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Music Professor Eugenia Costa-Giomi is conducting musical cognition research on infants, and she’s found that babies pay better attention to characteristics of music than adults do.

Event: The University of Texas at Austin Department of Theatre and Dance hosts one of the most influential and prolific actors of the last 35 years in “A Conversation with Meryl Streep.” In a presentation led by Professor Fran Dor

As a part of the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs Leadership Lecture Series, Roy Spence discusses his purpose-based leadership philosophy and what businesses can do to survive the “economic winter.”

“When I Rise,” a Dolph Briscoe Center for American History documentary film about African-American mezzo-soprano Barbara Smith Conrad, has been nominated for a prestigious International Documentary Association (IDA) award in the Music Documentary category.

Event: “Losing Faith” is an exhibition of recent work by TJ Hunt, a studio art senior, and Landon O’Brien, a studio art alumnus, investigating artistic identity through re-contextualization.

Event: “Combined: Department of Art and Art History Faculty Exhibition” will be on exhibit at the Visual Arts Center in the Department of Art and Art History, Nov. 5-Dec. 18.

Event: “Crude Truths” Talk: Peter Maass discusses how a writer tells compelling stories about oil and war. Free and open to the public.  When: Thursday, Oct. 28, 7 p.m.

As a part of the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs Leadership Lecture Series, Curtis Meadows shares his thoughts on innovative leadership practices burgeoning in the nonprofit and nongovernmental sectors.

Event: Filmmaker Spike Lee will screen portions of his latest documentary on New Orleans, “If God Is Willing and Da Creek Don’t Rise,” and lead a roundtable discussion with scholars Paul Stekler, Douglas Brinkley and others.

Event: L. Michael White, the Ronald Nelson Smith Chair in Classics and Christian Origins, will discuss his book “Scripting Jesus: The Gospels in Rewrite,” at a faculty book celebration party hosted by The University of Texas at Austin’s Department of Religious Studies.

Event: “John Kingerlee: A Painter’s Passage” will be on exhibit at the Visual Arts Center (VAC) in the Department of Art and Art History, Oct. 29-Dec. 18.

As a part of the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs Leadership Lecture Series, Dean Paul Woodruff shares his thoughts on the simple truths about leadership in a free society.