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The renowned Irish poet Desmond Egan will read from his work and also comment on the upcoming centennial commemoration of the 1916 Easter Rising. The event will take place Monday, October 12 at 5 pm  in the Richardson Library Room 400 (Dorothy Day Room). Egan has published 23 Volumes of poetry, two works of prose and two translations of Greek plays. In 1987 he founded the Gerard Manley Hopkins Festival in Newbridge, Co. Kildare, which he continues to direct. His poem “Peace” was translated into 35 languages as part of the international Millennium celebration. He and his work have received awards… Read Article →

The DePaul Humanities Center begins their “Making the Novel” series with Don Quixote. The event is Wednesday, October 21st in the Student Center Room 120 from 7:00-9:00 pm. This years marks the 400th anniversary of the publication of the complete Don Quixote. Fittingly, the Humanities Center begins their novel series at the beginning of the novel itself, investigating the ways in which Miguel de Cervantes’ masterwork continues to find new ways to mean four centuries on. Over the course of an evening of performances and lectures, a multidisciplinary array of scholars and artists will contemplate Quixote from multiple perspectives – interpreting the narrative… Read Article →

The Writing, Rhetoric and Discourse Department will be hosting Annette Vee, associate professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh. She will be giving a talk called, “Coding for everyone: What does it mean to call computer programming a ‘literacy’?” The event will be held Tuesday Oct. 13, from 4:20-5:50 in the Scholar’s Lab on the first floor of the Richardson Library. Annette was a student of renowned Writing Studies literacy scholar Deborah Brandt and has taken up the torch of studying literacy in the 21st century. Annette writes on how computer code is a kind of writing,… Read Article →

The DePaul University Library is teaming up with the University Center for Writing-based Learning in celebration of Banned Books Week! The American Library Associations Banned Books Week is an annual event celebrating the freedom to read and the importance of the First Amendment. Held during the last week of September, Banned Books Week highlights the benefits of free and open access to information while drawing attention to the harms of censorship by spotlighting actual or attempted banning of books across the United states.   Events scheduled through DePaul include: Monday, September 28th read-out, pop-up shop, and… Read Article →