First Day of Class

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We watched this video on polarizing lenses.

TPP CALL FOR PAPERS

TPP, the peer-reviewed, student-edited journal of the Américo Paredes Center for Cultural Studies at the University of Texas, is currently accepting abstracts and submissions from UT graduate students for a volume themed on “habits” — habitual modes of perception or action, places where habits unfold, repetition, addiction, and forms of learning and unlearning that become unconscious or cultural.

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Submissions are due by April 17, 2009. Please direct all questions and submissions to tpp@www.utexas.edu.
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TPP publishes essays, book reviews, mixed genre writings, and multimedia works by University of Texas graduate students in all departments. Past themed volumes have explored nostalgic forces within globalization, slippery ideas of authenticity, and the roles of fusion in emergent culture and performance.

Visit the TPP archives online at http://studentorgs.utexas.edu/tpp/archives.html

Thanks,

TPP 8 Editors
Tessa Farmer
Calvin Johns
Scott Webel

“Making Sense of Race: America’s National Conversation”

The Américo Paredes Center for Cultural Studies presents a talk by Anthropology professor John Hartigan.

Monday, October 20, 12-1pm
E. P. Schoch building – EPS 1.128
University of Texas at Austin

How do we recognize racial aspects of the world 
around us? Largely by drawing on media stories 
about race, even as these stories seem to grow more confusing by the day. Following the last 
year of news coverage involving race, this talk 
surveys the changing ways Americans interpret remarks or incidents as “racial.” Professor Hartigan is the author of Racial Situations: Class Predicaments of Whiteness in Detroit (Princeton 1999), Odd Tribes: Toward a Cultural 
Analysis of White People (Duke 2005), and forthcoming works, Race & Culture: New Challenges 
and Controversies in the 21st Century (Oxford 
2009), and Making Sense of Race: America’s National Conversation (Stanford 2009).

Call for Entries

Text Practice Performance, the student-edited journal of the Américo Paredes Center for Cultural Studies at the University of Texas, is currently accepting abstracts and submissions from UT graduate students for our fall 2008 volume!

Submissions are due by March 22, 2008. Please direct all questions and submissions to tpp@www.utexas.edu.

TPP publishes performance-centered essays, book reviews, mixed genre writings, and multimedia works by University of Texas graduate students in all departments. Past themed volumes have explored nostalgic forces within globalization, flawed and slippery ideas of authenticity, and the roles of fusion in emergent culture and performance. We are currently seeking work on borderlands, war zones, values and properties, new forms of identities, public/private life, and experimental forms of writing and critique.