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.
Please join the Digital Writing and Research Lab and Bureau for Experimental Ethnography on Thursday October 13th at 3:30 PM in the Eastwoods Room (Texas Union 2.102) for a talk from Dustin Edwards, “The Land Torn Asunder: Stories from Copper Country.” Dr. Edwards’s work focuses on digital rhetoric, material infrastructures, and environmental justice; and his talk explores what archival extraction means for regimes of labor, histories of violence, and the colonial Anthropocene. A short Q&A will follow the talk. 
The Bech-Loughlin First Amendment Center, along with the Asia Policy Program, would like to invite you to our next event. Nury Turkel, Chair of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, will join us on Friday, October 21st to discuss his new book No Escape: The True Story of China’s Genocide of the Uyghurs. Lunch will be offered.
No Escape: The True Story of China’s Genocide of the Uyghurs is a harrowing personal account of the biggest human rights crisis of the twenty-first century.
It describes conditions in the Uyghur homeland, referred to by the Chinese government as the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. In the past few years, the entire region has been turned into an intensive surveillance state, with millions placed in modern-day “re-education” camps in what is the largest mass detention of an ethnoreligious group since the Holocaust.
For more details and to register, please visit the link below. We hope you join us!
https://nuryturkelandsheenagreitens.eventbrite.com
Date: October 21st, 2022 at LBJ Bass Lecture Hall (2315 Red River St., Austin, TX, 78712) from 12:15pm-1:30pm
Contact info for further questions: sandra.garcia@law.utexas.edu or colincraw3@gmail.com
Date: Monday, October 3, 2022
Time: 4:00 – 5:30 PM
Location: T-House Suite, Texas Union 3.312
Parking: San Antonio Garage
The UT Humanities Institute is excited to host a panel discussion on the theme, “Liberal Arts and Medical Practice.” Three of the four panelists – Dr. Ganesh Palapattu, Dr. Rebecca Teng, and Dr. Craig Hurwitz – were undergraduate majors in UT’s College of Liberal Arts who are now practicing physicians. The fourth panelist, Michelle Raji, is a current fourth-year student at Dell Medical School who majored in English and Creative Writing as an undergraduate. The panelists will discuss the role liberal arts training plays in, for example, how they conceive their mission as doctors, how they think about their professional identity, and how they practice medicine in clinical settings. There will be ample time set aside for Q & A and discussion with the audience.
The panel, which will be followed by a reception, will occur on Monday, October 3, 2022, 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM, in the T-House Suite (room 3.312) of the Texas Union / 2308 Whitis Ave. The event will also be live-streamed. To learn more about the panel and the panelists, and to register for in-person or online attendance, please click here.
Minister Sikorski’s event was a great success. Students got to ask Minister Sikorski questions, there was a great turnout, and the conversation was extremely fascinating. Thank you again to you and LAH for your invaluable support in promoting the event! The recording of Minister Sikorski’s speech is available here: https://www.texaspolishclub.org/videos
The Polish Club has also officially begun its advertisement campaign for our second guest speaker of the semester, President Kwaśniewski.
Meet new friends – and perhaps even a co-founder – at this social for UT Austin students interested in impact entrepreneurship!
Ever wonder how society can address the many challenges we face? We’ll give you a primer at our social for UT-Austin students interested in sustainability and impact entrepreneurship! The event will include food, networking with passionate fellow students, an impact entrepreneurship resource fair, and fun games with prizes.
This event is organized by the Global Sustainability Leadership Institute and cohosted by the following organizations: KS WELI, HKEC, TVL, Office of Inclusive Innovation & Entrepreneurship, Texas Global, and IC2.
Access it here
Interested in becoming a teacher? Want to learn more about post-graduation opportunities to serve youth across America as a corp. member? Join Texas Career Engagement for a panel with Teach For America recruiters and alumni. Hear their service stories, gain application advice, and learn valuable insight into the program and recruitment timeline. There will be a Q&A to follow the panel. Pizza is provided for first attendees!
Check it out here
The UT Libraries is thrilled to announce the inaugural Black Queer Studies Student Awards. This an annual prize celebrates UT’s Black Queer Studies Collection and recognizes our students’ scholarship and creativity inspired by it.
To apply: See Instructions, Eligibility and Criteria on this guide: https://guides.lib.utexas.edu/bqsc/awards
Submissions are due Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2022.
About the Awards:
These awards are named for Professor Matt Richardson and former UT Librarians Kristen Hogan and Lindsey Schell, who founded the Black Queer Studies Collection in 2009-2010. The prize money is dispersed through the UT Libraries, and primarily draws from the Black Queer Studies Collection Endowment, originally funded through a crowd-sourced fundraising campaign in 2021.
Learn more about the UT Libraries’ Black Queer Studies Collection, including the story of its founding: https://guides.lib.utexas.edu/bqsc/
Nigerian writer Uwem Akpan (New York, My Village and Say You’re One of Them) will read from his latest work in this talk co-sponsored by the Michener Center for Writers and the Harry Ransom Center. Akpan’s fiction and autobiographical pieces have appeared in The New Yorker and The Guardian, and O, The Oprah Magazine, among others. His collection, Say You’re One of Them, was published by Little, Brown in 2008 and has been translated into twelve languages. It won the Commonwealth Prize (Africa Region), the Open Book Prize, and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, and was the 2009 Oprah Book Club selection.
Akpan, who teaches in the University of Florida’s MFA program, was born in Ikot Akpan Eda in Akwa Ibom State in Nigeria. His first book, Say You’re One of Them made the “Best of the Year” on a number of lists, including those in People magazine and The Wall Street Journal. In his second book and first novel, New York, My Village, Akpan writes with the same promise and pain about New York City as he did about African cities in Say You’re One of Them.
New York, My Village will be available to purchase and a book signing will follow the reading.
Seating is limited, please RSVP. This program is in-person only and will not be available online.
