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Ending Maduro’s Socialist Nightmare

Tuesday Apr 14 | 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

TCU Young Americans for Freedom will be hosting Daniel Di Martino, a Conservative speaker and economist. Daniel offers a firsthand account on how socialism destroyed his home country of Venezuela. He will address how Maduro’s capture affects the political-economic development of Venezuela and its relationship with the United States.

Palko Hall

Palko Hall
3000 Bellaire Drive North
Fort Worth, TX 76109

About Young Americans for Freedom

Ending Maduro’s Socialist Nightmare
Young Americans for Freedom maintains the belief that liberty is indivisible, and that the moral duty of government is to protect our freedom through the preservation of internal order, the provision of national defense, and the administration of justice. Our objective is to defend traditional values and bring Conservative speakers to campus by organizing lectures and conferences for TCU students. The goal is to expand the Conservative Movement through higher education.
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Behind the Seams: Preserving History at the Texas Fashion Collection

Saturday Mar 7 | 10:30 am - 12:00 pm

The Texas Fashion Collection at the University of North Texas is a remarkable archive of designer garments and accessories, preserved through meticulous behind‑the‑scenes practices that range from climate‑controlled storage to specialized conservation techniques that protect delicate textiles for future study. Headed by Dr. Annette Becker, this program will highlight behind-the-scenes practices that enable the Texas Fashion Collection to preserve and present its nearly 20,000 historic and designer garments and accessories. While the collection contains materials from designers such as Balenciaga, Dior, and Givenchy, Dr. Becker will showcase uniquely Texan stories best represented by fashion history artifacts housed at the TFC, including an infamous Western-style party that featured bovine fashion show staged for a famous Parisian designer and Texan designers who have outfitted women ranging from First Lady Laura Bush to the character Fran Fine in the TV show The Nanny! Put on your best Texan wear and join us for this fascinating talk!

Dr. Annette Becker is an educator and historian whose research focuses on fashion history. She serves as the director of the Texas Fashion Collection, an archive of nearly 20,000 historic and designer garments and accessories housed within the University of North Texas College of Visual Arts and Design. There, she engages in academic programming, curatorial activity, and collection advocacy informed by her graduate training in art history, art education, and American history.

Palko Hall

Palko Hall
3000 Bellaire Drive North
Fort Worth, TX 76109

About Center for Texas Studies at TCU

Behind the Seams: Preserving History at the Texas Fashion Collection
The Center for Texas Studies at TCU celebrates all that makes Texas distinctive through public programming, exhibitions, publications, and continuing education related to the culture of the Lone Star State.

Questions about this event?

Charles Cox

Email: charles.cox@tcu.edu

Phone: 8508262656

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TPUSA Survivors of Communism Panel

Monday Feb 2 | 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm

The Fight Against Communism with One Southlake

Palko Hall

Palko Hall
3000 Bellaire Drive North
Fort Worth, TX 76109

About Turning Point

TPUSA Survivors of Communism Panel
Turning Point USA's purpose is to educate students on fiscal responsibility, limited government, and free markets. We identify students who believe in the freedom of speech and protecting individual liberties. At Turning Point USA, we mobilize, connect and engage with students who believe in these American values. We are a grassroots organization and provide our members with the opportunity to get involved with issue advocacy, activism, public policy, and persistent innovation.
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Victim Impact: From Cold Case to Conviction in the William Reece Case

Saturday Feb 7 | 10:30 am - 12:00 pm

Kelli Cox was, ironically, a criminal justice minor at the University of North Texas when she disappeared in 1997. In his new book, Victim Impact: From Cold Case to Conviction in the William Reece Case, author James Marquart delves into the gripping true story of her murder and the long journey toward resolution that ensued. His talk will cover the details of the crime but will also center the discussion on an in-depth exploration of a mother’s struggle for justice following the abduction and murder of her daughter at the hands of a serial predator. You will want to join us for this very human look at a terrible Texas true crime.

James Marquart graduated with a Ph.D. In Sociology from Texas A&M University while working as a prison guard. He taught and held administrative offices at UNT, Lamar University, and the University of Texas Dallas before joining the TCU Criminal Justice Department in 2023. He is former President on The Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences and has published many papers and books focused on the incarcerated and the experiences of victims. Most recently he’s woven that research into stories of true crime.

Palko Hall

Palko Hall
3000 Bellaire Drive North
Fort Worth, TX 76109

About Center for Texas Studies at TCU

Victim Impact: From Cold Case to Conviction in the William Reece Case
The Center for Texas Studies at TCU celebrates all that makes Texas distinctive through public programming, exhibitions, publications, and continuing education related to the culture of the Lone Star State.

Questions about this event?

Charles Cox

Email: charles.cox@tcu.edu

Phone: 8508262656

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To Heaven and Back: The Man Whose Heart Stopped for 17 Minutes

Wednesday Dec 3 | 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Steve & Bev Maxwell at TCU

Palko Hall

Palko Hall
3000 Bellaire Drive North
Fort Worth, TX 76109

About Turning Point

To Heaven and Back: The Man Whose Heart Stopped for 17 Minutes
Turning Point USA's purpose is to educate students on fiscal responsibility, limited government, and free markets. We identify students who believe in the freedom of speech and protecting individual liberties. At Turning Point USA, we mobilize, connect and engage with students who believe in these American values. We are a grassroots organization and provide our members with the opportunity to get involved with issue advocacy, activism, public policy, and persistent innovation.
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Cafe Conversations

Monday Nov 10 | 10:00 am - 12:00 pm

As we enter the month of gratitude, we want to create a space for our peers and community members to learn about the growth of BESO and to express our appreciation for our community. In this space, we encourage everyone to leave notes of gratitude, and we invite you to do so in your native language or in a language you are currently learning. This will help us connect and educate one another.

Palko Hall

Palko Hall
3000 Bellaire Drive North
Fort Worth, TX 76109

About Bilingual Education Student Organization

Cafe Conversations
The purpose of the Bilingual Education Student Organization at TCU is to serve and support bilingual and emergent multilingual students; to create community among students from diverse majors that share an interest in bilingualism, biculturalism, and advocacy for culturally and linguistically diverse individuals on campus in our community, and the world. Bilingual Education Student Organization at TCU will provide leadership and professional skills development and opportunities; to promote peace through education and multicultural understanding and collaborate and work toward the common goal of creating a better world where bilingual youth and families thrive. Bilingual Education Student Organization at TCU will promote training programs designed to prepare ESL and bilingual/bicultural educators. We will publicize ESL and bilingual/bicultural education, particularly emphasizing the nature and need for such education, and help promote the recruitment of others into the Bilingual Education Program at Texas Christian University. Bilingual Education Student Organization at TCU will facilitate sharing information and resources between students and faculty interested or enrolled in bilingual/bicultural education at Texas Christian University.
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Reading & Book Signing with Pulitzer Prize Winner Robert Olen Butler

Wednesday Nov 5 | 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Join us for a reading and book signing with Pulitzer Prize Winner Robert Olen Butler! He is the author of Twice Around a Marriage, published by TCU Press.

Wednesday, November 5th
6PM – 8PM
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Robert Olen Butler has published nineteen novels and six volumes of short stories, one of which, A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain, won the 1993 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction. In 2013, he was the sixteenth annual recipient of the F. Scott Fitzgerald Award for Outstanding Achievement in American Literature. He teaches creative writing at Florida State University.

Palko Hall

Palko Hall
3000 Bellaire Drive North
Fort Worth, TX 76109

About English Department

Reading & Book Signing with Pulitzer Prize Winner Robert Olen Butler
Since 1873, the English Department has remained at the heart of academics at TCU. As one of the largest departments on campus, we are proud to work with students at every level in their education, from first-year writing and literature courses to doctoral studies in English or Rhetoric and Composition. Today, the English Department approaches both venerable and popular subjects – from Jane Austin, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Kenneth Burke or missionary writers, radical journalists, and comic books – with traditional and cutting edge tools. We work in both dusty and digital archives to advance knowledge about the centrality of culture in our lives. Our faculty have garnered significant scholarly recognitions in a broad range of intellectual areas, with special focus on British, American, and postcolonial literatures, rhetoric and composition, and creative writing. The department offers two majors in English and Writing, a minor in these areas, as well as Creative Writing, and the Ph.D. in English or Rhetoric and Composition.

Questions about this event?

Laura Briley

Email: laura.briley@tcu.edu

Phone: 8172577240

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How Segregation Took Shape in 1925 Fort Worth

Saturday Nov 1 | 10:30 am - 10:30 am

The 1920s were an era of dramatic change and racial violence, and as Blake Gandy, TCU PhD History Candidate, shows, Fort Worth was no different. From January 1925 to October 1926, Black Americans living in Fort Worth’s Near Southeast neighborhood experienced one act of arson and around nine house bombings. This talk will explore how one of Fort Worth’s oldest Black neighborhoods came into existence in the first decades of the 20th century and how a political fight over the boundaries of segregation resulted in acts of vigilante terror.

Blake Gandy is a fourth-year PhD History Candidate at Texas Christian University. His work explores the intersections between education and grassroots conservatism in modern Texas, particularly within the contexts of desegregation, suburbanization, and charter schools. Gandy graduated with his B.A. in History from the University of North Texas and his M.A. from Texas State University. Gandy is currently a History teacher at Fort Worth Country Day.

Palko Hall

Palko Hall
3000 Bellaire Drive North
Fort Worth, TX 76109

About Center for Texas Studies at TCU

How Segregation Took Shape in 1925 Fort Worth
The Center for Texas Studies at TCU celebrates all that makes Texas distinctive through public programming, exhibitions, publications, and continuing education related to the culture of the Lone Star State.

Questions about this event?

Charles Cox

Email: charles.cox@tcu.edu

Phone: 850-826-2656

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Panel Discussion: Religious Liberty

Monday Oct 27 | 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm

Discussion, Q&A, and Debate with Pastor Rob McCoy, Sean Feucht, and State Representative Nate Schatzline

Palko Hall

Palko Hall
3000 Bellaire Drive North
Fort Worth, TX 76109

About Turning Point

Panel Discussion: Religious Liberty
Turning Point USA's purpose is to educate students on fiscal responsibility, limited government, and free markets. We identify students who believe in the freedom of speech and protecting individual liberties. At Turning Point USA, we mobilize, connect and engage with students who believe in these American values. We are a grassroots organization and provide our members with the opportunity to get involved with issue advocacy, activism, public policy, and persistent innovation.
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Singing Back the Buffalo

Tuesday Nov 18 | 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Award-winning Cree filmmaker Tasha Hubbard’s feature length film Singing Back the Buffalo follows Indigenous visionaries, scientists, and communities who are rematriating the buffalo to the heart of the North American plains they once defined, signaling a turning point for Indigenous nations, the ecosystem, and all of our collective survival.

Palko Hall

Palko Hall
3000 Bellaire Drive North
Fort Worth, TX 76109

About Center for Connection Culture

The TCU Center for Connection Culture was established in 2013 to provide programming, education and training to intentionalize TCU’s Connection Culture.