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Institute for Immigration Research New American Voices Award Ceremony Tuesday, October 6th 6:30 p.m. via Crowdcast About the Event The three finalists for the Institute for Immigration Research New American Voices Award will each read from their books before the grand prize is awarded:  Ishmael Beah from his novel Little Family, about which judge Susan […]

Rainbow Rowell Answers: What Happens After the Chosen One Saves the Day? Friday, October 9th 7:30 p.m. via Crowdcast *This is a Live Event Only – No recording will be available* About the Event If characters fall in love, feel like they’re screwing up, and love to talk all at the same time, New York

Homecoming: Mason’s Alumni Reading Thursday, September 10 at 7 pm via Crowdcast About the Event Come back to George Mason (virtually) this fall as alumni of the Creative Writing MFA Program gather to read selections from their latest prose and poetry. Jessica Anthony’s all-in-one ghost story, love story, and political satire, Enter the Aardvark, explores

Spy Pilot: The Cold War Controversy – Live Event Only Friday, October 2nd 12 p.m. via Crowdcast About the Event In Gary Powers, Jr.’s book Spy Pilot: Francis Gary Powers, the U-2 Incident, and a Controversial Cold War Legacy, a son uses declassified documents to dispel misinformation about his father, the pilot famously shot down

The Culture of Calamity Friday, September 4 at 12 pm via Crowdcast About the Event How do communities react when faced with epidemics, earthquakes, and other disasters? Using significant historical calamities ranging from the collapse of the early seventeenth-century Jamestown colony, ending with the deadly Johnstown flood of 1889, historian Cynthia A. Kierner explores European

Unmasking the “Angel of Death” Friday, September 18th 12 p.m. via Crowdcast About the Event Part biography and part true-life medical mystery, Mengele: Unmasking the “Angel of Death” is a swift-moving, engrossing, and balanced look at a man who came to represent the horrors of the Nazi death camps. David Marwell cuts through the layers