Check out some of these upcoming events and changes to already posted events happening this week:
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Barrie Jean Borich Reading, Tuesday May 21, 6:00pm, Richardson Library 115
A memoir from the award-winning author of My Lesbian Husband, Barrie Jean Borich’s Body Geographic turns personal history into an inspired reflection on the points where place and person intersect, where running away meets running toward, and where dislocation means finding oneself.
One coordinate of Borich’s story is Chicago, the prototypical Great Lakes port city built by immigrants like her great-grandfather Big Petar, and the other is her own port of immigration, Minneapolis, the combined skylines of these two cities tattooed on Borich’s own back. Between Chicago and Minneapolis Borich maps her own Midwest, a true heartland in which she measures the distance between the dreams and realities of her own life, her family’s, and her fellow travelers’ in the endless American migration. Covering rough terrain—from the hardships of her immigrant ancestors to the travails of her often-drunk young self, longing to be madly awake in the world, from the changing demographics of midwestern cities to the personal transformations of coming out and living as a lesbian—Body Geographic is cartography of high literary order, plotting routes, real and imagined, and putting an alternate landscape on the map.
“Body Geographic is as astonishingly original as it is profoundly humane. Barrie Jean Borich writes of the body, the psyche, the land, and real life with a reach so grand and a mastery so definitive it clutches the heart. This is a beautiful, bold, blow-your-mind book.”—Cheryl Strayed, author of Wild
Barrie Jean Borich is the author of My Lesbian Husband, winner of the American Library Association Stonewall Book Award. Her new book, Body Geographic is published in the American Lives Series of the University of Nebraska Press. She’s the recipient of the 2010 Florida Review Editor’s Prize in the Essay and the 2010 Crab Orchard Review Literary Nonfiction Prize, and her work has been named Notable in Best American Essays and Best American Non-Required Reading. She was the first nonfiction editor of the Water~Stone Review and a longtime faculty member in The Creative Writing Programs at Hamline University in St. Paul, Minnesota. She is currently a member of the creative writing faculty of the English Department and the MA in Writing and Publishing program at Chicago’s DePaul University and splits her time between Minneapolis and Chicago.
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Location Change: The DePaul Humanities Center invites you to attend a conversation with author Mahmoud Saeed (MOL and Humanities Center) and translator Kay Heikkenen (University of Chicago), about the just-released English translation of Saeed’s landmark Arab novel, Ben Barka Lane. Please join us on Wednesday, May 22nd from 12:00-1:00pm in Room 400 Richardson Library.
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Location Change: There has been a last-minute rescheduling of Sigma Tau Delta’s Open Mic & Poetry Reading with Debra Bruce. Public Safety has cancelled all evening events on May 24th in Arts & Letters Hall due to FEST. Please stay posted for more information on when the event will be rescheduled, as well as the English Department’s hours on May 24th.
For the most up-to-date information on the Sigma Tau Delta event, join the Facebook group at https://www.facebook.com/events/155132487992980/
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Are you a graduating member of DePaul’s LGBTQA community? Register to participate in DePaul’s first Lavender Graduation!
Lavender Graduation will recognize graduating students in the LGBTQA community. Undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral students are encouraged to participate in the event. If you participate, your name will be read and you will receive a certificate and rainbow tassel. The event will be held on Wednesday, May 29 at 5:30pm in Cortelyou, in conjunction with the annual Stonewall Awards Ceremony. If you are available to participate, please sign up at this link: http://is.gd/LavenderGradStonewallAwards, no later than Wednesday, May 22 at 11:59pm.
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