Upcoming CAS Events

BAHT Conference Room (JO 4.122) in the Erik Jonsson Academic Center (JO) at UT Dallas

Join us for readings by Indian-American authors Sindya Bhanoo and Nina McConigley, followed by a panel discussion with Maurine Ogbaa and Rose Skelton.

An open reception with light refreshments will be held beforehand at 3:15 PM. Please join us to meet the authors!

Her anthology of stories about Asian immigrants Seeking Fortune Elsewhere achieves a level of poignancy most writers can only dream of (Harvard Review). A graduate of the Michener Center for Writers, Bhanoo has received an O. Henry Prize and the 2023 Oregon Book Award for Fiction, among others. She is Assistant Professor of English at Oregon State University.

The stories in PEN Award recipient McConigley’s collection Cowboys and East Indians – “destined to be a classic” [Judges’ Citation] – describe “Wyoming with the same mythic nostalgia that many Southern writers write about the South.” She received an MFA from the University of Houston and currently is Assistant Professor of English at Colorado State University.

Ogbaa’s scholarly research, fiction, and non-fiction focus on the experience of diasporic African women. Her creative writing has appeared in Prairie Schooner, AGNI, third coast, The Elephant (Kenya) and elsewhere. She is a UTD Assistant Professor of Literature and Creative Writing.

An award-winning reporter, author, and editor, Skelton is currently at work on Homescar, a collection of short stories set on an island in her native Scotland. Her fiction and non-fiction writing has been published in Four Way Review, Waxwing and Ecotone Magazine.

This event has 10 spots available for non-affiliated UTD visitors. Please register using the button below by November 7 to receive a parking permit by the end of the day:

The permit is valid for any orange space on campus, and since it is the second-highest level (purple being the highest), you have the option to park on any gold or green spaces if orange spaces happen to be full. Parking Structure 3 (PS3) will be the closest parking area to the JO building, and orange spaces start on the second floor of PS3.

Parking Structure 3/Blackstone Launchpad
2830 Rutford Ave
Richardson, TX 75080

The JO building is about a 5 - 10 minute walk from PS3. Below is an image of the garage in relation to the JO building:

When you walk out of PS3, head down the walkway (going away from the street) towards the heart of campus. As you approach the Science Building (SCI) on your right (modern building with thin rectangular windows and an outdoor area), the JO building (older building) will be to your left.

Upon entering the JO building:

1. Head straight down the hallway towards the 2 elevators
2. Take the elevator to the 4th floor
3. Make a right out of the elevator (where the study area is) and walk towards the hallway
4. The Conference Room (4.122) will be on the left with two separate doors

To view the whole parking map and get a better gist of the area, please use the button below to view the UTD Parking Map:

BAHT Conference Room (JO 4.122) in the Erik Jonsson Academic Center (JO) at UT Dallas

For more information, please contact Nomi Stone at nomi.stone@utdallas.edu

The acclaimed poet, Monica Youn, will read from her dazzling and award-winning new collection FROM FROM (Graywolf Press, 2023). The CAS is proud to serve as a co-sponsor.

“Where are you from . . . ? No—where are you from from?” It’s a question every Asian American gets asked as part of an incessant chorus saying you’ll never belong here, you’re a perpetual foreigner, you’ll always be seen as an alien, an object, or a threat.

Monica Youn’s From From brilliantly evokes the conflicted consciousness of deracination. If you have no core of “authenticity,” no experience of your so-called homeland, how do you piece together an Asian American identity out of Westerners’ ideas about Asians? Your sense of yourself is part stereotype, part aspiration, part guilt. From From is an extraordinary collection by a poet whose daring and inventive works are among the most vital in contemporary literature.

Monica Youn is the author of four poetry collections, most recently FROM FROM, which was published by Graywolf Press in the U.S. and Carcanet Press in the U.K. in 2023. She has been awarded the Levinson Prize from the Poetry Foundation, the William Carlos Williams Award of the Poetry Society of America, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Witter Bytter Fellowship from the Library of Congress, and a Stegner Fellowship. Her books have been shortlisted for the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Kingsley Tufts Award. A former constitutional lawyer, she is a member of the curatorial collective the Racial Imaginary Institute and is an associate professor of English at UC Irvine.

University Theatre at UT Dallas

The Indian classical dance team, UTD Rangam, will be hosting a fall showcase sponsored by the CAS. This showcase will feature various group pieces and solo pieces. Entry is free and open to all!

Rangam, founded in 2015, is the first Indian classical team at the University of Texas at Dallas. All styles of Indian dancers are welcome. The goal of the team is to integrate different styles of Indian classical dance into a cohesive performance that showcases the diversity of dance and seamlessly unites the various styles. They hope to raise awareness of and interest in classical dance throughout the community, as well as holding performances to raise money for charities.

The postponed inaugural Carmen R. & Joseph G. Schneidler Lecture is scheduled for January 18. Be on the lookout for more information!