“What is Fair? What is Just? A Public Dialogue”

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You are invited to a Humanities Institute Public Dialogue

 

“What is Fair? What is Just? A Public Dialogue”

MONDAY, APRIL 2, 2012, 7-9 pm

 

Concerned about the accessibility and cost of education and health  care?

Come participate in a discussion  with scholars and community activists working on these issues.

A presentation of the Difficult Dialogues program of The Humanities Institute.

Avaya Auditorium, ACE Building, 24th and Speedway

Panelists include:

Dr. Dana Cloud

UT College of Communication

Deliana García

Migrant Clinicians Network and HI Community Scholar, Austin, Texas

Dr. Robert Hummer

UT Department of Sociology

Laurie Posner

Intercultural Development Research Association, San Antonio, Texas

Free and open to the public.  Refreshments will be provided.  We hope to see you there!

Events for honors students (plus free books!)

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Panel on War Photography – Thursday, April 5, 7 p.m. 

Three distinguished photojournalists will visit the Joynes Reading Room (CRD 007) on Thursday, April 5, to participate in a panel entitled “Picturing Crisis: Engaging the Viewer.” Photographers Mimi Chakarova, Scott Dalton and Stephen Ferry will show slides from their award-winning work in Colombia, Mexico, Iraq, Gaza and elsewhere, and discuss the methodologies and ethics of their profession. This event is free and open to everybody. Light refreshments will be served. (See flyer, attached, for more information.)

 

A reading by the award-winning poet Marie Howe – Friday, April 13, 7 p.m. 

On Friday, April 13, at 7 p.m. in the Joynes Reading Room (CRD 007), poet Marie Howe will read from her most recent book, The Kingdom of Ordinary Time, which was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Her other collections of poetry include What the Living Do and The Good Thief, which was selected by Margaret Atwood for the 1987 National Poetry Series. Howe has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation. She teaches poetry at Columbia University, New York University, and Sarah Lawrence College. The Joynes Reading Room will give away free copies of Marie’s Howe’s books (to honors students only) in advance of her visit. Supplies are limited. Inquire at the front desk in the Joynes Room.

For more information, call 512-471-5787 or write to mvalentine@mail.utexas.edu.

Applications Available for Peers for Pride

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Students: Applications Available for Peers for Pride

Are you interested in learning more about LGBTQA identities? Do you want to make a difference for LGBTQA people at UT and beyond? Are you interesting in learning more about how to have conversations on topics we are often socialized not to discuss?

Then you may be interested in joining Peers for Pride!! It is a peer facilitation program offered through the year for academic credit. Students write a monologue during the first semester and during the second semester students perform the monologues and facilitate conversations in character.

If you are interested in applying or have questions, please email the GSC Education Coordinator, Shane Whalley, at swhalley@austin.utexas.edu.

Mentors Needed for Latino Mentorship Program

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The Latino Leadership Council created P.O.D.E.R. (Peer outreach for Dedication, Education, and Respect), a new latino-wide mentorship program that will begin next academic year, in order to help young Latinas/os succeed in college.

YET, WE NEED MENTORS AND THIS COULD BE YOU. IF YOU ARE INTERESTED PLEASE ATTEND ONE OF OUR FOLLOWING INFORMATION SESSIONS:

March 26: 5pm in PAR 204

March 28: 8pm in MEZ 1.202

March 29: 7pm in MEZ 1.120

*Attendance to one session is required to be a mentor.

Any questions email utpoder@gmail.com.

Like our FB page: http://www.facebook.com/pages/UT-Poder/342876412420643

Pre-Grad Internships

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Dear UT Undergraduates:

With registration for next semester coming up in a few weeks, let me tell

you about an exciting internship course.

Are you thinking about whether graduate school is in your future?  Are

you uncertain about what it would be like to be a graduate student and what

academic program may be suited best to your interests and career goals?

If your answer to these questions is yes, you may wish to consider

undertaking the Intellectual Entrepreneurship (IE) “Pre-Graduate School

Internship.”  This internship is open to students in all UT

colleges/schools and departments.  You may earn one, two or three hours

of academic credit (CMS 164M/264M/364M) by participating in the internship.

You may read more about this program (including FAQ’s, examples

of internship activities and an easy to complete internship contract) on

the web: http://communication.utexas.edu/ie/

A wonderful UT web feature about this program is at:

http://www.utexas.edu/features/2008/ie-2/

If after examining these materials you have questions, please feel free

to contact me at: spaj737@uts.cc.utexas.edu

NOTE: Because of the generosity of several UT deans, undergraduates who

do their pre-grad internship in programs in the following colleges will be

eligible to receive travel grants to help cover part of the cost of

attending an academic conference (with their grad mentor)– Law, Public

Affairs, Communication, Engineering, Liberal Arts, Pharmacy, Business,

Social Work, Education, Natural Sciences, Fine Arts.

 

Sincerely,

Rick Cherwitz

Professor and IE Director

________________________________________________________________

Richard A. Cherwitz, Ph.D.

Professor and Director, Intellectual Entrepreneurship (IE)

A Cross-Disciplinary Consortium: “Educating Citizen-Scholars”

Office of the Vice President for Diversity and Community Engagement

https://webspace.utexas.edu/cherwitz/www/ie/

Department of Communication Studies

The University of Texas 1 University Station A1105

Austin, Texas 78712

VOICE: (512) 471-1939   FAX: (512) 471-3504

https://webspace.utexas.edu/cherwitz/www/

spaj737@uts.cc.utexas.edu

LAHers Apply to be an Honors Colloquium Mentor- Application Due Thursday, March 29

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The University Honors Center invites you (including graduating seniors) to apply for a position as an Honors Colloquium student mentor for the 31st annual Honors Colloquium, July 19-21, 2012.

The Honors Colloquium is a three-day recruiting event that takes place on The University of Texas at Austin and is designed to introduce rising high school seniors to life at the university, while encouraging them to apply to UT.

Student mentors are a critical component to our program. They interact with participants and provide support for Colloquium activities. Most importantly, they have fun!

You may learn more about the position and application here:  http://bit.ly/hcmentor2012e

All materials must be submitted by 5 p.m. Thursday, March 29, 2012. 

 We look forward to working with you this summer!

*Reminder* LAH Writing Fellow Applications Due Friday, March 23

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Want to be a LAH Writing Fellow?

(past Writing Fellows also need to apply)

Please put in writing:

“What you think a good Writing Fellow does and what a student needs from a good tutor” If you have been a Writing Fellow in the past, please give some of your specific examples.

Please turn your Application in by Friday, March 23, 2012 in the LAH office.

Questions? Please email Stacey or Linda.

Volunteer with PROJECT REACH OUT

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Join Project Reach Out for its biannual day of community service. Students can volunteer in groups or as individuals at local non-profit agencies around the Austin community.

All volunteers receive a FREE t-shirt and breakfast!!

***Rides will not be provided***

Saturday March 24, 2012

Shifts vary from 9am-3pm

Check-in at the Student Services Building (SSB)

Registration is open through Friday March 23 at www.utpro.wordpress.com

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/385120621515358/

Questions: svbprojectreachout@gmail.com