DePaul art and literary magazine Crook & Folly will celebrate the release of Edition 35 this Thursday, May 28, from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the DePaul Art Museum. Guest judges and Chicago writers Jonathan Eig, Jac Jemc, and Daniel Borzutzky will read; MAWP students Eric Hollander and Joe Hampton will provide their musical stylings; and magazines and snacks galore will be there for the taking. Crook & Folly will also introduce the 2015–2016 Edition 36 editors.
This Friday, May 29, at 1:30 p.m., University of Notre Dame digital initiatives librarian Eric Lease Morgan will lead a hands-on workshop on text mining for the humanities in the Scholar’s Lab. Those interested in attending may RSVP here. See below for more information.
The 31st annual Printers Row Lit Fest, the Midwest’s largest outdoor literary festival, will take place June 6–7, 2015, in the historic Printers Row district (at Dearborn Street, from Congress to Polk Streets) in the South Loop. Now in its thirtieth year, the fest will feature more than 200 booksellers from across the country and more than 200 authors participating in panels, discussions, and a variety of other programs. DePaul associate professor Rebecca Johns Trissler will be the interviewer for the panel Good Wives: Jennifer Chiaverini and Allison Pataki in conversation with Rebecca Johns, and visiting assistant professor Emily Gray Tedrowe will be on the… Read Article →
Chicago Women in Publishing (CWIP) is celebrating the end of its 2014–2015 season with a spring reception on the rooftop of Pegasus in Greektown. When Wednesday, June 17, 6–8:30 p.m. 6–7 p.m. Networking and Submit Raffle Tickets 7–8 p.m. Raffle Drawings 8–8:30 p.m. Continue Networking Where Pegasus Restaurant and Taverna (free valet parking) 130 S Halsted St., Chicago, IL 60661 Registration/ Cost CWIP Basic and Premium Members $25; nonmembers $30 Cash or check only at the door. No refunds. Register online.
The English department’s end-of-the-year celebration will take place on Friday, June 5, from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. in Arts & Letters Hall.
DePaul associate professor Miles Harvey and visiting assistant professor Kathleen Rooney will be leading writing workshops at the 2015 Northwestern Summer Writers’ Conference, which will take place July 30–August 1. Writers can register here.
DePaul associate professor and MAWP director Michele Morano will be reading at Sunday Salon Chicago, a free literary series, on May 31 at 7 p.m. The event will take place in the Roscoe and Damen Room at Riverview Tavern (1958 West Roscoe Street). Other featured readers include Jeffrey Condran, Aviya Kushner, and Jillian Lauren.
Chicago Women in Publishing (CWIP) is hosting a mentorship night and publishing career panel on Monday, May 18, at 6 p.m. in Room 408 of Arts & Letters Hall. The event is free and open to the public.
The inaugural Chicago Young Adult Book Fest will take place on Saturday, May 9, from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. After checking out a variety of panels with YA authors at Conrad Sulzer Regional Library (4455 North Lincoln Avenue, Chicago, IL 60618), attendees can make their way over to The Book Cellar for a reception and book signing.
This Friday, May 8, the DePaul English department‘s sixth annual English spring conference will take place in Arts & Letters Hall from noon to 8 p.m. More than forty MAE, MAWP, and undergraduate students will present their academic and creative work. The conference will also include a digital humanities workshop led by alumna Amanda Licastro, a career panel featuring recent graduates, and a keynote address by author Crystal Chan. Refreshments will be available throughout the day, and a reception will conclude the day’s events. Friends and family are more than welcome to attend this celebration of DePaul’s English department community. View… Read Article →
DePaul’s second annual Diversity Film Festival is accepting submissions of short films (up to 15 minutes in length) through May 10, 2015. The competition is open to all current DePaul students. The festival will take place on May 29, 2015.
The DePaul Humanities Center is hosting Foucault and the Legacy of the Prisons Information Group, a symposium and film screening, in Room 115 of Richardson Library on Friday, May 8. According to the Humanities Center, “This workshop is designed to examine the unique nature and history of Le groupe d’information sur les prisons (The Prisons Information Group, known as the GIP) that Foucault created with his partner, the sociologist Daniel Defert, in December of 1970. The workshop will consider consider its legacy for current struggles around incarceration and all the carceral techniques of surveillance, control, and normalization that have historically been associated… Read Article →