Past Events

Douglas Weiner, Professor of History at the University of Arizona, to speak on "Understanding Modern Russia" in HIST 389: The History of the Election of 2020. Guests welcome!

George Mason University is closed in observance of the Thanksgiving Day holiday.

The Ali Vural Ak Center for Global Islamic Studies at George Mason University and The Maydan, the Center’s public-facing scholarship platform, present the fourth annual Graduate Student Book Review Colloquium on Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies to be held on November 20, 2020, in collaboration with the Fall for the Book Festival. The colloquium will be between 9:30 am and 5:30 pm (EDT) on Zoom.

Come join us as we bid adieu and thank Assoc. Professor Dina Copelman for her 25 years of service to the Cultural Studies PhD Program and to the George Mason University community!

Mason President Gregory Washington will host a Freedom and Learning Forum with a theme of racial justice, anti-racism, and inclusion. Panelists will Provost Mark Ginsburg, CHSS Dean Ann Ardis, Faculty Affairs Director of Diversity, Inclusion and Well-Being Milli Rivera, University Life Associate Dean Creston Lynch, and Anti-Racism and Inclusive Excellence Task Force co-chairs Shernita Parker and Wendi Manuel-Scott. 

Join UndocuMason in partnership with GMU-AAUP on November 13th from 4:30-5:30pm through Zoom to learn more about the UndocuAlly Training program, UndocuMason’s policy agenda and for a discussion of ways to build solidarity and allyship with undocumented students.

Please join us virtually for this week's CSC talk, which will feature Adom Getachew presenting her work on the anti-colonial project of critics, intellectuals, and statesmen such as Nnamdi Azikiwe, W.E.B. DuBois and Kwame Nkrumah and the emergence of a right to self-determination as a distinctively anti-colonial ideal.