26 Past Events at Burkhardt Building, Ball State University

Join Feminists for Action as we discuss current events in relation to women's human rights.  We will also be discussing plans for activist projects in the future.

Join Feminists for Action as we discuss current events in relation to women's human rights.  We will also be discussing plans for activist projects in the future.

Join Feminists for Action as we discuss current events in relation to women's human rights.  We will also be discussing plans for activist projects in the future.

Join Feminists for Action as we discuss current events in relation to women's human rights.  We will also be discussing plans for activist projects in the future.

Dr. Philip Raisor, professor emeritus of English at Old Dominion University, will give a poetry reading from his latest book, Swimming in the Shallow End (Word Tech, 2012) on Wednesday, April 10, at 3:30 p.m. in the Burkhardt Building, room 109, and at 7 p.m. at Minnetrista. Phil is a former Munsonian who has written several works of nonfiction, poetry, and literary criticism. His reading is co-sponsored by the Center for Middletown Studies and the English Department. Copies of his book, Swimming in the Shallow End, will be available for purchase at both events.

The Department of English is proud to welcome Rachel Marie-Crane Williams to campus as part of the Marilyn K. Cory Lecture Series. She will deliver a public lecture on gender in comics on Wednesday, January 29, at 7:30 in BB 109.

Williams is an artist and teacher at the University of Iowa; her work as a researcher and creative scholar has always been focused on women's issues, community, art, and people who are incarcerated. American alternative/single creator comics and graphic novels have been at the heart of her creative scholarship for the past few years. Her graphic scholarship has been published by the Jane Addams Hull House Museum, the Journal of Cultural Research in Art Education, Southern Cultures, and the International Journal of Comic Art. Her current projects include a graphic novel about the Detroit Race Riots of 1943 to be published by The University of North Carolina Press in partnership with the Duke Center for Documentary studies.