Festiba - Thursday, March 26, 2009
| TEXAS BOOK FESTIVAL Authors to Public Schools: Cesar Chavez Elementary School – PSJA ISD - Authors: Carmen Tafolla, Sergio Andricain Victor Fields Elementary School – McAllen ISD - Author: Gwen Zepeda Emma Vera Elementary – Roma ISD – Mercedes ISD - Authors: Lupe Ruiz-Flores, Emma Romeu |
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| UTPA and Region One Gear Up Students at UTPA with Guest Authors | |
| 08:00 a.m. | Student Research Conference by the COAH and PACE Student panels and presentations all day at the UTPA Ballroom, Sponsored by the College of Arts and Humanities and the Pan American Collaboration for Ethics in the Professions. UTPA Ballroom. |
| 09:10 a.m. | Pan American Days Presentations: Dr. Jose Barragan Department of Marketing, Universidad de Autonoma Nuevo Leon, "Critical Digital Literacy in the Information Society," Moderator: Dr. Angelica Cortes, Department of Marketing, Management and International Business, BUSA 113. |
| 09:10 a.m. | Pan American Days Presentations: Dr. Thomas Pozorski Department of Psychology and Anthropology, "Archaeological Excavation in the Casma Valley of Peru," SBS 119. |
| 10:00 a.m. 11:00 a.m. |
Automated Lighting Shows: "The Art of Light" A Multi-Media Light and Music Show, which is an unrivaled, automated lighting program choreographed to music using equipment you might see at national concerts or the Academy Awards! The multi-media presentations will include a discussion of the integration of advanced technology with theatrical special effects. Presented by Amarente Lucero, Head of the Automated Lighting Design Program, College of Fine Arts, The University of Texas at Austin and the Marialice Shivers Endowed Chair at UTPA, 2008-2009. Library Auditorium. |
| 10:35 a.m. | Pan American Days Presentations: Dr. Servando Hinojosa Department of Psychology and Anthropology, "Bonesetters, Bones, and the Sacred," SBS 115. |
| 12:00 p.m. | Stephanie Elizondo Griest Young Hispanic author of "Mexican Enough - My Life between the Borderlands," "a revealing exposé of one woman's struggle to live between two cultures and two worlds, and yet not fully belong to either." Dustin Michael Sekula Memorial Library (1906 S. Closner Blvd., Edinburg,TX). |
| 12:00 p.m. | "Heart of Experience" Study Abroad Documentary, Moderator: Marco Setien, Biology (Pre-Med) student and Study Abroad veteran, HSHW 1.406. |
| 12:00 p.m. | Hauser Lecture: Keynote Speaker: Dr. Dan O'Hair "Communication as the Problem and Solution: Understanding the Significance of Applied Communication Research" - Dr. O'Hair is author/editor of fourteen books including The Handbook of Cancer Care and Communication (Hampton Press, 2007) and Communication and Terrorism (Praeger, 2005). Jeffers Theatre. The second annual Hauser Lecture will be presented in a location TBD by a distinguished Hauser Lecturer. The Hauser Lecture is made possible through the Henry W. and Margaret H. Hauser Endowed Chair in Communication. The Hausers, originally from Kansas, but longtime residents of the Rio Grande Valley, established the Hauser Endowment in 1989 in support of Mrs. Hauser’s lifelong desire to improve people’s communication skills. Jeffers Theatre. |
| 01:30 - 03:00 p.m. | Spanish Symposium Fronteras del Siglo XXI: Activism in the Borderlands Panel Discussion: "Representations and Perspectives on the Significance of the Latino Immigration to the US through Literature, History, and Film" with Guillermo Pastrano, Guadalupe Cortina, Peter Farruggio, and David Anshen, UTPA Faculty, Student Union Theater. |
| 02:35 - 03:50 p.m. 07:10 p.m. |
Student One-Act Plays at the Fine Arts Recital Hall (FC103) |
| 04:00 p.m. | Director John Carlos Frey with a Film Screening: The Invisible Mexicans of Deer Canyon (screening followed by Q&A with Director Frey), Student Union Theater. |
| 04:00 p.m. | Pan American Days Presentations: "Borderland Writers" Dr. Peter Browne and Dr. Lino Garcia, Department of Modern Languages and Literature, Dr. Steven P. Schneider, Department of English, Salvado Duarte, editor of Crisol, Juan Antonio Gonzalez, Cipriano Cardenas, Arnoldo Galvan, Manuel de Seabra. Moderator: Ramiro R. Rea, Department of Modern Languages and Literature, COAS 310. |
| 04:00 p.m. | Pan American Days Presentations: Jeff Thiebert, Southwest Regional Director for the Concord Coalition Film: "I.O.U.S.A." Moderator: Dr. Aziza Zemrani, Public Administration Program, ASB 1.106. |
| 06:00 p.m. | Film Screening: The Invisible Chapel, Student Union Theater |
| 07:10 p.m. | Pan American Days Presentations: Dr. Noe Ramirez, Department of Social Work "The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez: An Analysis of Cultural Factors Accentuated in the Film and Implications for Understanding and Teaching Cultural Identity," HSHE 1.114. |
| 08:00 p.m. | Piano Duo Turgeon The piano duet team of Edward and Anne Louise "have the talent, the will, the personality, and the quality of sheer magic that make for star performers. Since winning the Murray Dranoff International Two Piano Competition, the Turgeon’s world class recordings and performances have firmly established their duo as an elite ensemble, among the top duos of our time." Fine Arts Auditorium. |
| 08:00 p.m. | Theatrical Performance: Wait Until Dark, by Frederick Knott Determined to find a heroin stuffed doll they believe is hidden in her apartment, three thugs descend on a recently blinded Greenwich Village housewife. As the trio formulates an elaborate scam to convince their victim to turn over the doll, murder and mayhem ensue, until the young woman levels the playing field by plunging her apartment into total darkness. The climax of Wait Until Dark is one of the most shocking moments in American theatre. CAS Studio II. |
| Student Art and Poster Installation: "Evolutionary Biology and Descriptive Linguistics" Learning Community, various locations on campus, all day. | |
| "Sell Your Fear" Conference and Graphic Arts Exhibit, STC and UTPA Faculty/Student Artists: Deals with the broad aspects of fear in the 21st century and how media impacts and informs our culture, ethics in communication and its role in the dissemination of various agendas. | |
Art Exhibits (open all day): |
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| UTPA Visitor’s Center (Mexican Masters Exhibit) | |
| CAS Gallery (featuring the collection of Che and Becky Guerra of Nuevo Santander Gallery) | |
| Clark Gallery at the Fine Arts Building | |
| Mexican Masters Exhibit and CAS Gallery Exhibit curated by Maria Elena Macias. | |
| Reading Is Fundamental (RIF): Readings & Book Distributions to Public Schools with "Celebrity Readers" | |
