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Write A House, a Detroit-based nonprofit focused on community development and the literary arts, invites DePaulians to apply for its writer’s residency program. Write A House works with vocational programs in Detroit to purchase vacant homes and renovate them. At the same time, the organization holds an admissions campaign to match a deserving writer to one of these homes. The artist is granted full ownership of the house, provided he or she plans to use it as a primary residence. In 2014, Write a House awarded poet-historian Casey Rocheteau its first home, and on April 27, 2015, it will begin accepting a… Read Article →

Wayne State University‘s sixth annual Group for Early Modern Studies (GEMS) graduate symposium welcomes abstracts from humanities graduate students working on the early modern period, broadly defined as 1400–1800. Abstracts should relate to the general theme of “will.” The symposium will take place on Friday, March 13, 2015, at Wayne State University in Detroit. The submission deadline is January 16, 2015. Students may submit their 250-word abstracts to gems.symposium@gmail.com. For more information, download the official call for papers as a Word doc or check out the graduate symposium website.

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