Symposium proposals due Tuesday, May 1st
http://artofdeathanddying.blogspot.com/
- Literary, performing, or visual depictions or interpretations of death and dying
- Commemoration of the dead in art and performance
- Artifacts of death and dying as represented in archival or museum collections
- Artistic depictions of the after life
- Cultural death rituals
- Cultural expressions of mourning
- Death and dying in Latin American arts and culture
- Readings of original creative material on the subject
- Performances of material on the subject
- Presentation of visual material on the subject
- Memorial architecture
- Cemetery design
- Analysis of an artist’s, performer’s, filmmaker’s or writer’s work related to the subject
- Depictions of death and dying in film, radio, and television
Proposals related to death in Latin American art and visual culture are encouraged. The organizers will accept presentations in both Spanish and English.
Papers will be selected based upon the quality of the proposal (including merit of the topic, clarity of expression, and relevance to the conference theme), the proposal’s ability to provoke critical exchange and debate, and opportunities for interaction between participants that will enable attendees to engage in a truly interdisciplinary exchange of ideas and viewpoints.
Presenters will be afforded the opportunity for their symposium paper/presentation to be published in the Texas Digital Library.
Papers will be twenty minutes in length and will be followed by ten minutes of discussion. Abstracts of no more than 300 words should be submitted on the symposium website.
The deadline for submissions is May 1, 2012.
M.D. Anderson Library Open at 11:00am on Sundays!
You asked – we listened! For those of you who want to get an early start on your studying on Sundays, the M.D. Anderson Library is now piloting an earlier open time of 11:00am on Sundays! Let us know what you think!
Catalog: Scheduled downtime
The catalog will be down and unavailable Tuesday, March 13 from 6:15pm-6:45pm. This downtime is necessary in order to install updates to the system intended to improve system response time in the catalog. The reboot is scheduled to occur tomorrow evening ( March 13) at 6:15pm. If all goes well, the catalog will not be down longer than 30 minutes. Sorry for the inconvenience.
The Art of Death and Dying Symposium – Call for Papers
The Art of Death and Dying, University of Houston, October 25-27, 2012
http://artofdeathanddying.blogspot.com/
The University of Houston Libraries, in partnership with the Blaffer Art Museum, the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts, the Department for Hispanic Studies, the Honors College and School of Art, will host a three day symposium titled ”The Art of Death and Dying” on October 25-27, 2012.
We welcome scholars in all disciplines to submit paper proposals on literary, visual, and performing arts topics related to death and dying. Topics of the symposium include, but are not limited to:
- Literary, performing, or visual depictions or interpretations of death and dying
- Commemoration of the dead in art and performance
- Artifacts of death and dying as represented in archival or museum collections
- Artistic depictions of the after life
- Cultural death rituals
- Cultural expressions of mourning
- Death and dying in Latin American arts and culture
- Readings of original creative material on the subject
- Performances of material on the subject
- Presentation of visual material on the subject
- Memorial architecture
- Cemetery design
- Analysis of an artist’s, performer’s, filmmaker’s or writer’s work related to the subject
- Depictions of death and dying in film, radio, and television
Proposals related to death in Latin American art and visual culture are encouraged. The organizers will accept presentations in both Spanish and English.
We welcome proposals from graduate students, as well as advanced scholars.
Papers will be selected based upon the quality of the proposal (including merit of the topic, clarity of expression, and relevance to the conference theme), the proposal’s ability to provoke critical exchange and debate, and opportunities for interaction between participants that will enable attendees to engage in a truly interdisciplinary exchange of ideas and viewpoints.
Presenters will be afforded the opportunity for their symposium paper/presentation to be published in the Texas Digital Library.
Papers will be twenty minutes in length and will be followed by ten minutes of discussion. Abstracts of no more than 300 words should be submitted on the symposium website.
The deadline for submissions is May 1, 2012.
Student art exhibit opening 2/24
The Fifth Annual UH Libraries’ Student Art Exhibition opened Friday, February 24th at 5:00 pm on the third floor of the M.D. Anderson Library. Attendees experienced the original work of up-and-coming UH artists from multiple classifications and academic departments. Attendees also had the opportunity to mingle with the student artists themselves, as well as the exhibition’s jurors and curator. http://youtu.be/k1Zt11FOPhA
This exhibit was juried by Susan Sutton, Curatorial Assistant at the Menil Collection, Katherine Veneman, Curator of Education at UH’s Blaffer Art Museum, and Dena Woodall, Assistant Curator, Prints & Drawings at Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. The exhibit is curated by the Architecture and Art Library’s Evening Supervisor, Christopher Conway.
The following students’ work was accepted into the exhibit and the Houston-based performance art group Continuum will recreate UH sculptor Hilary Scullane’s work, The Green Blob, a photographic documentation of which is included in the exhibition.
Karesha Brown
Felipe Campos
Almendra Castillo
Emily Connor
Isabel Cuenca
Jessica L. Davis
Rachel Harmeyer
Rosine Kouamen
JoJo Lam
Veronica Lizaola
Yma Luis
Miguel Martinez
Chad Maydwell
Andria Nguyen
Hilary Scullane
Jeff Simmons
Stäcy L. Smith
Elbert Claiborne Thompson
2011 Tax Forms
Due to the increased use of IRS resources available online, only a limited number of printed tax forms and instruction booklets will be available starting Jan. 26, 2012 in the ARC area of the library. To access downloadable forms and booklets, patrons and staff can go to IRS.gov.
Basement Update
On Monday we were impacted by the rains and Monday afternoon and Tuesday were days of quick remediation and analysis of what damage occurred.
Classroom 10F will be operational starting on Tuesday but will be cordoned off from any other locations. We are working hard to bring 10G back on line but probably another 1 ½ weeks to go.
The shelving office area and basement copier services we are hoping to also have back on-line and available by Tuesday.
Unfortunately the collections in the basement will be inaccessible for a while. Our vendor will be working hard to get us back up and going soon but please be patient.
While the collections in the basement are inaccessible, Interlibrary Loan can be used to obtain journal articles, gov docs, or micro-materials that we own but can’t access.
Flooding in the Library
As you are aware the weather has had a tremendous impact on the UH Campus and surrounding areas. With that being said, the Library experienced some flooding within the basement area and had to close off till further notice. Due to the efforts of UH Operations, they have requested that they be allowed to shut off water supply to the Library in hopes of stopping further infiltration.
The Library Administration has granted that request and so we will be shutting off all water which includes closing all restrooms.
We will remain open till 5:45 as planned but again any restrooms will not be available.
We appreciate your understanding and allowing us to address this issue as best as possible. We hope that tomorrow all areas, with the exception of the basement, will once again be operational like normal.
Scheduled maintenance to the Libraries Electronic Resources on 1/3/2012
On Tuesday, January 3, 2012, the Systems Division will be upgrading our EZproxy server. This could potentially lead to an intermittent down time of up to 3 hours. We will be initiating the upgrade at 9am and estimate that the upgrade will be completed by noon. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.
Extended Hours for Finals Week @ M.D. Anderson Library
