October News Update
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Dear Readers,
Welcome to the October issue of CLASS, the College's monthly update of news and events.
In 1993, then President Bill Clinton declared October as National Arts and Humanities month, a declaration that has since been renewed every year. As a university with strong arts and humanities programs, we appreciate the national attention given to the arts and humanities each year as a result of this presidential decree. Each October, cultural institutions and organizations throughout the country plan special activities and programs that focus on the arts and humanities in recognition of the value that the arts and humanities add to the quality of life for every citizen.
In CLASS, we are very much aware of the value that the arts and humanities add to society and especially the contribution that they make to the quality of the educational experience of our students. It is generally accepted that the study of the arts and humanities develops critical thinking ability, interpretive skills, and a respect for the power of imagination. While these are important abilities and skills for those of us who have chosen professions that engage the arts and humanities, they are also essential abilities and skills for success in life for all citizens. In numerous occupations as well as in the conduct of our civic and social lives, the proper exercise of these abilities often means the difference between success and failure.
Through the study of the arts and humanities, our students gain tools useful for examining and making sense of human experience in general and respect for the dignity of every individual in particular. Although the most common approaches to the study of the arts and humanities are critical/interpretative and even speculative compared to other modes of apprehending the world, they nevertheless provide us with a systematic way of creating order out of the tangle of sounds, symbols and other stimuli that inform our daily existence.
The study of the arts and humanities ensures that we possess the orientation necessary to pose critical questions about the nature of human existence and emboldens us to pursue creative alternatives and options. To borrow a characterization that novelists and essayists Ralph Ellison once used to describe unbridled human potential, the arts and humanities reminds us that the world is filled with “possibilities.”
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The College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences serves as the nexus for some of the most innovative research happening on the University's campus and within the city of Houston, as this special edition of the CLASS News Update highlights. Several upcoming events will showcase to the public and campus community the advanced study in the humanities being conducted by CLASS faculty and students.
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RESEARCH & COLLABORATION
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Students
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Shaping the Canon: Tagore's Influence on Indian Literature
Second Tagore Scholar to travel to where Nobel Laureate lived and worked
Department of English. read more |
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Medical tourism transforms Panama
Sociology student's thesis focuses on medical professionals, not tourists
Department of Sociology. read more |
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Faculty
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Psychology study explores the teenage mind
Professor Carla Sharp gathers evidence on personality disorders in youth.
Department of Psychology. read more |
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Primacy in dance performances – music or choreography?
Karen Stokes' The Secondary Colors explores dance's chicken-or-egg debate
School of Theatre & Dance. read more |
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Stephanie Daniels named a fellow
American Speech-Language-Hearing Association to present award in Nov.
Department of Communication Science and Disorders. read more |
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Conferences and Community Engagement
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Center for Public History to host energy workshop in Munich
Follow-up program to National Science Foundation-funded 2010 workshop
Center for Public History. read more |
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'Communograph' maps creative arts in Third Ward
Interdisciplinary collaboration encourages social change through art
Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts. read more |
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October kickoff of the 15th season of the Living Archives series
Interview series features influential Texas women and archives their stories
Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies Program. read more |
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UPCOMING EVENTS
OCTOBER 2 - 8
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Hot L Baltimore
Friday, September 30, October 1, 2, 6 and 9, show times vary
Location: Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts
Price: 10 Students, $15 Faculty, staff, and UH Alumni, $20 General Public
Contact: www.theatre.uh.edu/onstage/
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Communograph Artist Talk: Mel Chin
Sunday, October 2, 3pm
Location: Eldorado Ballroom, 2310 Elgin
Price: Free
Contact: www.mitchellcenterforarts.org.
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Living Archives Series: Conversation with design entrepreneur Tina Knowles curated by Joy Sewing
Monday, October 3; 11:00 a.m.-1:30 p.m.
Location: Rockwell Pavilion, 2nd Floor of M.D. Anderson Library on the main campus
Price: Free to students and Friends of Women's Studies guild members; $10 general admission
Contact: RSVP to wost@mail.uh.edu or 713.743.3214
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President Renu Khator's Fall 2011 Address
Tuesday, October 4; 10 a.m.
Location: Moores Opera House (entrance 16 off Cullen Boulevard)
Price: Free
Contact: 713.743.0945
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Symphonic Band Concert featuring the works of Persichetti, Revueltas, Benson, Grainger and Sousa
Tuesday, October 4; 7:30 p.m.
Location: Moores Opera House
Price: $5 UH students, faculty, staff and seniors; $10 general admission
Contact: 713.743.3313
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Jazz Concert featuring works by Nestico, Lington and others
Wednesday, October 5; 7:30 p.m.
Location: Moores Opera House
Price: $5 UH students, faculty, staff and seniors; $10 general admission
Contact: 713.743.3313
OCTOBER 9 - 15
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Wind Ensemble Concert featuring works by Varèse, Debussy, Stravinsky and others
Sunday, October 9; 2:30 p.m.
Location: Moores Opera House
Price: $5 UH students, faculty, staff and seniors; $10 general admission
Contact: 713.743.3313
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Jack J. Valenti School of Communication Formal Opening
Monday, October 10; 8:30 – 10 a.m.
Location: Valenti School of Communication Building, Entrance 16 off Cullen Boulevard
Price: Free
Contact: 713-743-2876
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Gay? Fine by me. National Coming Out Month 2011
Monday, October 10; 11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Location: In front of the M.D. Anderson Library on the main campus
Price: Free
Contact: 713.743.5463
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Communograph Artist Talk: Hitting the Pavement: The Politics of Community Based Art Today by Rick Lowe and Ashley Hunt
Wednesday, OCTOBER 12, 7 p.m.
Location: Fine Arts Building, Dudley Recital Hall, Entrance 16 off Cullen Blvd
Price: Free
Contact: www.mitchellcenterforarts.org.
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Our Lady of 121st Street
Friday, October 14 - October 23, show times vary
Location: Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts
Price: 10 Students, $15 Faculty, staff, and UH Alumni, $20 General Public
Contact: www.theatre.uh.edu/onstage/
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Communograph PRH Exhibition Opening: Round 35
Saturday, October 15, 4pm
Location: Project Row Houses, 2521 Holman
Price: Free
Contact: www.mitchellcenterforarts.org.
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RACE, Are We So Different?
Saturday, October 15 – January 1, 2012
Location: The Health Museum, 1515 Hermann Dr
Price: $6 or $8 general admission; Race exhibit additional charge = $2 for students and seniors and $4 for adults
Contact: jhutchinson@uh.edu or visit www.healthmuseum.org
OCTOBER 16 - 22
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Living Archives Series: Tour of Glenwood Cemetery
Wednesday, October 19; 6- 7:30 p.m.
Location: Glenwood Cemetery, 2525 Washington Ave., Houston, 77007
Price: Free
Contact: RSVP to wost@mail.uh.edu or 713.743.3214
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Instant CLASSic
Thursday, October 20
Location: UC Arbor first floor, 10 a.m. – 2 p.m.
Price: Free
Contact: Ryan Johnson ryanjohson1987@aol.com, Mike Nguyen mbnguyen4@uh.edu, or Merri Rash rashpartdeux@gmail.com
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The Secondary Colors
Thursday – Saturday, OCTOBER 20-22, 7:30pm
Location: Zilkha Hall at the Hobby Center, 800 Bagby St.
Price: $20 - $35
Contact: 713.315.2525
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Opera: Falstaff by Giuseppe Verdi's Falstaff
Friday – Monday, October 21 – 24; 7:30 p.m. with a 2 p.m. Sunday matinee
Location: Moores Opera House, entrance 16 off Cullen Boulevard
Price: $10 students and seniors, $15 UH faculty and staff, $20 general admission
Contact: 713.743.3313
OCTOBER 23-29
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Poetry & Prose: Environmental Writers of Galveston Bay
Monday, October 24, 5:30pm
Location: Honors College Commons, Level 2 of M.D. Anderson Library on the main campus
Price: Free
Contact: www.mitchellcenterforarts.org.
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Lecture and Book Signing by Abraham Verghese, Stanford University School of Medicine professor and author of Cutting for Stone
Monday, October 24; 7:30 – 9 p.m.
Location: Hilton Grand Ballroom, UH Hilton on main campus
Price: Free
Contact: 713-743-3987
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Living Archives Series: Conversation with author and former diplomat Joanne King Herring curated by Claudia Feldman
Tuesday, October 25; 11 a.m.-1:30 p.m.
Location: Rockwell Pavilion, UH MD Anderson Library
Price: Free to students and Friends of Women's Studies guild members; $10 general admission
Contact: RSVP to wost@mail.uh.edu or 713.743.3214
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The Jewish Origins of an American Idea, a lecture by Daniel Greene, vice president for research at the Newberry Library in Chicago
Thursday, October 27; 7 p.m.
Location: Houston Hillel Student Center, 1700 Bissonnet at the corner of Dunlavy
Price: Free
Contact: 713-526-4918
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Hobby Center for Public Policy's Community-Engaged Research Workshop
Thursday – Friday, October 27 – 28;
Location: Houston Ballroom at the University Center, main campus
Price: $200 student registration, $300 general registration
Contact: mangel@central.uh.edu or 713.743.3976
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Spirit of Houston Marching Band Annual Benefit Concert
Friday, October 28; 7:30 p.m.
Location: Moores Opera House, Entrance 16 off Cullen Boulevard
Price: $10
Contact: www.uhbands.com or 713.743.3313
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CLASS Study Abroad: The Summer 2011 Report
Friday, October 28; 2:30 – 4:30 p.m.
Locaton: KIVA Room, 1st floor of Farish Hall
Price: Free
Contact: pmguyen@central.uh.edu or 713-743-4007
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Zombie Prom
Friday, October 28 - November 6, show times vary
Location: Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts
Price: $10 Students, $15 Faculty, staff, and UH Alumni, $20 general admission
Contact: www.theatre.uh.edu/onstage/
OCTOBER 30 - NOVEMBER 5
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Chamber Orchestra Concert featuring works by Stravinsky, Robert Nelson andMichael S. Bryson
Sunday, October 30; 2:30 p.m.
Location: Moores Opera House
Price: $5 UH students, faculty, staff and seniors; $10 general admission
Contact: 713.743.3313
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red, black and GREEN: a blues
Friday – Saturday, Nov. 4 & 5; 8 p.m. (doors open for installation viewing at 7:30 pm)
Location: Wortham Theatre, Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts, Entrance 16 off Cullen Blvd.
Price: $10 students, $15 faculty and staff, $20 general admission
Contact: www.mitchellcenterforarts.org.
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