Past Events: October 2017
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Humanities: Humanities Preserving Identities exhibit
October 1st, 2017, Hallway outside LART 302
Preserving Identities is an interactive, bi-lingual, multimedia exhibit which examines issues and public policy concerns related to preserving the world’s cultural heritage. It was designed and created through a collaboration of faculty and students in the 2016-17 Layers of Rome study abroad. Through a combination of traditional exhibits and digital media, the exhibit documents the condition of cultural landmarks, draws attention to the preservation of historical artifacts and publicizes efforts to maintain historical monuments. The goal of the exhibit is to emphasize the role of cultural heritage in the development of cultural ties across the globe. It specializes in the issues of preservation and transmission relevant in preserving Roman life, culture and history.
Women’s and Gender Studies Exhibit: Exhibit: "100 Years of Women’s Contributions to UTEP"
October 2nd, 2017, In the hallway outside LART 233
Women’s and Gender Studies Exhibit: Exhibit: "100 Years of Women’s Contributions to UTEP"
Department of Music: UTEP Wind Symphony concert
October 3rd, 2017, Fox Fine Arts Recital Hall
$5 Adults; $3 Students/Military; Free Admission for UTEP Faculty, Students and Staff
Communication Lecture: "We Went North Instead of West: The Vernacular Rhetoric of Ohio Mexican Americans" By Dr. Alberto Gonzalez (Chair & Professor, Bowling Green State University)
October 3rd, 2017, Blumberg Auditorium, UTEP Library
Communication Lecture: “We Went North Instead of West: The Vernacular Rhetoric of Ohio Mexican Americans” By Dr. Alberto Gonzalez (Chair & Professor, Bowling Green State University)
Theatre and Dance: Promotions of The Importance of Being Earnest
October 4th, 2017, Near Leech Grove
Theatre and Dance: Promotions of The Importance of Being Earnest
College of Liberal Arts Gold Nugget Ceremony and Reception
October 5th, 2017, Rubin Center
College of Liberal Arts Gold Nugget Ceremony and Reception
ART: Open House
October 6th, 2017, Department of Art, Fox Fine Arts
ART: Open House. Open Studios/Demonstrations. Glass Gallery—Drawing and Printmaking Exhibition.
Department of Music: UTEP Choirs Fall Choral Concert
October 6th, 2017, Fox Fine Arts Recital Hall
Department of Music: UTEP Choirs Fall Choral Concert. $5 Adults; $3 Students/Military; Free Admission for UTEP Faculty, Students and Staff.
UTEP Choirs in Concert: Kaleidoscope
October 6th, 2017, Fox Fine Arts Recital Hall
Join the UTEP Choirs for an exciting evening celebrating choral "classics" old and new, featuring the Chamber Singers in their last local performance before their trip to Leeds, England. Bring a friend to hear some of the best-loved pieces of the choral repertoire; all ages welcome! Dr. Elisa Fraser Wilson, conductor.
Department of Criminal Justice: Open House
October 6th, 2017, Education Building, Suite 111
Department of Criminal Justice: Open House
Languages and Linguistics: International Potluck
October 6th, 2017, LART 109
Languages and Linguistics: International Potluck
Sociology and Anthropology: 100th Year Anniversary of Old Main
October 6th, 2017, Old Main
Sociology and Anthropology: 100th Year Anniversary of Old Main. Presentation by President Natalicio.
Roundtable: 1967 in History and Memory
October 6th, 2017, Liberal Arts Room 323
In Celebration of Homecoming and the 50th Anniversary of the Creation of the College of Liberal Arts, please join the Department of History for the Roundtable: "1967 IN HISTORY AND MEMORY".
For details, please visit the link.
The Dishonest Mailman: Readings and Lecture Series
October 7th, 2017, Templeton Suite, Union Building East
For more information, please contact Chicano Studies.
African American Studies: Roundtable panel discussion hosted by AFST and UBAN: "The Social Repercussions of a Genetically Modified Organism (Community)"
October 7th, 2017, Templeton Suite, UTEP Union
African American Studies: Roundtable panel discussion hosted by AFST and UBAN: "The Social Repercussions of a Genetically Modified Organism (Community)"
Political Science: Homecoming Ceremony
October 7th, 2017, Benedict Hall
Political Science: Homecoming Ceremony
An Evening With Martha Mendoza
October 10th, 2017, Bumberg Auditorium, UTEP Library
NAHJ-UTEP presents: An evening with Martha Mendoza. Two-time Pulitzer Prize Winner, Associated Press reporter, and Winner of the Pulitzer Prize 2016 and 2000.
English Dept. Reading: "The New World"
October 12th, 2017, Blumberg Auditorium, UTEP Library
Dr. Keith Polette, Professor of English Education, will read from his new volume of haiku, The New World. Join us for a reading and book-signing, with light refreshments provided! This reading is sponsored by the Department of English.
For more information, please visit the link above or contact Dr. Brian Yothers (byothers@utep.edu) with any questions.
Rubin Center Fall Exhibition Opening
October 12th, 2017, Stanlee and Gerald Rubin Center
"We hope you will join us on Thursday, October 12th from 5-7:30 pm to celebrate our three fall exhibitions..."
For details, please visit the link.
Lengua
October 13th, 2017, Basement Theatre, Fox Fine Arts, UTEP
LENGUA: Written & Directed by Adriana Dominguez
THE ADDAMS FAMILY
October 14th, 2017, The UTEP Dinner Theatre
Everybody’s favorite weird and wonderful family comes to devilishly delightful life in THE ADDAMS FAMILY. In this magnificently macabre new musical comedy, we find Wednesday Addams, the ultimate princess of darkness, has grown up and fallen in love with a sweet young man from a respectable family (a man her parents have never met) and if that weren’t upsetting enough, she confides in her father and begs him not to tell her mother. Now, Gomez Addams must do something he’s never done before — keep a secret from his beloved wife, Morticia. Everything will change for the whole family on the fateful night they host a dinner for Wednesday’s “normal” boyfriend and his parents. Come meet THE ADDAMS FAMILY. We'll leave the lights off for you.
FOCUS Ensembles' Fall Premier
October 15th, 2017, Fox Fine Arts Recital Hall
Join the Department of Music for an evening of diverse performances by the UTEP FOCUS Ensembles. This concert will feature musical practices, ancient and contemporary, from the Middle East, Europe, the Caribbean, the United States, and more!
History Seminar: From Bad Neighbors to Good? Inter-Americanism and Spanish Instruction in Cold War El Paso Schools
October 20th, 2017, LART 319
History Seminar: From Bad Neighbors to Good? Inter-Americanism and Spanish Instruction in Cold War El Paso Schools.
For details, please visit the link.
Salvage The Bones: A discussion lead by Dr. Michael Vinson Williams 
October 25th, 2017, Blumberg Auditorium
Dr. Michael Vinson Williams (Director of African American Studies and Professor of History) Will lead a discussion of Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward.
Mariachi Los Mineros Concert
October 25th, 2017, Fox Fine Arts Recital Hall
Please join Mariachi Los Mineros as we celebrate Dia de los Muertos—the Day of the Dead. This Mexican tradition honors the lives of loved ones who have passed on with a lively and festive celebration of song. This lecture/recital traces the origins of this holiday and presents many of the customs associated with it. You won't want to miss this event!
UTEP Creative Writing presents: 2017 Pellicer-Frost Bi-national Poetry Prize
October 26th, 2017, Bloomberg Auditorium, Library 1st floor
Meet the Poets! For details, please visit the link.
Philosophy of Science Lecture Series: "Darwinian Analogies in Argentina: The Significance of Situated Science"
October 26th, 2017, Quinn 212
"One explanation for the persistent failure to of philosophers account for the success of Darwin’s arguments consists in the hypothesis that these arguments, rather than following some more familiar mode of inductive reasoning, must be understood as involving inferences from analogy."
For details, please visit the link.
UTEP Symphony Orchestra Concert
October 27th, 2017, Fox Fine Arts Recital Hall
This concert by the UTEP Symphony Orchestra is titled “Explorations” which features music by Mozart, Beethoven and Falla that is pushed boundaries and explored musical mediums. Featured soloist for this concert will be Mr. Steve Haddad who will perform the inventive “Tuba Concert” by Gregson.
Philosophy of Science Lecture Series: "The Anthropocene Problem: Engaging Humanistic Scholarship"
October 27th, 2017, Templeton Suite 313, Union East
"The urgency of global climate change and other aspects of what I call the Anthropocene Problem (AP) are such that philosophers and other humanists are highly motivated to contribute to finding solutions. At the same time, the technical sophistication of scientific debates and the sheer viciousness of public policy debates leave philosophers and other humanists feeling marginalized."
For details, please visit the link.
Jericho Brown, A Bilingual Reading
October 27th, 2017, Bloomberg Auditorium, UTEP Library 1st floor
Creative Writing is hosting the great poet Jericho Brown, author of the acclaimed collection The New Testament (Copper Canyon 2014), winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, which Yusef Komunyakaa describes as “a chronicle of “life and death, personal rituals and blasphemies, race and nation, the good and the bad” that illuminates “scenarios of self-interrogation and near redemption.”
For details, please visit the link.
Bloody Shakespeare
October 28th, 2017, Studio Theater
MATURE CONTENT. Hell is empty and all the devils are here! Come on a 40 minute journey to the darkest corners of Shakespeare’s mind! Murder, witchcraft, and poetry blend into a ghoulish mix as the audience walks from one macabre chamber to the next. Part haunted house, part classic theatre, Bloody Shakespeare is a Halloween experience that will chill one to the marrow. Bring a careful ear and a strong stomach! By the end of the night, the audience will know why Shakespeare wrote “It will have blood; they say blood will have blood.”
For dates and details, please visit the link above.
