Teaching English Abroad: Panel Presentation
Friday, April 22, 4:30-5:30pm
MEZ 2.124
Learn about Teaching ESL/EFL from a panel of professionals in the field.
Topics include: rewards and challenges of teaching English abroad, how to get a job,
what to know before you go, and how to get a CELTA certificate at UT-Austin.
Please RSVP at: https://utdirect.utexas.edu/apps/ugs/my/events/
All Majors Welcome!
The 2016-2017 General ISSS Financial Aid Award from the International Office provides up to $2,500/semester for the fall and spring, and up to $1,500 in the summer semester for eligible international students. Both graduate and undergraduate students are eligible for this award! More details are here: https://world.utexas.edu/isss/students/financial-aid/tpeg
Please spread the word to any interested international students you may work with/advise who qualify. Any questions regarding the award can be directed to me, Phuoc Bui, at p.bui@austin.utexas.edu.
Grab Your Crown & Come on Down: Julie Murphy on Dumplin’
Tuesday, May 3, 12:00-1:30pm
Glickman Conference Center, CLA 1.302E
Join us for a fireside chat with Julie Murphy, the #1 New York Times bestselling young adult author of Dumplin’ and Side Effects May Vary. We’ll talk body diversity and issues of representation in YA literature. A Q&A session and book signing will follow, and light refreshments will be provided. So grab your crown and come on down!
“Research for Historical Fiction” (part of UGS Research Week)
Friday, April 22, 2016, 3 p.m. in the Joynes Reading Room (CRD 007)
Three distinguished writers of historical fiction—Elizabeth Crook, Dominic Smith, and Karen Olsson—will discuss the research that helped them accurately and vividly depict the settings of their critically-acclaimed novels. Karen Olsson’s latest book, ALL THE HOUSES, is partly set in Washington DC during the Iran Contra Scandal. Dominic Smith’s latest book, THE LAST PAINTING OF SARA DE VOS, is set in 17th-century Holland. Elizabeth Crook’s latest book, MONDAY, MONDAY, is set at the University of Texas during the Charles Whitman shooting in 1966. The Joynes Room has a limited number of FREE BOOKS by each author, which we will give away in advance of the event. Books will be distributed on a first-come basis to honors students who inquire in person at the front desk of the Joynes Reading Room.
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Learn how to showcase the research you’ve done at UT to impress prospective employers and graduate schools. We’ll discuss the best ways to use both popular and scholarly social media platforms, explain UT Austin’s online archive and how you can submit your work, show you how to collect usage statistics on your work, and provide examples of how to incorporate your online research identity into your resume, CV, or online profile.
This workshop counts as a research communications workshop for the Research Training Certificate offered by the Office of Undergraduate Research.
Taught by UT librarian, Colleen Lyon
April 19, 3-4pm
PCL Learning Lab 2
PIVOTAL U.S. ELECTIONS: THEN & NOW
INAUGURAL FORUM
“The Election of 1860 and Its Contemporary Significance”
Join the UT College of Liberal Arts and Humanities Texas for an evening of discussion about citizenship, democracy, and pivotal presidential elections in American history. Expert faculty will analyze, through an interdisciplinary lens, the political forces, issues, and consequences of the election of 1860 as well as its parallels to subsequent elections and its relevance today.
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Tuesday, April 19, 2016
4:15–6:45 p.m. : Public forum
6:45–7:15 p.m. : Closing remarks and reception
@ Julius Glickman Conference Center (CLA 1.302E)
College of Liberal Arts Building
The University of Texas at Austin
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Participating scholars include Michael Les Benedict (The Ohio State University), Daniel Feller (University of Tennessee), Randall Fuller (University of Tulsa), Andrew Torget (University of North Texas), and Daina Ramey Berry, George B. Forgie, Jacqueline Jones, and Jeremi Suri from The University of Texas at Austin. The Honorable Thomas R. Phillips, former Chief Justice of the Texas Supreme Court, will serve as moderator.
Free and open to the public. First-time voters are encouraged to attend!
I wanted to reach out to you and let you know that ACE is hiring tutors to serve for the 2016-17 school year. This is a great opportunity for students who don’t know what they want to do after graduation but would like to gain professional experience and stay in Austin!
If you know of any students who are looking to commit to a year of service as they apply for grad school, a career in non-profits, education, or want to practice their Spanish, please feel free to send them my contact information and this video to help them learn more. They receive an education award of $5,775 that can go towards grad school or student federal loans.
Click here to read the tutor position description and click here to learn about our application process. To learn more about ACE and the life-changing experience they would have as a tutor, watch the ACE video or visit the ACE Blog to learn what tutors have to say about their experience.
PS. Several LAHers have participated in ACE and enjoyed the process.
“WITCHCRAFT IN THEIR LIPS”: A new play featuring the women of Shakespeare’s histories
The women of Shakespeare’s history plays tell their own stories in this new play, featuring an all-female cast that includes both UT undergraduates and Austin favorites. The words are all Shakespeare’s; the players are all women. Get to know Margaret, the cunning queen who dominates England; Joan of Arc, the legendary peasant warrior; Doll Tearsheet and Mistress Quickly, the lovable tavern wenches; and many more inspiring, indomitable, rule-defying women. This production is part of an honors thesis project to examine the unique roles that female characters play in the masculine-dominated worlds of the histories.
SATURDAY, APRIL 30, 8 PM
SUNDAY, MAY 1, 2 PM
THURSDAY, MAY 5, 8 PM *talkback featuring cast & crew
FRIDAY, MAY 6, 8 PM
SATURDAY, MAY 7, 8 PM
THURSDAY, MAY 12, 8 PM *talkback featuring UT professors
FRIDAY, MAY 13, 8 PM
SATURDAY, MAY 14, 2 PM & 8 PM
>>Find us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/577014129122272/
>>Tickets available at untamedshx.brownpapertickets.com
>>For more info visit untamedshx.wordpress.com
CAST INCLUDES
Rachel Abbott
Jennifer Rose Davis
Kendall DeBoer
Kristen Hall
Leanna Holmquist
Ehigbor Idonor
Renae Jackson
Lucy Junker
Maria Latiolas
Georgia McLeland
Becky Musser
Kenzie Stewart
CO-DIRECTED by Stephanie Donowho & Nell McKeown
PRODUCTION ASSISTANTS Elizabeth Hamm, Kate McLaughlin, Lily Pipkin, Mandy Whited
WITH SUPPORT FROM Foot in the Door, The Broccoli Project
Teaching English Abroad: Panel Presentation
Friday, April 22, 4:30-5:30pm
MEZ 2.124
Learn about Teaching ESL/EFL from a panel of professionals in the field.
Topics include: rewards and challenges of teaching English abroad, how to get a job,
what to know before you go, and how to get a CELTA certificate at UT-Austin.
All Majors Welcome!
On Thursday, April 7th, at 12:15pm in the Eastwoods Room at the Texas Union, the Clements Center for National Security will host Mary Beth Long, former Assistant Secretary of Defense, who will give a talk on the Middle East and Terrorist Financing, as part of the Women and National Security Speaker Series. Mary Beth Long is the first-ever Senate confirmed female Assistant Secretary of Defense and worked directly with Secretaries of Defense Rumsfeld and Gates on the Department’s highest priority issues. She represented the Secretary of Defense with his foreign counterparts, and at the National Security Council and the White House and was one of the Secretary’s key advisors. This event is co-hosted by the Strauss Center for International Security and Law and the Women in Foreign Affairs student organization.
On Monday, April 11th, at 12:15pm in the Bass Lecture Hall at the LBJ School, the Clements Center for National Security and the UT Alexander Hamilton Society are hosting Professor Colin Dueck of George Mason University and Dr. Josh Busby of UT for a lunchtime discussion on Obama’s Foreign Policy. Dr. Dueck will discuss his recently published book “The Obama Doctrine: American Grand Strategy Today.” Dr. Busby will challenge his assertions and look back at the President’s foreign policy successes and failures.
On Wednesday, April 13th, at 12:15pm in SRH 3.122 at the LBJ School, the Clements Center, Intelligence Studies Project, and the Strauss Center are pleased to welcome Dr. Gregory Treverton, Chairman of the National Intelligence Council and advisor to the Director of National Intelligence, to speak on “Thinking About Global Futures.” Dr. Treverton previously held several leadership positions at RAND, including director of the RAND Center for Global Risk and Security, director of the International Security and Defense Policy Center, and associate dean of the Pardee RAND Graduate School. His work at RAND has examined terrorism, intelligence and law enforcement, as well as new forms of public–private partnership.
On Tuesday, April 19th, at 12:15pm in the Eastwoods Room at the Texas Union, Clements Center for National Security will host Professor Daniel Sargent of the University of California, Berkeley for a talk titled “A Superpower Transforming: Power, Agency, and the Evolution of the Pax American.” This talk will assess key inflection points in the superpower career of the United States, especially the 1970s, and it will ask how American decision-makers have tried—and failed—to comprehend, corral, and command the forces that have transformed world politics since 1945.
On Thursday, April 20 at 5:15pm in Bass Lecture Hall at the LBJ School, the Clements Center for National Security and UT’s British Studies Program is pleased to welcome Dr. James Williams, Director of the National Churchill Museum, to give a talk on Winston Churchill’s Iron Curtain Speech.
And finally, on Monday, April 25th at 12:15pm in SRH 3.122 at the LBJ School, the Clements Center for National Security and the UT Alexander Hamilton Society are pleased to host Mr. Wess Mitchell, President of the Center for European Policy Analysis. Mr. Mitchell will be talking about his latest co-authored book titled “The Unquiet Front: Rising Rivals, Vulnerable Allies, and the Crisis of American Power.”