LAH Music Ensemble is having its fall concert this Sunday evening, December 4 at 6:30pm in the SAC Black Box Theater (Rm 2.304). Come support the Music Ensemble!
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All Honors Formal Saturday, Dec 3
The All-Honors Formal is this Saturday at the Austin Children’s Museum.
Tickets are now available for $10 at the LAH office!
Please bring cash and buy them now or pay $12 at the door!
Event page: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=199601063453251
Oxfam Event: Working Out for Workers’ Rights: Make UT Sweatshop-Free
On November 30, skip the gym and come break a sweat to stand up against sweatshops. Join us for fitness fun and learn more about the campaign to make UT sweatshop-free, a student movement asking for accountability, transparency, and the defense of worker rights in the apparel industry. UT, as the number one producer of collegiate apparel, has a choice to make, and we are asking the administration to do the right thing and act on our university’s core values by affiliating with the Worker Rights Consortium.
Join us at 12:45PM for a post workout march to the tower as we drop a letter off for President Powers.
Don’t forget to wear workout clothes. Extra points for neon!
Questions? email makeutsweatshopfree@gmail.com
Let’s burn some calories and gain justice!
Get Published in COLAJ
Get Published! COLAJ (The College of Liberal Arts Journal) is a peer-reviewed journal that publishes the best liberal arts research on campus. Email your questions and finished paper to applications@launchut.org by February 24th. For further details, please visit launchut.org.
The College of Liberal Arts Journal is currently recruiting Peer Reviewers, Layout Editors, and Copy Editors. By being part of this undergraduate liberal arts research journal, you can help your peers get published and gain valuable research experience. APPLY NOW at www.launchut.org or contact applications@launchut.org. Join now!
DC Internship Opportunity
Half in Ten: The campaign to cut poverty in half in ten years is looking for bright, highly motivated scholars with strong academic records and an interest and aptitude for public policy and antipoverty advocacy to apply for our spring internship position. Interns will be directly engaged with antipoverty policy experts on the team and Half in Ten’s coalition partners. Interns with Half in Ten will have the opportunity to assist with research, writing, social media, and other web-based projects. Successful applicants will be able to juggle many different projects, have excellent communication skills, and strong organization and writing skills. A monetary stipend and a transportation subsidy is available for interns. All undergraduate and masters-level students are eligible to apply. Half in Ten is a joint project of the Center for American Progress Action Fund, the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, and the Coalition on Human Needs. This position is in Washington, DC. To apply for this position, visithttp://www.americanprogress.org/aboutus/intern and email kwright@americanprogress.org as soon as possible.
Heaven and Its Discontents: Spiritual Dramas of the Talmud
The Schusterman Center for Jewish Studies invites you for a lecture by Prize-winning novelist Joseph Skibell.
Professor Skibell will discuss his recent work on the tales in the Talmud. Little known and under appreciated, these stories form a second narrative, a grand tragedy, within the legal discourse of the Talmud.
The lecture will be held at Texas Hillel Library on Wednesday, November 16,2011 at Noon.
The public and members of the university community are welcome to attend. Lunch will be served. Please RSVP by November 9th to galit@mail.utexas.edu
For more details check Here
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New LAH Course Added: LAH 350 Our Lives in Fiction
We’ve just added a LAH 350 “Our Lives in Fiction”, taught by our very own Dr. Carver!
Meets: T/TH 11-12:30, SZB 286
In this course we will explore the hypothesis that human beings have and continue to create and recreate themselves through the telling of stories. While we tell stories for many reasons–pleasure, escapism, will to power, and so forth–one of the principal reasons, or so the course posits, is to find out what is significant, what is praiseworthy, what is it we should value and why. As the infant Akhilleus sat on the lap of his tutor, Phoenix, “wet[ing] [his] shirt, hiccuping/wine-bubbles in distress,” the greatest of ancient Greek heroes was listening to stories “instruct[ing] [him] in these matters/to be a man of eloquence and action.” Years later, Phoenix will seek once again to guide the actions of his extraordinary charge by telling him a story. If you are like me, as a child and now an adult, you too heard and continue to hear stories; you too have sought and now continue to seek in these stories patterns of how to live. It is this educative function of story that we will be exploring. We will begin the course with two 20th-century coming of age novels, one about a young man, and one about a young woman. We will then turn back to read four great novels of our literary history.
Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote
Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary
Maxine Hong Kingston, The Woman Warrior
J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye
Grades will be based on the following: (1) regular class attendance, careful preparation of the readings, and active participation in the class; (2) short papers responding to the day’s reading; (3) timely submission of all work; and (4) a final examination, which will ask you to identify and tell the significance of selected passages from the semester’s reading.
Grades on writing will make up 35% of the grade; class participation will constitute 35%; and the final examination 30%.
The complete syllabus: LAH 350 Our Lives in Fiction
Udall Scholarship Announcement
Nominations are now being accepted for The University of Texas at Austin selection for candidates for the Udall Scholarship.
In 2012, the Morris K. Udall and Stewart L. Udall Foundation expects to award 80 scholarships of up to $5000 and 50 honorable mentions of $350 to sophomore and junior level college students committed to careers related to the environment, tribal public policy, or Native American health care.
Eligible students will be current University of Texas at Austin students with sophomore or junior standing in the 2011-2012 academic year with a minimum GPA of 3.0/4.0 studying the environment or related fields or a Native American or Native Alaskan and studying health care or tribal policy. A maximum of six students will be nominated to represent The University of Texas at Austin in the competition to be selected as Udall Scholars.
Application information and appropriate forms are available at http://www.utexas.edu/ugs/uhc/udall. For more information please contact the University Honors Center at 512-471-6524 or via email at uhc@austin.utexas.edu
UT DEADLINE: FEBRUARY 2, 2012
Contact:
Kathy Uitvlugt
Program Coordinator
The University Honors Center
512-471-6524
uhc@austin.utexas.edu
2011 – 2012 Carnegie Endowment Junior Fellows Program
Deadline for The University of Texas at Austin nominations: November 17, 2011
Nominations are now being accepted for The University of Texas at Austin selection of candidates for the 2011 – 2012 Carnegie Endowment Junior Fellows Program. Eligible students are in their senior year or alumni who have graduated within the past academic year and have not yet started graduate studies. A maximum of two students will be selected to represent The University of Texas at Austin in the competition to be selected as a Carnegie Endowment Junior Fellow.
Junior Fellows provide research assistance to scholars working on the Carnegie Endowment’s projects: nuclear policy, democracy building, energy and climate issues, international economics, international security, Middle East studies, South Asian politics, Southeast Asian politics, Asia and China-related issues, and Russian and Eurasian affairs. Junior Fellows have the opportunity to conduct research for books, participate in meetings with high-level officials, contribute to congressional testimony and organize briefings attended by scholars, activists, journalists and government officials.
Applicants should have completed a significant amount of course work in international affairs, political science, economics, history, mathematics, Russian, Mandarin Chinese, native or near-native Arabic, Middle East studies, energy or climate studies and/or communications.
Interested students can learn more about the application process at: www.utexas.edu/ugs/uhc/awards/carnegie.
UT DEADLINE: NOVEMBER 17, 2011
The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace is a private, nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing cooperation between nations and promoting active international engagement by the United States. As one of the world’s leading think tanks specializing in international affairs, the Endowment conducts programs of research, discussion, publication and education. The Junior Fellows Program at the Carnegie Endowment offers 8 to 10 one-year fellowships to uniquely qualified graduating seniors and individuals who have graduated during the past academic year. They are selected from a pool of nominees from close to 400 participating colleges.
Contact:
Kathy Uitvlugt
Program Coordinator
The University Honors Center
512-471-6524
uhc@austin.utexas.edu