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University Partner Day at Art Institute of Chicago Free admission and programming with valid DePaul ID for students, faculty, and staff, when entering through Columbus Drive Entrance (230 S Columbus Drive). Programming includes student art talks, faculty led tours, museum careers panel, and reception. Pre-registration highly encouraged! Saturday, February 10 at 12:30pm to 5:00pm Art Institute of Chicago (Columbus Drive Entrance) 230 S Columbus Drive
Murder and Mayhem in Chicago is a one-day mystery conference featuring some of the Midwest’s top mystery/crime writers. It’s an amazing educational and networking opportunity for students. Now in its second year, Murder and Mayhem in Chicago offers students the opportunity to meet with and learn from successful mystery and crime writers, including guests of honor Gillian Flynn and Jeffrey Deaver. In addition, attendees will hear from crime professionals, like Chicago Police Sergeant Adam Henkels, about the real stories that inspire crime fiction as well as journalists and editors who make these true stories come to… Read Article →
Save the date! The 9th annual Spring English Conference will be held on April 27, 2018. Submission guidelines will be coming soon. The Spring English Conference is a unique opportunity for DePaul English students from across the entire department to come together and share their work in a friendly, comradely environment. For questions, email englishconference.dpu@gmail.com
Join us for our first reading of 2018 with guest readers : Jan English Leary Ruben Quesada Paula Carter and Sharon Solwitz Linda Bubon from the Women’s Voices Fund will also be joining us to discuss their work in Chicago. While the Riverview is under construction, we’ll set up shop at our TEMPORARY LOCATION, the Celtic Crown Public House on Western and Cullom, just west of Roscoe Village.
A note from Samantha Hoffman, executive director of the Chicago Writers Association Writers Conference regarding scholarships – deadline is 1/19. and the application process is relatively fast: I’m reaching out because we have writing conference scholarships to award to two students, two educators and two others. We have not yet received a single application from a student–please apply! The deadline is January 15th at midnight, but we will extend the deadline to January 19th to give them time to apply. All applicants need to do is write a 500-word essay and complete the application…. Read Article →
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 →