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First-Gen Grad Stoles available in SSB 3.200 while supplies last!

The First-Gen Signature Events Sub-Committee contacted all first-gen students this March who were flagged as likely to graduate this spring/summer to invite them to First-Gen Grad! Students were given the ability to RSVP for the celebration and were given information about how to pick up First-Gen stoles.

The RSVP has since closed, due to max capacity being reached in the San Jacinto Multipurpose Room; however, students who would like to participate will still be able to participate via live-stream on our website, firstgeneration.utexas.edu on May 18th at 2pm.

There are still 400 stoles that have gone unclaimed and are still available in SSB 3.200 to seniors on a first-come, first-served basis. The space is open Monday-Friday this week from 8-5. Stop by and grab your stole, free of charge, before they run out!

Subverting Silences: Uplifting Marginalized Conversations

All LAH students are invited to Dr. Lang’s LAH 350: Treasure Hunt Archival Research class’s unveiling and website launch of this year’s collection of digital exhibits titled: “Subverting Silences: Uplifting Marginalized Conversations”.

This year’s class has built exhibits around materials uncovered in UT Austin’s archives that all serve to amplify underrepresented voices in our society. Topics of featured exhibits include:

 

  • HIV/AIDS in the American South
  • Records of and Responses to Involuntary Institutionalization
  • Texans with Mixed Ethnic Identities
  • Cultural Intersections in Texas Fine Arts
  • Mexican American Experiences since the Mexican Revolution
  • Patterns of Feminism
  • Students for a Democratic Society in Austin

The event will take place at 10am on Tuesday, May 10th in PCL Learning Lab 3, with bagels and coffee. If you cannot attend in person, we will be ‘simulcasting’ students’ presentations on Zoom at the following ID:

https://utexas.zoom.us/j/98483807762 (Meeting ID: 984 8380 7762)

TCE Unpaid Summer Internship Scholarships

As part of the CARES Act, this summer only, TCE has $125K in scholarships to give away for unpaid summer internships. This is for undergrads and grad students. Priority application deadline for summer is June 1. Students receive a max of 4K; most are getting paid $20 per hour. Undocumented students can apply as well! Internships can be anywhere in the world. 

Click here for more information!

Summer Opportunity: Oaxaca, Mexico (Global Career Launch)

For students who are looking for international experience this summer, the Global Career Launch program in Oaxaca, Mexico – “Making Impacts in Mexico” is still accepting applicants.  There is funding available, and it is a great chance for students whose plans have changed or who are looking for a unique experience to get some international, experiential learning this summer. Additional details for this program can be found here.

If you are interested, please get in touch with Tommy Ward or Richard Amato by May 13 to be considered. 

Stories to Tell: Selections from the Harry Ransom Center

March 4, 2022 – August 15, 2022
The Harry Ransom Center houses some of the world’s most significant collections relating to literature, art, photography, film, and the performing arts. More than 42 million manuscripts, 5 million photographs, 1 million rare books, and 100,000 artworks document our cultural history and the creative process.

Many stories can be told through the Center’s collections. This rotating exhibition conveys stories of inspiration, innovation, collaboration, and frustration often associated with the creative work of leading writers and artists.

Highlights
Printing the World in Premodern Europe
Published by Joan Blaeu in 1648, the Center’s massive wall map of the world, Nova totius terrarum orbis tabula, is newly conserved and will be on view in our galleries for the first time. Learn more about the map and its place within a market for printed commodities that helped Europeans in the later 15th through early 18th centuries imagine themselves as part of a broader world, one they were increasingly connected to as merchants, colonists, and consumers.

Isaac Bashevis Singer
In partnership with the Schusterman Center for Jewish Studies, the Ransom Center will feature select works by Polish-born, Jewish-American writer Isaac Bashevis Singer (1903–1991) drawn from his extensive archive. Singer was educated at a rabbinical seminary, but later became a secular author writing exclusively in Yiddish. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1978.

David Foster Wallace
Materials from the Center’s extensive holdings related to American writer David Foster Wallace (1962–2008), the author of Infinite Jest, The Broom of the System, Girl with Curious Hair, and more, will highlight important aspects of his life and writing. Visitors will see examples of early writings, drafts, letters, teaching materials, annotated books, and other items from Wallace’s archive, which is among the most frequently studied by scholars visiting the Center.

https://www.hrc.utexas.edu/exhibitions/stories-to-tell/

Graduation cords for UT undergraduate researchers

If you are graduating this semester and have conducted and presented research or creative activity during your undergraduate career at UT, we invite you to complete the survey at https://utexas.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_eA2MBFC0I0cE3Yi to tell us about your experience and claim a set of custom graduation cords. The survey should take about 5 minutes to complete.

To recognize the achievements of spring 2022 graduates, the Office of Undergraduate Research is providing undergraduate research graduation cords to students who have

  • conducted research as undergraduates
  • presented their research
  • completed this survey

All survey responses must be received by next Monday, May 9. Survey responses are voluntary and will be kept confidential. We anticipate having enough cords to meet demand, but they will only be available while supplies last.

After May 9, we will contact respondents who qualify to confirm that they will receive cords. Cords will be distributed at the Office of Undergraduate Research (FAC 33, lower level of the building) between 8 a.m. and 4 p.m. May 17, 18, and 20. If you need to make alternate pickup arrangements or have questions, please contact us at uresearch@austin.utexas.edu.

Again, congratulations on your achievements!

Apply to the UTNY Program!

If you can make it in New York, you can make it anywhere. Right? Maybe! Only if you apply by the Spring 2023 UTNY deadline of May 1!

What is UTNY
UTNY is an internship-first experiential learning program that provides registered UT Austin
students the opportunity to live, work and learn in one of the most dynamic metropolitan cities
in the world.

Eligibility
Students must be currently enrolled, degree-seeking Liberal Arts undergraduate students
accepted into the UTNY program for Spring 2023. Students intending to enroll in LA 620wb
must be interning for a minimum of 40 hours per week. Learn more about hours and weeks
requirements.

Financial Aid
Students utilizing financial aid can apply their aid toward participation in UTNY. Similar to study
abroad programs, a student’s financial aid package may be adjusted to cover the additional
costs associated with attending UTNY.

UTNY classes are in-residence, so students should be prepared to pay normal UT tuition for
their academic credits and coursework and a fixed UTNY program fee. Lastly, students pay for
their own housing. They should also budget for necessary living expenses such as food,
transportation, and entertainment. Find program estimates on UTNY.

APPLY BY SUNDAY, MAY 1
A resume and essay question are required as part of the application.

Crafternoon with Humanitas

Join us for a fun, stress-relieving “crafternoon” on Monday, May 9 in the Glickman Conference Center, room RLP 1.302B. We’ll have light refreshments and several art therapy activities to ignite your creativity and take your mind off of finals. The event begins at 11 a.m. but feel free to come and go as you like until 1 p.m. Students, faculty, and staff are welcome!

RSVP here for this free event presented by Humanitas and the College of Liberal Arts.

Digital Humanities Certificate Intro classes

Applications are now being accepted for the undergraduate Digital Humanities Certificate:  https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/ds/undergraduate/index.php

Two introductory classes will be offered in Fall 2022 and Spring 2023 that count towards the first requirement of the credential.

 

Fall 2022:

GSD 351D – Identities / Patterns / Code: Digital Approaches to Culture

“What if I could read patterns out of hundreds of texts, and gain new perspectives, create new knowledge about them using digital tools?” This course explores how to read identities as statistical patterns in literary texts, linguistic, cultural and historical corpora with digital methods, and how we can come to a deeper understanding of individual texts and textual phenomena. This course introduces digital research methods, tools and use cases. Students will work hands-on with literary, linguistic, cultural and historical sources – without requiring any previous programming knowledge.

We will start the course with an overview to concepts of “identity”, “patterns” and “models” in literature, culture, and humanities research. Our discussion will show how digital methods and tools transform the way literary, linguistic and culture studies research conceptualize identity, culture, as well as textual phenomena since the 20th century as data patterns and models. This course will consider digital research methods from the perspective of concepts of “identity” and “identities” as intersectional compounds of gender identity, sexual orientation, ethnicity, nationality, culture, religion, social and historical background, variation of physical and mental abilities, etc. – Quantitative-reasoning based digital methods and digital models offer the opportunity to analyse these components as more general patterns at scale, while preserving the complexity of their interconnection. At the same time, digital technology and digital research methods deserve our critical attention as well: do these methods contribute to equality, equity, or may their application introduce biases?
FLAGS: Global Cultures, Quantitative Reasoning

 

Spring 2023:

RHE 314: Computer Programming in the Humanities

This course introduces students to the fundamentals of computer programming and provides practice in humanities-based exploratory programming. Working through readings, discussions, exercises, and course projects, students will gain familiarity with programming concepts, practice in computational processes, and consider the wider cultural effects of programming. Designed for Liberal Arts majors with no programming experience, the course aims to introduce computational processes through exercises in programming (Python) by providing an online/asynchronous learning opportunity. In addition to the hands-on exercises, students will read selected texts and participate in discussions that will help orient the Liberal Arts major towards understanding computation as a humanistic, rhetorical, creative, and cultural practice.

 

Please send questions to tclement@utexas.edu.