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Series explores ‘the concept of home’ with El Norte screening April 4
SMU’s 2012 “Migration Matters” series continues Wednesday, April 4, with a film classic that raises important issues concerning U.S. immigration. A screening of El Norte, featuring commentary by SMU...
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Conference to explore human rights issues in Africa April 11-15
The African Literature Association will meet April 11-15, 2012, at SMU and Dallas’s Adolphus Hotel to explore human rights issues in Africa. The association’s 38th annual meeting will feature 10...
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Experts link murdered women and environmental ruin at the border
The ongoing murders of countless women at the U.S.-Mexico border, along with devastating environmental damage inflicted by factories, are the subject of “Ecocide and Femicide on the Border: Ecofeminism...
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For the Record: May 2012
The SMU Office of Public Affairs received 10 awards in 8 different categories in the 2012 Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) District IV competition. Nicole Santos, Melinda...
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For the Record: Sept. 7, 2012
Annie Xiang, Physics, Dedman College of Humanities and Sciences, has received the U.S. Department of Energy Generic R&D award, a 3-year program (2012 to 2015) with a total funding of $202,500 to...
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SMU panel to explore the history (and future) of privacy Oct. 31, 2012
A panel of SMU faculty members from a wide range of disciplines will examine the history of and emerging ramifications for the concept of privacy in the 21st century at 3:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 31, in...
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LitFest 2013 welcomes established and student writers March 20-23
AStudent writers from the Greenhill School, Hockaday, Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts, Yavneh Academy, and Texans CAN Academy will read their works to open SMU’s...
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SMU’s DeGolyer Library celebrates Joe Coomer’s life in letters
Award-winning author and SMU alumnus Joe Coomer will be celebrated in a retrospective exhibition running through May 24 at SMU’s DeGolyer Library. The career and achievements of acclaimed author and...
View ArticleTen SMU professors receive 2013-14 Sam Taylor Fellowships
Ten SMU faculty members have received 2013-14 Sam Taylor Fellowships from the Sam Taylor Fellowship Fund of the Division of Higher Education, United Methodist General Board of Higher Education and...
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‘Magistra doctissima’ Bonnie Wheeler honored with festschrift of essays in...
As director of medieval studies in SMU’s Dedman College of Humanities and Sciences, Bonnie Wheeler has served as a role model to her students as well as a driving force in her academic field. Now,...
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New and notable authors to visit SMU LitFest 2015, March 19-21
SMU’s LitFest 2015 will feature an array of readings, receptions and book signings celebrating the creative work of poets, novelists and students from Thursday, March 19, through Sunday, March 21....
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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...
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