DEPARTMENT NEWS: Department of Art Annual Ceramics Sale, Dec. 5-9

You are invited to the Department of Art's

Annual Ceramics Sale

Come support our students and do  some Holiday shopping. Give someone a unique and handmade gift for the holiday.

When: December 5-9, 2011

Where: Attallah Piazza

Time: 11:00AM- 3:00PM

We hope to see you there!

EVENT NEWS: "I'm Not A Feminist, But..." Dec. 5

Women's Studies and Chapman Feminists present, "I'm Not A Feminist, But..." on Monday, Dec. 5, 2011 at 7:30 - 9 p.m. in Argyrous Forum 209 A&B. 

This event will include a faculty panel, student film and discussion followed by a question and answer session.

Refreshments and snacks will be served.

EVENT NEWS: Tabula Poetica- MFA Poetry Reading, Dec. 6

Chapman University, Wilkinson College of Humanities and Social Sciences and the Department of English would like to invite you to the 2011 Tabula Poetica series final event which is an MFA Poetry Reading featuring Chapman University graduate students reading from their original poems. 

The poetry talks will begin at 1 p.m. in the Wilkinson Chapel and readings will being at 7 p.m. in the Malloy Room in Leatherby Libraries. These events are free and open ot the public. This series is sponsored by the Department of English, Leatherby Libraries, Department of History, Conservatory of Music and supported by Poets & Writers, Inc.

For more information, please visit the Tabula Poetica webpage at http://www.chapman.edu/poetry/

EVENT NEWS: Visual Art Speaker Series, Nov. 30

Wilkinson College and the Department of Art presents creative recruiter, Cecilia Gorman for the Visual Arts Speaker Series on Wednesday, November 30, 2011 at 7 p.m. in , MC 213.

As VP, Director of Creative Services, Cecilia is the creative recruiter at Y&R/Wunderman in Irvine. Her recruitments have gone on to create award-winning advertising, design and digital work for brands such as Land Rover, Mattel, Jenny Craig, Callaway Golf and Toshiba Laptops. Cecilia’s true passion is helping students and young professionals discover their creative potential. Cecilia owns Creative Career Management, a career development firm, and she authors “Confessions of a Creative Recruiter,” a junior-focused advice blog.

This event is free and open to the public. For more information, please contact Jeanie Randazzo at 714.997.6729.

EVENT NEWS: Alumni Book Club, Dec. 7

You’re invited to the Wilkinson College Alumni Book Club: Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey.

In Northanger Abbey Jane Austen parodies the Gothic novels of the 1790s that were best sellers in her youth. Northanger Abbey was the fi rst of Jane Austen’s novels to be completed for publishing and references The Mysteries of Udolpho, a novel by Gothic writer Anne Radcliffe. The novel explores the differences between fi ction and reality and questions the nature of its characters: who can be trusted and who is a true friend. Northanger Abbey is more obviously comedic than any of her later novels and was most likely written for the enjoyment of her family because of the use of literary illusions that her family would have enjoyed. Jane Austen was cautious about publishing this novel after the success of her other novels, because she was concerned that the Gothic novel she was parodying had gone out of fashion. But, nearly 200 years after its eventual publication, the Gothic seems to be as popular as ever.

Space is limited - RSVP by emailing stroop@chapman.edu

There are several parking spots available behind the Elliot Alumni House and additional parking is available across the street in the public parking lot. Street parking is limited. 

For additional parking information visit our website http://www.chapman.edu/publicsafety/parking/default.asp or contact Parking Services at (714) 997-6763.

EVENT NEWS: An Interfaith Service of Remembrance for Kristallnacht, Nov. 11

 The Rodgers Center for Holocaust Education presents...

 

An Interfaith Service of Remembrance for Kristallnacht 

November 11, 2011 at 7:00 p.m.

Wallace All Faiths Chapel at the Fish Interfaith Center

 The guest speaker will be, Engelina Billauer, survivor of the Holocaust and witness to Kristallnacht.

 This event is free and open to the public. For more information, please contact Ashley Bloomfield at (714) 532-7760 or E-mail her at ambloom@chapman.edu.

FACULTY NEWS: Alicia Kozameh will Represent CU in France

Author/Professor Alicia Kozameh has been invited to the Belles Latinas Festival, a yearly event that takes place simultaneously in different cities in France during the month of November, for Latin American authors translated into French. She will be presenting her poetry book Mano en vuelo (Hand in Flight), in French Main in vol, written during the beginning of the war in Iraq, and her story "Bosquejo de alturas" (Impression of Heights), in French Esquisse des hauteurs, an account of the time she spent imprisoned with other women in the basement of the headquarters of the Police Station in Rosario, Argentina, as a political prisoner during the last dictatorship.

Both books were translated by Anne-Claire Huby and published by L'atelier du tilde, Lyon, France.

She will be doing presentations at the Université Lumiére, Bron, Université de Poitiers, Archivos Poitiers, L'AmphiOpéra de Lyon and the Médiathèque Municipale, Valence. Alicia will end her tour with a reading and lecture at the University of Milano, Italy. 

FACULTY NEWS: Art Professor, Lia Halloran Joins Lisa Randall at Harvard, Nov 3

Assistant Professor of Art, Lia Halloran, will be part of a panel discussion for the opening with Lisa Randall, and then in following days meeting with graduate students at Mass Art and lecturing for the graduate Seminar with Jane Marsching, as well as visiting a undergrad painting class at Harvard with Matt Saunders.

EVENT NEWS: Pilgrimage West: Sigma Tau Delta Far Western Regional Conference at Chapman, Nov. 12

The Chapman Alpha Zeta Iota chapter of Sigma Tau Delta International English Honor Society is proud to host the Society's 2011 Far Western Regional Conference, Pilgrimage West. Critical and creative work will be presented by students from the Far Western states. The conference includes presentation panels followed by discussion and Q&A, lunch discussion roundtables, and a Plenary Address by Dr. Anna Leahy of Chapman and Dr. Debora Rindge of New Mexico.

Time: Saturday, November 12 8:30 AM

Location: Beckman Hall

Contact: Sarah Faulkner

Phone: 360-521-9425

Email: sigmatd.fw@gmail.com 

Website: http://www.chapman.edu/wilkinson//english/SigmaTauDelta_conference.asp

EVENT NEWS: That Takes Ovaries: Bold Women and Their Brazen Acts, Nov. 15

Women's Studies and Chapman Feminists host: That Takes Ovaries: Bold Women & Their Brazen Acts. Sponsored by the Student Government Association, Peace Studies, Dean of Students, Housing and Residence Life, Sociology, & Wilkinson College

"That Takes Ovaries"-- Dramatic readings from the book "That Takes Ovaries" by Rivka Solomon (performed by Chapman Students) and an Open Mike Movement-- all focusing on real-life stories from women and girls, and the bold, gutsy, outrageous, courageous things they have done. From playful to political, Ovaries mixes art with activism and fun in an international grassroots movement for empowerment: Because women and girls everywhere have inspiring stories to tell! Because men everywhere know inspiring, courageous women they want to recognize and celebrate!

The event will be on Tuesday, November15 from 7:00 – 9:00pm at Irvine Lecture Hall. The event is free and open to the public.

For more information please contact Prof. Clara K Magliola at 714 997-6621 SOC office or via-email at Magliola@chapman.edu. You can also visit the following website for more information, http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=271746789530180; OR http://thattakesovaries.org/htmls/homepage.html

EVENT NEWS: "Love and Children" w/ Shoshana Grossbard, Nov. 8

The Institute for the study of Religion, Economics, and Society (IRES) is pleased to announce the next seminar of the fall semester. The seminar will take place in Wilkinson Hall, Room 116, on Tuesday, November 8. 

The speaker is Shoshana Grossbard, an economist from San Diego State University who will be presenting her paper "Love and Children". 

Abstract:

The cost of children includes all monetary outlays, ranging from cribs to college tuition, as well as time costs. These time costs have been measured either in terms of time spent on childcare and related household production or as foregone parental leisure. It has also been documented that children are costly in terms of foregone happiness. In this paper we examine how children affect respondents’ feelings of being loved by their current partners. Using data from the National Longitudinal Survey 1997 cohort (hereafter NLSY97) we estimate linear regressions of respondents’ assessments of their partners’ love valued from 0 to 10. Our findings indicate a further sense in which children are costly: their presence appears to be associated with lower levels of spousal love. This appears to hold for women more than for men, and for Whites more than for Blacks.

EVENT NEWS: Visual Art Speaker Series Presents John Espinosa, Nov. 9

Wilkinson College and the Department of Art presents artist, John Espinosa for the Visual Arts Speaker Series on Wednesday, November 9, 2011 at 7 p.m. in , MC 213.

Born in Bogotá, Colombia, John Espinosa received his MFA from Yale and now lives and works in Los Angeles. His work has been featured in several notable group exhibitions and museum collections such as the Whitney Museum of Contemporary Art. From the mid 90’s, John Espinosa’s artworks have engaged themes of distortion and circulation utilizing a materially diverse practice. John Espinosa will discuss the biographical and cultural influences that shaped his art making process beginning with his early performance based photography to his most recent sculptural project based on a cluster of found wall drawings he unintentionally discovered hidden behind a crumbling wall in his studio.

This event is free and open to the public. For more information, please contact Jeanie Randazzo at 714.997.6729.

EVENT NEWS: Bensussen Art Lecture Series Presents Jason Felch, Nov. 2

Wilkinson College and the Department of Art presents  LA Times Reporter Jason Felch for the Bensussen Art Lecture Series on Wednesday, November 2, 2011 at 7 p.m. in Kennedy Hall, Room 237. 

Jason Felch is an award winning investigative reporter, who graduated from the University of California at Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, Felch’s stories have shed light on corruption in the art world, the misuse of DNA evidence in courts, fraud in the wake of disasters and other topics. Felch will give a presentation about his non-fiction book, Chasing Aphrodite: The Hunt for Looted Antiquities at the World’s Richest Museum (chasingaphrodite.com), which details how the J. Paul Getty Museum became the epicenter of an unprecedented scandal over the acquisition of looted Greek and Roman antiquities by American museums.

Please RSVP: www.chapman.edu/chasingAphrodite. This event is free and open to the public. For more information, please contact Jeanie Randazzo at 714.997.6729.

FACULTY NEWS: Languages Professor, Pilar Valenzuela, Presents New Book

Dr. Pilar Valenzuela (Associate Professor in the Department of Languages) recently participated in the presentation of the book Estudios sobre lenguas andinas y amazónicas. Homenaje a Rodolfo Cerrón-Palomino, which she co-edited with colleagues from Leiden University and the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru. The book, which contains 21 articles dealing with various topics on Andean and Amazonian linguistics, as well as Spanish in contact with the indigenous languages, is a Festschrift honoring Peruvian scholar Prof. Rodolfo Cerrón-Palomino for his outstanding contributions to the field of Andean linguistics. Dr. Valenzuela’s own article provides a systematic comparison of the basic lexicon and selected grammar features of Shiwilu and Shawi, the two languages that make up the Kawapanan family from north-eastern Peru. Based on this comparison, Dr. Valenzuela offers the first reconstruction of Proto-Kawapanan, the unattested common ancestor of Shiwilu and Shawi.  

EVENT NEWS: New Course for Chapman Students

A new course will be available for Chapman students that offers hands-on practice teaching 9^th and 10^th graders and  allow students to acquire professional experience while earning college credit simultaneously. There is no teaching experience necessary for the course.

The objective of the course is to provide a platform for Chapman students to engage in their local community and to present opportunities for mentoring and hands-on classroom experience.

Class Meets:  Monday & Wednesday, 1-2:15pm for 6 wks only

Class Location: TBA

Internship Meets: After the first 6 wks, on Monday & Wednesday, 3:30-4:15 for the remainder of the semester
Internship Location: Internship is located in Santa Ana

Come hear more about the Iluminación program and seminar internship class. Meet the professor and academic director. Informational Sessions will be offered on the following dates:

Wednesday, Nov. 2, 1-1:50pm: Laura Scudder Conference Room, Dean’s Suite Roosevelt 127 

Monday, Nov. 7^th , 2:15-3:00pm: Laura Scudder Conference Room, Dean’s Suite Roosevelt 127