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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 →

Every quarter, DePaul’s Writers Guild hosts an open mic Aloud! Thursday, November 9, 7 PM LPC Writing Center 2320 N Kenmore SAC 212 Chicago, Illinois 60614 Come share your work and/or listen to others read, celebrate DePaul’s writing community, and make new friends! To view the event page click here.

The Call for Papers for the Sixteenth International Conference on Books, Publishing & Libraries, held 7 July 2018 at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, US is now open! They invite proposals for paper presentations, workshops/interactive sessions, posters/exhibits, innovation showcases, and colloquia. The conference features research addressing the annual themes and the 2018 Special Focus: “Communicating Values – Scholarly Communication as Mediator, Agent, Actor.” For more information regarding the conference, visit the conference website here.

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 →

Stay warm in Chicago with an all-prose reading! The readers: GERALD BRENNAN CRIS MAZZA NAEEM MURR CORNELIA SPELMAN Sunday Salon Chicago is a curated literary series on the north side of Chicago in Roscoe Village.  Visit the Sunday Salon website here, and the Facebook event page here.   

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.  

The Open Door series presents work from Chicago’s new and emerging poets and highlights the area’s outstanding writing programs. Each hour-long event features readings by two Chicagoland writing program instructors and two of their current or recent students. November’s Open Door Reading presents Chicago State University’s Kelly Norman Ellis and her student April Gibson along with DePaul University’s Kathleen Rooney and her former student and DePaul alum Andrea Rehani. When: Tuesday, November 21 at 7 PM – 8 PM Where: Poetry Foundation & Poetry Magazine 61 W Superior St, Chicago, Illinois 60654 For more information,… Read Article →

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