the promises and pitfalls of liberal democracy. Rai will examine rhetoric as an ethical art of listening across radical difference and within politically fraught situations in which we must finally act from a place of complicity and without certainty of success. Candice Rai is an Associate Professor… Read Article →
Join Sigma Tau Delta in their gothic and horror fiction open mic night! See flyer above for more information.