UCA Theatre this week will open its main stage season with Moliere's classic comedy, The Learned Ladies on Oct. 23, 24, 29, 30, 31 at 7:30 p.m. in the Bridges/Larson Theatre of the Snow Fine Arts Center. Taking aim at the pretentiousness of pseudo-intellectuals, The Learned Ladies is set in the middle class household of Chrysale, which is besieged with a salon of women in love with learning. … [Read more...]
UCA faculty news
Stephanie Vanderslice, Associate Professor of Writing, has published "Sleeping With Proust vs. Tinkering Under the Bonnet: Creative Writing in the US and the UK," in Graeme Harper and Jeri Kroll's book, Creative Writing in Higher Education, published by Multiligual Matters Press in the UK. Her essay, "The Imaginary Nursery," was also just published in the anthology Knowing Pains: Women on Love, … [Read more...]
UCA professor to receive Governor's Award
John M. Erwin, director of choral music at UCA, tomorrow will receive the 2008 Arkansas Arts Council Governor's Individual Artist Award. The 2008 Governor's Arts Awards are sponsored by the Arkansas Arts Council and will take place tomorrow at noon in Ballroom A at the Statehouse Convention Center in Little Rock. The Individual Artist Award category is for artists active in the field of … [Read more...]
Branford Marsalis to appear at UCA
World-renowned saxophonist Branford Marsalis and the 30-piece Filharmonia Brasileira Orchestra will appear in Marsalis Brasilianos, a celebration of the music of Brazilian composer Heitor Villa-Lobos, on Monday, Oct. 20 at 7:30 p.m. in the Donald W. Reynolds Performance Hall on the UCA campus. Marsalis, a three-time Grammy winner, has always been a man of numerous musical interests, from jazz, … [Read more...]
UCA faculty news
Tim Thornes, Assistant Professor of Linguistics in the Department of Writing, will present his paper "Detransitivization and relative clauses in Northern Paiute" at the annual Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas in San Francisco in January. His paper will focus on the grammatical and discourse interactions of voice and relative clause formation in a Uto-Aztecan … [Read more...]
Acclaimed director in residence at UCA
Award-winning director, cinematographer and producer Albert Maysles will be on the University of Central Arkansas campus Oct. 17 for UCA's Artists in Residence program. His residency will be in conjunction with the 17th Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival, the oldest documentary film festival in the United States. "I think Maysles will bring a lifetime of experience to UCA," said Dr. Bruce … [Read more...]
U.S. Air Force Band to perform at UCA
The United States Air Force Concert Band and The Singing Sergeants, known worldwide as "America … [Read more...]
Watergate figure John Dean to speak at UCA
John Dean, the White House lawyer whose congressional testimony was key to unraveling the Watergate conspiracy during the presidential administration of Richard M. Nixon, will speak at UCA this Monday. Dean's lecture will take place on Monday, October 13 at 7 p.m. at the Brewer-Hegeman conference center on the UCA campus. The event is free and open to the public, and it will include a reception … [Read more...]
UCA celebrates Hispanic Heritage Month
The Office of Minority Services, the Student Goverment Association and The Spanish Club tomorrow will host "Celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month." The event, which will take place on Thursday, Oct. 9 from 6 to 7:30 p.m. in the UCA Student Center Ballroom, will feature Al "Papa Rap" Lopez and the cast from the television show What … [Read more...]
Nine from the 'Divine 9'
The National Pan-Hellenic Council includes nine traditionally African-American Greek organizations, and UCA is the only university in Arkansas that currently has all nine groups represented. In honor of UCA Homecoming week, NPHC will present $900 to Ida Burns Elementary School in Conway. All nine organizations were founded at institutions of higher learning, and the UCA chapters want to help the … [Read more...]
