Page Description
The following page is a blank template with a header that contains a quicklinks jump menu and the search UHD function. Page sections are identified with headers. The footer contains all required links, contact and emergency information.
Quick Links |
||
|
Information for: For the Media: |
Primary Links: |
General Information:
Online Services & Logins: |
Cultural Enrichment Center Sponsored Events, Fall 2010
All Events Free and Open to the Public
“Debating Islam and Democracy: West African Experiences,"
A Lecture by Dr. Leonardo A. Villalón, Associate Professor of Political Science
and Director of the Center for African Studies and at the University of Florida.
Monday, September 20, 10-11:15 a.m., Cullen Robertson Auditorium,
3rd Fl., Academic Building
Villalón is the author of Islamic
Society and State Power in Senegal (Cambridge
University Press, 1995), and co-editor of The African
State at a Critical Juncture: Between Disintegration and Reconfiguration (Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1998),
and The Fate of Africa's Democratic Experiments: Elites
and Institutions (Indiana
University Press, 2005), as well as of numerous articles and book chapters
on politics and religion in West Africa.
Villalón taught for two years as a
Fulbright senior scholar at the Université Cheikh Anta Diop in Dakar, Senegal.
He has also taught at the Université Gaston Berger in St. Louis, Senegal, and
has lectured and directed seminars and workshops at universities and other
institutions in numerous West African countries. These have included seminars
on civic education and democracy for teachers in rural Mali, workshops on democracy
and the role of legislatures for the national parliaments of Chad and of Burkina
Faso, and a seminar on consensus building for all parties to the conflict in
Côte d'Ivoire. From 2001-05 Villalón served as president of the West African
Research Association (WARA), the only sub-Saharan African member institution
of the Council of American Overseas Research Centers (CAORC), based at the
Smithsonian Institution.
Poetry Reading by Brian Turner, author of the collections Here, Bullet and Phantom Noise
Thursday, October 7, 5:30 - 6:45 p.m., Cullen Robertson Auditorium, 3rd Fl.,
Academic Building
Brian Turner is a soldier-poet whose debut book of poems, Here, Bullet, won the 2005 Beatrice Hawley Award, the New York Times “Editor's Choice” selection, the 2006 Pen Center USA "Best in the West" award, and the 2007 Poets Prize, among others. His second poetry book, Phantom Noise, was released by Alice James in the Spring of 2010. Turner has recently been selected as one of 50 United States Artists Fellows for 2009.
Turner served seven years in the US Army, including one year as an infantry team
leader in Iraq with the 3rd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division. Prior to that, he was deployed to Bosnia-Herzegovina in 1999-2000 with the 10th Mountain Division. Turner's poetry has been published in Poetry Daily, The Georgia Review, and other journals, and in the Voices in Wartime Anthology published in conjunction with the feature-length documentary film of the same name. Turner was also featured in Operation Homecoming, a unique documentary that explores the firsthand accounts of American servicemen and women through their own words. He earned an MFA from the University of Oregon and has lived abroad in South Korea.
Brian Turner's Here, Bullet is a harrowing, beautiful first-person account
of the Iraq war. The poems in this remarkable collection reflect Turner's experiences
as a soldier with penetrating lyric power, compassion, sensitivity, and eloquence,
while deploring the violence and acknowledging the grief and terror of war. One
poem, "Eulogy", was written to memorialize a soldier in his platoon
who took his own life. Adding his voice to the current debate about the US occupation
of Iraq, in poems written in the tradition of such poets as Wilfred Owen, Yusef
Komunyakaa (Dien Cai Dau), Bruce Weigl ("Song of
Napalm") and Doug Anderson
(The Moon Reflected Fire), veteran Brian Turner's affecting poetry of
witness is exceptional for its beauty, honesty, and skill. These gracefully-rendered,
unflinching poems make Here, Bullet a must-read for anyone who cares
about the war, regardless of political affiliation.
Houston Poetry Fest at UHD
October 8, 9, 10. Willow St. Pump Station, 811 N. San Jacinto St.
See http://houstonpoetryfest.info/ for details.
Outliers and Your Academic Success: A Seminar by Dr. Jerry Johnson and Dr. Lisa Morano,
College of Science and Technology
Wednesday, October 13, 1-2:15 p.m., Cullen Robertson Auditorium, 3rd Fl., Academic Building
Following up on the freshman class common reading of Malcolm Gladwell’s Outliers,
Drs. Johnson and Morano will present a lively discussion of ways to become an
engaged and successful college student at the University of Houston - Downtown.
Hispanic Film Series
All films begin at 6:30 p.m. in A405, the Academic Building
Thursday, September 9, Crónicas. Ecuador. Dir. Sebastián Cordero (2004)
Thursday, September 23, Rosario Tijeras. Colombia. Dir. Emilio Maillé (2005)
Thursday, October 7, Virgen de los Sicarios. Colombia. Dir. Barbet Schroeder
(2000)
Thursday, October 14, Bombón: El Perro. Argentina. Dir. Carlos Sorin (2004)
Thursday, November 4, Intacto. Spain. Dir. Juan Carlos Fresnadillo (2001)
Thursday, November 18, Madeinusa: Peru, Claudia Llosa (2006)
Contact: Ana-Maria Medina, medinaa@uhd.edu
Ang Lee Film Series
Co-sponsored with the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Houston
Cullen Robertson Auditorium, 3rd Fl., Academic Building
Tuesday, October 19
- 5:15 p.m. Opening Reception outside Auditorium
- 5:30 p.m. Film Showing: Pushing Hands
- 7:15 p.m. Tai Chi Demonstration
Wednesday, October 20 5:30 p.m. Film Showing: The Wedding Banquet
Thursday, October 21
- 5:30 p.m. Film Showing: Eat, Drink, Man, Woman
- 7:30 p.m. Closing Reception in Room A-300
- 7:45 p.m. ANG LEE NOW! A Scholarly Roundtable and Q.& A. with Dr. Chuck Jackson, Dr. Edmund Cueva, Dr. William Nowak, and Dr. Johanna Schmertz
Co-sponsored by TECO
Contact: Chuck Jackson, jacksonc@uhd.edu
The Postcolonial Nation in Popular Culture: A Film and Lecture Series
November 2, 4 and 5, 2010, Cullen Robertson Auditorium, 3rd Fl., Academic Building
Tuesday, November 2, 1:00-4:00 p.m. Film Showing: Rang De Basanti (2006)
Thursday, November 4, 1:00-4:00 p.m. Film Showing: Lagaan (2001)
Friday, November 5, 11:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m. Lecture: “Experiments with Truth: The Colonial Historical Hindi Film” by Dr. Corey Creekmur
The imaginings of a postcolonial nation have found different expressions in
popular culture. In Bollywood cinema, this has taken the form of actual or
metaphorical representations of anti-colonial struggle, or of a decolonized
nation being “haunted” by memories of colonization. This event consists of
the screening of two critically acclaimed Bollywood films followed by a lecture
by eminent film scholar Dr. Corey Creekmur, Associate Professor of English
and Film Studies at the University of Iowa.
The two films are Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra's Rang De Basanti (2006) and
Ashutosh Gowariker’s Lagaan (2001). Lagaan (Land Tax) uses the
game of cricket as a metaphor for the conflicts inherent in the colonial situation,
and Rang De
Basanti (Color Me Saffron) considers how the problems of the colonial state
are replicated in the present-day postcolonial nation. Dr. Creekmur’s lecture,
titled “Experiments with Truth: The Colonial Historical Hindi Film”, will consider
why recent Bollywood productions have explored more recent history (the late
colonial period, the Independence struggle, Gandhi) rather than the more traditional
Mughal period which had been the focus of the Hindi “historical” previously.
Each screening and the lecture will be followed by a brief question-and-answer
session that Dr. Sucheta Choudhuri will facilitate.
Corey K. Creekmur is an Associate Professor of English and Film Studies at
the University of Iowa, where he also directs the Institute for Cinema and
Culture. He has published on American and Indian cinema and popular culture,
and has edited volumes on queer popular culture, film and law in Asia, and
the international film musical. He is currently co-editing A Companion to Indian
Cinema for Blackwell, and a series on comics for Rutgers University Press.
Contact: Sucheta Choudhuri, choudhuris@uhd.edu
"Qatar: A Country in Transition and Paradox"
A Lecture by Mohsen Mobasher
Tuesday, November 9, 4-5:30 p.m.
1099-N
Mohsen
Mobasher is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Sociology. He joined UHD
in 2003. His research interests are global migration, Middle Eastern immigrants,
and minorities in America. In the last five years Mohsen has published a book
on globalization and several articles on Middle Eastern immigrants and refugees
in the United States. In 2008, he was invited to teach sociology of globalization
at Qatar University. He spent the last two years in Qatar teaching and conducting
fieldwork on the impact of globalization on Qatari society and culture. He
will address these issues, drawing from his recent research and social experiences
there.
Sponsored by the Cultural Enrichment Center. Refreshments provided.
Pages maintained by CHSS Web Tech
Last updated or reviewed on 1/13/11
