Greetings from the Dean's Office!
It was great re-connecting with our alumni over Homecoming Weekend, and we are now hitting our stride with multiple Engaging the World: Leading the Conversation on Ethnic Studies events occurring this month. October is National Arts and Humanities Month, and Wilkinson College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences has benefited tremendously in the past year from federal funding for the arts and humanities to underwrite curriculum development, faculty research, the creation of new artwork, and experiential learning opportunities (see article below). Funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities is also making possible the campus visit of actor and activist George Takei in early November to discuss his experiences in a Japanese American internment camp (find out how to get tickets to this event below).
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Pictured Above: Diana Khoi Nguyen reads from her collection of poems, Ghost Of, kicking off this year's Engaging the World initiative, Leading the Conversation on Ethnic Studies with a poetry talk and reading.
Artist Gerald Clarke Reclaims Cahuilla Sovereignty
Wilkinson College hosted multimedia artist and educator Gerald Clarke as part of the Engaging the World: Leading the Conversation on Ethnic Studies series. Clarke, inspired by his cultural heritage as a member of the Cahuilla Band of Indians, utilizes humor to expose historical and present-day prejudice and injustice, bringing a decolonizing perspective to urgent cultural and political issues facing our world.
NEH Supports Trip to Japanese American National Museum
Wilkinson students and faculty attended an educator workshop at the Japanese American National Museum (JANM) in Los Angeles, supported by a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) grant to expand ethnic studies courses and programming at Chapman University. The museum's 150,000 artifacts and interactive, digital, and physical exhibits present a reexamination the incarceration of Japanese immigrants and Japanese Americans in World War II and weave a collective tapestry of Japanese American History.
Rodgers Center & Dodge College Screen Three Minutes: A Lengthening
Recently, Wilkinson College’s Rodgers Center for Holocaust Education
and Dodge College of Film and Media Arts co-hosted a screening of Three Minutes: A Lengthening. The filmmaker, Bianca Stigter, was inspired by Presidential Fellow in English and History, Dr. Glenn Kurtz's research after he discovered a family home movie
of pre-Holocaust life in the predominantly Jewish town Nasielsk, Poland.
Wilkinson Faculty Honored with Endowed Professorships
Dean Jennifer D. Keene announced two endowed professor appointments in Wilkinson College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences. Dr. Wendy Salmond holds the inaugural Martha Weidlein Masters Professor in Art, and Dr. Kyle Longley was named the Henry Salvatori Professor of American Values and Traditions. Both endowed professorships provide research funds to advance scholarship and teaching.
Career Corner: Can a Career Fair Change Your Life?
Lisa Wong (’25, Public Relations & Advertising, Visual Journalism, Chinese) interviewed employers and Chapman students who attended the 2022 Fall Career Fair to find out the benefits and opportunities of attending the largest recruiting event of the year.
Faculty Books: Men of Money: Elite Masculinities and the Neoliberal Project
Dr. Lynn Horton (Sociology) sat down with The Voice of Wilkinson to discuss her latest publication, Men of Money. Horton examines the small group of highly visible billionaires in the financial and technology sectors—Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates and others—who exercise enormous control over the global economy and our lives.
Upcoming Events
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Tuesday, October 4 at 1 p.m.
Join Wilkinson College's 2022-2023 Engaging the World initiative, Leading the Conversation on Ethnic Studies, for "Reclaiming Our Voice: The Ethnic Studies Movement in Santa Ana Unified School District" in Argyros Forum 201 OR on Zoom. District and community leaders will discuss their efforts to address local and broader obstacles to advance Ethnic Studies as a labor of love and community involvement.
Sunday, October 23 at 3 p.m.
Join us for an artist's reception and catalog presentation of Richard Turner's ongoing exhibition, No Ideas But Things, in the Guggenheim Gallery. The exhibit will be open for viewing until November 19. Unfettered by chronology, the artist, a Professor Emeritus at Chapman, assembles a discontinuous mise-en-scene using objects and furniture from his home and artworks from his studio, some dating back to the 1960s. Sign up for the gallery's newsletter.
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Tuesday, October 25 at 7 p.m.
Join the Rodgers Center for Holocaust Education for “Charlotte Salomon: A Life Before and After Auschwitz,” an illustrated lecture with art historian Monica Bohm-Duchen, co-curator of "Life? Or Theatre? The Work of Charlotte Salomon." Salomon, a Berlin-born artist who was murdered at Auschwitz at the age of twenty-six, created a sequence of nearly 800 gouache images, titled "Leben? Oder Theater?" while seeking refuge in the South of France.
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Wednesday, November 2 at 7:30 p.m.
Join us for "An Evening with George Takei," the keynote event in this year's Engaging the World: Leading the Conversation on Ethnic Studies, in the Musco Center for the Arts. Known around the world for his role as Hikaru Sulu in Star Trek, George Takei is a prominent voice for immigrant and LGBTQIA+ rights, particularly in his poignant recollections of his childhood spent behind the barbed-wire enclosures of Japanese-American internment camps during WWII in his graphic novel, They Called Us Enemy. Reserve your tickets!
Gift of the Month
To celebrate Homecoming 2022, we wish to thank our alumni who have given philanthropically to Wilkinson College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences. Chapman University alums Bill Cumiford (’63), Jessica Bocinski (’18), and Mr. and Mrs. Penny Kim (’96 and MBA ’03) are among alumni supporters of Wilkinson College and make a difference in the education of our students. Wilkinson College would like to acknowledge all our alums, and we welcome your support in honor of
Homecoming Weekend.
Wilkinson Alumni News
Check out what some of our awesome alumni are doing:
Lynette Beers ('99, MFA Creative Writing; '90 MA English) published her third novel, Caught Inside, about a teenage surf champion. Beers is also a professor of English at Santiago Canyon College.
Summer Khatib (’20, Sociology, Philosophy) is a Saks Institute Scholar at the USC Gould School of Law. She is visiting campus in October to speak at 'Chat with Alumni' Day during Wilkinson College's Pre-Law Advising Week.
Dylan Trumbull ('14, BFA Studio Art; MA Teaching) is a web designer and teacher of photography and art at Unity Middle College High School. He is also the founder of RiiN, an apparel company that repurposes old sails. He recently visited Chapman University for the Art Alumni Speaker Series, where he spoke with students about his degree and artistic journey.
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