Events
| Title | Date & Time | Location | Description | Sponsor |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| U.S. Department of State - Information Session Open to All UT Students | September 18, 2008 4:30 PM | PAR 1 | Attire: Business Casual. Join UT's Diplomat in Residence Bill Eaton to learn more about a career working as a diplomat for the U.S. Department of State. Ambassador Eaton will also discuss the Foreign Service Written Exam, which is the first step to a Foreign Service Career. Regardless of your major, consider a career where you can be a part of making history while experiencing life in the world of diplomacy! more about event >> | Liberal Arts Career Services |
| CIA - Critical Language/Clandestine Information Session Open to All UT Students | September 24, 2008 5:00 PM | FAC 18 | Attire: Business Casual. RSVP is required to attend this event. To RSVP for this event, please email Robert Vega at Liberal Arts Career Services by September 23 at 4:00pm at r.vega@austin.utexas.edu more about event >> | Liberal Arts Career Services |
| Italian Film ''Il Conformista'' | September 25, 2008 8:00 PM | MEZ BO.306 100 (basement) | Il conformista (The Conformist, 1970) is a political film directed by Bernardo Bertolucci. The screenplay was written by Bertolucci based on the novel The Conformist (1951) by Alberto Moravia. The film features Jean-Louis Trintignant, Stefania Sandrelli, among others. The drama serves as an analysis of the Fascist mentality which explores a sexual motivation. Marcello Clerici is an Italian coward who spends his life accommodating others and joins the Italian Fascist party as a way of disappearing into the crowd so that he can "belong." Bertolucci makes use of the 1930s art and decor associated with the Fascist mentality and era: the middle-class drawing rooms and the huge halls of the ruling elite. from wikipedia more about event >> | Department of French and Italian |
| Lecture by Professor Mary Pickering ''Auguste Comte: Positivism, Politics, and the Religion of Humanity'' | September 26, 2008 3:30 PM | WAG 316 | Mary Pickering, who is completing Volume II of the first biography of Auguste Comte, will speak on his concepts of sociology and positivism, demonstrating their links to the social unrest of the nineteenth century. She will reveal her findings about his feminist proclivities, views of the emotions, Religion of Humanity, and epistemology. Having worked extensively in archives in France, England, and the United States for twenty-five years, she will also shed light on why his ideas attracted a wide following. | Co-sponsored by Sociology, Philosophy, History, and European Studies |
| ''Monuments We'd Like to Forget'' Dr. Steven Hoelscher | September 26, 2008 4:00 PM | GRG 102 | "For the past sixty years, the citizens of Vienna, Austria, have struggled with what to do with their city's most notorious monuments. In three centrally-located parks stand virtually all that remains from Vienna's Nazi past: six enormous flak towers -- windowless, indestructible, and water-tight -- that cast dark shadows over Vienna's fabled picturesque landscape. Built between 1942 and 1944 by the Third Reich's Armaments Ministry, the amorphous concrete giants that once served as anti-aircraft and radio towers today function as indestructible monuments in a city that strives to forget its least heralded past. Interrogating their contested presence on the landscape is the purpose of this lecture." | Department of Geography and the Environment |
| Fifth International Conference on Construction Grammar | September 26, 2008 | Texas Union | Conference Registration Purchase your conference registration now in our online webstore! Conference Webstore: http://utdirect.utexas.edu/txshop/list.WBX?component=0andapplication_name=GMGERMAN For general questions about ICCG-5 please write to: iccg5organization@gmail.com more about event >> | Germanic Studies, Linguistics, French and Italian, English, College of Liberal Arts |
| Symposium: Energy Policy and Technology in France and the EU Some Implications for the United States | September 29, 2008 8:30 AM-4:30 PM | ACES Auditorium (2.302) | Download more information about the symposium (PDF, 250K) | Co-sponsored by the Center for European Studies, The France-UT Institute, the Center for International energy and Environmental Policy, and the French Consulate, Houston |
| German Film Series, Fall 2008 - Sexual Revolutions in German Cinema A Woman in Flames (Robert van Ackeren, 1983) | September 30, 2008 7:00 PM-9:00 PM | EP Schoch 4.104 Conference Room | A Woman in Flames (Robert van Ackeren, 1983) Eva, who has recently left her husband, decides to become a prostitute. She meets Yvonne, and together they start picking up johns. One night she goes home with Chris who she soon learns is a hustler. They move in together and have what at first looks like a good relationship. When Eva begins working as a dominatrix, though, and making more money than Chris, he gets envious and they begin fighting. In a dramatic turn before ending, the film questions the distribution of power in relationships between women and men, and violence as an expression of gender inequality. more about event >> | Department of Germanic Studies |