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Activist Angela Davis made time for a class visit, where she answered questions from UALR students. That face-to-face meeting left a mark on guest blogger Tracy Nash.

Equinox, the UALR student-run journal of contemporary literature and art, will host its annual magazine launch party from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Friday, Oct. 12, on the third floor of the Cox Creative Center at 120 President Clinton Ave.

Angela Davis, an iconic figure in the social activist movement of the 1960s and 1970s, will speak Oct. 25 at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock.

Writer and artist Alice van Buren will introduce her film, “INK: A Tale of Captivity,” at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 26, in the Donaghey Student Center Room D. This is the first event of the academic year for the William G. Cooper Jr. Honors Program in English.

A newly published book co-edited by UALR English professor Zabelle Stodola has revived an important work on a bitterly contested war against the Dakota tribe in Minnesota.

Jessica C. Murphy, assistant professor of literary studies at the University of Texas at Dallas, will give a lecture, “Jesting at Scars: Comedy in Shakespeare,” at  7 p.m. Wednesday, April 25, in Ross Hall 123.

UALR Professor George H. Jensen Jr., chair of the Department of Rhetoric and Writing, and Frank Thurmond, UALR adjunct professor in English, will analyze their experiences of being abandoned by their fathers at an early age, being raised by their mothers, and then coming to know their fathers as adults, at the Arkansas Literary Festival … Literary Fest Features UALR Writers

The Department of English will host author Lauren Groff as part of the Arkansas Literary Festival‘s Writers in Schools Initiative from 1 to 2:30 p.m. Friday, April 13, in Stabler Hall room 111. The event is free and open to the public.

Samuel Brown, a UALR student from Benton, has been selected as an award winner at this year’s “Posters on the Hill” competition for his innovative comparative interpretation of William Faulkner’s “The Sound and the Fury.”

Alpha Beta Kappa, the UALR chapter of Sigma Tau Delta, the international English honor society, will host the second annual “African American Read-In” from 6:30 to 8 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 23, in the Donaghey Student Center Ledbetter Meeting Room D. The event is free and open to the public.