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Upcoming Events
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Museum of Broken Relationships Saturday, May 21 – Saturday, June 4 Blaffer Art Museum (Closed Sundays, Mondays and UH holidays) Price: Free Contact:713-743-2839 |
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Liberal Studies Summer Seminar in Italy Saturday, May 21 – Sunday June 26 Location: Rome Contact: Dr. Thomas Behr |
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Anton Ginzburg: At the Back of the North Wind Friday, June 3 – Sunday Nov. 27 Location: Venice Biennale at the Palazzo Bollani Contact: 713-743-9521 or www.class.uh.edu/blaffer |
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Department of Hispanic Studies Summer Program in Spain Saturday, June 4 – Saturday, July 2 Location: Cadiz, Granada and Sevilla Contact: 713-743-3716 or jdelosreyes@uh.edu |
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TEDx Houston Saturday, June 11 Location: Wortham Theatre in the Cynthia Wood Mitchell Center for the Arts, UH central campus Price: Must apply to attend Contact: tedxhouston.com/2011 |
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Immanuel & Helen Olshan 2011 Texas Music Festival ® Saturday, June 11 – Saturday, July 2 Location: Moores Opera House, University of Houston; Presidential Conference Center, Texas A & M University; and, Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion, The Woodlands. Price: Varies by performance Contact: 713-743-3313 or www.tmf.uh.edu, Texas A & M tickets 979-845-1234 or tickets@MSC.tamu.edu |
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You Don't Have a Clue: Latino Mystery Stories for Teens, editor Sarah Cortez and contributors Gwendolyn Zepeda, Diana Lopez, Bertha Jacobson and Nanette Guadiano Monday, June 13; 7:30 – 9 p.m. Location: Barnes and Noble San Pedro, 321 N.W. Loop 410 #104, San Antonio Price: Free Contact: 210-342-0008 or http://store- locator.barnesandnoble.com /event/3099813 |
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Department of Modern & Classical Languages Summer Program in China Tuesday, July 5 – Sunday, August 7 Location: Beijing Contact: 713-743-8350 or xwen@uh.edu |
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African American Studies Summer Program in Ghana Friday, July 15 – Sunday, July 31 Location: Accra, Kumasi, Cape Coast and Aburi Contact: 713-743-2811 |
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Houston Shakespeare Festival: Othello Friday, July 29 and 31 and Aug. 2, 4 and 6. All performances at 8:30 p.m. Location: Miller Outdoor Theater Price:Free. Open seating on the hill. Covered seat tickets available (4 per person) at the theatre box office the day of the performance between the hours of 10:30 a.m. - 1p.m. Contact: 281-373-3386 |
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Houston Shakespeare Festival: The Taming of the Shrew Friday, July 29 and 31 and Aug. 2, 4 and 6. All performances at 8:30 p.m. Location: Miller Outdoor Theater Price: Open seating on the hill. Covered seat tickets available (4 per person) at the Theatre box office the day of the performance between the hours of 10:30am-1p.m. Contact: 281-373-3386 |
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Dear Readers,
Welcome to the June issue of CLASS, the college’s monthly update of news and events.
Last month we introduced some of the talented CLASS students who graduated on May 13. As we focus this month’s edition on more varied fare, I focus my remarks on faculty, without whom our graduates would not enjoy the success that most find after graduation. Faculty deserve our attention for the influential role that they play not only in educating students in particular fields but also in preparing them for productive and fulfilling lives as global citizens.
One of the ironies of being a professor in the liberal arts and social sciences, however, is that we seldom know the impact that we have on students. Our greatest impact is most often realized at a remove from us. It is true that many of us remain in contact with former graduate advisees who become colleagues that we encounter occasionally at conferences and other professional gatherings. With few exceptions, however, we are seldom able to follow the careers of the many bright and energetic undergraduate students with whom we have the pleasure of teaching in our classes. These students most often find professional success in fields that we rarely follow such as business, law, medicine, or public service.
The fact that we do not know the fate of the vast majority of the students that we teach each year is probably not a bad thing. It allows us to sustain a belief that what we teach remains forever a positive influence in their lives and that they all go on to become better human beings for having had access to our wisdom. Perhaps, more importantly, it frees us to focus on the present generation of students who enter our classes to secure the foundational knowledge that the liberal arts provide for professional achievement and successful lives. We know that there is no more likely place to find answers to some of life's most enduring questions than in a liberal arts classroom where transformative truths are revealed in every lecture. And this is the role that our faculty play so well.
TOP STORY
Bold and beautiful word play at emerging writers’ conference
How does an unpublished writer get better at the craft so she can get published if just about every writing conference is for established writers?
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That’s the dilemma creative writing undergraduate students put to their
English Department advisers and got back an unexpected answer: fix the
problem.
So the student staff of Glass Mountain magazine, the undergraduate
literary journal, created and organized Boldface, a writing conference
for emerging writers. Read more.
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