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6 posts tagged "Visiting Writers series"

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Author Ashley C. Ford speaks at Saint Mary’s College

Katelyn Waldschmidt | Friday, October 28, 2022

New York Times best-selling author Ashley Ford visited Saint Mary’s Thursday night for a reading of her memoir “Somebody’s Daughter,” followed by a Q&A session. In 2021, Ford published a full-length memoir about her childhood and the struggles she faced due to poverty, racism and assault.  Ford’s visit was the first of this year’s Visiting

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‘That’s why I write’: Alumna returns to Saint Mary’s for Visiting Writers Series, discusses writing career

Genevieve Coleman | Friday, April 8, 2022

Editor’s note: This story includes mentions of sexual assault. A list of sexual assault reporting options and on-campus resources can be found on the Notre Dame, Saint Mary’s and Holy Cross websites. Published author and Saint Mary’s alumna Susan Furber ‘14 addressed the Saint Mary’s community as she read from her novel “The Essence of an Hour” in Welsh

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Poet performs reading at College

Nicole Caratas | Friday, April 20, 2018

As part of the Visiting Writers Series, Melissa Range read from her collection of poems titled “Scriptorium” at Saint Mary’s on Thursday. Range said she started writing when she was a young child as a way to help her make sense of the world around her and herself. Range said she was a fiction writer

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Visiting writer Hasanthika Sirisena discusses short story collection ‘The Other One’

Nicole Caratas | Wednesday, March 28, 2018

As part of the Visiting Writers Series, Hasanthika Sirisena read from her collection of short stories titled “The Other One” at Saint Mary’s on Tuesday. Taking place both in Sri Lanka and in the United States, the collection features stories about characters who deal with different aspects of the Sri Lankan civil war. “Most of

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Author discusses passion, relationship with mortality

Nicole Caratas | Friday, December 1, 2017

Kate Sweeney, author of “American Afterlife,” said she began her journey of writing about death when she heard about “green burial,” an ecologically friendly alternative to traditional burial. “Like so many Americans, I don’t have a comfortable relationship with the idea of death — it frightens me,” she said. “I didn’t know why I was

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Married authors discuss work, inspirations

Colleen Zewe | Friday, March 24, 2017

Married authors and Florida State University professors Elizabeth and Ned Stuckey-French visited Saint Mary’s on Thursday as part of the English department’s Visiting Writers series. Mrs. Stuckey-French has written several novels and short story collections, including her recent book “The Revenge of Radioactive Lady,” which received critical acclaim from The New Yorker and The New

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This Thursday, Feb. 16, the 93rd annual Bengal Bou This Thursday, Feb. 16, the 93rd annual Bengal Bouts will begin its preliminary rounds. A men’s boxing tournament that benefits the Holy Cross Mission in Bangladesh, Bengal Bouts seems to perfectly combine two integral aspects of Notre Dame’s identity: a passion for sports and a commitment to social impact.

This week, From the Archives takes a long overdue look at the history of Bengal Bouts. While this tournament predates the Observer by nearly four decades, we uncovered a selection of stories that capture at least a part of the rich history of this Notre Dame tradition.

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At Wednesday evening’s senate meeting, Briana Ch At Wednesday evening’s senate meeting, Briana Chappell, director of gender relations and LGBTQ+ advocacy, highlighted plans to edit the Moreau First Year Experience curriculum to promote values of diversity, equity and inclusion in her report on LGBTQ+ advocacy at Notre Dame this year.

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We asked you to Ask The Observer Sports Department We asked you to Ask The Observer Sports Department and you responded with the request: “Northwestern @ Notre Dame 2014 Football Breakdown”. That game was a heartbreaking loss for a Notre Dame team that had started 6-0 before stumbling down the stretch to a 7-5 record. A bowl game win over LSU salvaged some optimism for the program’s future, but that loss to Northwestern was a shocking result that contributed to one of the more appalling stretches of Irish football in the Brian Kelly era.

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Derick Williams and Hunter Brooke, two sophomore s Derick Williams and Hunter Brooke, two sophomore students campaigning to be Notre Dame’s next student body president and vice president, respectively, plan to “get sh*t done.”

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Sophomores Pablo Oropeza and Griffin McAndrew are Sophomores Pablo Oropeza and Griffin McAndrew are seeking to build stronger connections between the student body and student government if elected student body president and vice president, respectively. 

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Notre Dame students might recognize Daniel Jung an Notre Dame students might recognize Daniel Jung and Aidan Rezner from the student government Instagram page, but the two sophomores are ready to take the next big step to represent the student body.

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