Events

Kwentuhan at Chikahan: Las Vegas Filipino Book Club — Read Aloud Book Club Meeting #4

Beverly Rogers Literature and Law Building (RLL), UNLV 4505 S. Maryland Pkwy, Las Vegas, NV, United States

Join us for Kwentuhan at Chikahan, a free event series centered on Filipino and Filipino-American authors. As we read and respond to the works of critically acclaimed Filipino authors, we find meaning in our everyday struggles and triumphs, enabling us to lay claim to our unique stories. Anyone can participate in the Kwentuhan at Chikahan […]

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Suing for Silence: Sexual Violence and Defamation Law with Mandi Gray

Beverly Rogers Literature and Law Building (RLL), UNLV 4505 S. Maryland Pkwy, Las Vegas, NV, United States

Join Black Mountain Institute and Mandi Gray for a discussion about her work and how it influenced her book, Suing for Silence: Sexual Violence and Defamation Law. Gray, Ph.D., is an assistant professor at Trent University (Ontario, Canada) in the sociology department. She is the author of Suing for Silence: Sexual Violence and Defamation Law published […]

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Maryam Ala Amjadi: A Reading + Conversation

Beverly Rogers Literature and Law Building (RLL), UNLV 4505 S. Maryland Pkwy, Las Vegas, NV, United States

Maryam Ala Amjadi is an Iranian writer, translator, and researcher. She is the author of two poetry collections, a poetry chapbook, and the translator of a selection of Raymond Carver’s poems into Persian. She won the ‘Young Generation Poet’ Prize in the inaugural Yinchuan International Poetry Festival in China and was a writer-in-residence at the International […]

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