The launch for Crook & Folly’s 37th edition will be Thursday, May 25! The event will celebrate the latest release of DePaul’s award winning journal of art and literature. The event takes place from 5:00-7:00 pm on Arts & Letters Third Floor Atrium. It will include a reading form the new edition, as well as food and refreshments. for more information contact crookandfolly@gmail.com.
Join the English Department in celebrating our graduating students and honoring Francesca Royster for her amazing leadership as char since 2015! The event takes place Friday, June 2nd from 3:00-5:00 pm in A&L 2nd Floor Atrium.
Next Tuesday, May 16, the Women’s Center will be holding an antiracist conversation and workshop sponsored by the Chicago chapter of Showing Up For Racial Justice (SURJ). The SURJ team will guide participants on the history of SURJ and racial justice organizing in Chicago and then go through skills training on alternatives to policing and calling the police. The event takes place at 6 PM in the Student Center Room 325. Contact Alexa Redick at redickalexa@gmail.com for more information.
This year the DePaul Humanities Center’s annual Humanities Laureate Award will be given to the Natives at Standing Rock in recognition of the ethical, political, and cultural importance of their heroic resistance against the Dakota Access Pipeline and continued struggle against state oppression of Native Americans. Three Native activists will be accepting the award on behalf of the larger community. The ceremony and panel discussion takes place Wednesday, May 17 from 7:00-8:30 PM in the Student Center Room 120. See the flyer above for more details.
Building Communities, Ending Violence is hosting an event featuring professors and community members discussing healing justice practices, self-love in movement building. The event takes place May 5 in Arts and Letters Room 306. The event will feature a roundtable and conversation with Laila Farah, Ann Russo, Misty De Berry, Mary Hazboun, and Shana Bahemat as well as Misty De Berry sharing Reiki practices and Beth Catlett and Tracy Bleier sharing yoga practices. See the flyer above for more details, or check out their Facebook page.
On Thursday, May 11, Studio Chi will be hosting Lisa Gitelman, Professor of English at New York University, to present Emoji Dick: Prequels and Sequels. The talk will focus on Emoji Dick a crowd sourced and crowd funded translation of Melville’s great American classic, Moby Dick into Japanese emoticons. Challenging concepts of authorship, the culture and industry of print production, and meaning in the age of digital communication will all be present themes. The event takes place from 4:15 to 5:30 PM in Richardson Library Room 115. See the flyer above for more. About Studio… Read Article →
This Friday, April 28, 2017 the DePaul English Department invites you to attend our eighth annual student-run conference from 10:00 am – 4:30 pm in Arts and Letters Hall! The Spring English Conference is an annual daylong event in which DePaul English undergraduate and graduate students showcase their academic and creative work from the previous year. The conference is a unique opportunity to engage in and demonstrate DePaul’s vibrant literary and English language arts community. Panels include: Literary Analysis Fiction Poetry Creative Nonfiction Writing/Editing Natalie Y. Moore, WBEZ’s South Side Reporter, will be presenting this… Read Article →
DePaul’s School of Design is hosting an event discussing the merger of game design and narrative writing. “Narrative Design is the New Game Design” will take place 6-7:30 PM at 14 E Jackson. See the flyer above for more information, or find more online.
The award-winning poetry journal ran by DePaul creative writing faculty, staff, and students is hosting a release party for their special issue Food next Monday! The event takes place 6-7:30 in the Richardson library Room 115. See the flyer above for details.
In collaboration with Chicago Women and Publishing (CWIP) the English Department will be hosting a career panel on writing and publishing. The event takes places Tuesday, May 9 from 6:30-7:30 PM in Arts & Letters Hall Room 109. It features DePaul alumna Meghann Workman of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, author and journalist Jeff Fleischer, and editor and video producer Marian Mangoubi. See the flyer above for more details. Contact Chris Green at cgreen1@depaul.edu with questions.
The Department’s Visiting Writers Program continues this Spring with Marc Nieson, author of Schoolhouse: Lessons of Love & Landscape. The event takes place Thursday, May 18 at 6:00 PM in the Richardson Library Room 400. See the flyer above for full details.
The DePaul Humanities Center (DHC) continues their Spring 2017 Season with another Humanities in Spaaaace! event, “The Moon.” The event takes place tonight, Tuesday 11, in the Student Center room 120. The event includes a screening of Melies 1902 A Trip to the Moon, a performances and lectures from a group of moon scholars and artists, and a view of the full moon through telescope. See the flyer above for more, or visit the DHC online. The DHC’s full season schedule is available here.