This virtual panel discussion will look at how games – from video games to tabletop games to classroom simulations – have been used to translate military experience for a civilian audience. Tune in for a live discussion of these questions … Read more
A FREE Virtual Program for K-12 Teachers (General Public Welcome!) | Thursday, May 12, 5:30 – 7:00 pm Virtual via Zoom – CLICK HERE to Register On Aug. 1, 1952, six years after the landmark Morgan v. Virginia case in … Read more
**This Great Books class will be held virtually over Zoom** featuring Hilary Edwards Lithgow, Teaching Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature The first Irish writer to win the Nobel Prize for Literature —W. B. Yeats was not only … Read more
A Distinguished Scholar Seminar featuring Michelle King, Associate Professor of History. The twenty-first century may be China’s century. With the world’s largest population and the second largest, most rapidly growing economy of the major nations, China is positioned to play … Read more
War Movies and the Public • May 23 • 5-6 PM (EST) via Zoom Using the iconic 2002 film "We Were Soldiers" as a jumping-off point, this event will focus on how movies represent war to the civilian public. Two … Read more
featuring Maggie Fritz-Morkin, Assistant Professor of Italian Winner of the 2014 PEN USA Literary Award for Translation —A towering monument of European literature and a masterpiece of imaginative narrative. —Penguin Classics —The Decameron is a joyously comic book that … Read more
featuring Maggie Fritz-Morkin, Assistant Professor of Italian Winner of the 2014 PEN USA Literary Award for Translation —A towering monument of European literature and a masterpiece of imaginative narrative. —Penguin Classics —The Decameron is a joyously comic book that … Read more
A Distinguished Performer Half-Day seminar featuring Robert Buxton, Lecturer (Piano) This event will focus on the music and life of Franz Liszt, composer and pianist extraordinaire of the 19th century, through interspersed performance and discussion of his works with pianist … Read more
featuring Geovani Ramirez, Teaching Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature Winner of the 2019 PEN/Nabokov Award for Achievement in International Literature —Sandra Cisneros is one of the most brilliant of today’s young writers. Her work is sensitive, alert, … Read more
