Past Events

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

Social Media and Free Speech

Wednesday May 2, 2018⋅12:00 PM

Texas Union, Santa Rita Room (UNB 3.502)

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

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

Silent Conversations: An ASL/Deaf Awareness Event

Wednesday April 18, 2018⋅7:00 PM

CLA Glickman Center 1.302

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

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

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

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

Black Central America Conference

Friday April 13, 2018⋅2:00 PM

PCL Learning Labs 2

Sruti: Technology as Inspiration

Thursday April 12, 2018⋅3:30 PM

Meyerson Conference Room (WCH 4.118), UT Austin Campus

Poetry Reading with Award-Winning Poet Dr. Laura Tohe

Thursday April 12, 2018⋅3:30 PM

UNB 2.102

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

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

An Inter-American Approach to the Problems of Injustice

Monday April 2, 2018⋅4:00 PM

GWB 2.206

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

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)

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

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

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)

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

Wednesday March 7, 2018⋅2:00 PM

GAR 4.100

The New Social Subject as Transgender: Woman as Revolutionary Man

Wednesday March 7, 2018⋅4:00 PM

LLILAS Benson Library

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

Does religion have a race?

Monday March 5, 2018⋅5:00 PM

WAG 403B

Act And Punishment Film Screening and Q&A with Director

Monday March 5, 2018⋅6:00 PM

CAL 100

Antisocial Media: How Facebook Disconnects People and Undermines Democracy

Monday March 5, 2018⋅7:00 PM

BMC 2.106

Explore UT

Saturday March 3, 2018⋅11:00 AM

UT Austin Campus

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

Friday March 2, 2018⋅10:00 AM

F. Loren Winship Drama Building

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

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

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

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

Wednesday February 28, 2018⋅4:00 PM

GWB 2.206

The Past, Present, and Future of Bioethics

Tuesday February 27, 2018⋅4:00 PM

Engineering Teaching Center 2.108

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

Friday February 23, 2018⋅12:00 PM

GAR 1.102

LAITS Events Series: Foreign Language Talk

Friday February 23, 2018⋅2:30 PM

Glickman Center (CLA 103.2E)

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

The Way She Saw It: Introducing Gauri Lankesh

Thursday February 22, 2018⋅3:30 PM

WCH 4.118

The Defamation Experience

Wednesday February 21, 2018⋅6:00 PM

Shirley Bird Perry Ballroom, Texas Union

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

IHS Panel Discussion: Karl Marx at 200

Tuesday February 20, 2018⋅3:30 PM

GAR 4.100

Guatemala 1966: The Photography of L. Rupert Chambers

Tuesday February 20, 2018⋅4:00 PM

Benson Latin American Collection, 1st floor gallery

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

Sunday February 18, 2018

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

Global Universities and Gender Equality

Friday February 16, 2018⋅2:00 PM

CLA 0.102

Flames of Feminism: A Conversation with Filmmaker Lizzie Borden

Friday February 16, 2018⋅3:30 PM

CMB Studio 4C

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

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

In the Wake: On Blackness and Being

Thursday February 15, 2018⋅3:00 PM

CLA 1.302B

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

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

Study Abroad Walk-In Sessions with Daniel Ach

Thursday February 8, 2018⋅1:00 PM

CREEES lounge, BUR 4th floor

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

An Introduction to Online Learning at UT

Friday January 26, 2018⋅2:30 PM

CLA 1.302E

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

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

Seminar Series: Srilata Raman

Thursday January 25, 2018⋅3:30 PM

Meyerson Conference Room (WCH 4.118), UT Austin Campus

We Crossed a Bridge and It Trembled: Voices from Syria

Thursday January 25, 2018⋅3:00 PM

SAC Blackbox Theater 2.304

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