Crook & Folly Edition 38 Launch Party
Join us for the launch of the 38th edition of DePaul University’s Arts and Literature magazine, Crook & Folly! There will be snacks, speeches, readings, and free copies for everyone who attends.
Wednesday, May 23
4:30-6:30 PM
DePaul Art Museum
935 W Fullerton Ave.
After the launch, editors, Emily and Maddie will be heading over to State Restaurant at 935 W. Webster Ave., for those who would like to join them in celebrating a job well done! (All tabs will be separate).
Activists/Artists/Ecologists Panel Discussion
Tuesday, May 15th 2018, 7 – 9 pm
DePaul University, McGowan South,
1110 W Belden Ave,
Chicago, IL 60614
(Room 104)
The DePaul University Institute for Nature and Culture is excited to invite you to a panel discussion with four activists/artists/ecologists who are engaged in crucial struggles for our planetary future and provide models of hope in these arduous times. ALL WELCOME; Students should especially consider coming along.
Taylor Brorby is an essayist, poet, and memoirist whose work centers on hydraulic fracking and climate change in western North Dakota.
Lucas Foglia’s photographs challenge the concept that humans and nature operate in opposition, while simultaneously highlighting the relentlessly uneasy, absurdly comedic integrations of our technologies in the natural world.*
Shannon Heffernan is a reporter with WBEZ. She has covered environmental news and criminal justice issues. She also reports on poverty, labor, and climate change.
Nat Mengist cultivates equitable, land-conscious partnerships through training in garden education, nonprofit leadership, and post-humanities scholarship.
Sponsored by the DePaul Institute for Nature and Culture. Contact rhonold@depaul.edu
*Foglia’s third book, Human Nature, was just published by Nazraeli Press. His next solo exhibition opens July 19 at the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago. (Image beneath title by Lucas Foglia.)
Paid Summer Internship with The Onion’s A.V. Club
The incredibly cool A.V. Club from The Onion is offering a paid summer internship. Please see below for a description and whom to contact. The internship is for academic credit only, so please let Prof. Chris Green (cgreen1@depaul.edu) know if you’re selected and he will get you registered for ENG 392 this summer.
From the A.V. Club:
This paid summer internship is geared toward students pursuing an undergraduate or graduate degree in journalism, media, communications, English, or related fields. By the completion of the internship, the student will have practical, hands-on experience in a fast-paced digital media workplace. The internship is flexible, with the student working 16 – 40 hours a week. The student intern must be based in Chicago and able to commute to our River North office.
The student intern provides support to The A.V. Club staff in all aspects of digital media. Reporting to the deputy managing editor, the intern’s duties will be tailored to their specific interests and strengths, and may include writing, copy editing, and/or editorial operations. Other regular duties may include:
- Assisting section editors in organizing and compiling multi-author features.
- Putting certain regular features in the CMS and ensuring that they are published according to schedule.
- Researching specific pop culture topics, as assigned.
- Opening and sorting books sent from publishers, and assisting the books editor to identify books for review.
- Assisting the deputy managing editor to research and source images and deliver them to the graphics team.
- Assisting with editorial maintenance, including managing the site’s curation module, and working with web producer to ensure a smooth publication process.
- Writing Newswires, reviews, or other pieces as assigned; copy editing pieces as assigned; other editorial projects based on student’s interests and experience.
- Other duties, as assigned.
We will provide basic training on common digital media tools such as Google Analytics, Chartbeat, and SocialFlow; editorial management tools; and our proprietary CMS. The ideal candidate will take direction well and know when to ask for help; have outstanding organization and time-management skills; be able to work in a deadline-driven environment; have excellent people and communication skills; and be a regular A.V. Club reader with a deep love of and enthusiasm for all things pop culture.
Candidates should include a cover letter and resume and address the following questions:
- How long have you been reading The A.V. Club?
- What are some of your favorite authors or recent articles?
- What are your pop culture strengths?
- What are your pop culture blind spots?
- Are you primarily interested in writing, editing, editorial operations, or are you undecided?
- What are you studying, and what classes have you taken that are relevant to this internship?
- This position will be 2 – 5 days a week, Monday through Friday, either 9 a.m. – 5 p.m. or 10 a.m – 6 p.m. What’s your ideal schedule?
CONTACT:
Students should email both Laura M Browning [lmbrowning@theonion.com] and Caity PenzeyMoog (cpenzeymoog@theonion.com), and they should make the subject of their email AVC summer internship.
Making a Digital Edition: Introduction to Text Encoding and the Petrarchive Project
Learn more about Petrarch and explore the latest developments in digital humanities scholarship! Modern Languages and Studio X have invited Isabella Magni, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at the Newberry Library, to lead the faculty and graduate student workshop Making a Digital Edition: Introduction to Text Encoding and the Petrarchive Project on
Friday, May 18, 10AM-12PM
IdeaLab2
Richardson Library 207
Breakfast will be served before the workshop. Don’t miss this exciting, hands-on experience!
2018 Transnational Latino Conference
The Department of Modern Languages invites you to:
2018 ANNUAL TRANSNATIONAL LATINO CONFERENCE:
Transnational Artistic Articulations of Cross-Cultural
Latin@ and Latin American Identities.
May 17-19 at DePaul University, Chicago
Keynote Speaker: Reyna Grande
FRIDAY, MAY 18
6:40 – 8:10 PM
LEVAN 100
BECOMING TWICE THE GIRL
Reyna Grande is an award-winning novelist and memoirist. She has received the International Literacy Association Children’s Book Award (2017), the Luis Leal Award for Distinction in Chicano/Latino Literature (2015), the International Latino Book Award (2010), and El Premio Aztlán Literary Award (2006) among others. She is the author of The Distance Between Us (2012), Across a Hundred Mountains (2006), and Dancing with the Butterflies (2009). Reyna Grande is a member of the Macondo Writer’s Workshop founded by Sandra Cisneros. Her new memoir A Dream Called Home, a sequel to The Distance Between Us will be released in October 2018 by Atria Books.
Reyna Grande was born in Iguala Guerrero, she was two years old when her father left to the United States in search of better opportunities. Her mother reunited with her father two years later leaving Reyna and her siblings in Mexico. She left Mexico and came to the United States in 1985 as an undocumented immigrant; she was also the first in her family to attend and graduate from college. She obtained a BA. In creative writing and film and video from the University of California, Santa Cruz, and M.F.A. in creative writing from Antioch University. She is also a motivational speaker at colleges and universities across the United States.
She will be the keynote speaker on Friday, May 18 and will participate in a roundtable discussion on immigration on Saturday, 11:00 a.m.-12:30p.m.
For information contact:
María A. Beltrán-Vocal mbeltra1@depaul.edu
Tamara Martínez tamara_martinez@enesmorelia.unam.mx
Casimiro Leco Tomás leco@colmich.edu.mx
