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Serious Games Meetup Today, April 26

The Digital Humanities Group is sponsoring a Serious Games Meetup today, Friday, April 26 from 12:00 – 2:00 p.m. in Old Main 400.

All Canisius faculty, staff and students are invited to bring their favorite games that go beyond just entertainment and provide educational and therapeutic benefits. If you don’t have a game in mind, join the Digital Humanities Group and learn how games can support learning and therapy. If you don’t play video games at all but want to know why so many people do, let gamers tell you all about it!

This is an informal gathering and those in attendance will get the chance to play games. Refreshments will be served.

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Submitted by: Mark Gallimore, Center for Online Learning & Innovation

Softball Hosts Four Games

The Canisius softball team will host four Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference (MAAC) games this weekend at the Demske Sports Complex. The Griffs compete against both Manhattan and the University at Buffalo tomorrow, Saturday, April 27 in a doubleheader beginning at 12:00 p.m. Click here to add this event to your calendar. The Griffs will then host St. Peter’s on Sunday, April 28 in double header beginning at 12:00 p.m. Click here to add this event to your calendar.

Game times are 12:00 p.m. and 2:30 p.m. both days.

For additional information, visit www.GoGriffs.com.

Submitted by: John Maddock, Athletics

Institute for Classical and Medieval Studies Final Speaker Series

On Monday, April 29 Michael McGlin, adjunct professor of classics, will present “A Divinity’s Diversified Portfolio: Finances at the Sanctuary of Apollo at Delos (314-167 BC)” in the Grupp Fireside Lounge at 5:00 p.m. McGlin will look at the inscribed sanctuary records documenting the annual financial audits of the Sanctuary of Apollo on the Aegean island of Delos. These inscriptions provide details of the types of loans offered from the Temple.

This final lecture for the 2018-19 Institute for Classical and Medieval Studies (ICMS) Speaker Series will also talk about what role finances and loans played in establishing a relationship between the Sanctuary and the population on Delos. This talk is sponsored by the ICMS, the Classics Department, the History Department and the Religious Studies & Theology Department. It is free and open to the public.

For more information on the ICMS and its events, click here. Check the website and Facebook pages for the upcoming 2019-20 event schedule.

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Submitted by: Kristina Laun, staff, Institute for Classical and Medieval Studies 

ALANA Student Center Presents “The Taste”

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Join the ALANA Student Center on Tuesday, April 30 from 12:00 – 2:00 p.m. in Frisch Hall Room 008 as it celebrates Asian American and Pacific Islander food. Soba noodle salad and moo shu lettuce wraps will be available as well as door prizes.

Submitted by: Madonna McKernon, student affairs administrative specialist, ALANA Student Center

Jaime Manrique Presents Latest Novel

Canisius College will welcome Colombian novelist, poet, essayist and translator, Jaime Manrique, to campus on Wednesday, May 1 at 6:30 p.m. in Old Main 314. The event is free and open to the public.

Manrique will discuss his latest novel, entitled Like This Afternoon Forever, a parable influenced by Colombian drug cartel motives, which takes readers through their battle for control and its lasting impacts.

Manrique is the author of several novels including Our Lives are the Rivers, Cervantes Street and My Night with Federico Garcia Lorca. He has received accolades such as Colombia’s National Poetry Award, the 2007 International Latino Book Award, as well as a Guggenheim Fellowship.

For more information, contact Richard Reitsma, PhD, chair and associate professor of modern languages, at reitsmar@canisius.edu.  

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Submitted by: College Communications