UTLA Information Sessions 

The Semester in Los Angeles (UTLA) program is holding three general information sessions in October. UTLA Executive Director, Phil Nemy, will be visiting from Los Angeles and hosting these sessions.

Tuesday, October 7th, 2:00pm, BMC 5.208

Wednesday, October 8th, 10:00am, BMC 5.208

Thursday, October 9th, 10:00am, BMC 5.208

Seating space may be limited, so please arrive early!

The Semester in Los Angeles program is open to ALL UT students.

For more information, visit here.

Are you interested in policy and political action? Civic engagement? Looking for the inside scoop on how to get a Political Internship? 

If the answer is yes, we invite you to attend one of our collaborative information Sessions to learn more about political opportunities on and off campus.  Representatives from The Archer Center, Project Vote Smart, and the Annette Strauss Institute will be on hand to share information about various opportunities.

Getting Your First “In” with a Political Internship

Thursday, October 2nd from 2:30-4:00pm

Tuesday, October 21st from 1:30-3pm

FAC 328

The Rise of Sectarianism in the Middle East in an Age of Western Hegemony: 1860-2014 with Professor Ussama Makdisi – Oct 2 at 5 PM

The LBJ School of Public Affairs will present “The Rise of Sectarianism in the Middle East in an Age of Western Hegemony: 1860-2014, ” a lecture with Rice University Professor of History Ussama Makdisi, the first holder of the Arab-American Educational Foundation Chair of Arab Studies at Rice University, on Oct. 2 at 5 PM at the LBJ School’s Bass Lecture Hall.

The conventional view of sectarianism in the Middle East is that it reflects age-old, endemic religious tensions, and that it reflects a problem in the region’s adaptation to a secular Western modernity. Sectarianism has often been depicted as a holdover of primordial religious divisions that make up the Middle East. In contrast, this talk suggests that the sectarian crisis in the Middle East has its roots in the nineteenth century Ottoman Empire that sought to adapt to European power and to introduce political equality, and in the post-Ottoman Middle East that has seen a series of Western powers, most recently the United States, dominate the region.

This event is free and open to the public, but an RSVP is required.

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