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SMU sponsors musical tribute to African American author-activist Margaret...
Randy Klein, at piano, and Aurelia Williams Members of the SMU community are invited to a free performance of “For My People: A New Musical Work” on Wednesday, April 8, 2015 at 7 p.m. at the Black...
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Four named 2015 SMU Ford Research Fellows
Ping (Peggy) Gui, Robert Howell, Lisa Siraganian and Nathan Cortez were named SMU’s 2015 Ford Research Fellows during the University’s Board of Trustees meeting in May. Four distinguished SMU...
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2015 Kimbilio Litfest will introduce African-American fiction writers’...
Literature fans and aspiring authors in SMU’s Dallas neighborhood have an opportunity to get acquainted with an African-American fiction writer’s group, founded by a University faculty member, that...
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Moby Dick-inspired card game by SMU professor and students exposes subversive...
The upcoming movie In the Heart of the Sea promises to offer a potentially Oscar-worthy take on the whale hunt that inspired Henry Melville’s Moby Dick. For folks who still giggle at the title, there’s...
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Former U.S. Poet Laureate Kay Ryan to visit SMU Feb. 25, 2016
Former U.S. Poet Laureate Kay Ryan will present a reading of her poetry at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 25, following a 6 p.m. reception in room 131 of SMU’s Dedman Life Sciences Building. The event is...
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Willard Spiegelman poem featured in new collection inspired by Thomas Jefferson
SMU’s campus centerpiece, Dallas Hall, has inspired a poem published alongside the works of Pulitzer Prize winners in the poetry anthology Monticello in Mind: Fifty Contemporary Poets on Jefferson...
View ArticleFour SMU faculty members retire with emeritus status in 2015-16
Four distinguished SMU faculty members retired with emeritus status in the 2015-16 academic year. The professors, and their dates of service: • Timothy W. Crusius, Professor Emeritus of English, Dedman...
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Acclaimed authors Bernice L. McFadden and Tyehimba Jess to read at SMU’s 2016...
Literature fans and aspiring authors at SMU and throughout North Texas have an opportunity to meet and read with acclaimed writers Bernice L. McFadden and Tyehimba Jess at SMU’s second annual Kimbilio...
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SMU scholars lead Community Conversation on renaming schools named for...
As Dallas addresses the challenges of dealing with its Confederate monuments, SMU’s Dedman College of Humanities and Sciences and Perkins School of Theology host a Community Conversation on the...
View ArticleFor the Record: Spring Term 2018
Klaus Desmet, Ruth and Kenneth Altshuler Centennial Interdisciplinary Professor in Economics, Dedman College of Humanities and Sciences, has been appointed Research Associate of the National Bureau of...
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