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- University News Archive - ��Vlog��ý Little Rock /news-archive/tag/cooper-honors-program/ ��Vlog��ý Little Rock Thu, 25 Feb 2021 18:38:18 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 ��Vlog��ý Little Rock Announces Events to Recognize Diversity Month /news-archive/2021/02/25/ua-little-rock-diversity-month/ Thu, 25 Feb 2021 18:38:18 +0000 /news/?p=78423 ...]]> To celebrate Diversity Month, the University of Arkansas at Little Rock’s Diversity Council has scheduled a variety of events set to take place throughout the month of March. Presentations will include discussions on a range of topics, research findings, and historical events. Addressing Microaggressions – Noon, Wednesday, March 3 The Academy for Teaching and Learning Excellence (ATLE) will present this upcoming Lunch and Learn session as an opportunity for faculty to engage in conversations about how to deal with microaggressions in the classroom. Disability and Diversity – Noon, Thursday, March 4 The director for the ��Vlog��ý Little Rock Disability Resource Center, Reed Claiborne, will present a discussion on disability and the things that frame perceptions of disabilities such as legal definitions, media portrayals, historical treatments, and more. Anti-Blackness, Social Feelings, and Public Policy: 1964-2020 – 6 p.m. Thursday, March 4 ��Vlog��ý Little Rock English Department’s Cooper Honors Program will present a talk with Dr. Lisa Corrigan, associate professor of communication and director of the Gender Studies program, who will discuss her latest book, “Black Feelings: Race, Affect, and the Long Sixties.” Building Collaborative Relationships to Improve Race Relations – 10 a.m. Tuesday, March 9 A panel of researchers from the Little Rock Congregations Study (LRCS) will discuss findings relevant to race relations from their Fall 2020 survey with 35 community congregations. The panel will consist of ��Vlog��ý Little Rock professors Gerald Driskill, Rebecca Glazier, and Kirk Leach. In partnership with the Clinton School of Public Service, the panelists will also present a process of facilitating community dialogues on key issues found within their survey results. Modern Warriors of World War I: American Indians in the Great War – Noon, Wednesday, March 10 Presented by Erin Fehr, an archivist with the ��Vlog��ý Little Rock Sequoyah National Research Center, this event will highlight the sacrifice and bravery of American Indians and Alaska Natives that served in World War I. It will inform audience members about things such as how they used their language to create a code that was never broken by the Germans. The Sequoyah National Research Center created a to identify all 12,000 American Indians that served in World War I, which can be found online as part of the ’s website. New Funds for Minority Businesses in Little Rock – 2 p.m. Thursday, March 11 The Arkansas Small Business and Technology Development Center will present a panel discussion on new funding opportunities available in Little Rock for minority businesses. We Sing! A Celebration of Women’s Heritage – 3 p.m. Sunday, March 14 ��Vlog��ý Little Rock Choirs will host a live-streamed performance celebrating Women’s Heritage Month, featuring historically informed music performances, poetry reading, a speaker with commentary on notable women of the suffrage movement, and a special musical oratory presentation with Dr. Linda Holzer and Dr. Yslan Hicks. Putting the Pieces Together: A look at how Universal Design for Learning, Open Educational Resources, and Affordable Learning Content work together to benefit students and faculty – 3 p.m. Monday, March 15 in the Ottenheimer Library Presented by e-Learning Specialist Hannah Hurdle, will discuss the Universal Design for Learning (UDL), Open Educational Resources (OER), and Affordable Learning Content (ALC) frameworks for inclusive learning. Entrepreneurship: My Journey into the Unknown – 2 p.m. Tuesday, March 16 Entrepreneurial Education Specialist Pamela Reed, with the Arkansas Small Business and Technology Development Center, will present a panel discussion featuring minority entrepreneurs. Connecting & Utilizing Social Media for Each Generation – 1 p.m. Thursday, March 18 Jennifer McDannold, coordinator of student orientation and transitions, will present information about each generation, focusing on social media and marketing tricks as well as best practices for Boomers, Gen X, Millennials, and Gen Z. “This is Not Who We Are:” Discussing Whiteness, Denial, & Division – 10 a.m. Monday, March 29 Laura Casey, a student success coach with the ��Vlog��ý Little Rock Student Retention Initiatives (SRI) team, will host a discussion on the experiences of whiteness and confronting denial. She will be utilizing references such as Ibram Kendi’s book “How to Be an Antiracist” in her presentation to unpack what denial mixed with whiteness looks like. Exploring Our Power and Privilege – 10 a.m. Tuesday, March 30 Sharon Downs, ��Vlog��ý Little Rock assistant vice chancellor for student affairs, will present this final event to encourage conversation on the concepts of power and privilege.]]> Arkansas Literary Festival features ��Vlog��ý Little Rock poet, Equinox launch /news-archive/2019/04/25/literary-festival/ Thu, 25 Apr 2019 21:57:32 +0000 /news/?p=74125 ...]]> ��Vlog��ý Little Rock poetry professor H.K. Hummel published her first poem when she was just 21 after winning the grand prize in a love poetry contest. She has since published numerous poems, co-founded an online poetry journal, and written a creative writing guide now being used in college classrooms across the country. This weekend, she’s one of the featured authors at the 2019 . On Saturday, April 27, Hummel will present a writing workshop based on her book Short-Form Creative Writing: A Writer’s Guide and Anthology beginning at 11:30 a.m. at The Bookstore at Library Square, 120 River Market Ave., in downtown Little Rock. The text is an introduction to the art and craft of extremely compressed works of imaginative literature in which Hummel and co-author Stephanie Lenox introduce both traditional and innovative approaches to the short-form and demonstrate how it possesses structure, logic, and coherence while simultaneously resisting expectations. The book covers prose poetry, flash fiction, micro memoir, lyric essay, cross-genre/hybrid writing, and more. Hummel uses many of the writing prompts in her text to engage her students. Her class recently experimented with flash fiction, a form of writing that can be as short as a page, or a paragraph, or even a sentence. “They love it because it’s fun, and it’s unintimidating,” she said. “It’s easier to say ‘I’m going to write a paragraph’ than ‘I’m going to write 20 pages. The trick then is to make every word in that paragraph count.’” In addition to teaching creative writing at ��Vlog��ý Little Rock, Hummel, along with Professor Jeffrey Condran, are the faculty advisors for Equinox, a journal of contemporary literature at ��Vlog��ý Little Rock. The journal is celebrating its new issue with a launch party on the last day of the literary festival, on Sunday, April 28, from 2-4 p.m. at ��Vlog��ý Little Rock Downtown, 333 President Clinton Ave. There will be live music, a student reading, and an awards ceremony. Hummel has a full-length poetry collection, Lessons in Breathing Underwater, which will be released in November by Sundress Publications. She is currently working on a new collection of poems inspired, in part, by a research trip she took last summer along 1,500 miles of the U.S. Civil Rights trail, thanks to a ��Vlog��ý Little Rock faculty research grant. Hummel earned a Bachelor of Arts in English from the University of California, Davis; a Master of Arts in English literature from Eastern Washington University; and a Master of Fine Arts in creative writing (poetry) from University of Southern Maine. She co-founded the online poetry journal , which is now housed at Washington State University, and continues to serve on its advisory board. She received a fellowship from the Arkansas Arts Council and an Emerging Writer-in-Residence fellowship from the Katharine Susannah Prichard Writers’ Centre, and her work was nominated for a Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net. ��Vlog��ý Little Rock’s Department of English and the Cooper Honors Program, in partnership with the , are silver-level sponsors of the 2019 Arkansas Literary Festival. The 2019 can be found online. Events related to ��Vlog��ý Little Rock include the following: Friday, April 26 – Author! Author! event honoring this year’s authors, 7-9 p.m., Main Library, 100 S. Rock St. Books will be available for purchase. Tickets are $25 in advance at or $40 at the door and include hors d’oeuvres and libations. Saturday, April 27 – Reading by poet Jericho Brown, 11:30 a.m., , 100 River Market Ave. Dr. Laura Barrio-Villar, associate professor in the ��Vlog��ý Little Rock English department, will moderate. Saturday, April 27 – Discussion of “Short-Form Writing: A Writer’s Guide and Anthology” by H.K. Hummel, 11:30 a.m., 120 River Market Ave. Sunday, April 28 – 2019 Equinox launch, student readings, and music by the band Dazz and Brie, 2-4 p.m., ��Vlog��ý Little Rock Downtown, 333 President Clinton Ave. Flash fiction flash of insight, or flash of a sight For just a moment, you see the world. Imaging it’s nighttime and a lightening bolt light up everythin.g Flash fiction a like aflas of insight or a momentary vision. ��Vlog��ý Little Rock poetry professor H.K. Hummel compares creative writing flashes to harnessing a lightning bolt. She is the author of “Short-Form Creative Writing: A Writer’s Guide and Anthology” and will be featured at the 2019 Arkansas Literary Festival. Photo by Benjamin Krain ]]> Award-winning author Stewart ��’N�� to visit ��Vlog��ýLR /news-archive/2016/09/27/stewart-onan/ Tue, 27 Sep 2016 13:30:34 +0000 /news/?p=65236 ...]]> Acclaimed author Stewart ��’N�� will speak at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock at 7 p.m., Wednesday, Oct. 19, at the Stella Boyle Smith Concert Hall in the ��Vlog��ýLR Fine Arts Building. is the author of 16 novels, including “City of Secrets,” “West of Sunset,” “The Odds,” “Emily Alone,” “Songs for the Missing,” “Last Night at the Lobster,” “A Prayer for the Dying,” and “Snow Angels.” Along with Stephen King, he also co-authored the national bestselling nonfiction book “Faithful: Two Diehard Boston Red Sox Fans Chronicle the Historic 2004 Season.” ��’N��’s novel, “West of Sunset,” recently received the 2016 literary prize. “Snow Angels” won the Pirates Alley William Faulkner Prize and was made into a feature film directed by David Gordon Green and starring Sam Rockwell and Kate Beckinsale. ��’N��’s book, “Last Night at the Lobster” was a national bestseller and a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. The event is free and open to the public. It is sponsored by the ��Vlog��ýLR English Department’s Visiting Writers Series and the Cooper Honors Program. For more information, contact Jeffrey Condran at jacondran@ualr.edu.]]>