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Festival of Ideas Global Research Institute Schedule of Events
Event 1 Talk on medieval and early modern women's writing November 9 - noon Mary Beth Long received her Ph.D from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and is currently an Assistant Professor of English at Ouachita Baptist University in Arkadelphia, Arkansas. Her scholarly interests are in medieval religion, women’s history, and reading culture, and more recently the history and politics of food. She has worked in manuscript archives in Belgium, England, Italy and France, has presented at literary and historical conferences in the U.S., Canada, Italy, and England, and has published articles in Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Teaching, English Literary Renaissance, Milton Quarterly, and A Companion to Middle English Hagiography. Her current writing projects are a book chapter on teaching Dante’s Inferno and an online article about Christine de Pisan and English print culture. Mary Beth moved to Arkadelphia from Louvain-le-Neuve, Belgium, where she finished her dissertation, Reading Female Sanctity: English Legendaries of Women ca. 1200-1650.
Event 2 "Wolf" (UT Arlington Screening) Tuesday, Feb. 26 - 6p.m. A family is shaken to the core when they discover their son has been molested. As they struggle to deal with the betrayal, their son heads towards a total mental collapse because of his love for his abuser, while his abuser attempts to exorcise his own past demons. The film stars Irma P. Hall (THE LADYKILLERS, COLLATERAL), Eugene Lee (LACKAWANNA BLUES, COACH CARTER) and newcomers Mikala Gibson, Shelton Jolivette and Jordan Cooper. Read an exclusive Q&A with the director, Ya'Ke Smith. Event 3 TBA
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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