Thu, September 25, 2014 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM GAR 0.

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Film screening and Q&A with filmmaker

FREE and open to the public.

Director Vivek Bald will be in attendance to introduce the film and
answer questions.
Combining music documentary and social documentary, MUTINY: Asians
Storm British Music charts the meteoric rise of Asian music in 1990s
Britain, as well as the decades of cultural cross-pollination and political
struggle that led up to that historic moment. Shot independently on
digital video over the course of seven years, MUTINY features Asian
Dub Foundation, Talvin Singh, Fun^Da^Mental and a host of other
British musicians of Indian, Pakistani, and Bangladeshi descent,
presenting these artists and their music at extreme close range.

Vivek Bald is Associate Professor of Writing and Digital Media at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is the director of three
documentary films: Taxi-vala/Auto-biography, Mutiny: Asians Storm
British Music, and In Search of Bengali Harlem (forthcoming).





UT Poetry Center Presents Spitshine Slam Poetry
Wednesday, September 17, 8-10pm
UFCU Room, Perry-Castaeda Library

Ariana Brown, Adam Hamze, Joshua Nguyen, and Arati Warrier, members of
Spitshine Poetry, the nationally-ranked UT slam poetry team, weave words
together to witness, take down institutionalized oppression, and create
literary justice. Join us for the performative reading and stay for a short
writing exercise to use words from the UT Poetry Center to create our own
Fri, September 26, 2014 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM GAR 4.100

Vivek Bald is a scholar, writer, and documentary filmmaker whose work
focuses on histories of migration and diaspora, particularly from the
South Asian subcontinent. He is an Associate Professor of Writing and
Digital Media at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is the
director of three documentary films: Taxi-vala/Auto-biography,
Mutiny: Asians Storm British Music, and In Search of Bengali Harlem
(forthcoming). More information can be found at bengaliharlem.com.
His book Bengali Harlem and the Lost Histories of South Asian
America was published in January 2013 by Harvard University Press
and won the 2014 Saloutos Book Award.

Hosted by the Center for Asian American Studies with generous
support from Institute for Historical Studies in the History
Department, British Studies and the South Asia Institute.





The Texas Democratic Party is seeking Finance Interns and Fellows
for Fall 2014 semester in our Austin office. Candidates should be
college students or recent graduates who are looking to gain political
fundraising experience. This internship is perfect preparation for
joining a top campaigns finance operation, issue organization, or state
party. All applicants should have a strong interest in helping turn this
state #back2blue

Interns will work in a fast-paced environment and duties will include
assisting staff with donor research creating call sheets, fundraising
calls, database management, and event planning/staffing. Strong
poetic phrases and add them to an installation at the UT Poetry Center.
And enjoy free pizza.

Brought to you by the University of Texas Libraries UT Poetry Center.
Co-sponsored by the English Department, the Middle Eastern Studies
Department, the Molecular Biosciences Department, the Spanish and
Portuguese Department, and Austins Pizza.
This is an OUTSIDE THE LINES event.




APIAVote Grants Available for Voter Mobilization of Young AAPI
Voters

Young AAPI voters have a special role to play in mobilizing their
peers and
their families for the 2014 midterm elections.

Elect members of Congress, state legislators, and local officials who
represent your perspective on significant issues for young people and
AAPI communities. From student debt and college affordability
to jobs, voice your vote on issues that impact you.

Only you can build a movement to empower young people and AAPIs.
The major political parties often overlook the youth and AAPI voters
during midterm elections. Among youth, only 45% turned out in the
2012 elections, and among AAPIs, only 56% were registered to vote
in 2012. Your leadership on voter registration and get out the vote
campaigns builds electoral power for our communities.

Young people and AAPIs are more likely to vote if registered.
Registering and mobilizing young and AAPI voters ensure these
communities are heard at the polls.

Apply TODAY for a mini-grant today to launch a voter registration
and mobilization campaign on your campus and in your
community. Deadline for grant applications is September 12,
2014.


Participate in the upcoming webinar on how you and your organization
can mobilize to be counted this November. CLICK HERE to RSVP for
the September 8 at 9 PM EST/8 PM CST/ 6 PM PST webinar. Still
have questions, please emailyoungvoters@apiavote.org.
applicants will be well organized, detailed oriented, self-motivated,
and have a positive attitude and willingness to learn. Excel and Word
knowledge required. NGP experience preferred but not required.
Unpaid (will help to secure academic credit)
10 hours a week (if you work 30, will be considered a fellow
with more opportunity)
Transportation not required but heavily encouraged
To apply please send your resume and short email including availability
to Ivana Rodriguez at ivana@txdemocrats.org with Finance
Fellowship in the subject line. No phone inquiries, please.






Preventing a Pacific Vacuum: Asia's Role in the New
Global Disorder

Michael Auslin
American Enterprise Institute
Tuesday, Sep 09, 2014 | 12:15 pm | SRH 3.122

Michael Auslin is a resident scholar and the director
of Japan Studies at the American Enterprise Institute
(AEI), where he studies Asian regional security and
political issues.
A new era of global disorder is emerging, marked
most notably by Russia's invasion of Ukraine and the
Islamic State's murderous rampage through Syria
and Iraq. Yet while Asia appears relatively pacific,
underlying tensions and great power revisionism
threaten its stability. From Hong Kong to North
Korea, the nations of Asia along with the United
States must strive to preserve stability and create a
liberal community of values. Whether Washington
has the ability, energy, or interest to do so is an open
question.

Before joining AEI, he was an associate professor of
history at Yale University. A prolific writer, Auslin is
a biweekly columnist for The Wall Street Journal


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Asia, which is distributed globally on wsj.com. His
longer writings include the book Pacific
Cosmopolitans: A Cultural History of U.S.-Japan
Relations (Harvard University Press, 2011) and the
study Security in the Indo-Pacific Commons:
Toward a Regional Strategy (AEI Press, 2010). He
was named a Young Global Leader by the World
Economic Forum, a Marshall Memorial Fellow by
the German Marshall Fund, and a Fulbright and
Japan Foundation Scholar.

Auslin has a Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign, an M.A. from Indiana
University at Bloomington, and a B.S.F.S. from
Georgetown University.





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