Join us for a historic evening in Austin at Monkeywrench Books, where Dalit women activists from the frontlines of the Dalit Women’s Self-Respect movement will join host Dalit-American artist Thenmozhi Soundarajan to break the silence on caste apartheid in India and the diaspora.
Follow up event: An informal discussion on leadership and organizing strategies with the #DalitWomenFight tour on campus. Refreshments will be provided.
The Economics Department will have internal transfer restrictions starting in the spring 2016 semester.
During the fall 2015 semester, current UT students will be able to declare an Economics major after attending a mandatory internal transfer information session. Be aware, space is limited and students must RSVP! See details here: http://www.utexas.edu/cola/economics/undergraduate/advising.php
If/when our fall sessions fill, the next opportunity to declare will be in the spring 2016 semester.
Starting in spring 2016, current UT students will need to submit an application by stated deadlines and meet eligibility requirements in order to declare an Economics major.
ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS
Completion of the following courses with a grade of at least C minus in each:
· ECO 304K & ECO 304L
· M408K & M408L (or M408C and M408D, or M408N and M408S)
APPLICATION DEADLINES
· Summer/fall admission: March 15
· Spring admission: October 15
Optional information sessions and the required application will be available starting
January 2016: http://www.utexas.edu/cola/economics/undergraduate/advising.php
Dear All,
We hope this message finds everyone settled into the new semester.
We write today to invite you to join us for The Americas Project 2015-2016 events. We introduced TAP last year as an effort to highlight American literary studies at all levels of our department and to bring undergraduates, graduate students, and faculty into conversation with our field’s leading scholars. This year, we’ve scheduled a slate of events to continue and build on that effort. More specific details will follow.
David Kornhaber, Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature at UT Austin, will circulate a work in progress for the second TAP Faculty Workshop on Wednesday, October 28 from 4:00-5:30pm at the Carillon (AT&T Center) . David is the author of The Birth of Theatre from the Spirit of Philosophy: Friedrich Nietzsche and the Development of the Modern Drama, forthcoming from Northwestern University Press, as well as articles on Tony Kushner (PMLA) and George Bernard Shaw (Modern Drama) and many pieces in the theatre sections of The New York Times, The Village Voice, and The New York Sun. Two weeks prior to the event, we will request RSVPs and send David’s work to all participants.
In the spring, Leonard Cassuto, Professor of American Literature at Fordham University will visit as a special guest of TAP from February 18-20. Cassuto is an expert on both crime fiction and academic culture. In addition to Hard-Boiled Sentimentality: The Secret History of American Crime Stories (Columbia, 2008), Cassuto edited The Cambridge History of the American Novel (2011) and The Cambridge Companion to Baseball (2011). Earlier this month, he published The Graduate School Mess: What Caused It and How We Can Fix It (Harvard, 2015). In it, he observes that “to pursue a professorship at the expense of all other options can hardly be called rational” and argues for a much more student-centered graduate education.
Rebecca Walkowitz, Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the English Department at Rutgers University and current President of the Modernist Studies Association, will join us for the TAP Distinguished Lecture Series on Friday, April 1 at 4:00pm in CLA 1.302E. Walkowitz has published Cosmopolitan Style: Modernism Beyond the Nation (2006) and, this year, Born Translated: The Contemporary Novel in an Age of World Literature, in which she argues, “Like born-digital literature, which is made on or for the computer, born-translated literature approaches translation as medium and origin rather than as afterthought.” Walkowitz’s visit is co-sponsored by the Program in Comparative Literature.
Finally, Matthew Taylor, Associate Professor in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, will give the second TAP Distinguished Lecture of the year on Friday, April 22 at 4:30pm in CLA 1.302E. Taylor’s Universes without Us: Posthuman Cosmologies in American Literature (Minnesota, 2013) situates Edgar Allan Poe, Henry Adams, Charles Chesnutt, and Zora Neale Hurston in an alternative posthumanist tradition in which “both our separation from the universe and our identity with it are exposed as fantasies.” Taylor’s visit is co- sponsored by TILTS: Environmental Humanities.
Please see below for the vital information on the events. We encourage you to circulate it widely.
And we hope to see you there,
Jim Cox and Cole Hutchison
The Americas Project 2015-2016
TAP Faculty Workshop
David Kornhaber, The University of Texas at Austin
Wednesday, October 28, 2015, 4:00-5:30 PM, Carillon (AT&T Center)
TAP Special Event
Leonard Cassuto, Fordham University
Friday, February 19, 2016, TBD
TAP Distinguished Lecture Series
Rebecca Walkowitz, Rutgers University
Friday, April 1, 2016, 4:00 PM, CLA 1.302E
Co-sponsored by Comparative Literature
TAP Distinguished Lecture Series
Matthew Taylor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Friday, April 22, 2016, 4:30 pm, CLA 1.302E
(Co-sponsored by TILTS 2015-2016)
Join The Daily Texan for its weekly speaker’s series, The Texan Talks! This week, we are focusing on student political engagement on the national and state scales, and specifically, how students can influence policies through the upcoming elections and political process. Please join Daily Texan Editor-in-Chief Claire Smith and Forum Editor Walker Fountain for a moderated discussion in the Texas Union Sinclair Suite at 11 a.m. on Thursday, October 15.
CoLA is launching a new leadership opportunity for Liberal Arts undergraduate students called Texas Phanos (Greek for torches). Students that are invited to become members will represent our College in various capacities including recruiting new students, fundraising, assisting with official college events, and serving as student representatives to alumni and stakeholders.
More specific information about membership duties, benefits and qualifications can be found as an attachment to this email and online at http://www.utexas.edu/cola/student-affairs/student-programs/student-organizations/texas-phanos/index.php .
The deadline to complete an application is 5pm on 11/6/15, and the application can be found online at: https://utexas.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_1Mow44xgHrk6bbf
All UT undergraduate students are invited to join the Clements Center for National Security for an information session on its Maymester in London titled “The U.S., U.K., and World Order” TOMORROW, October 13th at 12:30pm in SAC 2.120. Please note the room location for this session has changed! Lunch will be provided!
If you are unable to make the session but want to learn more, please email Jacqueline Chandler at jchandler@austin.utexas.edu.
The Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies is now offering a number of travel scholarships for study abroad in Latin America for spring 2016 only. No applications will be accepted for summer or for any future semesters. The Institute is offering five $5,000 travel scholarships. Students must attend degree-granting institutions in Latin America this coming spring and return with at least 12 hours of college credit.
Applications and letters of recommendation are due on November 9, 2015, without exception. Please follow the link to the scholarship portal:
Come learn about what makes us different from other teacher education programs, and how to apply. Information sessions for UTeach Urban Teachers will be held this week in:
University Union (UNB), Room 3.116 (Texas Governor’s Room) on:
Wednesday, October 14, from 4:00-5:00 or
Thursday, October 15, from 4:00-5:00
Drop-in “Café hours” at Caffe Medici, 2222 Guadalupe St (on the drag)
Outreach directors available to meet with interested students during the times below:
Thursday
10/22, 9-11 a.m.
Friday
10/30, 9-11 a.m.
Wednesday
11/4, 9-11 a.m.
Contact UTUT:
Facebook: UTeachUrbanTeachers
Web: utut.utexas.org
Email: utut@utexas.edu
Through participating in UTeach Urban Teachers during your senior year, you can graduate with a secondary Texas teaching certificate, in addition to your major degree (see the website for a list of accepted majors). Our one-year program just for UT students will prepare you to teach 7th-12th grade English or Social Studies in an urban school.
Applications are now being accepted for the U.S. Department of State’s Summer 2016 Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) Programin 14 critical foreign languages.
The application is available online at: http://www.clscholarship.org Application deadline: November 23, 2015, 7:59 pm Eastern Standard Time.
The CLS Program is overseen by the State Department’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. It is a overseas,intensive language and cultural immersion program for American undergraduate and graduate students.CLS has summer sessions each year in a variety of overseas locations, and uses an intensive, group-based method of language instruction. CLS goals are to increase the number of Americans studying and mastering critical languages, and to build relationships between the people of the United States and other countries.
CLS provides opportunities to a diverse range of students, from across the United States, at every level of language learning. The CLS Program seeks participants with diverse interests, from a wide variety of fields of study, backgrounds and career paths, with the purpose of representing the full diversity of the United States. Students from all academic disciplines, including business, engineering, law, medicine, science, social sciences, arts and humanities are encouraged to apply.
Eligibility requirements – Applicants must be a U.S. citizen at the time of application, and be enrolled in an accredited U.S. degree-granting program at the undergraduate (associate’s/bachelor’s) or graduate (master’s/doctoral/professional degree) level. For more information about CLS eligibility requirements, visit:
http://www.clscholarship.org/information-for/applicants.
The 14 CLS languages areArabic, Azerbaijani, Bangla, Chinese, Hindi, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, Persian, Punjabi, Russian, Swahili, Turkish, and Urdu. Swahili will, for the first time, be offered at the beginning through advanced levels. Most CLS languages do not require prior language training, but there are prerequisites for Arabic, Chinese, Persian, Russian, and Japanese. For more information about prerequisites, visit: http://www.clscholarship.org/information-for/applicants.
Costs covered by CLS include: Intensive overseas group-based language courses (20+ hours per week); room and board, often with a host family; a full cultural program; host community language partner; U.S. academic credit issued through Bryn Mawr College; domestic and international airfare; and a small stipend to cover incidental expenses and meals not provided by the program.
There is no requirement for CLS alumni to perform U.S. Government service after they participate in the program. Participants are, however, expected to continue their language study beyond the scholarship period, and to later apply their critical language skills in their professional careers. Participants are selected based on their commitment to language learning and plans to apply their language skills to their future academic or professional pursuits.
Prior to preparing their applications, interested students should review the full eligibility and application information on the CLS Program website:
http://www.clscholarship.org/information-for/applicants.
For news, updates and more information about the CLS Program, please visit the CLS website and Facebook page:
Website: http://www.clscholarship.org ; Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/CLScholarship
For questions not covered in the CLS website’s FAQs, , please contact: cls@americancouncils.org
Voting is now open for the Texas Student Research Showdown! You can now view 15 short videos made by UT undergraduates to explain their research to a general audience. From movie trailer to time-lapse, animation to idea pitch, these videos bring alive the student research happening in all disciplines across campus. Only currently enrolled UT undergraduates can vote on their favorite entries, and the researchers with the top videos will go on to compete for $2,500 in a TED-style talk showdown to an audience and judging panel on Nov. 12 in Avaya Auditorium.
The videos are viewable on the Showdown website, and on the online voting form itself. Students can vote for as many videos as they want, but each student can only submit the voting form once—multiple submissions will be rejected. Students will need to provide an EID to verify student status, but otherwise the vote is anonymous. Voting runs through Oct. 21.
Please spread the word to anyone with an interest in research communication, in students’ involvement in the world-changing work done at UT, and in supporting their friends and classmates.