Dr. Bernstein Presentation

Dr. Bernstein will discuss the emergence of interracial civil rights activism in mid-twentieth century Los

Angeles. Her work places multiracial communities of the U.S. West at the center of U.S. civil rights history. She will focus on how concerns about 1930s-era Nazi activities in Los Angeles, an increasingly multiracial

wartime community, and fears of Cold War red baiting helped facilitate Jewish Americans’ involvement in

interracial social justice efforts, and how that involvement mattered to the rest of Los Angeles and to the nation.

UTSA
Wednesday, February 29, 2012

12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m.

MH 2.01.36

Dr. Shana Bernstein is an Associate Professor of History at Southwestern University. Her areas of expertise include 20th century civil rights, comparative race and ethnicity, the U.S. West, the U.S. in the World.

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Duende de Lorca

UTSA Student Activities
is proud to announce
Duende de Lorca
A bilingual play by Teatro Milagro
Tuesday, November 15, 11:30 am
Buena Vista Meeting Assembly
Downtown Campus
Information: 210-458-2836

Federico García Lorca is celebrated the world over for his poetry, music and plays.
Yet at the age of 27, he was still a struggling artist living with his parents, staging
puppet plays that were laughed off the stage by the critics. His need for freedom
fueled his desire to succeed. In search of duende , his travels through New York and
Cuba became a quest for cultural integration.

Duende de Lorca follows the early years of Federico’s early successes from the opening night
of Mariana Pineda , followed by the printing of Gypsy Ballads and Poet in New York.
Audiences will share in his triumphs and failures and his relationships with Salvador
Dali, Melchor Almagro, Emilio Aladren and others as his journey from New York to
Cuba shapes his life and his art.

“The macabre and elegant words of Federico García Lorca have jumped from the page to the stage in Miracle Theatre’s current production. The bilingual one-act by Dañel Malán intersperses surreal, poetic flourishes with the grueling challenges the poet faced in his youth. Duende has some surprises: it’s not in every play that a down-in-the-dumps protagonist falls in love with a butterfly and is tormented by evil cockroaches. A showcase of Lorca’s dark and beautiful writing, Duende de Lorca is fully comprehensible to non-English and non-Spanish speakers alike. The actors’ breathless transition from English to Spanish allows viewers to hear Lorca’s sound and see Lorca’s vision with stunning clarity—a good challenge to the notion
that poetry can never be translated.” – Willamette Week, Jan. 19, 2011

Duende de Lorca is written by Teatro Milagro Artistic
Director Dañel Malan and directed by Matthew B. Zrebski.
Rory Stitt plays the lead role of Federico García Lorca.

2011 Neuroscience Symposium

The UTSA Neurosciences Institute presents
the 2011 Neuroscience Symposium

The Bilingual Brain
October 25 2011
9:00 am – 4:00 pm

UTSA main campus
BSE 2.102

Lectures and a panel discussion by:

Karen Emmorey PhD, San Diego State University
The bimodal bilingual brain: When language is both
spoken and signed

Judith Kroll PhD, Penn State University
Juggling two languages in one mind and brain:
Evidence for inhibition of the first language

Lee Osterhout PhD, University of Washington
What the brain’s electrical activity can tell us about
how we learn (and forget) a second language

Nicole Wicha PhD, University of Texas at San Antonio
Getting to the meaning of words: perspectives from
the bilingual brain


FREE parking is available upon request. To request a parking pass and for more information, please visit http://neuroscience.utsa.edu/Symposium_2011.html

Sponsored jointly by The UTSA Neurosciences Institute and the NIH sponsored Specialized Neuroscience Research Program.

Gregg Barrios: The New Latino Generation

The Office of the President and the UTSA Libraries presents:

The New Latino Generation: a fusion of poetry,
performance and art of Gregg Barrios

Author of La Causa: Where did the Chicano Movement Go? This collection
of poetry is a fascinating interplay of the eras, voices, and
regions of Aztlán, all in a simultaneous dialogue with each other.
La Causa is an evolution in time, maturity, political sophistication,
and expectation – an invaluable document to any artistic or historical
study of the soul of El Movimiento.
Wednesday, October 5
7 p.m.
Retama Auditorium, University Center

(Companion exhibit in Gallery 23)

@UTSA: Hector Gonzales

UTSA

Mexican American Studies

Lecture Series

Monday, Oct. 3

1 p.m.

Main Campus: MH 2.01.10

Hector Gonzalez: Los Angeles East Side Sound of the Sixties

The East Side Los Angeles sound has been hearlded as the

roots of punk, when garage bands recorded in local

recording studios. A few of the groups hit national

and international charts marking a unique Chicano sound

on rock and roll.

Valley of Tears

Valley Of Tears

Valley of Tears is a complex story of the long journey of individuals
who endure hardship in order to make a better future for their families.
Hart Perry (Director of Photography - "Harlan County, USA"), has
documented the lives of Mexican-American migrant farm workers in
Raymondville, TX since 1979 when the onion workers' strike broke out.
What followed was a fight not only for higher pay but also for equal rights
and representation. For 24 years, the county's Mexican-American residents
were determined to fight for what is right.

Thursday, September 15, 2011
8:30 p.m.
University Center Ballroom 2
For more information please call 210.458.4770 or visit

www.utsa.edu/ice

Wendy Barker

Here's an ARTICLE on one of my favorite poets, Wendy Barker, which appers in the University of San Antonio's "Sombrilla" online magazine.

UTSA and Sagebrush Review Presentation

Monthly Literary Evening
UTSA and Sagebrush Review Presentation
Wednesday 23 March 2011
Poetry Workshop by Cooper Harris at 6 PM
Featured Poet
Alexander Cruz at 7 PM
Open Mic by Debra Pena
Barnes & Noble at the Shops at La Cantera
15900 La Cantera Parkway Bldg 27 San Antonio, TX 78256

Sagebrush Review

From Sagebrush Review:

Greetings comrades,

We at the Review wish to extend our appreciation to everyone who submitted work for judging in this year's journal. The submissions have already been organized and released to our judging panel. The material for publishing will be selected before Spring Break, at which time we will inform all authors and artists of our choices.

Also, there are TWO readings to attend this week:

Bonnie Lyons and Sagebrush Review presenters, Wednesday February 23rd, Barnes and Noble at La Cantera, 7 PM
Shihan, Slam Poet, Thursday February 24th, UTSA Ski Lounge, 8 PM

I hope you all can make it out. Additionally, if anyone has information regarding fundraising options or advertising opportunities for the journal, please let one of us at the Sagebrush Review know and we will see that you are credited for your support. Thanks, gracias, merci, and xie xie.

Cooper Dale Harris
Managing Editor
Sagebrush Review

UTSA Creative Writing Reading Series:

UTSA Creative Writing Reading Series, featuring poet Kevin Clark

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From Dr. Wendy Barker, UTSA

Kevin Clark's new book Self-Portrait with Expletives won the Pleiades Prize and was published by Pleiades Press in 2010. Denise Duhamel says it's "the book I've been waiting to read. . . . ." Intimate, hilarious, attentive, political, Self-Portrait with Expletives is a mature, commanding book by a poet confident in his craft." David Kirby says "It's as though there's nothing this voice can't say; it's personal, provocative, and I want to hear it again and again." And David St. John: "This is the kind of collection of poetry that gives us the courage to face the days to come."

Kevin is a delightful human being, a vibrant reader, and I promise you won't regret taking the time to come.

UTSA Main Campus, Business Building University Room (2.06.04)
Friday, February 25, at 7:30 p.m.

Xavier Garza at UTSA

Telling YOUR Stories

Crafting Family Legacies

Through Writing and Art

with author, artist and storyteller

XAVIER GARZA

Tuesday, Nov. 9 6 to 7 p.m.

UTSA

John Peace Library--Second Floor

Jose Kozer at Trinity University

Department of Modern Languages and Literatures

Trinity University

Department of Modern Languages and Literatures

The University of Texas at San Antonio

Present

a poetry reading by Cuban poet

Jose Kozer

Monday, Oct. 25

5:30 p.m.

Trinity University, Fiesta Room

Poetry reading will be primarly in Spanish

Achy Obejas at UTSA

UTSA 2009-2010 Creative Writing Reading Series presents:

Achy Obejas
Friday, March 5
7:30 p.m.
UTSA 1604 Campus -- University Room
Business Building (2.06.04)

Achy Obejas' latest novel, Ruins, was published by Akashic Books in March 2009. Her other books include Havana Noir, This is What Happened in Our other Life, Days of Awe, Memory Mambo and We Came All the Way From Cuba So You Could Dress Like This?

Her fiction and poetry have been widely anthologized and published in literary magazines. She is the translator (into Spanish) of Junot Diaz's Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao and (into English) of the the upcoming anthology, Mexico City Noir.

Obejas is currently the Sor Juana Visiting Writer at DePaul University in Chicago.