One Book, One Chicago, will be hosting a panel discussion on urban farming and gardening in Chicago. The event will be taking place this Thursday from 6-8 PM in Richardson Library Room 115. OBOC’s latest book is, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver, check it out here. See the flyer below for full information.
In conjunction with the Our Miss Brooks 100, and in celebration of the centennial birthday of the iconic Chicago poet Gwendolyn Brooks, the University of Chicago will be hosting Centennial Brooks a three day conference featuring scholars, poets, musicians, and artists inspired by Miss Brooks. The event takes place this weekend, April 6-7. Find a full schedule of and full details here. Featuring Nora Brooks Blakely, Ishion Hutchinson, Haki Madhubuti, Ed Roberson, Sonia Sanchez, and Evie Shockley, with a performance of music and poetry by Jamila Woods, and the premiere of a commission by Nicole Mitchell and the Black Earth… Read Article →
The 17th Annual Chicago Cervantes Symposium will be held Friday, April 21, 2017. The event – sponsored by The Cervantes Society of America, The Newberry Center for Renaissance Studies, and DePaul University – is free and open to the public. It takes place from 8-5:30 at the Instituto Cervantes (31 W Ohio St, Chicago). This years keynote address, “Don Quixote and the Knight of the White Moon” will be presented by Jay Allen of the University of Kentucky. Find a full schedule of panels and speakers here, visit them online for more details, and register for… Read Article →
This Friday is the final day to submit to the 2017 Spring English Conference! The conference accepts both academic and creative writing submissions. Please submit soon! Full details available here. Send submissions to englishconference.dpu@gmail.com.
Studio Chi continues their series of digital humanities events this month with Technologies of Recovery: A Critical Examination of a Black DH Genealogy. The event takes place Tuesday, April 4 at 5:00 PM. It will feature Kim Gallon of Purdue University discussing her work with the Black Research Press Collective (BPRC) and digital scholarship surrounding black newspapers. See the flyer above for more information.
This is a friendly reminder to English students and professors that the deadline to submit to the Spring English Conference is only a few short weeks away, Friday, March 31st ! Spring break is a great opportunity to review papers and pieces from finals and consider them for submission. Please see the flyer above for further details, or find a full call-for-submissions here. Submissions and questions can be sent to englishconference.dpu@gmail.com. We’d also like to announce that Natalie Y. Moore of WBEZ will be this years keynote speaker! Natalie is a longtime staffer at WBEZ… Read Article →
Poet Nickole Brown will be in Chicago reading at Women and Children First alongside local poets Simone Muench and DePaul’s own Mark Turcotte. The event takes place Friday, March 17 at 7:30 PM. Find out full information here.
DePaul’s Black Graduate Student Association will be hosting an upcoming mixer taking place next Tuesday, March 14th at 7pm. Find out more details on the flyer above.
Sunday Salon Chicago will continue their monthly reading series this Sunday, March 26. The event takes place at 7:00 PM at The Riverview Tavern, 1958 Roscoe Ave. This month’s reader include Howard Axelrod, Josh Barkan, Kelcey Parker Ervick, Reginald Gibbons, and Deborah Siegel. Find out more online.
The LAS Graduate Student Conference is happening this Friday! The conference showcases work from graduate students across the university, and is a unique opportunity to see the projects your DePaul colleagues have been working on. Students are especially encouraged to support their fellow English students presenting. During session I from 1:30-2:45, Mihaela Stoica (MAE), Jordan Weber (MAE), and Katelynn Moxon (MAWP) will be presenting in McGowan South Room 103. Joshua Brown (MAE) will be presenting during session II from 3:45-5:00 in McGowan South Room 105. Take time to celebrate the work of your peers!
Chicago Women in Publishing (CWIP) is hosting a full-day workshop on Saturday, March 11. The event has a unique character, in that it focuses on creating, publishing, and promoting a niche-market nonfiction book to use as a marketing and branding tool for businesses. The even lasts from 9:30 am – 4:00 pm, interested students can register online here. The event costs $129 for CWIP members and $149 for non members. Find full information on the official press release below: February 8, 2017 For Immediate release Contact: Taylor Alcantar, CWIP Director of Marketing Phone: 773-827-1076 Email:… Read Article →
The Women’s Center is hosting a Women’s History Month Lecture next month called, “Fee Them All: Defending the Lives of Criminalized Survivors of Violence.” The event takes place on Thursday, March 2nd in Cortelyou Commons at 6:30 PM. Check out more on Facebook. From the organizers: In the past few years, the names of Marissa Alexander, Cece McDonald, Bresha Meadows and others have come to public attention as people whose lives were lived at the intersection(s) of gender violence and criminalization. Besides the fact that they are Black women and girls, all three had robust defense committees organized to demand their… Read Article →