The Global Prison Paradox Wednesday, October 27, 7 pm via YouTube About the Event In his memoir, Notorious, Raphael Rowe details the twelve years he spent wrongly incarcerated for crimes including murder. After overturning his convictions in 2000, he became the first person of mixed race with dreadlocks to report for the BBC. Rowe is […]
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https://fallforthebook.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Twine-Event.mp4 Choose Your Own Twine Adventure Thursday, March 25, 7 p.m. via Crowdcast About the Event Did you love Choose Your Own Adventure books as a kid? Then log in and learn how to make an online text adventure story with Alex Boyd, who teaches interactive fiction at the University of Central Florida. Audience members
An Evening with Kristin Hannah Thursday, April 22, 7 p.m. via Crowdcast About the Event Readers have travelled to historic Paris and 1970’s Alaska with New York Times bestseller Kristin Hannah. Now visit the Great Plains during the darkest days of the Dust Bowl and Great Depression in The Four Winds as one woman makes
https://fallforthebook.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Twitter-2-illustrator-sprint-.mp4 Illustrator Sprint February 25, 7 p.m. via Crowdcast About the Event Ready, set, draw! In this fast-paced, hilarious sketch showdown, four illustrators compete for audience votes as they complete wacky prompts given to them by host R. Sikoryak. Sikoryak is a cartoonist and author of the graphic novels Constitution Illustrated, The Unquotable Trump, Masterpiece
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What We Talk About When We Talk About Intersectional Feminist Publishing Saturday, October 17th 3 p.m. via Zoom About the Event So to Speak, GMU Creative Writing and Office of Student Media’s intersectional feminist literary magazine, is almost 30 years old, and has had a longstanding mission of upholding the voices of marginalized authors. Over
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2020 Graduate Student Book Review Colloquium on Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies – Presented by the Ali Vural Ak Center for Global Islamic Studies Friday, November 20th 9:30 a.m. via Zoom About the Event The Ali Vural Ak Center for Global Islamic Studies at George Mason University and The Maydan, the Center’s public-facing scholarship platform,