Events

Storying lives, narrating histories: An oral history exhibition

Akian Art Gallery

Storying lives, narrating histories is an oral history exhibition showcasing the diverse research creation projects of students from E&C 280 – Oral history: Collecting life stories. The projects are based on oral history fieldwork the students conducted in the spring 2018 and fall 2018 terms. Please join us for the opening on Thursday, February 21 at 6:30 pm […]

Creative/Critical: CHSS Faculty Series

Akian Art Gallery

The Creative/Critical discussion series of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences, featuring the scholarly and creative output of CHSS faculty members, presents its second panel discussion on Thursday, March 21, 2019. Through the varied lenses of Feminist Studies, literature, music, and oral history, panelists will explore interstices of Convergence and confluence between cultures, bodies […]

Series on Culture and Literature: The Life and Poetry of Georg Trakl in the Shadow of First World War

Akian Art Gallery

Georg Trakl, (born Feb. 3, 1887, Salzburg, Austria—died Nov. 3, 1914, Cracow, Galicia, Austria-Hungary). Expressionist poet whose emotional life story and wartime torments made him Austria’s foremost elegist of decay and death. Like other famous Austrian artists (e.g. painters Oskar Kokoschka and Egon Schiele, composer Alban Berg, writers Robert Musil and Heimito von Doderer) he […]