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9:00am EDT

Call & Response: TRANSMOGRIFY Fenwick Gallery, 1st Floor

10:00am EDT

War Comes Home: The Legacy Center for the Arts Lobby

10:30am EDT

Building a World: 3 Authors Discuss Time, Place, and Character Johnson Center, 3rd Floor, Meeting Room GCarrie Callaghan • Bruce Holsinger • J. Ryan Stradal For the Love of Basketball Johnson Center, 3rd Floor, Meeting Room AIan Johnson Inclusivity in the University: Examining Affirmative Action Johnson Center, 3rd Floor, Meeting Room EAmaka Okechukwu Worlds Apart: Islamic Revival in France and India Research Hall, Room 163Fareen Parvez

11:50am EDT

If You Build It, He Will Come Stacy C. Sherwood Community CenterWilliam Steele

12:00pm EDT

Breaking Glass Ceilings with Silver Screen Women Johnson Center, 3rd Floor, Meeting Room GElizabeth Weitzman The Rise and Fall of Uber Johnson Center, 3rd Floor, Meeting Room FMike Isaac • David Weigel Making Friends and Saving Family Johnson Center, 3rd Floor, Meeting Room EFrank Morelli

1:30pm EDT

Call & Response: Transmogrify Panel Fenwick Library Reading Room, 2nd Floor Room 2001 For the Love of Basketball Johnson Center, 3rd Floor, Meeting Room AIan Johnson Poems at the Edge of the Universe Johnson Center, 3rd Floor, Meeting Room FStephanie Strickland Because I’m A Woman: Nana Rawlings on Leadership in Ghana Lecture Hall 1, George Mason UniversityNana Konadu Agyeman-Rawlings Gender, Power, & Violence in the #MeToo Era Research Hall, Room 163Angela Hattery • Earl Smith Justice & A Free Market: Saving Capitalism from Capitalists Johnson Center, 3rd Floor, Meeting Room ESteven Pearlstein To Look For America: The Truth about Abraham Lincoln Johnson Center, 3rd Floor, Meeting Room GSteven Johnston

2:15pm EDT

American Bard: Walt Whitman, Himself Osher Lifelong Learning InstituteJean Huets

3:00pm EDT

Stories of the Strange, the Surreal, and the Uncanny Johnson Center, 3rd Floor, Meeting Room FTara Campbell • Elise Levine A Journey Toward Love and Self-Acceptance Research Hall, Room 163Samantha Mann Life in Observation Johnson Center, 3rd Floor, Meeting Room EJennifer Militello • Lia Purpura Memoirs of the #MeToo Era Johnson Center, 3rd Floor, Meeting Room GKaren Stefano • Jeannie Vanasco

4:30pm EDT

MFA Fellows Reading Research Hall, Room 163Lisa DesRochers-Short • Caely McHale • Abi Newhouse • Sofia Puente-Lay Monsters & Men: Revelations Through Hauntings Johnson Center, 3rd Floor, Meeting Room EClifford Garstang • Randon Billings Noble • D. M. Pulley

6:00pm EDT

Between Convention and Freedom Fenwick Library Reading Room, 2nd Floor Room 2001Bella Pollen RESCHEDULED: The Beck Environmental Lecture: Sounding the Alarm Harris Theater, George Mason UniversityDavid Wallace-Wells

7:00pm EDT

American Horror Story? The Lost Colony of Roanoke Kings Park LibraryAndrew Lawler Unsung Heroes and Untold Stories of World War II Pohick Regional LibraryMichael Dobbs • Peter Finn Unearthed Roots: One Woman’s Journey to Find Family City of Fairfax Regional LibraryMargaret McMullan Better Said Than Done Presents True Lies: Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them The Auld ShebeenCatherine Calvin • Lisa Lipkind Leibow • Miriam Nadel • Jessica Robinson • Jack Scheer • Cyndi Wish • Sufian Zhemukhov Institute for Immigration Research New American Voices Award Ceremony Grand Tier III, Center for the ArtsReyna Grande • Angie Kim • Eugenia Kim • E.C. Osondu • Melissa Rivero

7:30pm EDT

Vietnam in Words & Memories: John Mason Shares His Story Civil War Interpretive Center at Historic BlenheimJohn Mason On Walking: History, Writers, and Poetry Fenwick Library Reading Room, 2nd Floor Room 2001Cole Swensen What Would YOU Do? Confronting Ethical Dilemmas Johnson Center, 3rd Floor, Meeting Room EJacob M. Appel

9:00pm EDT

Searching For Answers in South Korea Merten Hall, Room 1201Eugenia Kim • Alice Stephens