• Rare documentaries show Central Asia, Soviet Era to the present
    Wednesday, March 10, 7 p.m., Burdine Hall Rm. 116. The Center For Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies has recently acquired a collection of rare documentaries from Central Asia dating from the Soviet era to the present. The films, to be screened at this event, contain footage on a variety of topics, from street scenes of a century-old Uzbekistan, to protest movements in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan. For historians and scholars of Central Asia and the Soviet period, these films will be o ...
  • Cheese, Please!
    Wednesday, March 10th 6:30 pm | Free! Join us every Wednesday evening at the Wine Kiosk for Cheese, Please!  We'll offer pairings of several cheese selections along with wine or beer.  Stop by and try something new!  
  • Be a Google Super Searcher II: Online class teaches advanced searches
    Wednesday, March 10, 2 p.m., Online. This is an online library course. At the class start time, go to the Web address for the class, select Enter as a Guest, type your name and click Enter Room. You will need headphones or speakers and Flash 9 (test your version at http://meeting.austin.utexas.edu/common/help/en/support/meeting_test.htm). Be a Google Super Searcher II: This class provides a more in-depth exploration of new Web searching technologies. Learn more about Google Scholar, Google ...
  • Al Jazeera correspondent Josh Rushing to speak
    Wednesday, March 10, 3 p.m., Texas Union Theater. The Center for Middle Eastern Studies presents Al Jazeera correspondent Josh Rushing, discussing this week's Iraqi elections and journalism in the U.S. and the Middle East. Josh Rushing co-hosts "Fault Lines," Al Jazeera English's flagship current affairs program about the Americas, and is a contributing blogger for the Huffington Post. As an international correspondent, Rushing has hosted and produced programs all over the w ...
  • How do we preserve biodiversity in the face of global challenges?
    Wednesday, March 10, 3:30 p.m., UT Law - Eidman Courtroom. G. Rollie White Public Interest Scholar-in-Residence Kathryn Fuller will present a talk titled "Preserving Biodiversity in the Face of Climate Change." Fuller is chair of the Board of Trustees for the Ford Foundation and former president and CEO of the World Wildlife Fund. Commentators will be Christine Hawkes, assistant professor, Section of Integrative Biology, UT College of Natural Sciences; and Lara J. Huffman, director, ...
  • "Perspectives on the Future" is Plan II Honors Program lecture series
    Wednesday, March 10, 7 p.m., Calhoun Hall (CAL), Room 100. Plan II Honors Program director and history professor Michael Stoff and his colleagues from the colleges of Natural Sciences, Engineering, Architecture, Geological Sciences and Communication invite UT alumni and current students as well as the general public to attend a series of lectures and discussions called "Perspectives on the Future." Each week, there will be a forty-minute presentation by one of the professors, foll ...
  • Rosalyn Deutsche speaks: "Hiroshima After Iraq: A Study in Art & War"
    Wednesday, March 10, 7:30 p.m., Blanton Museum Auditorium . Noted art historian and critic Rosalyn Deutsche gives a lecture presenting her current work on contemporary art and war. Deutsche has written extensively on topics including public art, art and activism, and feminist theories of representation. She teaches at Barnard College and is the author of the well-known work "Evictions: Art and Spatial Politics," which analyzes the social exclusions created by urban development proje ...
  • "From Mummies to Gypsies in Middlemarch" looks at English heroine
    Wednesday, March 10, 4:45 p.m., GAR 2.112. Tatiana Kuzmic, assistant professor in Department of Slavic and Eurasian Studies will give a talk as part of the CWGS New Faculty Colloquium series: "From Mummies to Gypsies in Middlemarch: The English Heroine, the British Empire and the Polish Insurrections." Among her unhappily married fictional peers - such as Emma Bovary and Anna Karenina - Dorothea Brooke of "Middlemarch" stands out as a heroine who not only survives the end ...
  • Meetup with Open Austin
    Join Open Austin, Austin GO and your fellow community members for a meetup/kickoff showcasing our efforts to involve the whole community in our website redesign project. Austin GO will join Open Austin 6 p.m. Wednesday, March 10 at the United States Art Authority - please join us. Learn about the OpenAustin initiatives, register your skills to contribute and most importantly come tell us about yourself and your ideas to make Austin's municipal Web portal one of the best in the nation. For more ...
  • Community Can Pitch For Google Broadband Via Big Gig Austin
    BigGigAustinFor the past month, cities have been lobbying to be part of Google's planned ultra-high speed broadband network, bringing internet service to select markets at speeds up to 1 gigabit-per-second, or more than 100 times faster than many high-speed networks in the US today. Austin city officials are preparing their official response to the company to illustrate why Austin is the best place for the high-speed service. Now there's a website that gives the community a chance to chime i ...
  • HOT TUB TIME MACHINE Free Advance Screening! (Alamo South Lamar)
    RSVP to this Free Advance Screening at the Alamo Drafthouse Facebook Event Page* HOT TUB TIME MACHINE follows a group of best friends who've become bored with their adult lives: Adam (John Cusack) has been dumped by his girlfriend; Lou (Rob Corddry) is a party guy who can't find the party; Nick's (Craig Robinson) wife controls his every move; and video game-obsessed Jacob (Clark Duke) won't leave his basement. After a crazy night of drinking in a ski resort hot tub, the men wake up, head ...