2019 Events

Fall 2019

Emmy Pérez is the author of With the River on Our Face and Solstice. She is the recipient of a 2017 National Endowment for the Arts poetry fellowship and will serve as Texas Poet Laureate in 2020. Since 2008, she has been a member of the Macondo Writers Workshop founded by Sandra Cisneros for socially engaged writers, and in 2017, she co-founded Poets Against Walls collective. Currently, she’s Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, where she also serves as Associate Director of the Center for Mexican American Studies.

Pérez will lead a social justice discussion, writing workshop and poetry reading on TWU's Denton campus Wednesday, November 13. Both events are free and open to the public. For more information, contact Ashley Bender at abender@twu.edu or (940) 898-2324.

Sponsors: TWU Department of English, Speech, & Foreign Languages; TWU Office of Diversity, Inclusion, & Outreach; TWU Global Connections; Texas Commission on the Arts

Social Justice Poetry Discussion & Writing Workshop

Wednesday, November 13, 2019 | 2:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. 

Admissions & Conference Tower (ACT) - Room 301

Pérez will lead a discussion and writing workshop focused on social justice poetry. This event is free and open to the public.

Poetry Reading

Wednesday, November 13, 2019 | 7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.

Admissions & Conference Tower (ACT) - Room 301

Pérez will read a selection of poems, including some from her most recently published collection, With the River on Our Face (Arizona UP, 2016). Q&A and book signing to follow. Books will be available for purchase. This event is free and open to the public.

Building Global Perspectives:

Key Questions, Challenges, and Opportunities in the Environmental Humanities

Wednesday, October 9
4:00-5:15 PM | ACT 301
Reception to follow in ACT second floor lobby

Joni Adamson, Director of the Environmental Humanities Initiative at the Julie Ann Wrigley Global Institute of Sustainability at Arizona State University, will discuss the “humanities for the environment,” a new movement taking form in a 21st century, pluralist, global experimental ethos as numerous research initiatives, funding schemes, journals, and teaching programs are being created around the world to network the humanities. Based on her experience working in the Humanities for the Environment, a global network of regional Observatories, she will outline key tensions, challenges, and opportunities for a solutions-oriented, interdisciplinary, intergenerational, and publicly-engaged humanities. This lecture will explore how narrative and storytelling is increasingly being accepted at the highest international, scientific and policy levels, including the UN’s 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, as a vital component in efforts to achieve an equitable, sustainable, intergenerationally-just future.

Presented by Global Connections and Building Global Perspectives in the Humanities. For more information, contact globalconnections@twu.edu. 

These events are free and open to the public.

How to Make your Campus an Urban Lab for the Citizen Humanities

A Workshop with Joni Adamson
Wednesday, October 9
12:20-1:00 PM | ACT 501

Joni Adamson, Director of the Environmental Humanities Initiative at the Julie Ann Wrigley Global Institute of Sustainability at Arizona State University, will lead a workshop
on the “template” projects that the Humanities for the Environmental Global Network of Observatories is creating to link humanities programs at different universities in different regions and nations through pedagogical projects that encourage students to become “citizen humanists” interested in using the arts and humanities to address global environmental challenges like mass extinction and biodiversity loss.

Presented by Global Connections and Building Global Perspectives in the Humanities. For more information, contact globalconnections@twu.edu. 

These events are free and open to the public.

Spring 2019

Film Screening: Spirits’ Homecoming, Unfinished Story

Date: Wednesday, April 3
Time: 5:00-7:30 PM
Location: CFO 202

Pizza will be served in the CFO lobby beginning at 5:00. 

Sponsors: College of Arts & Sciences, Global Connections, Global Connections Student Committee, Campus Alliance for Resource Education (CARE)

Korean "Comfort Women" is a euphemism from a Japanese term to refer to women and girls who were forced into sexual slavery during World War II. This often forgotten and important issue has been the source of international controversy between South Korea, Japan, and the world community. During this event, there will be a showing of a film entitled Spirits Homecoming, Unfinished Story from JO Entertainment. Following the film, there will be a discussion led by Ms. Sinmin Pak, an advocate for the women and girls who were forced into sexual slavery and their families. She is the founder of "Unforgotten Butterflies," a group devoted to bringing awareness to this often lost and important issue.  

For more info about the event, send an email to globalconnections@twu.edu.

Reproductive Justice Panel Discussion

Date: Wednesday, March 6, 2019 
Venue: CFO 202 
Time: 4-6 p.m.

Hosted by the TWU Department of Multicultural Women’s and Gender Studies

Who gets to decide what choices you make about your own body? TWU students deserve to be informed about their reproductive health and wellbeing. The Multicultural Women’s and Gender Studies Department and cosponsors have organized a reproductive justice panel discussion in conjunction with International Women’s Day and to support students in navigating their reproductive choices and the politics and policies that influence those choices. Medical providers, activists, and elected officials will help students understand the politics and policies that directly impact their reproductive health. Free pizza will be provided!

Reproductive Justice Fair

Date: Wednesday, March 6, 2019
Venue: Student Union (second floor)
Time: 10 a.m.-2 p.m.

Hosted by the TWU Department of Multicultural Women’s and Gender

Who gets to decide what choices you make about your own body? TWU students deserve to be informed about their reproductive health and wellbeing. In conjunction with International Women’s Day and to support students in navigating their reproductive choices and the politics and policies that influence those choices, the Multicultural Women’s and Gender Studies Department and cosponsors have organized a reproductive justice fair showcasing community resources relating to reproductive justice, including birth control, STI prevention and care, reproductive health, breastfeeding, and parenting, as well as information about how to get involved in the political process to influence reproductive justice policy. We’ll have candy, prizes, and vital information for TWU students’ reproductive lives!

Download the Policies, Politics, and Reproductive Justice event flyer (PDF)

Immigration, Education, and Advocacy

Date: Tuesday, March 5, 2019
Venue: CFO 202
Time: 4-5 p.m.

In what ways does immigration affect one’s access to education? What are the effects of inequitable educational systems?

Join Global Connections for a panel discussion to learn more about the intersections of immigration and education.

Panelists will share their personal and professional experiences as advocates for the education of students from around the world and provide insight about how you can also become an advocate for the education of others, both here at home and abroad.

Panelists are Mariela Nunez-Janes (Ph.D. in Anthropology), Lilyan Prado Carrillo (TWU alumna, BS in Bilingual Education, MS of Public Administration), and Carolyn Swen (TWU alumna, BA in English, Peace Corps Volunteer).

For questions about the event, send an email to globalconnections@twu.edu.

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