Humanities
Jesús Manuel Mena Garza will discuss his involvement during the Chicano Civil Rights Movement of the 1970s as a photographer documenting the significant events, protests and iconic figures associated with the movement.
Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Conference and The Dallas Morning News are launching The Best American Newspaper Narrative Writing Contest this year. The contest will award prizes to three long-form narrative nonfiction pieces previously published in daily U.S. newspapers or on the newspapers’ websites.
UNT's College of Public Affairs and Community Service honored outstanding staff members, faculty members, students and community members at an April 5 appreciation dinner in UNT’s Gateway Center.
College and university students may apply for several awards that will pay for their registration to the 2013 Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Conference.
James Leavelle, the Dallas Police Department detective who was escorting alleged presidential assassin Lee Harvey Oswald out of the police headquarters when Oswald was shot by Jack Ruby, will be one of the two speakers at “50 Years Since the Assassination of John F. Kennedy,” the 2013 Texas History Symposium presented by the UNT Department of History.
The Contemporary Arab and Muslim Cultural Studies Institute of UNT will host its first annual Arab Film Festival. This is the first and only Arab film festival in Texas and includes films from Lebanon, Syria, Palestine and other Arab nations.
UNT will present a lecture by Jorge Huerta, Chancellor’s Associates Professor, Emeritus at the University of California at San Diego. She will discuss and demonstrate the important role that Teatro Chicana/o, or the Chicano theater movement, has played in the struggles for social justice since 1965.
Vivian Castleberry, longtime women’s editor of the Dallas Times Herald who is also known for her work with Peacemakers Incorporated, has been named to the C.E. Shuford Hall of Honor at UNT's Frank W. and Sue Mayborn School of Journalism.
Paisley Rekdal, who recently became the second winner of the $10,000 UNT Rilke Prize sponsored by UNT's Creative Writing Program, will read selections from "Animal Eye," the poetry collection for which she received the prize, at UNT April 9 (Tuesday).
Robert Jessup, professor of studio arts; Bonnie Friedman, assistant professor of English; and Claudia Howard Queen, assistant professor of dance and theatre, have been selected as faculty fellows in UNT's Institute for the Advancement of the Arts in the 2013-14 academic year.
