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Festival of Ideas Global Research Institute Schedule of Events
Event No. 1: “The Lost Generation: Globalization, Youth Culture, and Violence in Ciudad Juarez” September 28 - noon A graduate of UT Arlington, Dominic Bracco II now works as a photojournalist based in Mexico City. His collection of thirty photographs, “Life and Death in the Northern Pass,” present a poignant and moving portrait of Ciudad Juárez, a city that has been especially hard hit by Mexico’s drug wars. Bracco’s photographs have been exhibited in London and Washington D.C., and published in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, and Texas Monthly, among others. He has been honored with a Pictures of the Year International Award and received a grant from the Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting.
Event No. 2: “State of the State: OK Native Languages in the 21st Century” November 1 - 5 p.m. Curator of Native American language at the Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History, Dr. Linn earlier this year won a $48,000 National Science Foundation grant to study endangered native American languages. (Dr. Colleen Fitzgerald, associate professor and chairperson of UT Arlington's Department of Linguistics and TESOL, is a part of the team.) The grant will fund research associated with the Oklahoma Breath of Life workshop planned for next May in Norman, Okla. The program will reunite linguists with Native Americans who attended a similar workshop there last year.
Event No. 3: Euripides’ Iphigeneia in Taurus November 4 - 7 p.m. The Leonidas Loizidis Theater Group staged Aeschylus' Oresteia at UT Arlington in December 2010. Loizides is also slated to conduct a workshop on Greek drama for students and faculty in Theatre Arts. Event No. 4: The Seduction and Deception of Mozart February 24, 2012, 8 p.m. Scenes from several of Mozart’s operas, presented as a joint production of the Department of Theatre Arts and the Department of Music. Performances are February 24, 25, March 1, 2, 3 at 8 p.m.; March 4 at 2:30 p.m. Event No. 5: Animal Studies and Posthumanism March 30, 2012, Time TBA Speakers include Dr. Cary Wolfe (Bruce and Elizabeth Dunlevie Professor of English, Rice University), Dr. Greg Garrard (School of Humanities and Cultural Industries, Bath Spa University, U.K.), Dr. Peggy McCracken (Professor of French and Women's Studies and Associate Dean for Academic Initiatives at the Rackham Graduate School, University of Michigan) and Dr. Nicole Shukin (Nicole Shukin, Associate Professor of English at the University of Victoria, and Director of the interdisciplinary graduate program in Cultural, Social, and Political Thought.
The Festival of Ideas began in 2005 with a generous donation by UT Arlington alumnus Mustaque Ahmed (’81). In 2007, that support grew into an endowment to further strength the program’s ability to offer six events each year to the university academic community and the community at large. These events have included lectures by scholars in History, Linguistics, Middle Eastern Studies, Modern Languages, Philosophy, Political Science, and Physics; presentations by artists and writers about their creative work; and concerts and theatrical performances. “Mustaque Ahmed’s generous gift for the College of Liberal Arts’ Festival of Ideas Global Research Institute, as it supports a vibrant and illuminating program of events for everyone on our campus and in our community, enhances our faculty and student research in international cultures, histories, languages, literatures, and the arts,” said Dr. Beth Wright, Dean of the College of Liberal Arts. “We are very grateful for this support of our excellence in education, research scholarship, and creative activity. ” The Festival of Ideas Global Research Institute not only guarantees the continuity of the Festival of Ideas events but provides a venue for research into the world’s significant cultural and intellectual issues, integrating the scholarship and creative activity of UT Arlington’s faculty and graduate students with the insights gained from presentations by world-renowned experts who visit the UT Arlington campus.
Supporters of the College of Liberal Arts have a rare opportunity to help expand this program. Current plans including symposia, faculty and graduate research support, and bringing world-renowned speakers to the UT Arlington campus. If you would like to find out how you can support this program, please call or email development officer Myke Holt at (817) 272-1055 or mholt@uta.edu.
If your event meets the requirements described in Program History, email Dr. Beth Wright, Dean of Liberal Arts, for more information. |
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