Area Events please let us know about your event   Some upcoming George Mason events include... **Visual Cultures Symposium** Organized by the George Mason University Cultural Studies Student Organization Committee, the Visual Culture[s] Symposium will take place on Thursday, November 6th, 2003 9:45am-4:00pm SUB II Ballroom Free and open to public 9:45 Welcome and Opening Remarks 10:00 - 12:15 Photography 1:15 - 4:00 Art History A Media Studies Lecture will take place in the Fine Arts Gallery following the symposium at 4:30. "Artists' Books and Book Arts in a Digital Age" by Johanna Drucker, University of Virginia   ENGLISH DEPARTMENT WEDNESDAY EVENING SERIES 5:55-7:10pm LECTURE HALL 1 February 13 David Kaufmann "What is English? A Short History of the Teaching of English" February 20 Beverly Lowry "Form in Creative Non-Fiction" February 27 Jeanette Roan "Point of View In Film" *OF PARTICULAR INTEREST* in this series is ENGL 325 Recitation on April 10, by Steve Zeiltin, a much published folklorist from New York. His title is: "Oh Can You See the Ashes Come Falling Thickly Down." SPRING 2002 Film Series (free to students/$1 for faculty/staff) For more information visit http://www.gmu.edu/student/soap (click on JC Cinema for full schedule) February 7 Apocalypse Now Redux February 14 Caberet February 21 Tuskegee Airmen February 28 Malcolm X DC Poetry  lists many DC area poetry events at http://www.dcpoetry.com          Universities George Mason University http://www.gmu.edu/departments/writing/are.html Georgetown University http://www.georgetown.edu/departments/english/lannan/description.htm University of Maryland http://www.inform.umd.edu/ENGL/announce.html George Washington University http://www.gwu.edu/~english/readings.htm American University http://www.american.edu/academic.depts/cas/lit/mfa-visi.htm Catholic University http://www.acad.cua.edu/as/engl/calendar.htmÝÝ General Washington Post Literary Calendar http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/books/features/literarycalendar.htm Washington City Paper http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/events.shtml Library of Congress Calendar http://www.loc.gov/loc/events Folger Poetry Series http://www.folger.edu/public/poetry/readings.htm PEN/Faulkner Reading Series http://www.folger.edu/public/pfaulk/events.htm The Writers Center--Bethesda, MD http://www.iawco.com/wc/events.htm Ý Book Stores Atticus Used Books & Music http://www.atticusbooks.com/readings.html Politics & Prose http://www.politics-prose.com/calendar.htm