Daily Archives: March 29, 2012

Events for honors students (plus free books!)

Panel on War Photography – Thursday, April 5, 7 p.m. 

Three distinguished photojournalists will visit the Joynes Reading Room (CRD 007) on Thursday, April 5, to participate in a panel entitled “Picturing Crisis: Engaging the Viewer.” Photographers Mimi Chakarova, Scott Dalton and Stephen Ferry will show slides from their award-winning work in Colombia, Mexico, Iraq, Gaza and elsewhere, and discuss the methodologies and ethics of their profession. This event is free and open to everybody. Light refreshments will be served. (See flyer, attached, for more information.)

 

A reading by the award-winning poet Marie Howe – Friday, April 13, 7 p.m. 

On Friday, April 13, at 7 p.m. in the Joynes Reading Room (CRD 007), poet Marie Howe will read from her most recent book, The Kingdom of Ordinary Time, which was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Her other collections of poetry include What the Living Do and The Good Thief, which was selected by Margaret Atwood for the 1987 National Poetry Series. Howe has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation. She teaches poetry at Columbia University, New York University, and Sarah Lawrence College. The Joynes Reading Room will give away free copies of Marie’s Howe’s books (to honors students only) in advance of her visit. Supplies are limited. Inquire at the front desk in the Joynes Room.

For more information, call 512-471-5787 or write to mvalentine@mail.utexas.edu.

Applications Available for Peers for Pride

Students: Applications Available for Peers for Pride

Are you interested in learning more about LGBTQA identities? Do you want to make a difference for LGBTQA people at UT and beyond? Are you interesting in learning more about how to have conversations on topics we are often socialized not to discuss?

Then you may be interested in joining Peers for Pride!! It is a peer facilitation program offered through the year for academic credit. Students write a monologue during the first semester and during the second semester students perform the monologues and facilitate conversations in character.

If you are interested in applying or have questions, please email the GSC Education Coordinator, Shane Whalley, at swhalley@austin.utexas.edu.