Balancing academics, entering the job market, and effecting change in the world is a lot. In this cross-campus workshop, student activist share their passions and struggles.
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University of Texas-Austin Historian Steven Seegel
The GMU Center for Psychological Services 6th Annual Fundraiser
Join us at Leidos' Global Headquarters for the GMU Center for Psychological Services 6th Annual Fundraiser, Food for Thought. Help the Center reduce its waitlist of over 200 children, teens, adults, and veterans for affordable mental health services while participating in our one-of-a-kind auction, sampling culinary delights, and sipping signature cocktails. Learn more and purchase your ticket now! one.bidpal.net/foodforthought
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Jessica Beshir's film presents a journey into the rituals of khat, a leaf that Sufi Muslims have chewed for centuries for religious meditations and Ethiopia's most lucrative cash crop.
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Visit a site of Civil War history preserved on Mason's Fairfax Campus. At the western tree line of Parking Lot K, near the intersection of Braddock and Ox Roads, lies an earthen fortification built in 1861 and used by United States and Confederate States troops throughout the Civil War.
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Yale University Historian Marci Shore
Unapologetic illuminates the love underpinning the anger and frustration that comes with being Black, queer women in the US, and elevates those who are most often leading the way while being denied the spotlight.
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Magic, colonialism, and questions of identity intersect in Okezie Nwọka’s novel God of Mercy set in an Igbo village in Africa. Booklist calls it " a dream, or a fable, or something in between.” Nwọka will be in conversation with Alexia Arthurs. Sponsored by Mason Creative Writing.
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From the threats of climate change to California and the globe, to overflowing pandemic morgues, to the frontlines of the refugee crisis, urgent themes permeate the poetry collections The King’s Touch by Tom Sleigh, and Look at this Blue by Allison Adelle Hedge Coke.
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Enjoy the three finalists - and celebrate the winner - of the Fifth Annual New American Voices Award for immigrant writers: Sindya Bhanoo, author of Seeking Fortune Elsewhere, Daphne Palasi Andreades, author of Brown Girls, and Aamina Ahmad, author of The Return of Faraz Ali. They will be joined by this year’s judges: Christopher Castellani, Patricia Engel, and Huan Hsu. Sponsored by the Institute for Immigration Research. Free tickets to this event will be released on Eventbrite a week prior to this event.
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In the historical true crime tale The Plea: The True Story of Young Wesley Elkins and His Struggle for Redemption, Thomas Wolf and Patricia L. Bryan explore the captivating case of an eleven year old murderer in Iowa in 1889. Sponsored by the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute.
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A Panel moderated by Catherine Olien
Please join the Center for Humanities Research in its first public humanities showcase, intended to highlight the possibilities of this methodology to form a bridge between the academy and the community.
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Poetry Daily celebrates another landmark year with a reading and conversation with two editorial board members: Vivek Narayanan, author of After, and Jennifer Atkinson, author of A Gray Realm the Ocean. Sponsored by Poetry Daily.
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