Monthly Archives: April 2016

RTF End of Semester Screenings

Event name: RTF End of Semester Screenings

Date: May 11-15, 2016

Location: Various

Event description: Please join UT’s Department of Radio-Television-Film May 11-15, as we showcase this spring’s student work. The free screenings and demonstrations will take place on the UT campus at various venues and will culminate towards the end of the week, with advanced undergraduate and graduate films. Details can be found here: http://rtf.utexas.edu/news/end-semester-screenings-spring-2016

Event name: Screening of New East Austin Stories Documentaries

Date: Friday, 5/13 from 6:00-7:30 PM

Location: Belo Center for New Media, room 2.106

Event description: East Austin has changed dramatically in the last fifteen years and throughout that time a University of Texas film class has been making documentaries in and about the area. For the 15th year in a row, individuals, families, groups, and businesses in East Austin collaborated with the film students in the East Austin Stories class, led by filmmaker and professor, Andrew Garrison, to tell local stories in a free evening of documentaries.

Sign Up for Orientation Volunteering!

re you interested in volunteering at this summer’s LAH orientations? If the answer is yes, sign up to attend a LAH Summer Orientation Peer Adviser meeting on May 10th from 3-5pm in the LAH Commons Room. Food will be provided!

Volunteering entails helping advise incoming LAH freshman with their fall schedules on one day, and then helping them register the next day. You don’t have to be available for both days or even the entire summer.
We are flexible! You can just sign up for the days and times that work in your schedule.

We would like to have at least 4-5 peer advisers throughout the entire day of pre-advising.

For Orientation Registration, we need about 4 volunteers in the afternoon (approx 1:30-3:00) to help our new LAHers register and become acquainted with the Web Resources available to them. I have reserved a computer lab CLA 1.402 in our building for our new students to register for classes.

Orientation dates volunteers are needed:

June 7 (pre-advising) 8 (Registration) 1:30-3:00
June 14 (pre-adivisng) 15 (Registration) 1:30-3:00
June 21 (pre-advising) 22 (Registration) 1:30-3:00
June 28 (pre-advising) 29 (Registration) 1:30-3:00

July 7 (pre-advising) 8 (Registration) 1:30-3:00
July 12 (pre-advising) 13 (Registration) 1:30-3:00
August 18-19 (Times TBA)

If you are interested in volunteering, please fill out the form here. This let’s us know that you plan to attend the meeting on May, 10!

Theorizing Consent: Educational and Legal Perspectives on Campus Rape

Theorizing Consent:

Educational and Legal Perspectives on Campus Rape

Friday, April 29 & Saturday, April 30

All Conference Sessions take place in Flawn Academic Center 21

The conference is co-sponsored by the College of Liberal Arts, Plan II, Liberal Arts Honors, the Department of Classics, the James R. Dougherty, Jr. Centennial Professorship, the William A. Percy Foundation for Social and Historical Studies, and numerous individual donors, including Ms. Nina Giannangeli. Please contact Prof. Thomas Hubbard (tkh@utexas.edu) or Khoa Tran (khoabtran@austin.utexas.edu) if you have questions.

See the website for complete details: http://www.utexas.edu/cola/classics/events/theorizing-consent-educational-and-legal-perspectives-on-campus-rape1/

Caring for Your Personal Collections: Preserving Media and Digital Content

In celebration of Preservation Week 2016, join UT Libraries staff members to learn how to preserve your media-based collections and digital files. Many of us have items of personal significance such as photographs, research, correspondence, home video, and more saved on media formats or as digital files.  These formats and files can deteriorate or become obsolete over time, rendering the content inaccessible. In this session learn how to mitigate the problems of deterioration and obsolescence and how to plan for the long term safekeeping of your content.      

April 28, 1:00-2:30 – Learning Lab 3 in PCL

Caring for Your Personal Collections: Preserving Media and Digital Content

 

We will cover: 

  • basic preservation recommendations for physical media formats such as VHS tapes, floppy disks, and CDs.
  • tips for preparing and organizing your personal media collection for ongoing and future use, including transfer to digital format
  • guidelines for managing personal digital files and preserving them for posterity

Taught by UT Librarians: Wendy Martin, Anna Lamphear and Jessica Trelogan

Teaching English Abroad Panel This Friday!

Teaching English Abroad: Panel Presentation

Friday, April 22, 4:30-5:30pm

MEZ 2.124

Learn about Teaching ESL/EFL from a panel of professionals in the field. 

Topics include: rewards and challenges of teaching English abroad, how to get a job, 

what to know before you go, and how to get a CELTA certificate at UT-Austin.

Please RSVP at: https://utdirect.utexas.edu/apps/ugs/my/events/

All Majors Welcome!

International Student Financial Aid Opportunity

The 2016-2017 General ISSS Financial Aid Award from the International Office provides up to $2,500/semester for the fall and spring, and up to $1,500 in the summer semester for eligible international students. Both graduate and undergraduate students are eligible for this award!  More details are here: https://world.utexas.edu/isss/students/financial-aid/tpeg

 Please spread the word to any interested international students you may work with/advise who qualify. Any questions regarding the award can be directed to me, Phuoc Bui, at p.bui@austin.utexas.edu.

NYT Bestselling YA Author Julie Murphy at UT Austin: Tues, MAY 3, 12pm

Grab Your Crown & Come on Down: Julie Murphy on Dumplin’

Tuesday, May 3, 12:00-1:30pm

Glickman Conference Center, CLA 1.302E

RSVP HERE

Join us for a fireside chat with Julie Murphy, the #1 New York Times bestselling young adult author of Dumplin’ and Side Effects May Vary. We’ll talk body diversity and issues of representation in YA literature. A Q&A session and book signing will follow, and light refreshments will be provided. So grab your crown and come on down! 

“Research for Historical Fiction”- FREE Books for honors students

“Research for Historical Fiction” (part of UGS Research Week)

Friday, April 22, 2016,  3 p.m. in the Joynes Reading Room (CRD 007)

Three distinguished writers of historical fiction—Elizabeth Crook, Dominic Smith, and Karen Olsson—will discuss the research that helped them accurately and vividly depict the settings of their critically-acclaimed novels. Karen Olsson’s latest book, ALL THE HOUSES, is partly set in Washington DC during the Iran Contra Scandal. Dominic Smith’s latest book, THE LAST PAINTING OF SARA DE VOS, is set in 17th-century Holland. Elizabeth Crook’s latest book, MONDAY, MONDAY, is set at the University of Texas during the Charles Whitman shooting in 1966. The Joynes Room has a limited number of FREE BOOKS by each author, which we will give away in advance of the event. Books will be distributed on a first-come basis to honors students who inquire in person at the front desk of the Joynes Reading Room.

Facebook event page: 

https://www.facebook.com/events/1607854889540346/

Managing Your Online Research Identity

Learn how to showcase the research you’ve done at UT to impress prospective employers and graduate schools. We’ll discuss the best ways to use both popular and scholarly social media platforms, explain UT Austin’s online archive and how you can submit your work, show you how to collect usage statistics on your work, and provide examples of how to incorporate your online research identity into your resume, CV, or online profile.

This workshop counts as a research communications workshop for the Research Training Certificate offered by the Office of Undergraduate Research.

Taught by UT librarian, Colleen Lyon

April 19, 3-4pm

PCL Learning Lab 2

Pivotal U.S. Elections: Then and Now – April 19 – Glickman Conference Center

PIVOTAL U.S. ELECTIONS: THEN & NOW

INAUGURAL FORUM

“The Election of 1860 and Its Contemporary Significance”

Join the UT College of Liberal Arts and Humanities Texas for an evening of discussion about citizenship, democracy, and pivotal presidential elections in American history. Expert faculty will analyze, through an interdisciplinary lens, the political forces, issues, and consequences of the election of 1860 as well as its parallels to subsequent elections and its relevance today. 

Tuesday, April 19, 2016

4:15–6:45 p.m. : Public forum

6:45–7:15 p.m. : Closing remarks and reception

@ Julius Glickman Conference Center (CLA 1.302E)

College of Liberal Arts Building

The University of Texas at Austin

Participating scholars include Michael Les Benedict (The Ohio State University), Daniel Feller (University of Tennessee), Randall Fuller (University of Tulsa), Andrew Torget (University of North Texas), and Daina Ramey Berry, George B. Forgie, Jacqueline Jones, and Jeremi Suri from The University of Texas at Austin. The Honorable Thomas R. Phillips, former Chief Justice of the Texas Supreme Court, will serve as moderator.

Free and open to the public. First-time voters are encouraged to attend!