Hi Everyone,
We have two book related events coming up:
LAH Book Drive: https://www.facebook.com/events/548042192038620/
Inside Book Projects LAH Volunteering: https://www.facebook.com/events/910584419048875/
Career Services on the Go
Liberal Arts Students –
Do you need resume, internship or job search help but don’t have time to come to Liberal Arts Career Services? No problem, we’re coming to you.
We’ll be in the CLA from 12:00 – 1:00 PM on
- Tuesday, February 9
- Wednesday, February 10
- Thursday, February 11
Wondering how we can help you when you drop by?
- Bring your resume for a quick review
- Make plans for your summer internship search
- Get tips for your post-graduation career plans
- Learn about law school or grad school planning
See you there!
LIBERAL ARTS CAREER SERVICES
The University of Texas at Austin | 512-471-7900 | lacs@austin.utexas.edu | utexas.edu/cola/lacs/
Free Speech Essay Contest
Students must write on one of two questions, one concerning Freedom of Speech in relation to Religious Expression; the other, Freedom of Academic Speech.
On the Contest:
Essays must be between 1400-2500 words. The deadline for submissions is Monday, February 22nd, 2016.
First prize is $1500; second prize is $1000; third prize is $700. The first-prize essay will also be considered for possible publication in the College of Liberal Arts magazine, Life & Letters.
The contest is co-sponsored by the BB&T Chair for the Study of Objectivism and the Department of Philosophy. Complete details about rules and the specific essay questions are available at http://www.utexas.edu/cola/orgs/bbtobjectivism/essay-contest/
Questions? Contact Clair LaVaye at c.lavaye@utexas.edu
Thanks very much for your help in spreading the word.
Free Speech – Let’s talk about it …
The Liberal Arts Honors Study Abroad Scholarships
The Liberal Arts Honors Program will award scholarships in varying amounts to support LAH students and Humanities majors who will be studying abroad. An LAH student may apply for this scholarship by writing a one-page statement of his or her study abroad plans. The statement should include where and what the student will be studying, the projected cost involved, and the role that study abroad and the mastery of a foreign language plays in the student’s academic and career goals.
Now is the time to apply for Liberal Arts Honors Study Abroad Scholarships! Deadlines are: 5:00 pm March 1 for Fall and Summer.
Please submit your application online through the study abroad online scholarship application, Global Assist and select “Get Started”. The website will prompt you to set up an online profile and show you a list of scholarships which criteria you meet. If you are applying for a study abroad program not affiliated with UT, please enter program code 300999.
Both LAH students and Humanities majors are eligible to apply for the LAH Study Abroad scholarship. Please contact the LAH office with any questions.
Undergraduate research opportunity: From “Informants” to Intellectuals: Reframing Twentieth Century Nahua Participation in Academic Research
McDonough, Kelly – Spanish & Portuguese
Starting on: As soon as possible
Contact: kelly.mcdonough@austin.utexas.edu
This project studies the representation of Mexican indigenous “informants,” collaborators, and authors in their own right during the twentieth century in anthropological and linguistic research (specifically related to Nahua culture, Nahuas being native speakers of Nahuatl – language of the Aztecs and more than 1.5 million people today). For the majority of the twentieth century many of the indigenous people who provided the information for academic studies were seen as sources of raw data that the “intellectual” academician would then analyze and interpret. In reframing indigenous peoples as intellectuals in their own right, I argue for an expanded understanding of indigenous intellectualism addresses both the tensions and complementary nature of oral and written modes of creating and transmitting oral and written indigenous knowledges. At the same time, with this approach as example, I advocate for a return to early twentieth-century anthropological and linguistic studies in order to tease out and recover voices of indigenous intellectuals that can and should inform contemporary studies of Nahua culture.
Research assistants will identify linguistic and anthropological studies on/with Nahua people in the 20th century in pertinent journals; download and code essays for general topics; assess how the indigenous person who provided the source material (usually called an informant or collaborator, but sometimes author) is recognized in the essays.
Qualifications:
Required: Advanced proficiency in Spanish; knowledge of Word and Excel; basic research skills.
Preferred: Interest in Indigenous Studies
Time Commitment: Negotiable, usually 4-5 hours per week, less during midterms and finals
Duration: 2-4 months; research team meets one hour every other week
Compensation: Credit in the acknowledgments of the completed article
The sponsor of this project is available for meetings every other week
For more information please contact Kelly McDonough at kelly.mcdonough@austin.utexas.edu
The Americas Project: Spring 2016 Events
We’re writing to extend a warm invitation to the spring events of The Americas Project (TAP).
Leonard Cassuto, Professor of American Literature at Fordham University, will visit as a special guest of TAP and give a lecture on Thursday, February 18 at 4:30 PM in CLA 1.302E. Cassuto is an expert on both crime fiction and academic culture. In addition to Hard-Boiled Sentimentality: The Secret History of American Crime Stories (Columbia, 2008), Cassuto edited The Cambridge History of the American Novel (2011) and The Cambridge Companion to Baseball (2011). Last fall, he published The Graduate School Mess: What Caused It and How We Can Fix It (Harvard, 2015). In it, he observes that “to pursue a professorship at the expense of all other options can hardly be called rational” and argues for a much more student-centered graduate education.
Rebecca Walkowitz, Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the English Department at Rutgers University and current President of the Modernist Studies Association, will join us for the TAP Distinguished Lecture Series on Friday, April 1 at 4:00 PM in CLA 1.302E. Walkowitz has published Cosmopolitan Style: Modernism Beyond the Nation (2006) and, late last year, Born Translated: The Contemporary Novel in an Age of World Literature, in which she argues, “Like born-digital literature, which is made on or for the computer, born-translated literature approaches translation as medium and origin rather than as afterthought.” Walkowitz’s visit is co-sponsored by the Program in Comparative Literature.
Finally, Matthew Taylor, Associate Professor in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, will give a second TAP Distinguished Lecture on April 22 at 4:30 PM in CLA 1.302E. Taylor’s Universes without Us: Posthuman Cosmologies in American Literature (Minnesota, 2013) situates Edgar Allan Poe, Henry Adams, Charles Chesnutt, and Zora Neale Hurston in an alternative posthumanist tradition in which “both our separation from the universe and our identity with it are exposed as fantasies.” Taylor’s visit is co-sponsored by TILTS: Environmental Humanities.
Great discussion groups for students! (Women of Color, Queer Students, Asian American Students, International Students)
These are discussion groups that CMHC’s Diversity Coordinators are offering for students. These are not clinical groups, so you don’t have to be clients to attend. You can drop in and attend as often as they’d like.
Discussion group offerings include:
Queer Voices
Women of Color Discussion Group
Asian American Voice
International Student Discussion Group
See the attached flyer for more info. There is a Voice_3 Groups_FLYER
Deadline Feb. 5: COLA Digital Storytelling Workshop
The application deadline is Friday, February 5th!
The College of Liberal Arts Digital Storytelling Seminar Application
Liberal Arts is offering a free 12-week seminar focused on five video projects written, directed, produced, and edited by Liberal Arts undergraduates. Participants will relive and retell some of their most memorable, compelling, tragic, and ecstatic college moments, while receiving hands-on experience in
· Screenwriting and Storytelling
· Cinematography
· Editing
· Graphic Effects
· Careers in Digital Video Production
This is an introductory digital storytelling, film, and media production workshop with group productions of short films using high-definition video.
Participants will be provided with access to equipment, training, software, and direct support from working professionals in video production. Guest lecturers from the Austin film industry will instruct each seminar. These workshops will guide participants through the creation of their own digital story.
Students must commit to attending workshops that will be held on campus
February 15 – May 31, 2016
Mondays from 5 – 7:30 PM
Productions have potential to continue into summer 2016
The deadline to apply is Friday, February 5, by 5pm. Seats are limited!
To apply please visit colaclips.com and fill out the application.
REQUIREMENTS
This seminar is restricted to Liberal Arts undergraduates.
The seminar is collaborative, and will result in the production of up to five short films that will be showcased online and at campus events in the fall of 2016. Participants will co-own the work with the University and be able to use it in the future for their own portfolios and creative purposes. The University reserves the right to also use the material created for educational and promotional purposes.
Limited to no more than 20 students.
QUESTIONS?
Mystie Pineda, Radio TV Film Specialist IV| College of Liberal Arts | The University of Texas at Austin mystiepineda@austin.utexas.edu 512-471-3720
Friday deadline to submit papers for publication & $200 prize to URJ
The University of Texas at Austin Undergraduate Research Journal deadline to submit papers for publication is this Friday, February 5th. Papers may be the products of classes, independent study, supervised research, honors theses, and they can be of any discipline or subject.
Papers will be reviewed by University of Texas faculty of the appropriate field, and accepted papers will be published in print as well as online on our website. The author of the winning article among those published will be selected to receive a $200 prize, and a runner-up will receive a $100 prize.
More information and submission guidelines are available at http://texasurj.com/submit/. Submissions are reviewed on a rolling basis, so we encourage you to submit your paper as early as possible. You may also view previously published articles at http://texasurj.com/archive/.
Feel free to contact Patrick Haley at editor.in.chief@texasurj.com for any questions you may have.
Best,
The Texas Undergraduate Research Journal Staff
Harry Ransom Center spring events
FEBRUARY
Event Title
Artist Talk with Penelope Umbrico
Event Date and Time
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 2016, 7 p.m.
Event Cost/Admission
free and open to the public
Description
Penelope Umbrico’s groundbreaking photo-based installations, video, and digital media works explore the rapidly evolving technologies of image making and the proliferation of images online. Umbrico discusses her use of photo-sharing and consumer websites as an expansive archive as she navigates between producer and consumer. Umbrico’s work is featured in the current exhibition Look Inside: New Photography Acquisitions.
Location
Harry Ransom Center
The University of Texas at Austin
300 West 21st Street
Austin, Texas 78712
URL
http://www.hrc.utexas.edu
Phone
512-471-8944
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Event Title
Shakespeare in Print and Performance Curator Tour
Event Date and Time
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 2016, 7 p.m.
*Free tickets will be available at the visitor desk starting at 6 p.m. (if asked in ticket info section)
Event Cost/Admission
free and open to the public
Description
Pforzheimer Curator of Early Books and Manuscripts Gerald Cloud and Cline Curator of Theater and Performing Arts Eric Colleary offer unique insight into the exhibition Shakespeare in Print and Performance. Capacity is limited. Free tickets will be available at the visitor desk starting at 6 p.m.
Location
Harry Ransom Center
The University of Texas at Austin
300 West 21st Street
Austin, Texas 78712
URL
http://www.hrc.utexas.edu
Phone
512-471-8944
MARCH
Event Title
Discussion with Bob Woodward and Alexander Butterfield
Event Date and Time
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 2, 2016, 6 P.M.
Event Cost/Admission
free and open to the public
Description
Bob Woodward and Alexander Butterfield, deputy to White House Chief of Staff H. R. Haldeman, discuss Woodward’s new book The Last of the President’s Men and Butterfield’s experiences in the Nixon White House. Mark Updegrove, Director of the LBJ Library, moderates the conversation. The Woodward and Bernstein Watergate papers reside at the Ransom Center. Tickets required. Ticket information will be posted to www.hrc.utexas.edu/events.
Location
LBJ LIBRARY AUDITORIUM
The University of Texas at Austin
2300 Red River St.
Austin, Texas 78712
URL
www.hrc.utexas.edu/events
Phone
512-471-8944
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Event Title
Poetry on the Plaza: Sonnets of Shakespeare
Event Date and Time
THURSDAY, MARCH 3, 2016, 4 p.m.
Event Cost/Admission
free and open to the public
Description
Join us for a late afternoon reading of Shakespeare’s sonnets and visit the exhibition, Shakespeare in Print and Performance. In conjunction with the Ransom Center’s exhibition Shakespeare in Print and Performance (through May 29, 2016).
Location
Harry Ransom Center
The University of Texas at Austin
300 West 21st Street
Austin, Texas 78712
URL
www.hrc.utexas.edu
Phone
512-471-8944
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Event Title
Curator Tour: Look Inside: New Photography Acquisitions
Event Date and Time
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 9, 2016, 7 P.M.
Event Cost/Admission
free and open to the public
Description
Jessica S. McDonald, Nancy Inman and Marlene Nathan Meyerson Curator of Photography, leads a tour of Look Inside: New Photography Acquisitions.
Location
Harry Ransom Center
The University of Texas at Austin
300 West 21st Street
Austin, Texas 78712
URL
www.hrc.utexas.edu
Phone
512-471-8944
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Event Title
Lecture with Austin Symphony Music Director Peter Bay
Event Date and Time
THURSDAY MARCH 24, 2016, 7 P.M.
Event Cost/Admission
free and open to the public
Description
Austin Symphony Music Director Peter Bay explores the connections between Shakespeare and classical music and looks at different interpretations of Romeo and Juliet, including works by Tchaikovsky, Berlioz, and Prokofiev as well as Leonard Bernstein’s reimagining, West Side Story. In conjunction with the Ransom Center’s exhibition Shakespeare in Print and Performance(through May 29, 2016).
Location
Harry Ransom Center
The University of Texas at Austin
300 West 21st Street
Austin, Texas 78712
URL
www.hrc.utexas.edu
Phone
512-471-8944
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Event Title
Lecture: New insights into Shakespeare’s life and career
Event Date and Time
TUESDAY, MARCH 29, 2016, 4 P.M.
Event Cost/Admission
free and open to the public
Description
Faculty lecture: Douglas S. Bruster, Mody C. Boatright Regents Professor of American and English Literature, discusses some of the most recent discoveries concerning the life and career of Shakespeare, including Shakespeare’s work as a collaborator on a variety of plays and poems. In conjunction with the Ransom Center’s exhibition Shakespeare in Print and Performance (through May 29, 2016).
Location
Harry Ransom Center
The University of Texas at Austin
300 West 21st Street
Austin, Texas 78712
URL
www.hrc.utexas.edu
Phone
512-471-8944
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Event Title
Artist Talk with Marco Breuer
Event Date and Time
THURSDAY, MARCH 31, 2016, 7 P.M.
Event Cost/Admission
free and open to the public
Description
ARTIST TALK Marco Breuer is known for his radical approach to the photographic medium, employing non-traditional photographic techniques that do not rely on the use of a camera, aperture, or film. He discusses the conventions of the medium and his deliberate misuse of its fundamental materials. Breuer’s work is featured in the current exhibition Look Inside: New Photography Acquisitions.
Location
Harry Ransom Center
The University of Texas at Austin
300 West 21st Street
Austin, Texas 78712
URL
www.hrc.utexas.edu
Phone
512-471-8944
APRIL
Event Title
Staged reading of Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra
Event Date and Time
THURSDAY, APRIL 7, 2016, 7 PM
Event Cost/Admission
free and open to the public
Description
Nationally renowned classical actors Fran Dorn and Robert Ramirez from the University’s Department of Theatre and Dance perform in a staged reading ofAntony and Cleopatra. The reading, produced by the Oscar G. Brockett Center for Theatre History and Criticism, also features professional artists from the Austin community. Afterward, enjoy a conversation with the actors about performing Shakespeare.
Location
Harry Ransom Center
The University of Texas at Austin
300 West 21st Street
Austin, Texas 78712
URL
http://www.hrc.utexas.edu
Phone
512-471-8944
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Event Title
Author Nigel Cliff on the Shakespeare Riots
Event Date and Time
THURSDAY, APRIL 14, 2016, 7 PM
Event Cost/Admission
free and open to the public
Description
Nigel Cliff, author of The Shakespeare Riots, discusses the 1849 feud between England’s leading Shakespearean actor and American’s first star of the stage that turned into a full-scale riot in New York. With Bardolatry at its height, the struggle centered on the question of who “owned” Shakespeare.
Location
Harry Ransom Center
The University of Texas at Austin
300 West 21st Street
Austin, Texas 78712
URL
http://www.hrc.utexas.edu
Phone
512-471-8944
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Event Title
Exploring Shakespeare through Performance
Event Date and Time
TUESDAY, APRIL 19, 2016, 4 PM
Event Cost/Admission
free and open to the public
Description
James Loehlin, Shakespeare at Winedale Regents Professor of English, presents “Exploring Shakespeare Through Performance.” Loehlin and students from the Shakespeare at Winedale program highlight the complexity of the Shakespearean text and the interpretive options it provides.
Location
Harry Ransom Center
The University of Texas at Austin
300 West 21st Street
Austin, Texas 78712
URL
http://www.hrc.utexas.edu
Phone
512-471-8944
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Event Title
The Influence of Folio and Quarto Texts on Performances of Shakespeare
Event Date and Time
TUESDAY, APRIL 26, 2016, 4 PM
Event Cost/Admission
free and open to the public
Description
Andrew Carlson, Clinical Assistant Professor and Managing Director of the Oscar G. Brockett Center for Theatre History and Criticism, discusses how textual differences between folio and quarto texts of Shakespeare influence performance choices. The presentation includes a performance of two interpretations of the same Shakespeare scene.
Location
Harry Ransom Center
The University of Texas at Austin
300 West 21st Street
Austin, Texas 78712
URL
http://www.hrc.utexas.edu
Phone
512-471-8944