Past Events

Theorizing Espionage as a Mode of Modernist Selfhood

Friday September 21, 2018⋅12:00 PM

GAR 1.102

Crisis from the Ashes: Brazil’s Museu Nacional and the Loss of Cultural Heritage

Friday September 21, 2018⋅12:00 PM

Benson Latin American Collection, 2nd floor

Performing Blackness Series

Friday September 21, 2018⋅1:00 PM

RLP 1.302B

Building UT’s Popular and Pulp Fiction Collection

Thursday September 20, 2018⋅3:30 PM

Meyerson Conference Room (WCH 4.118)

Diaspora Talk Series: Reclaiming Physical and Imaginative Space

Wednesday September 19, 2018⋅6:00 PM

GWB, 2.206

Heritage for Sale? Reimagining Hispanic Heritage Month

Tuesday September 18, 2018⋅6:00 PM

Gordon-White Building, 2.206

Patton Hall Dedication

Friday September 14, 2018⋅10:30 AM

Patton Hall North Entrance (Formerly CLA Building)

Remaking Black Power: How Black Women Transformed an Era

Thursday September 13, 2018⋅3:30 PM

GAR 4.100

Archer Fellowship Program Information Session

Thursday September 13, 2018⋅4:00 PM

Liberal Arts Building (CLA), 1.106

Structural Racism? German Authorities and the Serial Killings of Immigrants in the 2000s

Thursday September 13, 2018⋅2:00 PM

RLP 1.302B

Prohibition and Federalism: From Alcohol in the 1920s to Marijuana Today

Thursday September 13, 2018⋅4:00 PM

MEZ 1.306

UT Study Abroad Fair

Wednesday September 12, 2018⋅10:00 AM

Gregory Gym Plaza

Controversy & Conversation Film Screening: Do Not Resist

Thursday September 6, 2018⋅6:30 PM

Terrazas Branch, Austin Public Library

Dawoud Bey: Forty Years in Harlem

Wednesday August 29, 2018⋅12:00 PM

The Christian-Green Gallery, 201 East 21st Street, Austin, Texas

Controversy & Conversation Film Screening: Vessel

Thursday August 2, 2018⋅6:30 PM

Terrazas Branch, Austin Public Library

Controversy & Conversation Film Screening: Documented

Thursday July 5, 2018⋅6:30 PM

Terrazas Branch, Austin Public Library

Summer Institute for Teachers: Critical Literacy & Language in Diverse 21st Century Classrooms

Thursday June 21, 2018⋅9:00 AM

MALS Graduate Portfolio Plática: Rose G. Salseda

Wednesday June 20, 2018⋅3:00 PM

Gordon-White Building Multi-Purpose Room | GWB 2.206 | The University of Texas at Austin

UTeach-Liberal Arts Information Session

Tuesday June 19, 2018⋅4:00 PM

UTC 4.104

Pola Negri: Life of a Star – Film Screening & Discussion w/ Director

Sunday June 17, 2018⋅6:00 PM

SHDW Studios 4709 Red Bluff Rd Suite A, Austin, TX 78702

Spanish Heritage Language Workshop

Thursday June 7, 2018⋅1:30 PM

The University of Texas at Austin

Controversy & Conversation Film Screening: Trashed

Thursday June 7, 2018⋅6:30 PM

Terrazas Branch, Austin Public Library, 1005 E. Cesar Chavez St., Austin, TX 78702

UTeach-Liberal Arts Information Session

Tuesday June 5, 2018⋅4:00 PM

UTC 4.104

Summer Teachers' Institute 2018: "Windows into Other Times and Places: Explore a World of Art and Performance"

Tuesday June 5, 2018

UT Campus - TBD

Structural Competency, Five Years On: Tracking a New Medical Approach to Stigma and Inequality

Wednesday May 30, 2018⋅12:00 PM

Health Discovery Building Auditorium

Precision Imaging of Individual Human Brains

Wednesday May 30, 2018⋅3:30 PM

SEA 3.250

2018 Health & Humanities Pop-Up Institute Public Symposium

Wednesday May 30, 2018⋅8:00 AM

Health Discovery Building Auditorium

Putting Stories to Work: Why and How Sharing Stories Promotes Health

Monday May 21, 2018⋅12:00 PM

Blanton Museum of Art Auditorium

Annie Brewster, "Putting Stories to Work: Why and How Sharing Stories Promotes Health"

Monday May 21, 2018⋅12:00 PM

Blanton Museum of Art Auditorium

Expressive Writing and Health: How Putting Upheavals into Words Can Affect Our Thoughts, Feelings, and Behaviors

Wednesday May 16, 2018⋅12:00 PM

CLA 1.302B, 305 E. 23rd St., Austin, TX 78712

Are We Still Worlds Apart?: Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Kidney Transplantation

Wednesday May 9, 2018⋅12:00 PM

CLA 1.302B, 305 E. 23rd St., Austin, TX 78712

Black Women in the Age of #MeToo Keynote

Friday May 4, 2018⋅6:00 PM

Lady Bird Auditorium 2313 Red River Street, Austin, Tx 78705

Notes on Sugar: A conversation with the Neon Queen Collective

Thursday May 3, 2018⋅3:00 PM

Christian-Green Gallery: Beauford H. Jester Center (A232A)

Private Violence Film Screening and Discussion

Thursday May 3, 2018⋅6:30 PM

Terrazas Branch, Austin Public Library, 1005 E. Cesar Chavez St., Austin, TX 78702

Why Did We Starve? The Great Leap Forward as Propaganda and Collective Memory in Maoist China

Wednesday May 2, 2018⋅3:00 PM

GAR 4.100

Social Media and Free Speech

Wednesday May 2, 2018⋅12:00 PM

Texas Union, Santa Rita Room (UNB 3.502)

Migration: Discipline and Displacement

Friday April 27, 2018

CLA 1.302B

Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Friday April 27, 2018⋅7:00 PM

Winedale Historical Center | 3738 FM 2714 Round Top, Texas 78954

Mabel, Mabel Tiger Trainer Screening and Q&A

Thursday April 26, 2018⋅7:00 PM

Prothro Theater, Harry Ransom Center, 300 W 21st St, Austin, TX 78712

Deported Women: The Plight of Individuals and Families Returning to Mexico

Monday April 23, 2018⋅4:00 PM

Benson Latin American Collection, 2nd floor conference room

Language in Society: Culture, Space, and Identity

Friday April 20, 2018

University of Texas at Austin

Elephants, Kings and the Environment

Thursday April 19, 2018⋅3:30 PM

Meyerson Conference Room (WCH 4.118), UT Austin Campus

Rethinking Sovereignty in the Face of Crisis: Lessons from the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party

Wednesday April 18, 2018⋅12:15 PM

Hackett Room, SRH 1.313

Silent Conversations: An ASL/Deaf Awareness Event

Wednesday April 18, 2018⋅7:00 PM

CLA Glickman Center 1.302

Getting Housed: De Facto Segregation, Rapid Population Growth, and Housing Stability in Austin

Tuesday April 17, 2018⋅4:00 PM

Gordon White Building Multi-Purpose Room 2.206

Tropical Riffs: Latin America and the Politics of Jazz

Monday April 16, 2018⋅12:00 PM

Benson Latin American Collection, 2nd floor conference room

Before Photography: German Visual Culture in the Nineteenth Century

Friday April 13, 2018

Friday : Burdine Hall, 214 / Saturday and Sunday: AT&T Center, Classroom 103

Author Jane Mayer Talk and Q&A

Friday April 13, 2018⋅10:00 AM

AT&T Center, 204 Amphitheater (M2 Level), 1900 University Ave, Austin, TX 78705

Black Central America Conference

Friday April 13, 2018⋅2:00 PM

PCL Learning Labs 2

Poetry Reading with Award-Winning Poet Dr. Laura Tohe

Thursday April 12, 2018⋅3:30 PM

UNB 2.102

Sruti: Technology as Inspiration

Thursday April 12, 2018⋅3:30 PM

Meyerson Conference Room (WCH 4.118), UT Austin Campus

Apollo in the Age of Aquarius: How Grassroots Politics Grounded the Space Race

Wednesday April 11, 2018⋅12:00 PM

CLA 1.302B

The Memory Palace Podcast Creator Nate DiMeo Lecture

Tuesday April 10, 2018⋅6:00 PM

Harry Ransom Center

13th Annual Yoruba Day Celebration: Dancing with the Deities

Friday April 6, 2018⋅12:30 PM

Gordon-White Building (Multipurpose Room, 2nd Floor), 210 W 24th St, Austin, Texas 78705

Questionable Content: The Banned Books of Ana Castillo and Carmen Tafolla

Thursday April 5, 2018⋅7:00 PM

Main Reading Room, Benson Latin American Collection

Questionable Content: The Banned Books of Ana Castillo and Carmen Tafolla

Thursday April 5, 2018⋅7:00 PM

Benson Latin American Collection, Main Reading Room, 2300 Red River Street, The University of Texas at Austin

Afrofutures of Black Panther: A Roundtable Discussion

Wednesday April 4, 2018⋅4:30 PM

An Inter-American Approach to the Problems of Injustice

Monday April 2, 2018⋅4:00 PM

GWB 2.206

Distinguished Lecture: Dr. Gregory Fernando Pappas

Monday April 2, 2018⋅4:00 PM

Gordon-White Building Multi-Purpose Room | GWB 2.206 | The University of Texas at Austin

Born That Way: The Search for a "Gay Gene" amid the U.S. Culture Wars

Friday March 30, 2018⋅12:00 PM

WAG 316 (the Philosophy conference room)

Welfare State and Transitional Justice: Thinking Through Trouillot's and Yoneyama’s Discussions

Friday March 30, 2018⋅3:30 PM

Meyerson Conference Room (WCH 4.118), UT Austin Campus

River Ganga and the Crucible of Empires: Warfare, Spoliation and the Making of a Political Icon

Thursday March 29, 2018⋅3:30 PM

Meyerson Conference Room (WCH 4.118), UT Austin Campus

As We Saw It: The Story of Integration at the University of Texas at Austin

Thursday March 29, 2018⋅6:00 PM

Bass Lecture Hall

Landscape, Climate and Aquatic Carbon: do Lakes Matter for the Terrestrial carbon cycle?

Monday March 26, 2018⋅12:00 PM

CLA 1.302B

Miss Representation: The Portrayal of Women in Iranian Literature

Friday March 23, 2018⋅12:00 PM

GAR 1.102

Arlitt Lecture in Economics

Tuesday March 20, 2018⋅3:30 PM

SAC Auditorium 1.402

Choreographic Casualties: West African Dance and the Texture of Loss

Monday March 19, 2018⋅3:00 PM

GWB 2.206

Ukrainian Band Antytila to perform at SXSW

Wednesday March 14, 2018⋅8:00 PM

Sheraton BackYARD, 10th and Red River

Global Science and the Bioeconomics of Fisheries Management in Peru, 1970–72

Friday March 9, 2018⋅12:00 PM

WAG 316 (the Philosophy conference room)

Certain (Wo)men the English Shot: Cathleen ni Houlihan in the Centenary Commemorations of Ireland’s 1916 Rising

Friday March 9, 2018⋅12:00 PM

GAR 1.102

LLILAS Faculty Book Talk: "Latin America in the Modern World"

Wednesday March 7, 2018⋅12:15 PM

2nd Floor Conference Room, Benson Latin American Collection

The New Social Subject as Transgender: Woman as Revolutionary Man

Wednesday March 7, 2018⋅4:00 PM

LLILAS Benson Library

Come out to the Indian Country: Slavery and Migration in the Antebellum Southwest

Wednesday March 7, 2018⋅2:00 PM

GAR 4.100

Antisocial Media: How Facebook Disconnects People and Undermines Democracy

Monday March 5, 2018⋅7:00 PM

BMC 2.106

Act And Punishment Film Screening and Q&A with Director

Monday March 5, 2018⋅6:00 PM

CAL 100

Does religion have a race?

Monday March 5, 2018⋅5:00 PM

WAG 403B

Explore UT

Saturday March 3, 2018⋅11:00 AM

UT Austin Campus

Conceiving American Families in the 21st Century: Reproductive Policies, Practices and Technologies

Friday March 2, 2018⋅9:00 AM

DoubleTree Hotel, 1617 North Interstate 35, Austin, TX 78702

Late Capitalism and Toxic Masculinities: A Symposium on Power, Gender and Performativity

Friday March 2, 2018⋅10:00 AM

F. Loren Winship Drama Building

Adil Najam on Climate Change in South Asia: Living in the Age of Adaptation

Friday March 2, 2018⋅12:15 PM

SRH 3.122

Controversy & Conversation Film Screening: Meth Storm

Thursday March 1, 2018⋅6:30 PM

Terrazas Branch, Austin Public Library

Tracing Routes and Roots of Immigrant Rights Activism in the 20th Century

Wednesday February 28, 2018⋅4:00 PM

GWB 2.206

The American Shakespeare Center performs Macbeth on UT Campus

Wednesday February 28, 2018⋅7:00 PM

Hogg Memorial Auditorium

A Family Affair: Jacolby Satterwhite's Queer Utopics

Wednesday February 28, 2018⋅12:00 PM

Gordon White Building (GWB) Multipurpose Room, 2.206

The Past, Present, and Future of Bioethics

Tuesday February 27, 2018⋅4:00 PM

Engineering Teaching Center 2.108

2018 Lozano Long Conference: Create, Consume, Collect: The Lives of Colonial Latin American Artifacts

Friday February 23, 2018⋅9:00 AM

Benson Latin American Collection, 2nd Floor

LAITS Events Series: Foreign Language Talk

Friday February 23, 2018⋅2:30 PM

Glickman Center (CLA 103.2E)

Finding Sex and Gender in the (History of Science) Archive

Friday February 23, 2018⋅12:00 PM

GAR 1.102

The Way She Saw It: Introducing Gauri Lankesh

Thursday February 22, 2018⋅3:30 PM

WCH 4.118

Create, Consume, Collect: Past and Modern Lives of Spanish American Artifacts

Wednesday February 21, 2018⋅5:00 PM

the Blanton Museum of Art, 200 E. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd

The Defamation Experience

Wednesday February 21, 2018⋅6:00 PM

Shirley Bird Perry Ballroom, Texas Union

Guatemala 1966: The Photography of L. Rupert Chambers

Tuesday February 20, 2018⋅4:00 PM

Benson Latin American Collection, 1st floor gallery

IHS Panel Discussion: Karl Marx at 200

Tuesday February 20, 2018⋅3:30 PM

GAR 4.100

Judaism and Mental Health: Psychotherapy, Neuroscience, and the Spiritual Life

Sunday February 18, 2018

AT&T Conference Center/Glickman Conference Center, CLA-UT Campus

Place Naming as Doing or Denying Justice: The Unfinished Memory-Work of Anti-Racism Within the University Campus Landscape

Friday February 16, 2018⋅3:00 PM

CLA 0.128

Flames of Feminism: A Conversation with Filmmaker Lizzie Borden

Friday February 16, 2018⋅3:30 PM

CMB Studio 4C

Global Universities and Gender Equality

Friday February 16, 2018⋅2:00 PM

CLA 0.102

In the Wake: On Blackness and Being

Thursday February 15, 2018⋅3:00 PM

CLA 1.302B

Lecture: Escritura y autofiguración en los diarios de María Luisa Puga

Thursday February 15, 2018⋅4:00 PM

2nd Floor Conference Room, Benson Latin American Collection, SRH Unit 1

Allies, Empires, and Peace Treaties: A Look Back at the War to End All Wars

Saturday February 10, 2018⋅9:00 AM

San Jacinto Residence Hall and Meeting Center, UT Austin Campus

Gender in Latin America, a Panel Discussion

Friday February 9, 2018⋅1:00 PM

GAR 4.100

American Tropics: The Caribbean Roots of Biodiversity Science

Thursday February 8, 2018⋅3:30 PM

GAR 4.100

Study Abroad Walk-In Sessions with Daniel Ach

Thursday February 8, 2018⋅1:00 PM

CREEES lounge, BUR 4th floor

Gallery Opening and Reception SEEN and UNSEEN: A Sunday Afternoon in Clarksville

Thursday February 8, 2018⋅5:30 PM

The IDEA Lab, Gordon-White Building (GWB) 2.204

Humanities Institute 2018 Symposium: Health, Well-Being, and Healing

Friday February 2, 2018⋅8:00 AM

UNB 3.304 (Quadrangle Room)

Keynote Lecture: The Social Life of DNA by Alondra Nelson

Thursday February 1, 2018⋅7:00 PM

POB 2.302 (Avaya Auditorium)

The LBJ Dean’s Distinguished Leaders Series: Ambassador of France to the United States Gérard Araud

Wednesday January 31, 2018⋅12:15 PM

Bass Lecture Hall

The LBJ Dean’s Distinguished Leaders Series: U.S. Army Lieutenant General Sean MacFarland

Tuesday January 30, 2018⋅12:15 PM

Bass Lecture Hall

Geographies of Sin: Sex Work and Protest in World War I Egypt

Friday January 26, 2018⋅12:00 PM

GAR 1.102

#BLACKREPRESENTS - A Conversation with Paterson Joseph and Lisa B. Thompson

Friday January 26, 2018

GWB 2.206

An Introduction to Online Learning at UT

Friday January 26, 2018⋅2:30 PM

CLA 1.302E

Colloquium: Dr. Mark Brenner, "Environmental History of the Yucatan Peninsula"

Friday January 26, 2018⋅3:00 PM

CLA 0.128

"Queer Camaraderie" LGBTQ Studies Symposium (January 25-26th, 2018)

Thursday January 25, 2018⋅6:00 PM

CLA 1.302B

We Crossed a Bridge and It Trembled: Voices from Syria

Thursday January 25, 2018⋅3:00 PM

SAC Blackbox Theater 2.304

Seminar Series: Srilata Raman

Thursday January 25, 2018⋅3:30 PM

Meyerson Conference Room (WCH 4.118), UT Austin Campus

IHS Workshop: “'not a strangr nor a foriner': Indians, the British Empire, and the Law in the Early Southeast”

Wednesday January 24, 2018⋅3:00 PM

GAR 4.100

Film: "A Better Life," introduced by Alberto García Maldonado

Tuesday January 23, 2018⋅7:00 PM

CLA 1.302B

Layers of Contact: Explorers, Geologists, and the Creation of a Racialized Landscape on the Colorado Plateau

Monday January 22, 2018⋅12:00 PM

GAR 4.100

Job Talk: Embrey Professorship in Women’s & Gender Studies

Friday January 19, 2018⋅12:00 PM

GWB 2.206

Conference: The Early-Modern Catholic Invention of “Oriental” “Religions”

Friday January 19, 2018⋅9:30 AM

GAR 1.102

Shades of Gray Film Screening: High Wall (1947)

Wednesday January 17, 2018⋅6:30 PM

HLB 1.111

Spring Classes Begin

Tuesday January 16, 2018

Campuswide

Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday (Campus Closed)

Monday January 15, 2018

Universitywide

Annual MLK March & Festival

Monday January 15, 2018⋅9:00 AM

MLK Statue on UT Campus (23rd street & Speedway)

SEEN & UNSEEN: A Sunday Afternoon in Clarksville

Monday January 15, 2018⋅1:00 PM

The IDEA Lab, Gordon-White Building (GWB) 2.204

#BLACKREPRESENTS: SEEN & UNSEEN: A Sunday Afternoon in Clarksville

Monday January 15, 2018⋅1:00 PM

The IDEA Lab, Gordon-White Building (GWB) 2.204

"Jewish Immigration to America Pre-Holocaust" - a talk by Dr. Robert Abzug

Friday January 12, 2018⋅5:30 PM

Congregation Beth Israel, 3901 Shoal Creek, Austin, TX 78756

Internship Boot Camp

Thursday January 11, 2018⋅1:00 PM

FAC 21