News Archive - April 2011
NEWS | EVENTS | IN THE NEWS
News
- Mexico’s Preeminent Composer Daniel Catán Has Died
- Feminist Pedagogies Symposium on Friday, April 15
Events
- April 1: Getting Started in Hollywood seminar featuring CLASS Alum Francisco “Cole” Calza
- April 1: Diversity Institute
- April 5: The Many Lives of Begum Rokeya: Feminism and Islam in an Age of Empire by Dr. Elora Shehabuddin, Rice University
- April 6: Showing Houston Growing Green
- April 8 – 10: Studio 208 presents The Lover by Harold Pinter
- April 8 – 11: Il Postino opera by Daniel Catan
- April 11: Inprint Reading Series: Kay Ryan
- April 12: “Between Biopolitics and Necropolitics: Iranian Queer Refugees, War on Terror and the Politics of Rightful Killing” by Dr. Sima Shakhsari
- April 13: Comic Books, Film Animation and Star Wars: A networking seminar with CLASS alum Adam White
- April 13 – 16: Black Images in the Media Arts Festival and Symposium
- April 14: Jack J. Valenti School of Communication Scholarship Luncheon
- April 14: “Gender and Revolution in Mexico” by Heather Fowler Salamini
- April 15: Gulf Coast Magazine Reading Series presents Laura Eve Engel, Eric Kocher and Kent Shaw
- April 15: Rock the Casbah: The Wrecking Ball Fundraiser for the Blaffer Art Museum
- April 15: Feminist Pedagogies Conference
- April 15 : Between the Lines of dance and music
- April 15-24: World premiere of Now This by Scott Kaiser, directed by Sara Phillips
- April 21: “In the Belly of the Beast: Orientalism and Raks Baladi” by Dr. Dina Al-Sowayel
- April 22- 23: New Approaches to the Study of African American Islam symposium
- April 27: Screening: Veins in the Gulf
- April 29: Artist Talk with Deborah Stratman
- April 29-May 1: Between the Lines of dance and music
In the News
- A year after spill, Gulf Coast is healing, hurting (Associated Press)
Tyler Priest, oil historian and Center for Public History faculty affiliate, quote - Recent Elections Stir Old Questions About Judicial Independence (Diverse Issues in Higher Education)
Political Science lecturer Kyle Scott quoted - Blogging, Tweeting for Course Credit
Brain Smith, assistant professor of integrated communication, quoted - There's no place like home: Harris County residents express civic pride, but also anxiety over the U.S. economy (Houston Chronicle)
Hobby Center for Public Policy survey - Political power drying up in West Texas (Houston Chronicle)
Renée Cross, associate director of the Hobby Center for Public Policy quoted - U.S. to soon reach debt limit ceiling of $14.3 trillion (KTRK-TV, ABC 13 Houston)
Economics professor Steven Craig quoted - Steady is the story: Values hold their ground, but buyers are cautious (Houston Chronicle)
Hobby Center for Public Policy's Institute for Regional Forecasting study - Houston feels more pain at the pump than years past (KHOU-TV, CBS 11 Houston)
Economics professor Ed Hirs quoted - Daniel Catán, Composer of Operas in Spanish, Dies at 62 (New York Times)
Obituary of Moores School of Music collaborator Daniel Catan - Mexican composer Daniel Catán thrives on Houston (CultureMap Houston)
Profile of Moores School of Music collaborator Daniel Catan - All Albee: With the playwright himself involved, Arena Stage festival aims high (Howard County Times)
Festival of works by Edward Albee, distinguished professor of playwriting - Blood, sweat & sacrifice: In the world of dance, practice really does make perfect (CultureMap Houston)
Karen Stokes, Head of the Dance Division at UH's School of Theatre & Dance quoted - Poems that will get you through a hard time (O Magazine)
Article written and poem selected by Creative Writing professor Nick Flynn