Thursday, September 8, 2022 at 6 pm CST
Prothro Theater, Harry Ransom Center 

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.

All LAH students are invited to Dr. Lang’s LAH 350: Treasure Hunt Archival Research class’s unveiling and website launch of this year’s collection of digital exhibits titled: “Subverting Silences: Uplifting Marginalized Conversations”.

Join us for a fun, stress-relieving “crafternoon” on Monday, May 9 in the Glickman Conference Center, room RLP 1.302B. We’ll have light refreshments and several art therapy activities to ignite your creativity and take your mind off of finals. The event begins at 11 a.m. but feel free to come and go as you like until 1 p.m. Students, faculty, and staff are welcome!

RSVP here for this free event presented by Humanitas and the College of Liberal Arts.

The Feminist Action Project and The Queer & Trans Student Alliance will be hosting a conference on “Resisting Normative Embodiments”, from

! This year’s keynote speaker will be Hope Giselle, an organizer, artist, author, and trans activist who will be speaking on her modern social take on Black and Trans bodies in public spaces. Among Hope, we will also have speakers discussing topics such as Intersex justice, public schools in k-12 education: trans-exclusionary policies, navigating queer and feminine health care, the invisible sexualities, and designing an inclusive sex education. In addition to many speakers, we will also be providing lunch and tote bags!

Anyone interested in attending can register for our conference at tinyurl.com/resistconference !

On Thursday, May 5th, the Clements Center for National Security will host Lech Wałęsa, Former Polish President and Nobel Peace Prize Winner, for an event on “Russia’s War on Ukraine and Its Global Impact.” Join us at 5:30 pm at the AT&T Hotel and Conference Center in Amphitheater 204. Doors open at 5:00 pm.

Lech Wałęsa is a Nobel Peace Prize winner (1983) and the first president of Poland, serving from 1990-1995. Wałęsa was the co-founder and leader of the Solidarity movement that led to the first democratic elections in Poland in 1989, the fall of communism in Poland, and helped lead to the dissolution of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War. At its height, Solidarity had over 10 million members. Wałęsa was Time Magazine’s Person of the Year in 1981 and was included in Time Magazine’s 100 most important people of the 20th century. Wałęsa holds over 40 honorary degrees, including from Harvard, Columbia, and the Sorbonne. He is the recipient of the U.S. Presidential Medal of Freedom, the Knight Grand Cross of the British Order of the Bath, and the French Grand Cross of Legion of Honour. In 1989, Wałęsa became the first foreign non-head of state to address a joint meeting of the U.S. Congress. Wałęsa was the first democratically elected leader of Poland since 1926 and the first ever Polish leader elected by popular vote. He presided over Poland’s transition from communism to free-market capitalism and liberal democracy.

For more information about this event, contact Elizabeth Doughtie at elizabeth.doughtie@utexas.edu.

RSVP link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/russias-war-on-ukraine-and-its-global-impact-tickets-310190336647

LAHDAC is co-hosting a Diversity Fair with the Diversity and Inclusion Agency this Friday, April 22nd from 4-5:30 PM at the PCL plaza. Come for free food, music, performances by Texas Zobha and the Korean Dance Crew, a raffle, and tabling by diversity-related organizations. Anyone who stops by will be entered to win a basket of goodies, you don’t want to miss it!