Daily Archives: November 9, 2022

Research Opportunity for East Asian Males

Hi Everyone,
Dr. Marlone Henderson in the psychology department is looking for participants in one of his new projects.The project focuses on reactions to interracial prosocial interactions. He is specifically in need of an East Asian male to help create photographs of someone helping another person. The photographs will be inserted into fake news stories (e.g., helping a homeless person) that describe a helping encounter between people of either the same race or different race. So, he is  looking for someone willing to play the role of a giver or receiver and be photographed.
If anyone is interested, they can email Dr. Henderson at marlone.henderson@utexas.edu

Mr. Frasyniuk 12/2 Event

The Polish Club at UT Austin is excited to officially announce its fourth and final guest speaker of the semester: former Solidarity leader, political prisoner, Member of the Polish Parliament (1991-2001), and current democratic activist Władysław Frasyniuk. Mr. Frasyniuk will be delivering a speech entitled “The State of Democracy in Poland Today” on Friday, December 2, 2022, from 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Central Time over Zoom. Mr. Frasyniuk will speak for 30-minutes and take Q&A for 30-minutes. When registering, there will be a section to submit questions for Mr. Frasyniuk. The moderator will select the five or so most interesting questions and ask them anonymously.

You can register for the event on the Polish Club’s website at this link: https://www.texaspolishclub.org/events

2022 Student Writing Flag Awards

The deadline is approaching for the School of Undergraduate Studies Writing Flag Award, honoring the best writing produced by UT undergraduates in courses carrying the Writing Flag. Students must submit their work by 11:59 p.m. on Monday, December 12, 2022, to be eligible for prizes of up to $300, awarded in three categories — Research, Persuasive/Critical, and Creative/Reflective. In each of these categories, the Writing Flag Awards will recognize student writing that best demonstrates clarity, inventiveness and intellectual rigor.

Eligible works must be written by an undergraduate student and submitted for credit in a UT Austin Writing Flag class in the Spring, Summer or Fall semester of 2022. Collaboratively written entries are allowed in all categories.

For full contest rules, submission guidelines and other information, please visit our website.

Thank you,

The Center for Skills & Experience Flags Team

Dr. Steele visits Critical Digital Studies Group

Good morning, folks,

Erin and I are writing on behalf of the Critical Digital Studies Group to remind you that the last two events of the semester are next week with Dr. Catherine Knight Steele, who will visit us on Monday, November 14th. Please circulate this invitation with your contacts.

Graduate student conversation 10:30am CST (@ PCL Learning Lab 3): Dr. Steele will visit the CDSG to meet with graduate students and talk about her book Digital Black Feminisms and methods in critical digital studies. If you’re interested in research devoted to Black feminisms, technology, digital media, and social justice, this workshop is a wonderful opportunity to think with a leading scholar and others committed to this line of inquiry. There will be breakfast tacos and coffee. Please RSVP with Erin and me by November 10th. (Limited paper copies of Dr. Steele’s book are available. Tell us if you want one!)

Public online talk at 4pm CST (register for her talk here): Dr. Steele will deliver a talk titled “From the Archive to TikTok: Care and Feeding as Praxis in Studying Black Women and Technology.” You’re welcome to share this talk with your contacts across and beyond campus.

 

The CDSG has been funded by the Gender, Race, Indigeneity, Disability, and Sexuality Studies (GRIDS) initiative. And we’re grateful the Humanities Institute has co-sponsored these last two events. Humanities Institute support provided through the Sterling Clark Holloway Lectureship in the Liberal Arts and the Initiative for Digital Humanities.

Salud,

Iván & Erin

 

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.