Daily Archives: September 6, 2011

Joynes Reading Room Event: Reading by Novelist Chang-rae Lee

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On Thursday, Sept. 15th at 7:30PM in the Joynes Reading Room, the Plan II Honors Program and the Department of English will host a reading by the award-winning author Chang-rae Lee. A professor of creative writing at Princeton University, Lee is the author of four acclaimed novels, including The Surrendered, a finalist for the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. Lee’s latest novel tells the story of an American soldier and a Korean orphan whose lives intersect in the aftermath of war.

“[The Surrendered] is epic in scope, masterful in execution, heart stopping at times, and heartbreaking at others. The meticulous narrative unfolds over 52 years and across three continents. Nothing is rushed; nothing is overlooked. We can even feel the buzz of a window pane on our fingertips as rumbling Japanese military vehicles approach along a gravel road…Lee understands that in art and in stories what is perhaps most valuable is not what can be explained but what can be felt.”

–The Boston Globe

A limited number of free copies of The Surrendered are available for UT honors students to pick up at the Joynes Reading Room front desk. (Come to the desk in person to inquire.) Please take a book only if you are certain that you will attend the reading.

Reading by novelist Chang-rae Lee

Thursday, Sept. 15th, 7PM

Joynes Reading Room (CRD 007)

Free and open to the public

Contact the Joynes Reading Room at 512-471-5787 or mvalentine@mail.utexas.edu with any questions.

UT Women’s & Gender Studies Student Organization

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Join the UT Women’s & Gender Studies Student Organization or find out how we can work with your student organization!!!

The UT Women’s & Gender Studies Student Organization is holding its first, informational meeting this Tuesday, September 6 in Mezes 1.216 at 5:30 p.m. This is an open invitation to anyone affiliated with or interested in WGS (majors/non-majors/minors/other student organizations or representatives/undergrads/graduate students).

For our first meeting we are organizing leadership roles, creating committees, and finalizing the mission statement. If you are looking to hold a leadership position or get involved in some other capacity, now is the time to join!

We encourage and welcome representatives from other student organizations to attend our meeting for more information on what we hope to accomplish. Our organization seeks to foster a coalition and grow our feminist community through movement building.

The UT-WGS student organization aims to act as a liaison among the various women’s, queer, LGBTQIA, feminist, human rights activist groups on campus, and the academic department. Our focus is to build community among the various groups, and be a central resource and academic base for existing, new, or interested members to Women’s and Gender Studies.

Please feel free to forward and circulate! If you can not make it to this first meeting, please feel free to email us for more information and keep an eye out for future meetings.

Sincerely,
UT Women & Gender Studies Student Organization
Elexia, Wanjira, & Danea

Foot in the Door Auditions 9/7 and 9/8

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Foot in the Door with be having fall auditions this week for “Twelve Angry Men” directed by Caleb Britton and Stephanie Donowho and “The Musical Comedy Murders of 1940” directed by Emily Neie and Zoe White.

Auditions will be on September 7th and 8th from 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. at the following locations:

September 7th: WEL 3.502
September 8th: WEL 1.308

We hope to see LAHers there!