Upcoming Events
Sep26
Film and Media Studies
Wednesday, September 26, 2018 5:40 PM
Arlington Campus Professional Center, Founders Hall Auditorium
The School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution presents the 29th Annual Vernon M. and Minnie I. Lynch Lecture. This year's theme focuses on race and social justice within the United States and will be delivered by Professor Paul Butler. The title of his talk is Chokehold: Policing Black Men. Weds, Sep 26, 2018 Founders Hall Auditorium
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Sep27
Creative Writing
Thursday, September 27, 2018 7:30 PM
Johnson Center, Meeting Room G
English 699 Workshop: 1-4 p.m., Robinson Hall B, Room 434
Reading: 7:30 p.m., Johnson Center, Meeting Room G
Cheston Knapp is the managing editor of Tin House and the author of Up Up, Down Down, essays which Jim Shepard called, “exhilarating and funny and endlessly smart on dads, fraternities, southerners, drinking games, retribution, tennis, the anxiety of influence, guilt, authenticity, UFO’s, aptronyms, revelation, uncertainty, nostalgia, diversity, identity, skateboarding, and community, and that’s just to start.
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Oct1
Undergraduate Academic Affairs
October 1, 2018, 12:00 AM to October 28, 2018, 11:59 PM
Students can request a selective withdrawal through the Registrar's website. Courses that are selectively withdrawn will show up on a transcript as a W.
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Oct3
Sociology and Anthropology
Wednesday, October 3, 2018 4:00 PM to 6:00 PM
Johnson Center, Room G
Film screening and Q & A with the film's director/editor, Priya Sen
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Oct10
College of Humanities and Social Sciences
Wednesday, October 10, 2018 6:00 PM
Harris Theater
The Fall for the Book Festival presents the 2018 Beck Environmental Lecture: Reversing Global Warming, featuring environmentalist, entrepreneur, author, and journalist Paul Hawken. Hawken is the editor of Drawdown, which describes 100 substantive solutions to reverse global warming.
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Oct10
Film and Media Studies
Wednesday, October 10, 2018 7:30 PM to 10:00 PM
Johnson Center, Cinema
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Oct12
Creative Writing
Friday, October 12, 2018 6:00 PM
Research Hall, #163
English 699 Workshop: 1-4 p.m., Robinson Hall B, Room 474;
Reading: 6 p.m., Research Hall, Room 163
Marie-Helene Bertino is the author of the novel 2 A.M. At The Cat’s Pajamas and the story collection Safe As Houses, which the New York Journal of Books called “a collection of short stories making reading a truly healing and memorable experience.” Her work has received The Frank O'Connor International Short Story Fellowship in Cork, Ireland, The O. Henry Prize, The Pushcart Prize, The Iowa Short Fiction Award, and has been featured on NPR's Selected Shorts. She teaches at NYU, The New School, and in the low-residency MFA program at Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe.
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Oct12
Creative Writing
Friday, October 12, 2018 6:00 PM
Off-Campus Location, Epicure Café, 11104 Lee Highway, Fairfax
English 699 Workshop: 1-4 p.m., HUB Meeting Room, VIP III;
Reading: 6 p.m., Epicure Café, 11104 Lee Highway, Fairfax
Poet and scholar Jennifer Chang is the author of two books of poetry: The History of Anonymity selected for the Virginia Quarterly Review’s Poetry Series and was a finalist for the Shenandoah/ Glasgow Prize for Emerging Writers, and Some Say the Lark. In a review of The History of Anonymity for the Boston Review, critic Kristina Marie Darling observed, “While formally diverse, the collection is unified by an ongoing engagement with the natural world, with Chang often presenting forests, rivers, and vast seaside landscapes as loci for her speakers’ search for self-knowledge and authenticity.” Chang earned her MFA and PhD from the University of Virginia and teaches at George Washington University.
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Oct13
Creative Writing
Saturday, October 13, 2018
Workshop: Friday, October 12, 1-4 p.m., Robinson Hall B, Room 434;
Reading: Saturday, October 13, time/venue t.b.d.
Jennifer Percy is a National Magazine Award-winning journalist and a contributing writer at the New York Times Magazine. She is the author of the nonfiction book Demon Camp which was a New York Times Notable Book and a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers pick. Her work has taken her to places like Afghanistan, Syria, Iraq, and Japan, and she was recognized by the Livingston Foundation in the category of international reporting for “Journalists under 35.” Her articles have been widely published in magazines like Harper's, The New York Times, Esquire, The New Republic, and elsewhere.
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Oct25
Creative Writing
Thursday, October 25, 2018 7:30 PM
Merten Hall (formerly University Hall), #1204
Workshop: Thursday, October 25, 1-4 p.m., Robinson Hall B, Room 434;
Reading: Thursday, October 25, 7:30 p.m., Merten Hall, Room 1204;
Translation discussion: Friday, October 26, 10 a.m., venue t.b.d.
David Ferry is an acclaimed American poet and translator. His poetry collections include Dwelling Places (1993) and Of No Country I Know: New and Selected Poems and Translations (1999), which won the Lenore Marshall Prize, the Bingham Poetry Prize, the Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry from the Library of Congress, and was a finalist for the L.L. Winship/PEN New England Award and the New Yorker Book Award. Bewilderment: New Poems and Translations (2012), won the National Book Award for Poetry. Ferry’s translations, which include some of the world's major works of poetry including The Odes of Horace, and both The Eclogues and Georgics of Virgil, are known for their fluency and grace. His translation of Virgil’s Aeneid was published in 2017.
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