This workshop is for both faculty and students. In it, you will:
Thursday, October 24 @ 4pm (Zoom : Meeting ID: 885 9083 4953 Passcode: 889639)
This one-hour introductory hands-on workshop will familiarize you with practices and techniques of letterpress. It is ideal for faculty to learn ways of utilizing letterpress into the curriculum.
Registration is required, secure your spot and register HERE.
The Lowercase is located on the 1st floor of the Library in the old wing.
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Learning Outcomes:
This presentation challenges the previous understanding of the relationship between the Mongol Yuan dynasty and the Kingdom of Annam (northern Vietnam) in the 13th and 14th centuries. It argues that the perception of continuity in diplomatic relations between the two nations, as portrayed in documents following Chinese literary conventions, overlooks the multilingual nature of the Mongol Empire.
Justin Torres comes to campus to read from his recent National Book Award-winning novel Blackouts, and to discuss it with Writer-in-Residence Chekwube Danladi. His debut novel, We the Animals, won the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award, was translated into fifteen languages, and was adapted into a feature film. He was named a National Book Foundation "5 Under 35," a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, and a Cullman Center Fellow at the New York Public Library.
Students, staff and faculty are invited to join a conversation with Salam Al-Marayati and Daniel Sokatch.
One of the most critical societal issues is our perpetuation of inequality. One important quandary, however, is that while humans agree that equality is important, they continue to endorse and perpetuate existing inequalities. This talk presents some developmental evidence for why this may be the case.