Category: What’s New @ UMW

The Office of Admissions will hold the first Discovery Day of the spring semester Mon., Feb. 21.  The latest registration numbers indicate that nearly 300 prospective students–and about 1,000 visitors in all–will visit the Fredericksburg  campus on Monday! 

The Discovery Day schedule includes events and activities for our visitors from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., although we expect our guests to begin arriving on campus earlier in the morning.  Expect to see increased foot traffic on campus and a large amount of visitors in the campus dining facilities.  Our visitors have been instructed to park in the parking garage, but with the amount of people expected, they will likely need to seek other parking options throughout campus and on neighboring side streets.

Hopefully this information will allow you to plan accordingly for Monday.  Please feel free to help us in welcoming our visitors to the University of Mary Washington.

Sincerely, UMW Office of Admissions, 540/654-2000

Evil in Contemporary French and Francophone Literature, edited by Scott M. Powers, Associate Professor of French at the University of Mary Washington, is now in stock at the UMW Bookstore.

“Confronting the twentieth century of the Christian Era, a century of horrors and marvels, Scott Powers has assembled a diverse group of young scholars to explore literary representations of evil in the French language, beginning with Jean-Paul Sartre but global in its perspective. Works studied include French, Belgian, Algerian, and Guinean writers, ending with two major chapters on The Kindly Ones, the controversial prize-winning masterpiece of the Franco-American Jonathan Littell, the Holocaust being the prime test for the adequacy of verbal narrative. Urgently relevant for its moral scope, taking into account poststructuralist/postmodern theories, and quite readable, Evil in Contemporary French and Francophone Literature is a book of wisdom, courage, and lucid interpretation.” –Edward K. Kaplan, Brandeis University

JMM student interns Rebecca Lee and Rachel Frederick have completed an addition to the museum’s exhibit on “The Making of a Revolutionary.”

Called “The Continental Soldier: Young and Far Away from Home,” it shows through a display and an interactive component what life was like for James Monroe and the other young men who joined the revolutionary forces. Rachel and Rebecca researched, designed and installed the exhibit on their own, and they’ve done a great job.

We hope you’ll come by and see it! Remember, UMW faculty and staff always enter free.

Edward Albee’s “Seascape,” by UMW Department of Theatre and Dance; duPont Hall, Klein Theatre; February 10-12 and 17-19, 8 p.m., February 13 and 20, 2 p.m.; AfterWords post-performance discussion, February 13; $10 general admission, $8 students and seniors; (540) 654-1111.

The University of Mary Washington invites the community to a panel discussion featuring UMW scholars of revolution, the Egyptian government, Islam, security and international relations. This event, “Revolution and Change in the Middle East,” will be held from 4:30 to 6 p.m. Wednesday, February 16 in Room 109 of Annex A, next to George Washington Hall.

The panel will include Jack Kramer, professor and chair of political science and international affairs and an expert on the study of revolution; Mehdi Aminrazavi, professor of philosophy and religion and an expert on Islam, politics and the Iranian revolution of 1979; and Ranjit Singh, associate professor of political science and international affairs, who will discuss the Egyptian government and its opposition. The moderator will be Jason Davidson, associate professor of political science and international affairs, who teaches security and international relations.

Admission is free. For more information, contact Ranjit Singh at rsingh@umw.edu or (540) 654-1496.