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FAMS courses offered in Spring 2019 include Global Horror Film, TV and Twitter, Introduction to Spanish-Language Cinema, Race/Gender/Class/Sports, Film & Video Forms, and Cyberpunk.

Students from Mason's Folklore Studies Program collected legends, myths and stories from those who tend to be overlooked by academia.

On Thursday, October 11, 2018, Hernán Díaz, author of the novel In the Distance, was awarded the inaugural Institute for Immigration Research New American Voices Award. Fall for the Book created this post-publication book prize to recognize recently published works that illuminate the complexity of human experience as told by immigrants, whose work is historically underrepresented in writing and publishing.

"We were somewhat fortunate in that we could tell that story, we could connect a bunch of these dots that typically just don't get connected,” said Kim Reed, who worked with investigative journalists and followed leaked information. Dark Money at GMU Oct 30 4:30pm JCC

Kimberly Reed is bring her film, Dark Money, to GMU on Oct 30. She "believes that young people, college students especially, should engage in politics to prevent the corruption that is exposed in “Dark Money.”"

Novelist and short story writer Liam Callanan and poet Cynthia Marie Hoffman—both of them alumni of Mason’s MFA program in creative writing—will round out the Fall 2018 Visiting Writer series with a joint reading on Thursday, November 8. Their reading begins at 7:30 p.m. in the Fenwick Library Reading Room, second floor of Fenwick Library, on Mason’s Fairfax Campus. The reading is free and open to the public, and books by each author will be for sale during the event.

Tues, Oct 30 at 4:30pm Johnson Center Cinema: Kim Reed's documentary examines one of the greatest present threats to American democracy: the influence of untraceable corporate money on our elections and elected officials. See it before Election Day.

Throughout it all, El Said is conscientious of the role he has as a filmmaker to create something groundbreaking and the responsibility he carries to make sure he serves his films and not vice versa.