Grad Research: INGZ Collective curator Natalie Zelt produces "Sampling," March 31 - April 2
- 10-11:30 am: Tameka Norris Become Someone Else Workshop I (Location: GWB Multipurpose Room) Email info@ingzcollective.org to sign up.
- 5:30-6pm: Sampling Opening Reception (In Winship Building)
- 6-8pm: Screening of Free Jazz & Performance by Brontez Purnell and The Younger Lovers followed by a Movement Workshop open to the public (location: Lab Theatre)
- 2-3:30pm: Tameka Norris Become Someone Else Workshop II (Location: WIN 1.148) Emailinfo@ingzcollective.org to sign up
- 4-4:30pm: CHEEKY LaSHAE gives a paper at New Directions in Anthropology Conference (Location CLA 1.302B)
- 5:30pm-7pm: Meka Jean "Ivy League Ratchet" Happy Hour Performance (Location GWB Multipurpose Room)
- 9pm-11pm: MONTH os SUNDAYS--CHEEKY LaSHAE Singes BLACK SABBATH with Meka Jean encore performance of "Ivy League Ratchet" and a opening act by The Younger Lovers (Location: Museum of Human Achievement)
- 11am-12pm: Brunch Talk with Tameka Norris, Brontez Purnell and The Younger Lovers and Kenya (Robinson) (Location: CLA 1.302D)
Announcement: Workshop with media artist Samuel Cepeda this Friday
This week we'd like to direct your attention to a workshop happening in the Department of Anthropology. The Intermedia Workshop will host Samuel Cepeda, a media artist from Mexico, who will offer a workshop on "Research and remediation techniques in the critical study of media." Cepeda is currently a full time artist and researcher working on his dissertation at Tecnológico de Monterrey in the PhD program of humanities studies in science and technology.
Here is some additional information on the workshop, which takes place this Friday, May 8 from noon to 2:00 in the Intermedia Workshop (SAC 4.120):
The research of contemporary culture frequently implies paying attention to the symbolic production in different media, as well as the material and semantic consequences of its remediation. The researcher, in order to understand the symbolic production within a group or culture, needs to deeply comprehend it as a creator too. In this workshop, through the practice of various remediation techniques we’ll approach a way of theorizing while producing.
The workshop is free and open to the public.
Faculty Research: Dr. Randy Lewis featured in 'Life and Letters' Magazine for documentary film
Last spring, we posted a dispatch from Dr. Randy Lewis about his travels to Sicily, Italy to screen an ethnographic documentary called Texas Tavola that he directed and produced with Dr. Circe Sturm. We're pleased to also share with you a brand new piece in the College of Liberal Arts's Life and Letters magazine featuring the duo's work on this film, as well as Dr. Lewis's and Dr. Sturm's broader concerns with public scholarship."From Bryan to Sicily: Public Scholars Join Academy to Community" can be read in its entirety here, and here is a quick excerpt:
Sturm and Lewis both come from non-academic families, and this background is a big driver of their passion for public scholarship.“Randy and I have always tried to create work that has an impact as scholarship and is also accessible to broader publics,” Sturm says. “Even with book writing, we’re both committed to writing about complex ideas in such a way that anyone can read it and that the communities that we write about will want to read it and engage with it.”Public scholarship is intellectual work done with a non-academic audience in mind. It can take many forms, from digital humanities and online journals to books and documentary films created for a general public.“Public scholarship is a broader thing that’s trying to transcend this inwardlooking model of higher education and really connect with different kinds of publics and communities out there,” Lewis says. “How do you convert or translate [your academic research] into something that resonates with the people who are actually paying for the University of Texas?”
Faculty Research: Dr. Randy Lewis to Deliver Talk on Surveillance, 3/18
Although spring break is still upon us, we hope that you'll take note of a talk that one of our faculty members, Dr. Randy Lewis, will be delivering on perverse surveillance and the sexualized sovereign.Come by the anthropology department (SAC 5.118) at 12pm on Monday, March 18 to hear about his work as well as that of affiliate faculty member Dr. Craig Campbell. Hope to see you there!