Marymount Metro Humanities Portal

Dear graduate students and faculty,We’re in the final stretch for Spring Semester! Less than two weeks until finals! If you know of an event that you feel would make a good fit, please email the details (name, time, title and link) to grad.assist@marymount.eduwith the subject heading “humanities event.” See you around DC!

• Marymount University’s annual Bisson Lecture is hosting Dr. Jesse Aléman’s lecture “Wars of Rebellion: US Hispanic Writings and their American Civil Wars” on Friday, April 27th. Reception at 5:30pm, lecture at 6pm in the Reinsch Auditorium.
• Marymount University’s Master’s Thesis Defenses are being held on 5/1 (Lee Reception Room), 5/8 and 5/9 (Library Board Room) at 6:30pm. All are welcome to attend!
• Marjane Satrapi, author of the graphic novel Persepolis, will appear at George Washington University’s Lisner Auditorum Friday, April 27th.
• Philip Levine, the 18th Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry at the Library of Congress, will conclude the Library’s literary spring season with a reading and discussion on Thursday, May 3, at 7:00pm, in the Coolidge Auditorium of the Library of Congress. This event is free and open to the public. A reception and book signing will follow.
• Shakespeare Theatre Co. is producing the India-British Separation historical play, A Tryst With Destiny on April 28th.
• Starting to feel end-of-the-semester blues? Make an evening of The Servant of Two Masters, premiering May 15th at Shakespeare Theatre Co. to laugh your way into summer.
• Arena Stage is hosting selected essays relating to Eugene O’Neill during their O’Neill Festival through May 9th.
• The American Art Museum’s exhibit on the Art of Videogames is running from March through September.
• The Renwick Gallery is rotating in works from its collections into new exhibits, starting April 18th.

We’ll see you around the city!
- The Graduate Humanities Program

Dear graduate students and faculty,

We’re in the final stretch for Spring Semester! If you know of an event that
you feel would make a good fit, please email the details (name, time, title and
link) to grad.assist@marymount.edu
with the subject heading “humanities event.” See you around DC!

• Marymount University’s annual English Night celebration will honor graduating undergraduates and graduates. Swing by the Reinsch Auditorium on April 17th from 6:30-8:00pm and congratulate the deserving–while you pick up free books!
• Marymount University’s student research conference will be held on April 17th, all day, in Caruthers Hall.
• The American Art Museum’s exhibit on the Art of Videogames is running from March through September.
• The Eugene O’Neill festival is here! Several plays by this important 20th-century American playwright will be performed at area theaters, including Arena Stage and the Shakespeare Theatre. Read more at The Washington Post.
• The Freer
  Gallery is hosting a day-long tribute to filmmaker and animator Hayao
  Miyazak on April 15th, showing Ponyo, Porco Rosso, Princess Mononoke
  and Spirited Away from 11am to 9pm.
• The Centennial
  of Marine Aviation is being remembered by the Smithsonian with a
  special lecture by Commandant of the Marine Corps Gen. James Amos at 8pm, April
  12 in the Air & Space Museum.
• Thinking
  about summer classes? George Mason University is offering a four-week
  course on cultural documentation. Instruction will cover areas such as
  planning a community-based ethnographic project, ethics, documentation
  methodology, research and recording techniques, as well as hands-on
  training experience with the Columbia Pike Documentary Project. For more
  information about the course, please feel free to contact Prof. Debra
  Lattanzi Shutika at dshutika@gmu.edu.

We’ll
see you around the city!

-
The Graduate Humanities Program

2012 MA Thesis Defense and Internship Practicum Presentation Schedule
Tuesday, May 1, 6:30 PM (Lee Reception Room)

Erica Prong Master of Arts in Humanities

Into the West: J.R.R. Tolkien’s Landscape of Hope

Chair: Dr. Katie Peebles Second Reader: Dr. Sarah Ficke

Gabrielle Faundez Rojas Master of Arts in Humanities

“The English Exodus to Ionia”: The Identity of the Anglo-Saxon Varangians in the Service of Alexios Comnenos (1081-1118)

Chair: Dr. Katie Peebles Second Reader: Dr. Mark Trowbridge

Tuesday, May 8, 6:30 PM (Library Board Room)

Kristen Pierce Master of Arts in Literature & Language

Mind Over Matter: Move and Breathe Beyond Writer’s Block

Advisor: Dr. Bess Fox

Sarah Hann Master of Arts in Humanities

Internship Practicum: National Cathedral Archives

Advisor: Dr. Tonya Howe

Wednesday, May 9, 6:30 PM (Library Board Room)

Mark Dwinnells Master of Arts in Humanities

The Right to Bear Arms but the Duty to Shoulder Them: A Review of the Statutes and Conditions Surrounding Colonial Massachusetts and Virginia, 1607-1789

Chair: Dr. Patrick Mullins Second Reader: Dr. Leigh Johnson