Past Events: February 2018
For recent events, please visit the Current Events page.
Business & Liberal Arts Career Fair
February 1st, 2018, Tomás Rivera Conference Center, Union Building East, 3rd floor
"The University of Texas at El Paso’s University Career Center will connect current UTEP students, recent graduates, alumni and job seekers in the community with dozens of employers from a wide range of fields at its free Career Connections Job Fair."
For details, please visit the link.
Public Administration Colloquium Series: "Examining Female and Male Approaches to Leadership among Executives in International NGOs"
February 1st, 2018, Health Sciences Building, Room 219
Eric Boyer, Assistant Professor, Public Administration Program. For details, please visit the link.
2018 UTEP Department of Art Biennial Faculty Exhibition
February 2nd, 2018, Stanlee and Gerald Rubin Center for the Visual Arts
"This is talent, love, discipline, patience and courage. This is boldness and excellence. This is experimentation, reinvention and progressive spirit. These are visionaries, rebels, artists and muses, mentor and friends. These are authentic minds and generous hearts. This is the work of our faculty."
(image courtesy of the UTEP Prospector)
Hannah Nicholas: "Music As Resistance"
February 2nd, 2018, The El Paso Holocaust Museum
"Violinist, Layale Chaker, and violist, Hannah Nicholas, will visit the UTEP campus and the El Paso Holocaust Museum for workshops, masterclasses, a community talk/performance, and a concert with UTEP's Middle Eastern music ensemble, Layali Al-Sham. The El Paso Holocaust Museum (no charge)."
For details, please visit the link.
Literature as History: Autobiography, Testimonio, and the Novel in the Chicano and Latino Experience
February 2nd, 2018, Blumberg Auditorium, UTEP Library
A Book Talk by Dr. Mario T. Garcia (UC Santa Barbara) and a roundtable featuring Dr. Ernesto Chavez (History), Prof. Tim Hernandez (Creative Writing), Dr. Larisa Veloz (History), Dr. Marion Rohrleitner (English). Questions? E-mail Dr. Marion Christina Rohrleitner, Dept. of English at mcrohrleitner@utep.edu
Borderlands History Conference 2018
February 2nd, 2018, Various UTEP and El Paso locations
The annual UTEP Borderlands History Conference brings together scholars of Mexico's North and historians of the US-Mexico borderlands to deepen and advance the field of borderlands history. Theme: Violence, Coercion, and Social Change in Borderlands History.
For details about the conference, please visit the link.
Perspectives in Counterpoint: Layale Chaker and Hannah Nicholas Perform Arab and Jewish Music with UTEP’s Layali Al-Sham
February 4th, 2018, UTEP Fox Fine Arts Recital Hall
"Violinist, Layale Chaker, and violist, Hannah Nicholas, will visit the UTEP campus and the El Paso Holocaust Museum for workshops, masterclasses, a community talk/performance, and a concert with UTEP's Middle Eastern music ensemble, Layali Al-Sham. UTEP Fox Fine Arts Recital Hall (no charge for UTEP staff/students/faculty, $3 for other students/military, $5 for others). This program includes Layali Al-Sham’s premiere of the peace-seeking, boundary-crossing song, 'Break' by award-winning Jewish-American songwriter and UTEP professor Larry Lesser, inspired by his conversations with a former UTEP colleague raised in Ramallah."
For details, please visit the link.
Professor Angela Y. Davis will speak at UTEP as part of the African American Studies Program’s Lecture Series
February 8th, 2018, Undergraduate Learning Center Room 126
Professor Angela Y. Davis, a Renown Academic, Civil Rights Activist, Scholar, Women’s Rights Activist, Humanitarian, Author and a Powerful Voice for Social Justice will speak at UTEP as part of the African American Studies Program’s Lecture Series.
For details, please visit the link.
Public Administration Colloquium Series: "New Mayors, New Violence: Political Transitions and Homicides in Ciudad Juárez During Mexico's Drug War"
February 8th, 2018, Health Sciences Building, Room 219
Daniel Scheller, Assistant Professor, Public Administration Program. For details, please visit the link.
Iconic Pop
February 10th, 2018, William and Marie Wise Family Theater
The Dance Program at UTEP Presents Iconic Pop, a celebration of pop music legends & those breaking new ground in the genre. Choreographed by the dance faculty, the evening promises dynamic dancing to an entertaining mix of old favorites and new hits. Myron Howard Nadel pays homage to music greats like Sammy Davis Jr., Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra, and Johnny Cash. Lisa Smith’s “Psychdelia” is a trippy tribute to the music and culture of the late 1960’s. “Heartstrings,” choreographed by Leanne Rinelli, explores the ideas of love, lust, and heartache through the music of Latino pop icons such as Julieta Venegas, Natalia Lafourcade, Mana, and Juan Gabriel; with guests artists from Mountain Movement Dance Company.
For dates and details, please visit the link above.
Love is a Drag
February 12th, 2018, UTEP Dinner Theatre
UTEP Department of Theatre and Dance Presents: Love is a Drag. A Musical Benefit at the UTEP Dinner Theatre with special performances by Josey Pickett and Allen Thompson. Feb. 11, 2018 @ 7:00 p.m. UTEP's production of Lydia is one of only seven productions selected to perform at the Region VI Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival. Proceeds from Love is a Drag will help offset the costs of traveling the entire set, cast and crew to San Angelo at the end of February. For details, please visit the link.
"The Black Panther Party and the Long Black Power Movement"
February 12th, 2018, El Paso Natural Gas Conference Center, Side A
Dr. Curtis J. Austin is an Associate Professor of History at the University of Oregon who specializes in Civil Rights history. His book, Up Against the Wall: Violence in the Making and Unmaking of the Black Panther Party, won the prestigious Choice Library Journal’s Outstanding Academic Title Award. His presentation “The Black Panther Party and the Long Black Power Movement” is free and open to the public.
For details, please visit the link.
Public Administration Colloquium Series: Prof. Jeremy Slack
February 15th, 2018, Health Sciences Building, Room 219
Jeremy Slack, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology & Anthropology. For details, please visit the link.
Confronting Holocaust Denial
February 16th, 2018, Undergraduate Learning Center: Room 106
"Join us for a showing of the acclaimed motion picture, Denial, based on historian Dr. Deborah Lipstadt's successful court battle against Holocaust denier David Irving, followed by a lecture by special guest Dr. Lipstadt on confronting holocaust denial."
For details, please visit the link.
"Innovation and the Centrifugal Evolution of Romance: Understanding Language Change as Dynamic Self-reorganization"
February 16th, 2018, Liberal Arts Room 102
The UTEP Languages and Linguistics Department's Spring 2018 Linguistics Colloquium Series presents "Innovation and the Centrifugal Evolution of Romance: Understanding Language Change as Dynamic Self-reorganization" by Dr. Charles Elerick in Liberal Arts Room 102 on Friday February 16th at 1:30 p.m.
For details, please visit the link.
"(Re)Thinking the Historical Novel"
February 16th, 2018, Liberal Arts Room 319
HISTORY SEMINAR. PROF. JOSÉ DE PIÉROLA. DEPT. OF CREATIVE WRITING. “(RE)THINKING THE HISTORICAL NOVEL.”REFRESHMENTS SERVED STARTING 2:45 PM.
UTEP Orange and Blue Day
February 17th, 2018, UTEP Campus
High School Seniors! We'll see you on Saturday, February 17th from 8:00 a.m to 12 Noon for UTEP Orange and Blue Day: Senior Experience. Make sure to get here early for parking and don't forget to stop by the Liberal Arts building http://bit.ly/2Hn9znr to learn about our offerings!
Piazzolla da Camera CD Release Concert
February 18th, 2018, Fox Fine Arts Recital Hall
"Join Steinway Artist and UTEP piano professor Oscar Macchioni, Carla Kountoupes (violin) and Andrew Nickles (cello) in a concert celebration of their latest released album Piazzolla da Camera."
For more information, please visit the link.
"Medical Bondage: How Slavery Shaped American Gynecology"
February 20th, 2018, Blumberg Auditorium, UTEP Library, 1st floor
In this presentation, Dr. Deirdre Cooper Owens, Assistant Professor of History at Queens College, CUNY, discusses the roles of women, specifically the enslaved, within the creation of modern American gynecology during the antebellum era. Through meticulous research, Cooper Owens exposes the fiction that early American doctors disseminated against black women such as their ability to manage pain more easily than white “ladies”, painless childbirths, and most gravely that black enslaved women were incapable of being raped.
For details, please visit the link.
Metropolitan Opera soprano Danielle Talamantes to perform at UTEP
February 21st, 2018, Fox Fine Arts Recital Hall
"Soprano Danielle Talamantes will make her debut in the Sun City on Tuesday, Feb. 20, at the Fox Fine Arts Recital Hall, as part of a presentation by El Paso Pro-Musica."
For details, please visit the link. (image courtesy of the UTEP Prospector)
Public Administration Colloquium Series: "Inflating Compliance? Strategic Behavior on the IACHR and Selection Effects"
February 22nd, 2018, Health Sciences Building, Room 219
Rebecca Reid, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science. For details, please visit the link.
Know Your Rights When Interacting With Immigration Agents
February 23rd, 2018, Blumberg Auditorium, UTEP Library
"Every single person in the United States has rights, regardless of immigration status.We will cover how to identify immigration agents, what your rights are when interacting with immigration agents, what documents you may be required to provide, and training on assertiveness in standing up for your rights.We will discuss your rights at home, while traveling, and at work or school and how to report civil rights violations."
For details, please visit the link.
Asian Studies Lecture: "Practicing Urban Philosophy in India: Experiencing the Indian Spirit in Delhi, Mumbai, and Varanasi"
February 27th, 2018, Old Main, Room 110 (Conference Room)
"Professor Jules Simon spent the Spring 2017 semester at Jawaharlal Nehru Institute of Advanced Study at Jawaharlal Nehru University as a Visiting Research Professor. He was invited there by his Indian colleagues to continue work on his book project, Phenomenological Ethics. Professor Simon will share some of his experiences of philosophizing in and about some of the most important historical and culturally rich urban centers of India. Professor Jules Simon has been teaching philosophy for more than 20 years in the Department of Philosophy at UTEP. For this lecture, he will speak from two of his areas of specialty: Philosophy of Religion (and Asian philosophies) and Philosophy of the City."
For details, please visit the link.
Mining Books: Getting Schooled
February 28th, 2018, Blumberg Auditorium, UTEP Library
Join us for a fun and thought-provoking discussion of books once a month! Dr. Jonna Perrillo (Associate Professor of English) will lead a discussion of Getting Schooled by Garrett Keizer.
For details, please visit the link.
