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Category Archives: Events
Polish Club and LAH Event
Come listen to Nathan Silverstein, Founder and President of the Polish Club at UT Austin, deliver his farewell remarks on Friday, April 19th, from 11am-12pm. Along with reflecting on past accomplishments and what the club means to him, Nathan will also discuss the future of the club as he heads towards graduation.
Interested in attending? Consider registering here.
LAH Legal Internships Info Sessions
All interested students are invited to the upcoming info sessions for LAH 340L | Legal Internships # 29955 with Instructor Mark Levy. This experiential learning course is open to any COLA upper-class student (non-Plan II majors) with a 3.5 GPA or higher.
Course Description:
Explore the role of lawyers and how the practice of law has shaped American society. Intern in law offices or legal settings. Gain practical experience and first-hand knowledge of different legal fields. Internships help shape classroom discussions. Examine the practice of law and how lawyers serve the public interest and larger society The equivalent of three lecture hours a week for one semester with an addition 9-10 internship hours a week for one semester.
Info Sessions:
Mon: April 1 at 1-2pm (in-person in the LAH Commons Room)
Tues: April 2 at 12-1pm (over Zoom)
Wed: April 3 at 12-1pm (over Zoom)
Interested in learning more? Attend via the Zoom link here.
LAHSC/LAHME Open Mic Night!
The Liberal Arts Honors Student Council and Liberal Arts Honors Music Ensemble are hosting an Open Mic Night this Sunday, March 24th at 8 pm at Moody’s on Guadalupe. Any student can participate by playing an instrument, singing a song, reciting poetry, acting out a scene from a play, movie, or tv show, doing stand-up comedy, karaoke, or anything else! Students can also attend to support their friends! We will have a tab to cover food and drinks, but supply is limited so it will be first come, first serve. Come for a free dinner and a show!
Language Proficiency Testing Opportunity
Do you speak a language that is not regularly taught at UT-Austin? If so, you can receive a waiver of your UT foreign language requirement. The Texas Language Center proctors language proficiency tests right here on campus!
Please click the link here for more information on these Texas Language Center services at UT!
The Project 2024
The Project is UT Austin’s largest day of student service. This university-wide event helps thousands of students, faculty, and staff each year connect with a different Austin neighborhood. It is organized and run by the Community Engagement Collective (CEC) and annually marks the culmination of a year-long partnership between the CEC and the selected neighborhood’s community leaders.
Join us on March 2nd, 2024 as we partner with the Dove Springs neighborhood to complete beautification projects!
If you’re interested in volunteering, please sign up by clicking here and choosing your preferred volunteer site and shift time! For Project updates, follow @ut_collective on Instagram.
Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Workshop
The Senate of College Councils Undergraduate Research Committee is hosting a Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Workshop this Wednesday, November 9th from 4-5 p.m. in UNB 2.102. The workshop is designed to introduce undergraduates to summer research opportunities at other universities. The workshop will feature a brief presentation on important application components, a panel led by program directors, and a student mixer talking about their summer research experiences.
The Land Torn Asunder
Please join the Digital Writing and Research Lab and Bureau for Experimental Ethnography on Thursday October 13th at 3:30 PM in the Eastwoods Room (Texas Union 2.102) for a talk from Dustin Edwards, “The Land Torn Asunder: Stories from Copper Country.” Dr. Edwards’s work focuses on digital rhetoric, material infrastructures, and environmental justice; and his talk explores what archival extraction means for regimes of labor, histories of violence, and the colonial Anthropocene. A short Q&A will follow the talk. 
Genocide of the Uyghurs: A Discussion from Nury Turkel, Chair of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom
The Bech-Loughlin First Amendment Center, along with the Asia Policy Program, would like to invite you to our next event. Nury Turkel, Chair of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, will join us on Friday, October 21st to discuss his new book No Escape: The True Story of China’s Genocide of the Uyghurs. Lunch will be offered.
No Escape: The True Story of China’s Genocide of the Uyghurs is a harrowing personal account of the biggest human rights crisis of the twenty-first century.
It describes conditions in the Uyghur homeland, referred to by the Chinese government as the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. In the past few years, the entire region has been turned into an intensive surveillance state, with millions placed in modern-day “re-education” camps in what is the largest mass detention of an ethnoreligious group since the Holocaust.
For more details and to register, please visit the link below. We hope you join us!
https://nuryturkelandsheenagreitens.eventbrite.com
Date: October 21st, 2022 at LBJ Bass Lecture Hall (2315 Red River St., Austin, TX, 78712) from 12:15pm-1:30pm
Contact info for further questions: sandra.garcia@law.utexas.edu or colincraw3@gmail.com
Health Humanities Research Seminar
Health Humanities Research Seminar: Panel Discussion on “Liberal Arts and Medical Practice” Monday, October 3, 4:00 pm
Date: Monday, October 3, 2022
Time: 4:00 – 5:30 PM
Location: T-House Suite, Texas Union 3.312
Parking: San Antonio Garage
The UT Humanities Institute is excited to host a panel discussion on the theme, “Liberal Arts and Medical Practice.” Three of the four panelists – Dr. Ganesh Palapattu, Dr. Rebecca Teng, and Dr. Craig Hurwitz – were undergraduate majors in UT’s College of Liberal Arts who are now practicing physicians. The fourth panelist, Michelle Raji, is a current fourth-year student at Dell Medical School who majored in English and Creative Writing as an undergraduate. The panelists will discuss the role liberal arts training plays in, for example, how they conceive their mission as doctors, how they think about their professional identity, and how they practice medicine in clinical settings. There will be ample time set aside for Q & A and discussion with the audience.
The panel, which will be followed by a reception, will occur on Monday, October 3, 2022, 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM, in the T-House Suite (room 3.312) of the Texas Union / 2308 Whitis Ave. The event will also be live-streamed. To learn more about the panel and the panelists, and to register for in-person or online attendance, please click here.
