- University News Archive - 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock /news-archive/tag/arkansas-peace-week/ 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock Sun, 08 Sep 2019 13:33:06 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock Downtown celebrates Arkansas Peace Week with Perceptions of Justice lecture /news-archive/2019/09/08/perceptions-of-justice/ Sun, 08 Sep 2019 13:33:06 +0000 /news/?p=74963 ... 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock Downtown celebrates Arkansas Peace Week with Perceptions of Justice lecture]]> A University of Arkansas at Little Rock professor will discuss perceptions of justice among Syrians in an upcoming lecture to celebrate Arkansas Peace Week.聽 Dr. Eric Wiebelhaus-Brahm, associate professor and Middle Eastern Studies coordinator, will deliver the lecture at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 19, at 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock Downtown, 333 President Clinton Ave. 鈥淧erceptions of Justice, Connections to Home Among the Syrian Diaspora鈥 will explore the complexity of how individuals鈥 living conditions shape their demands for justice. 鈥淭here is variation in what justice means to different people,鈥 Wiebelhaus-Brahm said. 鈥淲hile this is true for humanity as a whole, Syrians鈥 views depend a lot on the relative precariousness of their situation. In the wake of the Syrian government鈥檚 brutal crackdown on pro-democracy protests in 2011, and the civil war atrocities that ensued, Syrians have diverse views about what would be a just response to the violence.鈥 For the past five years, Wiebelhaus-Brahm鈥檚 research has examined perspectives among Syrian activists. This new project compares those views with refugees and internally displaced persons.聽 As part of the Middle Eastern Studies Program鈥檚 mission to advance understanding of the Middle East among Arkansans, Wiebelhaus-Brahm aims to draw attention to Syrians and other victims of human rights violations who deserve to have their justice demands heard. Wiebelhaus-Brahm studies transitional justice, meaning how societies wrestle with histories of violence and repression and the politics surrounding justice for past atrocities. Other recent research supported by the program include studies of Middle Eastern immigrants in Brazil and attitudes about safety among immigrants from the Middle East in Arkansas. Wiebelhaus-Brahm鈥檚 lecture coincides with , in which community organizations across the state draw attention to peace and social justice issues. For more information, contact Wiebelhaus-Brahm at ejwiebelhaus@ualr.edu.听听]]> 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock to host screening on Syrian Civil War, Q&A with Syrian activist Mouaz Moustafa /news-archive/2017/08/22/red-lines/ Tue, 22 Aug 2017 14:48:19 +0000 /news/?p=67697 ... 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock to host screening on Syrian Civil War, Q&A with Syrian activist Mouaz Moustafa]]> In coordination with, the University of Arkansas at Little Rock Middle Eastern Studies Program will host a screening of the film, 鈥,鈥 at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 19, in the Student Services Center Room 104. The movie follows two young Syrian activists, Mouaz Moustafa and Razan Shahab-al-Sham, who wish to bring democracy to their country during the deadly Syrian Civil War. It also discusses the growth of the Syrian Emergency Task Force during the early years of the Syrian Civil War. One of the activists featured in the documentary is Mouaz Moustafa, a Syrian-American who grew up in Arkansas and graduated from the University of Central Arkansas.聽He is the executive director of the Syrian Emergency Task Force, political director for United For a Free Syria, and a board member of the Coalition for a Democratic Syria. In the film鈥檚 synopsis, Moustafa is described as an activist who becomes a 鈥減rimary source for intel carrying dire implications.鈥 He struggles to find external support before the Syrian conflict spreads to neighboring countries and destabilizes the region. After the screening, Moustafa will discuss the course of the Syrian Civil War since the film鈥檚 release in 2014 and his continuing work with the Syrian Emergency Task Force, which he joined in 2011 to help advocate on behalf of the pro-democracy movement in Syria. The organization also raises awareness on the plight of the Syrian people inflicted through the ongoing civil war. The event is free and open to the public. Refreshments will be served. For more information, contact Eric Wiebelhaus-Brahm at 501.683.7029 or ejwiebelhaus@ualr.edu. In the upper right photo,聽Razan Shahab-al-Sham (left) and Mouaz Moustafa (right) deliver mattresses and blankets to Syrian refugees taking shelter in Hacipasa, a village on the Turkish-Syrian border. Photo provided by Spark Media.聽]]> 糖心Vlog传媒LR to host 鈥淎rkansas Women to Watch鈥 /news-archive/2016/09/07/arkansas-women-to-watch/ Wed, 07 Sep 2016 13:47:44 +0000 /news/?p=65023 ... 糖心Vlog传媒LR to host 鈥淎rkansas Women to Watch鈥]]> The University of Arkansas at Little Rock will host the artwork of four emerging and mid-career female artists from Arkansas whose pieces are featured in a statewide tour.聽 鈥淎rkansas Women to Watch: Organic Matters鈥 is the fourth biennial tour of work by Arkansas women. The competitive exhibit is sponsored by the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C. 聽 The 糖心Vlog传媒LR Art Gallery will display the exhibit from Sept. 8 to Oct. 20 in the Maners/Pappas Gallery and Gallery III in the 糖心Vlog传媒LR Fine Arts Building. Artists include Sandra Luckett, of Conway, Katherine Rutter, formerly of Little Rock, Dawn Holder, of Clarksville, and Melissa Wilkinson, of Bono. A reception will be held for the artists at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 21, at the Stella Boyle Smith Concert Hall in the 糖心Vlog传媒LR Fine Arts Building. The reception will also honor Brian McCarty, an internationally exhibited artist and toy industry veteran whose photographs are on display in the 糖心Vlog传媒LR Art Gallery from Sept. 1 to Oct. 20. Three of the Arkansas Women to Watch artists will give guest lectures at 糖心Vlog传媒LR during the exhibit, including:
  • Melissa Wilkinson, 6 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 29, 糖心Vlog传媒LR Fine Arts Building Room 157
  • Dawn Holder, 6 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 5, 糖心Vlog传媒LR Fine Arts Building Room 157
  • Sandra Luckett, 6 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 13, 糖心Vlog传媒LR Fine Arts Building Room 157
The is a co-sponsor of the reception. The event will be held during in observance of the United Nations’ International Day of Peace.
Melissa Wilkinson's 2014 watercolor "Man Eater."

Melissa Wilkinson’s 2014 watercolor “Man Eater”

Curator Courtney Taylor canvassed the state of Arkansas to select four contemporary female artists working with imagery and materials taken from the natural world. Their work includes mixed media and photographic installations, mixed-media drawings, and watercolor paintings. Historically, society encouraged female artists to take the natural world as their subject. Rather than narrative art, which was thought to require invention and imagination beyond women鈥檚 capabilities, subjects such as botanical drawings, still-life paintings, and images of animals 鈥 merely requiring the powers of observation 鈥 were deemed suitable. The theme of 鈥淥rganic Matters鈥 illuminates how contemporary artists re-contextualize images in nature to reflect upon the themes of sexuality, gender politics, and the abstract to redefine emerging relationships between women, nature, and art. The 糖心Vlog传媒LR Art Gallery is located in the 糖心Vlog传媒LR Fine Arts Building and is open 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday. Beginning Sept. 10, the gallery will be open from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Saturdays and 2 to 5 p.m. on Sundays. For more information, contact 糖心Vlog传媒LR Gallery Director Brad Cushman at becushman@ualr.edu or 501.569.8977. In the upper right photo,聽Dawn Holder’s “Once Upon a Time in the Forest of I鈥檓 Not Sweet Enough” is a featured work in the聽鈥淎rkansas Women to Watch: Organic Matters鈥 biennial tour of work by Arkansas women.]]>