If you are looking for an internship in Austin, ColorCancer is looking for interns, especially good writers. Just e-mail info@colorcancer.org with your resume and a letter of interest. They’ll look over your resume and then pass it along to the Executive Director to make a final decision.
If you would like to come teach English with a few other students from America, please contact Humanities alumn Preston Nix (preston.nix@kibaligold.com). He is hiring students to teach English for his company in Africa. You will need to buy your own flight to Uganda. Once there , they will provide room and board.
Just when you were lamenting that TILTS 2012-13 “The Fate of the Book” series had come to an end, we offer you one final, over-the-top, disturbingly loud, end-of-year spectacular! After the parade of PRESERVERS, ACADEMICS, and TRANSFORMERS, come and listen to a PERFORMER of books:
Baba Brinkman
“The Canterbury Tales Remixed”
7pm, 30 April 2013 (yes, the last week of classes)
JGB 2.324
Geology Building (yes, rock out amongst the rocks!)
See and hear Baba Brinkman bring Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales to life through gritty hip-hop storytelling and live turntablism. Baba will be accompanied by DJ and beat maker Mr. Simmonds. Their off-Broadway show premiered in 2011 at the Soho Playhouse in New York City, and has been a hit at literature festivals and university campuses around the globe.
All students and faculty welcome, although seating capacity is limited. Before your final exams, come and help us wrap up the TILTS “The Fate of the Book” year with some serious rap.
About the PERFORMER:
Baba Brinkman is a Canadian rap artist, playwright, and interpreter of Medieval and Renaissance literature. Since 2003, Baba has made a name for himself as a rap troubadour, with hip-hop theatre shows such as The Rap Canterbury Tales, The Rap Guide to Evolution, and The Rebel Cell. His innovative shows have enjoyed extended off-Broadway runs.
The 2014-2015 Fulbright U.S. Student competition will open on May 1, 2013. The Fulbright U.S. Student program is open to graduate students at all levels, undergraduates who will have completed their degree by the beginning of the grant period (for most countries, Sept. 1, 2014) and non-students who hold a bachelor’s degree. The program is restricted to U.S. citizens. The grants are for study and research abroad, and are available for most countries. Grants are awarded for all disciplines, including the sciences, social sciences, humanities, engineering, and the performing and creative arts. A number of countries also offer grants for those who wish to serve as English teaching assistants.
An information session for prospective applicants will be presented by an Alumni Ambassador from the Institute of International Education on Friday, April 26 from 1:00-2:30 PM in Burdine 136.
Deadlines and Procedures:
1. Potential applicants must register with us, by sending an email to:
Fulbright@austin.utexas.edu. The email should give the applicant’s name, contact information, academic status (i.e., undergrad, grad, alumnus), country or region of interest, and area of study or research topic.
2. The applicant should go to the Fulbright U.S. Student Program website
(http://us.fulbrightonline.org/home.html) for country summaries, information about preparing an application, and, starting May 1, to begin the online application process.
3. The applicant should also review our campus website:
http://world.utexas.edu/abroad/funding/scholarships/fulbright
4. Campus Deadline: The applicant must submit copies of all application materials electronically to our office by 2 PM on September 4. Interviews are tentatively scheduled between September 16 and September 27. While the deadline for final submission to the national office has not yet been announced, my expectation is that it will be around mid-October.
For the most recent statistical year (2012-13), UT applicants received the 6th highest number of awards of all institutions in the nation and can boast the 2nd highest award percentage per applicant pool for the top ten institutions. As a Fulbrighter myself (Brazil, 1990), I can testify to the lifelong value of this extraordinary program, and I am hoping that we can make that experience available to students as well.
Best,
Lindsay Hale, Ph.D.
Department of Religious Studies
Chair, Fulbright U.S. Student Program Campus Committee
Interested in helping to lead UT Austin’s Student-Led Course program? Apply to be a member of the 2013-2014 DemTex Leadership Team! DemTex is a program through which undergraduates to design and lead their very own discussion-based course under the supervision of a faculty sponsor. DemTex is currently seeking applicants to serve on the 2013-2014 Leadership Team in order to make the process for promoting and generating these courses as easy as possible. Positions available are Webmaster, Communications Director, Financial Director, and Recruitment Director. The Webmaster will be responsible for managing DemTex’s social media arm as well as the DemTex website making sure it is up to date and easy to use. Communications Director will be in charge of all other forms of publicity for DemTex especially in terms of designing promotional materials; the DemTex Communications Director will work with Senate’s Communication Director and Multimedia and Press Committee in order to fulfill this task. Financial Director will manage DemTex’s budget as well as work with Senate’s Financial Director and Veronica Cantu, Legislative Student Organization Accounting Clerk. Recruitment Director will be charged with planning tabling event and information sessions about the DemTex program in general and about specific courses as they are introduced, the Recruitment Director will also be responsible for helping to determine target audiences for specific courses as they are created. For more information and to access the application go to http://demtex.org for any questions and to submit the application contact Joey Dominguez or Kevin Boening at utdemtex@gmail.com.
TUR 601C (fall) and 611C (spring) allow students to fulfill their language requirement in one year. There are great study abroad opportunities for students who complete this sequence.
Society and Politics in Turkish Film (MES 342 #42375/MEL 321 #42195) – fun for students interested in film, politics, Turkey, and the Middle East in general.
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