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[Thursday, August 6, 5:30pm, Eaton Humanities, room 1B50] Think! Talk, featuring Don Marquis, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Kansas, "Abortion and Personal Identity." Abstract: Abortion is presumptively seriously immoral for the same reason it is wrong to end YOUR life: Ending your life deprives you of the experiences you would have valued had you continued to live. Some have argued that because no fetus is the same person as the adult she would become, an abortion is different from ending the life of an older human being in a morally significant way. I argue that this view is incorrect. Sponsored by Department of Philosophy and the Center for Values and Social Policy, and funded through The Collins Foundation. For further information, please contact the Philosophy department at 303-492-6132.
[Thursday, September 3, 7:00pm, Eaton Humanities 150] "Flame and Fortune. A Brief History of Fire in America." Come join one of the foremost experts on the environmental history of fire, Stephen Pyne, as he discusses fire in America and addresses the issues it raises about the interface of wild lands and urban development. Noted for his highly entertaining and accessible approach to academic topics, Stephen Pyne is currently a Regents Professor at Arizona State University, has received a distinguished MacArthur Fellowship and is the author of many books including Year of Fires, Smokechasing, and Tending Fire. Don't miss an opportunity to hear one of the leading minds in the field address an topic so pertinent to our lives along the Front Range. Sponsored by Center of the American West. For further information, please contact 303-492-4879 or info@centerwest.org.
[Friday, September 4, 4:00pm, British Studies (5th floor of Norlin Library)] The Center for British and Irish Studies presents a talk by David Clark, Professor of English and Cultural Studies at McMaster University: "On the Promise of Peace: Kant's Wartime and the Tremulous Body of Philosophy." Professor Clark has published extensively on Romanticism and literary theory; his new book, Bodies and Pleasures in Late Kant, is forthcoming from Stanford University Press. From his faculty web site, www.humanities.mcmaster.ca/~dclark/clarkmain.htm: "My research work began with the poetry and designs of the radical English visionary William Blake and with the intersection of contemporary critical theory, post-Enlightenment philosophy, and Romantic literary practice. Contemporary critical theory remains a principal concern, especially the later work of Jacques Derrida. Although I still consider myself an active Romanticist, my focus has shifted towards symptomatic readings of late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century philosophy, notably the writings of Immanuel Kant and Friedrich Schelling. Engaging philosophical texts as sites of conflicted desire, disavowal, and self-difference, my research and teaching address the complex imbrication of rhetoric and culture that quickens Kantian and post-Kantian thought, and in particular dwells upon the cultural excesses and conceptual remainders that trouble philosophical and theoretical narratives. My current project on Kant explores the bodies and pleasures haunting the philosopher's last published writings, while my work on Schelling discusses the unsettling role that resistant negativities play in the mourning work of German idealism. Other research foci include: philosophical articulations of animality and responsibility in Levinas, Kant, Derrida, and Heidegger; the rhetoric of "drugs" and "addiction" in Heidegger, Kant, De Quincey, and Schelling; the question of extraordinary forms of embodiment; the meanings of queer theory after the work of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick." Sponsored by Center for British and Irish Studies (CBIS). For further information, please contact Jill Heydt-Stevenson, Director, or Michele Speitz, Assistant to the Director.
[Tuesday, September 8, 5:00pm, Fleming 104] Visiting Scholar Lecture Series, featuring Pamela H. Smith, Professor of History at Columbia University. "Vermilion, Gold, Blood and Lizards: Art & Science in Early Modern Europe." Professor Smith has published extensively on the intersections of art and science in early modern Europe and beyond, including two award-winning books, The Body of the Artisan: Art and Experience in the Scientific Revolution and The Business of Alchemy: Science and Culture in the Holy Roman Empire. Her current work deals with ways of making objects and knowing nature, and problems of understanding historical experience. Sponsored by Department of Art & Art History as part of its series, Creative Intersections in Art, Science & Technology 1500-1800. For further information, please go to www.colorado.edu/arts/events, or contact the Art & Art History department at 303-492-6504.
[Tuesday, September 8, 7:00pm, Fleming 155] Art & Art History Lecture Series, featuring Hank Willis Thomas (photo). Mr. Thomas' work probes the intersection of corporate branding with the social and cultural ambiguity underlying the experience of the African American (male), creating tension between corporate exploitation, commodity and race. His primary message remains "we are more than this." Sponsored by Department of Art & Art History. For further information, please go to www.colorado.edu/arts/events, or contact the Art & Art History department at 303-492-6504.
[Monday, September 14, 3:00 pm, Norlin Library E113] "Japan Knowledge Workshop," a workshop to be given by June Tateno. This workshop will introduce Japan Knowledge, which provides access to various reference sources, including dictionaries, encyclopedias, biographies, maps, news and literature. Please note that space is limited and interested parties must RSVP to Kevin McDowell. Sponsored by Center for Asian Studies. For further information, please visit the CAS website at http://www.colorado.edu/cas/events.htm, or contact casevent@colorado.edu.
[Monday, September 14, 4:00-5:00pm, Macky 202] CHA's Work in Progress series, featuring Ruth Ellen Kocher, Associate Professor, Department of English, entitled "domina Un/blued." Everyone is invited to these work in progress sessions. We encourage you to read the work before the session -- please contact Paula Anderson and a copy of the work will be sent to you electronically. Professor Kocher will present the work, leaving time for questions and discussion. Refreshments are provided. For further information, please contact Paula Anderson, 303-492-1423.
[Thursday, September 17, 12:30-1:30pm, IBS Building 3 Seminar Room] CAS Speaker Series Event: "Socioeconomic Influences on Lineage Growth, Decline, and Extinction in Late Imperial China," featuring Cameron Campbell, Professor of Sociology and Associate Director, California Center for Population Research, UCLA. This presentation will be based on a paper co-authored with James Lee of the Hong Kong University of Science and technology. It is inspired by Greg Clark’s claims about fertility differentials by SES in historical China in which we take advantage of the multi-generational nature of our Liaoning dataset to examine how socioeconomic status affected reproductive success over the long term, as measured by shares of the population two and four generations later accounted for by descendants of males of high status.Sponsored by Center for Asian Studies. For further information, please visit the CAS website at http://www.colorado.edu/cas/events.htm, or contact casevent@colorado.edu.
[Thursday, September 17, 7:00pm, Benson Earth Sciences, Room 180] Center of the American West is pleased to announce Jim Enote, a Zuni tribal member, a high-altitude traditional farmer, and an interrupted artist, as the seventh guest in our Modern Indian Identity series. Mr. Enote is the director of the A:shiwi A:wan Museum and Heritage Center at Zuni, NM. Please join us for his talk, "Stranger than Paradise: Is There a Medicine Man in the House?" This series features contemporary Indian speakers telling their stories in ways that confirm the compatibility of tradition with innovation. The speakers have a profound tie to their people's pasts, and they have adaped with agility and interprise to the conditions of our times. The event is made possible by the generosity of Nancy and Gary Carlston. For further information, please contact Amanda Dixon, 303-492-4879.
[Friday, September 18, 12:00-1:00pm, British Studies (5th floor of Norlin Library)] CHA's Performance Friday! featuring excerpts from Theatre and Dance's production of The Visit. Doors open at 11:30 for a free, light lunch. For further information, please contact Paula Anderson, 303-492-1423.
[Tuesday, September 22, 7:00pm, Fleming 155] Art & Art History Lecture Series, featuring Marjetica Potrc (multi). Ms. Ptorc is an artist and architect based in Slovenia. Her interdisciplinary practice includes on-site projects, research, architectural case studies, objects and drawings. She is best known for community-driven interventions in urban and rural areas within the developing world. Her work documents and interprets contemporary architectural practices (with an emphasis on energy infrastructure and water use) and the ways people live together. Sponsored by Department of Art & Art History. For further information, please go to www.colorado.edu/arts/events, or contact the Art & Art History department at 303-492-6504.
[Wednesday, September 23, 6:00pm, ATLAS 100] Visiting Scholar Lecture Series, featuring Martin Kemp, Professor Emeritus in the History of Art at Oxford University. "Structural Intuitions in Art & Science." The central focus of Professor Kemp's wide-ranging research has been the relationship between scientific models of nature and the theory and practice of art. He is the author of more than two dozen books, including the award-winning Leonardo da Vinci: The Marvellous Works of Nature and Man. He is a foremost authority on da Vinci who has also curated several innovative exhibitions involving contemporary artists. Sponsored by Department of Art & Art History as part of its series, Creative Intersections in Art, Science & Technology 1500-1800. Co-sponsored by the Herbst Program of Humanities for Engineers in celebration of its 20th anniversary. For further information, please go to www.colorado.edu/arts/events, or contact the Art & Art History department at 303-492-6504.
[Thursday, September 24, 4:00–6:30pm, Hale 270] CAS Speaker Series Event: "Tent Talkies: The Traveling Cinemas of Mahrashtra," featuring Amit Madheshiya and Shirley Abraham. This event will focus on the “tent talkies” or traveling cinemas of Maharashtra, India, and will be paired with a photography exhibition. These marginalized cinemas have been integral to the cultural life of patrons in villages for about six decades, and this will be the first presentation on these cinemas in the United States. Sponsored by Center for Asian Studies. For further information, please visit the CAS website at http://www.colorado.edu/cas/events.htm, or contact casevent@colorado.edu.
[Friday and Saturday, September 25-26] "Memory + Truth," an Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference organized by graduate students in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Graduate student participants from a range of disciplines will present 15 minute papers on their original research in a series of panels with CU faculty as discussants. Please click on link above for a detailed schedule. The conference is free and open to the public. We contend that memory and truth are critical, yet treacherous concepts for understanding issues across the humanities and social sciences: from the constitution of societies, states, and subjects to the experiencing and narrating of war and conflict, from issues of refugee, migrant, and diasporic identities to those of colonial and postcolonial politics, from the effects of trauma and debates over remembered histories to material elements and traces of the past, from myths and oral traditions to questions of literary genre and form, from new media technologies to questions of gender, sexuality, and citizenship, from epistemology to eschatology and everything in between. We hope to highlight the diversity in academic work on memory and truth while simultaneously refining our conversations across disciplinary divides with methodological and theoretical creativity, rigor, and productivity. Sponsored by Department of Anthropology, Center for Asian Studies, United Government of Graduate Students (UGGS) and Graduate Committee on the Arts and Humanities (GCAH). For more information, contact memoryconference@gmail.com or carole.mcgranahan@colorado.edu.
[Sunday, October 4, 7:30–9:30pm, Grusin Music Hall, Imig Music Building] “A Special Performance by the Imada Puppet Troupe and Bunraku Bay.” Come join us for a special performance of bunraku, the traditional Japanese performing art form of puppet theater. This event will feature expert artists from Japan performing a selection of famous bunraku scenes. Sponsored by Center for Asian Studies. For further information, please visit the CAS website at http://www.colorado.edu/cas/events.htm, or contact casevent@colorado.edu.
[Tuesday, October 6, 7:00pm, Fleming 155] Art & Art History Lecture Series, featuring John Hitchcock, Associate Professor at University of Wisconsin-Madison (printmaking). Professor Hitchcock's work depicts personal, social, and political views that are a blend of printmaking, digital imaging, video, and installation. His current imagery consists of mythological hybrid creatures and military weaponry based on childhood memories and stories of growing up in the Wichita Mountains of Oklahoma next to a US field artillery military base. Sponsored by Department of Art & Art History. For further information, please go to www.colorado.edu/arts/events, or contact the Art & Art History department at 303-492-6504.
[Saturday and Sunday, October 10-11, Grusin Music Hall] 10th Rocky Mountain Double Bass Festival. Clinicians include Thierry Barbé, principal bass of the orchestra of the Opéra National de Paris (Paris National Opera); Luis Cojal, bassist in Chamber Group Barcelona 216; Paul Erhard, Associate Professor of Double Bass at CU-Boulder; Robert Kassinger, Chicago Sympony Orchestra and Professor of Double Bass at DePaul University;and Albert Laszlo, Associate Professor of Double Bass at Cincinnati Conservatory of Music. Further information can be found at http://amazingbass.net. For registration and other information, contact Festival director Paul Erhard, 303-492-4918.
[Monday, October 12, 2:00-3:00pm, Macky 202] "Expert Blogging and the Academy," a presentation by Roger Pielke, Jr., CU Professor of Environmental Studies at the CIRES Center for Science and Technology Policy Research (CSTPR). In recent years, some expert blog sites have become recognized as important disseminators and generators of knowledge and creative work. Not only do academic bloggers make available publications, findings, and events that might otherwise not come to the attention of readers, but some bloggers also propose important hypotheses about which they invite criticism and improvement. In fact, some academics now publish their initial findings on blogs. The academic status of blogging, however, remains undecided. Professor Pielke’s presentation will provide the occasion for discussing questions like the following: 1) How should blogging be assessed and possibly rewarded by the academy? 2) Should maintenance of an outstanding expert blog be regarded as a form of publication and/or outreach that should be considered in connection with the tenure and promotion process? 3) Can the “peer-to-peer” or broader public engagement with critics on blogs be regarded as akin to the peer review process? 4) To what extent could and should humanist and artists become engaged in blogging as another avenue for producing knowledge and creative work? Professor Pielke’s presentation is open to all. His blog spot may be found at: http://rogerpielkejr.blogspot.com/. Sponsored by the Center for Humanities and the Arts (CHA) and the Digital Humanities Initiative (DHI). For further information, please contact Paula Anderson, 303-492-1423.
[Tuesday, October 13, 5:30pm, Fleming 104] Visiting Scholar Lecture Series, featuring Lyle Massey, Associate Professor of Art History at University of California-Irvine. "Sexing Difference: Early Modern Anatomy and the Body." Professor Massey is interested in problems of representation in the area between art and science in early modern Europe. Her publications include Picturing Space, Displacing Bodies: Anamorphosis in Early Modern Theories of Perspective, The Treatise on Perspective, Published and Unpublished, and The Anatomy of Gender. Her lecture deals with ways that 16th-century illustrated anatomies treat the body as a site of knowledge by creating a new visual language of sexual differentiation. Sponsored by Department of Art & Art History as part of its series, Creative Intersections in Art, Science & Technology 1500-1800. For further information, please go to www.colorado.edu/arts/events, or contact the Art & Art History department at 303-492-6504.
[Wednesday, October 14, 4:00pm, British Studies (5th floor of Norlin Library)] CHA Lecture Series, featuring Francisco Barbosa, Department of History, University of Colorado at Boulder. "Longing, Struggle and Ambivalence: Myths of Movement and the Historical Imagination." Professor Barbosa's research focuses on the relationship between individual social and political identities and collective movements for social change.
His first book examines the role of students and other young people in the Nicaraguan Revolution, placing their struggles in the context of the Cold War and the global counterculture of the 1960s and 70s. His next research project will examine the emergence of transnational Central American Identities from the 1960s to the present. This lecture is part of CHA's 2009 theme, "Migration." For further information, please contact Paula Anderson, 303-492-1423.
[Thursday and Friday, October 15 and 16, 1:30-5:00 on the 15th, and 9:30-4:00 on the 16th, Eaton Humanities, room 250] CAS Speaker Series Event: “Sex and Texts: Representations of Sexuality in Asian Religious Traditions,” a conference addressing the relationships between sexuality and religious textual traditions, especially focusing on Asian scriptural texts. The conference will begin with a symposium sponsored by the Kayden Award on Loriliai Biernacki’s Renowned Goddess of Desire: Women, Sex and Speech in Tantra (Oxford 2007), which won the Kayden Award in 2008. This topic ties into a larger conference addressing representations of sexuality in scriptural sources. Sponsored by Center for Asian Studies. For further information, please visit the CAS website at www.colorado.edu/cas/events.htm, or contact casevent@colorado.edu.
[Friday, October 16, 1:00am-4:00pm, Old Main Chapel] Please join us for a celebration of our outstanding faculty and students at the fourth annual Fall
Convocation: A Celebration of Faculty and Student Achievement. This event will be held in conjunction with this year's Family Weekend. Events include speakers throughout the day and an awards ceremony followed by a reception. A schedule of events may be found at:
www.colorado.edu/facultyaffairs/Fall_2009_Convocation.htm. For further information, please contact the Office of Faculty Affairs, 303-492-5491.
[Friday, October 16, 12:00-1:00pm, British Studies (5th floor of Norlin Library)] CHA's Performance Friday! featuring Leigh Holman, Director of CU Opera, who will bring us excerpts from La Traviata. Doors open at 11:30 for a free, light lunch. For further information, please contact Paula Anderson, 303-492-1423.
[Tuesday, October 20, 2:00-3:30pm, UMC 425] "The Dark Side of Liberalism: Racialized Preferences in the Immigration Laws of the Americas, 1850-2000," a public lecture by David Cook-Martin, Grinnell College. Sponsored by Department of Sociology. For further information, please contact Christina Sue, 303-492-3538.
[Tuesday, October 20, 7:00pm, Fleming 155] Art & Art History Faculty Lecture Series, featuring Yumi Janairo Roth (sculpture). Yumi has created a diverse body of work that includes discrete objects and site-responsive installations. Many of her recent works explore ideas of moving, modifiying direction, or searching for place, while demonstrating an interest in issues of material and labor. Sponsored by Department of Art & Art History. For further information, please go to www.colorado.edu/arts/events, or contact the Art & Art History department at 303-492-2539.
[Tuesday, October 20, 7:30pm, Old Main Chapel] Think! lecture, featuring Alastair Norcross: "It Shouldn't Happen to a Dog, or a Chicken: Why You Shouldn't Eat Meat." Abstract: If someone were to torture dogs just for human pleasure, we would be outraged (remember Michael Vick?) and rightly so. But every year in the US alone billions of animals suffer horribly while being intensively reared for human consumption. Given the easy availability of cheap vegetarian foods, eating meat is no more essential to human well-being than is attendance at dog-fighting events. Why think it's acceptable to do to chickens, pigs, and veal calves what would be unconscionable to do to dogs? All “Think!” lectures are sponsored by the Center for Values and Social Policy in the Philosophy Department of the University of Colorado at Boulder and funded through the generosity of The Collins Foundation. For further information, please contact the Philosophy Department, 303-492-6132.
[Thursday, October 22, 4:00pm, British Studies (5th floor of Norlin Library)] Public lecture, "What does 'Tenure' Do?" Presented by Rick Teichgraeber, Director of the Murphy Institute and Professor of History at Tulane University. For further information, please contact Paula Anderson, 303-492-1423.
[Friday, October 23, 4:00pm, Hellems 201] Public lecture by Bonnie Smith, Regents Professor of History at Rutgers University, entitled "Globalization Sexes the Modern Self." Reception to follow. Sponsored by Department of History, with a grant from GCAH (Graduate Committee on the Arts and Humanities). For further information, please contact the Department of History at 303-492-6683.
[Tuesday, October 27, 7:00pm, Fleming 155] Art & Art History Faculty Lecture Series, featuring Jeanne Liotta (film). Ms. Liotta makes films and other ephemera - including photographs, works on paper and live projection performances. Her latest body of work takes place in a constellation of mediums investigating the cosmic landscape, at a curious intersection of art, science, and natural philosophy. Sponsored by Department of Art & Art History. For further information, please go to www.colorado.edu/arts/events, or contact the Art & Art History department at 303-492-2539.
[Wednesday, October 28, 3:30pm, McKenna 112] GSLL Colloquium, featuring Davide Stimilli, Associate Professor of German, Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Colorado at Boulder. "The (Wo)Man Who Vanished: Orson Welles's Amerika." Professor Stimilli writes, "As part of my ongoing project on Franz Kafka and Orson Welles, I will discuss the relationship between Welles's classic noir The Lady from Shanghai and Kafka's unfinished American novel, The Man Who Vanished. At least one critic has commented upon the more eye-catching similarities between the protagonists of these two masterpieces, but nobody has thus far relied on Welles's original script to shed some stronger light on his and Kafka's dark vision of America." Sponsored by Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages. For further information, please contact the GSLL department at 303-492-7404.
[Friday, October 30, 4:00pm, Hale 230] Anthropology Graduate Student Colloquium Series, featuring Jessica Smith, "The Cowboy Spirit of the Clean Coal Campaign." In response to criticisms of the industry's labor and environmental practices, a coalition of corporations has launched prominent campaigns to persuade the public of its commitment to responsibility and continued salience for national energy policies. In this talk, Smith traces how re-branding coal as clean is vital to the campaigns and rests on portraying the fuel and the people who mine it as distinctly western. Dr. Smith's research examines gender, kinship and labor in northeastern Wyoming's Powder River Basin, currently the country's largest producer of coal. For more information contact Jason Scott , event organizer, or Jessica Smith.
[Tuesday, November 3, 7:00pm, Fleming 155] Art & Art History Lecture Series, featuring Sarah Lindley, Associate Professor at Kalamazzo College in Michigan (ceramics). Professor Lindley's structural forms are intended to seem fammiliar, but not completely clear and decipherable. Chests, desks, and cabinets that are routinely designed to protect, organize and display their contents are reduced to systems and structures, incapable of function. Delicate, wavering clay slabs frame vacant internal spaces, as well as the void around the forms, creating an atmosphere of fragility, reverence and questionable stability. Sponsored by Department of Art & Art History. For further information, please go to www.colorado.edu/arts/events, or contact the Art & Art History department at 303-492-6504.
[Thursday, November 5, 4:00-5:30pm, British Studies (5th floor of Norlin Library)] “Immigration and the Practical Majority?” presentations by and conversations with Patty Limerick and Helen Thorpe. Helen Thorpe is a freelance journalist whose magazine stories have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, New York magazine, Texas Monthly, Westword, and 5280. She is married to John Hickenlooper, the mayor of Denver. She currently serves on the boards of two non-profit organizations that focus on ensuring the success of all children, particularly those who are growing up in poverty (the Clayton Foundation and the Colorado Children’s Campaign). Just Like Us / The True Story of Four Mexican Girls Coming of Age In America, published by Scribner in September 2009, is her first book. Dr. Patty Limerick is the Faculty Director and Chair of the Board of the Center of the American West at the University of Colorado, where she is also a Professor of History. Limerick has dedicated her career to bridging the gap between academics and the general public and to demonstrating the benefits of applying historical perspective to contemporary dilemmas and conflicts. Dr. Limerick has received a number of awards and honors recognizing the impact of her scholarship and her commitment to teaching, including the MacArthur Fellowship and the Hazel Barnes Prize, CU’s highest award for teaching and research. She has served as president of several professional organizations, advised documentary and film projects, and done two tours as a Pulitzer Non-Fiction jurist. She regularly engages the public on the op-ed pages of local and national newspapers, and in the summer of 2005 she served as a guest columnist for the New York Times. Sponsored by Center for Humanities and the Arts and Center of the American West. For further information, please contact Paula Anderson, 303-492-1423.
[Thursday, November 5, 3:30-6:30, Old Main Conference Room] Peter Stallybrass, Walter H. and Leonore C. Annenberg Professor in the Humanities, University of Pennsylvania; and Director of the History of Material Texts, University of Pennsylvania, will lead a faculty seminar on "Hamlet: an Unknown Play, and Some Thoughts About Suicide." This event will not follow the traditional format in which a visiting scholar delivers a paper. Instead, the seminar will follow a discussion format based on a common set of readings. A reception will follow the seminar. Please RSVP to Valerie.Forman@colorado.edu by October 16 to hold your place in the seminar and to receive email attachments of the reading materials. Sponsored by Department of English.
[Friday, November 6, 4:00pm, British Studies (5th floor of Norlin Library)] Public lecture by Peter Stallybrass, Walter H. and Leonore C. Annenberg Professor in the Humanities, University of Pennsylvania; and Director of the History of Material Texts, University of Pennsylvania. "Why We Need to Know How to Write." A preeminent Shakespeare scholar, Professor Stallybrass is also a leader in the interdisciplinary field of the History of the Book--directing one its earliest centers at the University of Pennsylvania and editing collections (to which he has also contributed essays) on technologies of writing. He has also organized exhibitions on "Material Texts" and on "Benjamin Franklin and the Book." His first book The Politics and Poetics of Transgression, which he co-authored with Allon White, (London: 1986) was a ground-breaking study in literary theory. Renaissance Clothing and the Materials of Memory, which he co-authored with Ann Rosalind Jones, (Cambridge, 2000) was awarded the James Russell Lowell Prize by the MLA for the outstanding book in Modern Languages in 2001. In addition to publishing numerous essays on early modern literature and material culture, he has also published a book on Benjamin Franklin and a collection of essays on Marx. A reception will precede and also follow the lecture. Sponsored by Department of English. For further information, please contact Valerie Forman.
[Monday, November 9, 7:00 pm, Eaton Humanities room 150] 21st Athearn Lecture: "Streetscape Environmentalism: Flood Control, Social Justice, and Political Power in San Antonio, 1921-1978" by Dr. Char Miller, Director of the Environmental Analysis program and W. M. Keck Professor of Environmental Analysis at Pomona College in Claremont, California, and an Organization of American Historians Distinguished Lecturer. Free Lecture. For further information contact the History Department - history@colorado.edu, 303-492-6683.
[Wednesday, November 11, 12:00pm, Norlin Library S421] CAS Luncheon Series Event: Blue Jeans, Pink Knickers, and Public Attacks on Professional Women in South India: Responding to Extremism through the 'Pink Chaddi Campaign' in Bangalorewith," featuring CU-Boulder’s Rachel Fleming, graduate student in the Department of Anthropology. The South Indian city of Bangalore is one of the most rapidly growing cities in South Asia, and is known popularly as the “Silicon Valley of India” because of its concentration of multinational IT companies. It is also known as the “Pub Capital” of India and has long been considered a relatively liberal Indian city, with dance clubs full of hip, young professionals and India’s most prominent gay community. However, the conservative state government recently passed a city-wide curfew, and banned live music and dancing in most pubs. Then last winter, members of a radical Hindu nationalist group started attacking women in pubs and on the street, claiming that professional Indian women are becoming too “Westernized” and should stay in the home. This talk will describe backlash against this new conservatism, including the “Consortium of Pub-going, Loose and Forward Women” and its “pink chaddi” campaign, which organized mailing hundreds of pink, old-fashioned “knickers” to the group as a symbol of protest. Debates on Indian nationalism have often been inscribed on women's bodies, as seen in these attacks; my question is, how is sending women’s undergarments shaming and thus subverting the message of this group, yet possibly also reinforcing their focus on the female body? Lunch is provided. Sponsored by Center for Asian Studies. For further information, please contact casevent@colorado.edu.
[Wednesday, November 11, 4:00-5:00pm, Macky 202] CHA's Work in Progress series, featuring Antje Richter, Assistant Professor, Department of Asian Languages and Civilizations, entitled "What’s in a Cliché: Expressing Emotions in Early Medieval Chinese Letters." Everyone is invited to these work in progress sessions. We encourage you to read the work before the session -- please contact Paula Anderson and a copy of the work will be sent to you electronically. Professor Richter will present the work, leaving time for questions and discussion. Refreshments are provided. For further information, please contact Paula Anderson, 303-492-1423.
[Thursday, November 12, 4:00pm, British Studies (5th floor of Norlin Library)] CHA's 3rd Annual Eaton Lecture, featuring Silvio Torres-Saillant, William P. Tolley Disguished Professor of English at Syracuse University. "Homo Migrans: Itinerancy and National Culture in Contemporary Society." Professor Torres-Saillant writes, "Apart from being something that humans have always done, migration--which I use here to refer to voluntary as well as coerced mobility--was exacerbated by colonialism in the modern era to such an extent that only fictitious nostalgia or naturalized metaphor can explain the media statements that purport to defend the national culture from the influence of foreign arrivants. This presentation draws on the visibility of foreign-born or immigrant-descended American and European writers, thinkers, and artists to invite reflection on the difficulty of speaking about differentiated national cultures in the world bequeathed by the colonial transaction and on the need to find language that will do justice to the tenuous contours of national and cultural identities in contemporary society." Professor Torres-Saillant's interests include Caribbean literature, comparative poetics, ethnic American literature, Latino texts, diaspora and migration studies. Sponsored by CHA with endowed funds from Woody and Leslie Eaton. For further information, please contact Paula Anderson, 303-492-1423.
[Thursday, November 12, 7:00pm, Hale 230] Free, public lecture by Bron Taylor, Professor of Religious Studies, Environmental Ethics and Environmental Studies at University of Florida. "Dark Green Religion." Professor Taylor is the editor of The Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature and Ecological Resistance Movements, and author of the recently published Dark Green Religion: Nature Spirituality and the Planetary Future. Sponsored by Department of Religion, Center for Media, Religion and Culture, GCAH and CHA. For futher information, please contact Lynn Ross-Bryant.
[Thursday, November 12, 7:00pm, Eaton Humanities 250] Remedies for a New West Book Release. Join us as we celebrate the release of our newest book, Remedies for a New West: Healing Landscapes, Histories, and Cultures. Published by the University of Arizona Press, this exciting new collaborative volume, edited by Patty Limerick, Andrew Cowell, and Sharon Collinge, offers a kaleidoscope of viewpoints from engineers, biologists, linguists, musicians, lawyers, and others - on strategies for restoration, repair, and remediation in response to historical injuries to the people and landscapes of the West. More than "dealing with" or "solving," the concept of healing addresses not just symptoms but their underlying causes, offering not just a temporary cure but a permanent one. The books editors, and some of the contributors, will be on hand to read and talk about this project. Books will be for sale after the event. Sponsored by Center of the American West. For further information, please contact Amanda Dixon, 303-492-4879.
[Friday, November 13, 12:00-1:00pm, British Studies (5th floor of Norlin Library)] CHA's Performance Friday! featuring Tamara Meneghini, Assistant Professor of Theatre, who will present excerpts from Great Goddess Bazaar, a one-woman show by David Rush. Doors open at 11:30 for a free, light lunch. For further information, please contact Paula Anderson, 303-492-1423.
[Friday, November 13, 4:00–5:30pm, Eaton Humanities 250] CAS Speaker Series Event: "Origin of Japanese and Chinese Ideograms: Connecting our Collective Past with our Present,” featuring Tetsuji Atsuji, Professor, Graduate School of Human and Environmental Studies, Kyoto University. This event will introduce students, faculty, and community to the history of the Japanese characters called kanji, ideograms originating from China. This event is a collaborative project at University of Colorado at Boulder, Colorado State University, Utah State University, and Clemson University in South Carolina. In this event Professor Tetsuji Atsuji will offer educational seminars on the respective understanding of the history and etymology of kanji ideograms to us with an insightful and intimate lecture and demonstration. The purpose of the event is to connect our collective past with our present. The scholar Tetsuji Atsuji will bring his respective understanding of philosophy, religious belief and worldview of people who invented Kanji ideogram in Asia to United States. He will demonstrate the similarities and differences in the worldviews between the East and the West. Sponsored by Center for Asian Studies. For further information, please visit the CAS website at http://www.colorado.edu/cas/events.htm, or contact casevent@colorado.edu.
[Tuesday, November 17, 1:00–2:30 pm, Norlin Library S421] CAS Speaker Series Event: "The Culture of 'Here = Now' and Its Dilemmas and Potentialities," featuring Professor Takada Yasunari, University of Tokyo. In his book “Space and Time in Japanese Culture” Kato Shuichi encapsulated the essence of Japanese culture in the phrase “living in ‘here = now.’” The principle of “here = now” tends to make much of a particular part/moment at the cost of the perspectival/ temporal whole. Lacking the tradition of any transcendental frames of reference (salvation history, logos, or otherwise), parts or moments remain isolated instances and have no chance of being articulated as constituents of the whole. Maruyama Masao and Izutsu Toshihiko, leading scholars of postwar Japan in the fields of political thought and religious philosophy respectively, were both similarly ,if with different emphasis, concerned with the traditional cultural milieu of what Kato calls “here = now.” By taking a brief look at these intellectuals who share, if in different ways, the common cultural background of “here = now,” the talk would like to suggest some ways in which its potentialities can be unfolded. Lunch is provided. Sponsored by Center for Asian Studies. For further information, please visit the CAS website at http://www.colorado.edu/cas/events.htm, or contact casevent@colorado.edu.
[Wednesday, November 18, 4:00pm, C370 University Theatre Building (The Loft Theatre)] "From Theatre Rehearsal to Software Development: The Way of 'Artful Making.' " This is a free, public presentation by Lee Devin, Senior Dramaturg, People’s Light & Theatre Company, Malvern PA, and Robert Austin, Professor, Management of Creativity and Innovation, Copenhagen Business School. "Pay attention to what Austin and Devin are saying--their point of view represents an important expression of the new ethos of management. If you frequently find yourself trying to steer your organization without a clear idea of where you'll end up, and improvising mid-course corrections in response to emergent problems, then [Artful Making] is for you." -- Dr. Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google, Inc. Sponsored by The University of Colorado at Boulder's Department of Theatre and Dance, Graduate Committee on the Arts and Humanities (GCAH), and MBA Program, Leeds School of Business. For more information contact Oliver Gerland: gerland@colorado.edu.
[Friday, December 4, 12:00-1:00pm, British Studies (5th floor of Norlin Library)] CHA's Performance Friday! featuring Ernesto Acevedo Munoz, Chair of the Film Studies Program, who will show excerpts from his new documentary. Doors open at 11:30 for a free, light lunch. For further information, please contact Paula Anderson, 303-492-1423.
[Tuesday, December 8, 5:30pm, Fleming 104] Visiting Scholar Lecture Series, featuring Michael Cole, Associate Professor of Art History at University of Pennsylvania. "Toward a New Image of Renaissance Magic." Professor Cole's research revolves around problems in Italian Renaissance art ranging from the magical properties of metals to the religious power of images. His publications include Cellini and the Principles of Sculpture, Sculptural Ambition at the End of the Renaissance, and Giambologna, Ammannati, and Danti in Florence. His lecture deals with the motif of the foreshortened figure as a meta-critical comment on the practice of art-making. Sponsored by Department of Art & Art History as part of its series, Creative Intersections in Art, Science & Technology 1500-1800. For further information, please go to www.colorado.edu/arts/events, or contact the Art & Art History department at 303-492-6504.
[Tuesday, December 8, 5:30–8:00 pm, UMC Aspen Rooms] "CHINA Town Hall: Local Connections, National Reflections," with a webcast by Kurt M. Campbell, Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, and a live talk, "Obama Deals with a Rising China," by Dr. David M. Lampton, dean of faculty, George and Sadie Hyman Professor of China Studies, and director of the China Studies Program, Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University. Sponsored by Center for Asian Studies. For further information, please visit the CAS website at http://www.colorado.edu/cas/events.htm, or contact casevent@colorado.edu. More details, including registration information, will be posted on the CAS website at http://www.colorado.edu/cas/Dec09calendar.html
[Wednesday, December 9, 12:00pm, Location TBA] CAS Luncheon Series Event: "In Pursuit of Dragonflies: Protein Sources in Balinese Rice Fields," featuring CU-Boulder's Margaret Shugart, graduate student in the Department of Anthropology. Lunch is provided. Sponsored by Center for Asian Studies. For further information, please visit the CAS website at http://www.colorado.edu/cas/events.htm, or contact casevent@colorado.edu.
[Wednesday, January 20, 4:00-5:00pm, Macky 202] CHA's Work in Progress series, featuring Padma Rangarajan, Assistant Professor, Department of English. Everyone is invited to these work in progress sessions. We encourage you to read the work before the session -- please contact Paula Anderson and a copy of the work will be sent to you electronically. Professor Rangarajan will present the work, leaving time for questions and discussion. Refreshments are provided. For further information, please contact Paula Anderson, 303-492-1423.
[Friday, January 29, 12:00-1:00pm, British Studies (5th floor of Norlin Library)] CHA's Performance Friday! featuring excerpts from Theatre and Dance's production of The Country Wife. Doors open at 11:30 for a free, light lunch. For further information, please contact Paula Anderson, 303-492-1423.
[Friday, February 19, 12:00-1:00pm, British Studies (5th floor of Norlin Library)] CHA's Performance Friday! featuring musical selections from Lina Bahn, Assistant Professor of Violin in the College of Music. Doors open at 11:30 for a free, light lunch. For further information, please contact Paula Anderson, 303-492-1423.
[Friday, March 12, 12:00-1:00pm, British Studies (5th floor of Norlin Library)] CHA's Performance Friday! featuring clips of her upcoming film, Leading Ladies, shown by Erika Randall, Assistant Professor of Dance in CU's Theatre and Dance Department. Doors open at 11:30 for a free, light lunch. For further information, please contact Paula Anderson, 303-492-1423.[Thursday, April 1 and Friday, April 2, location TBD] CHA's "Migration" Colloquium. Further information is forthcoming.
[Friday, April 9, 12:00-1:00pm, British Studies (5th floor of Norlin Library)] CHA's Performance Friday! featuring Kwasi Ampene, Associate Professor of Musicology and Director of the West African Highlife Ensemble. Doors open at 11:30 for a free, light lunch. For further information, please contact Paula Anderson, 303-492-1423.
[Sunday, April 18, 1:00-3:00pm, Denver Center for the Performing Arts] Othello Symposium. Further information is forthcoming.
[Monday, April 19, 4:00-6:00pm, Old Main Chapel] Othello Symposium. Further information is forthcoming.
