Laura T. Smith: Teaching

The Second Annual University of Texas World AIDS Day Conference

December 1, 2008
Texas Union, Eastwoods Room

A university-wide conference designed to facilitate the exchange of ideas ongrassroots, civil society and governmental responses to the global HIV/AIDS pandemic. We envisage this one-day conference as an opportunity to continue to build a university-wide public sphere around HIV/AIDS. In so doing,

Hi all,

Just wanted to note that I've been looking at each person's blog individually (rather than just commenting on everyone's blogs in sequence) over the last couple days and I'm seeing lots of strange numbers....

To clarify: each of you should have written six blogs during the semester (and you have two weeks left to get this done: this current week and next week). However, there are two blogs (the Halperin blog and the blog from the Wilchins or Witeck talk) that don't count toward this six. They were just regular assignments.

The Texas Civil Rights Project is beginning a new outreach program to area schools, akin to street law, that focuses
on LGBT rights. They are looking for guest speakers to share personal queer stories as part of the presentations in the next few weeks.

Available dates for guest speakers this semester are Nov. 17th and 24th at 9:45am at LBJ High School.

Volunteers must also attend a preliminary meeting this week at TCRP this Thursday at 5 PM.

If you are interested, please let Ruth (ruth.rosenthal@gmail.com) know ASAP!

Thanks!
Ruth, Terry, and Leo
UT OUTLaw

Welcome to Feminist Winter Term! Feminist Winter Term 2009 is an intensive week-long program for college students interested in meeting with feminist leaders and national feminist organizations in New York City. Our focus this year is Feminist Activism. We will embark on hands-on adventures in New York to learn about different approaches, strategies, and skills of feminist activist organizing.

The Election is Over, Now What?
Attend the New Politics Forum (NPF) Campaign 2008 Presidential Election Debriefing Friday and Saturday, November 14-15, 2008 at the Texas Capitol.

A leaflet distributed at pride march in New York, published by Anonymous Queers, June, 1990

Queer Nation Manifestos

For his visit with us, Dan will be sharing some work in progress that is at the intersection of rhetorical criticism, queer theory, and public sphere studies. The title of his talk is:

"Risibility Politics: Camp Humor in HIV/AIDS Zines."

Thursday, October 30th, 3:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
LBJ Room in the CMA Building
(Elevator to the fifth floor, exit to the right, first hallway to the left).

Unbelieveble. For the SECOND time this semester, an author we're studying has been invited to campus. Wow, what luck!!

Thursday, Nov. 6, 7:30PM: Graphic Novelist Alison Bechdel

Alison Bechdel is author of the critically acclaimed graphic novel Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic. The New York Times bestselling book details the story of Bechdel's childhood˜the family funeral parlor business, her father's illicit homosexuality, the author's realization of her own homosexuality, and the tragedy of her father's apparent suicide.

Ten years ago, on Oct. 12, Matthew Shepard, a gay college student, died in a Colorado hospital almost a week after two men viciously beat him and left him tied to a fence near Laramie, Wyo. That same night Terrence McNally’s play “Corpus Christi,” about 13 gay men who perform the story of Jesus, had its final preview performance at Manhattan Theater Club; due to weeks of protests and bomb threats, ticket holders had to pass through metal detectors before taking their seats.

The Robert S. Strauss Center for International Security and Law and the Center for Politics and Governance invite you to McCain v. Obama: Competing Visions for America, a discussion of foreign and domestic policy, with panelists Harold Ford, Jr., Lee Feinstein, and Tod Lindberg on Thursday, October 23, 2008, at 6:00 pm in the LBJ Library Atrium, 10th Floor. Refreshments will be served, and parking is available in the LBJ Library lot on Red River Street.