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[Wednesday, September 12, 4:00pm, British Studies (5th floor of Norlin Library)] CHA's 1st Annual Eaton Lecture, “Returning to Philology: The Past and Future of Humanistic Scholarship,” by Geoffrey Harpham, president and director of the National Humanities Center. Sponsored by CHA with endowed funds from Woody and Leslie Eaton. For further information, please contact Paula Anderson, 303-492-1423.
[Wednesday, September 12, 4:00pm, McKenna 112] Public Lecture: “Big Men” and “Big Women”: Traditional Social Structures in Contemporary Russian Urban Society by Dr. Svetlana Adonyeva, Professor of Russian Folklore and Theory of Literature at St. Petersburg University. Through her analysis of social relations in traditional Russian village life, Prof. Adonyeva will explain some curious business practices in contemporary Russia, such as: Why are political and economic decisions often made in the bath-house? Why do male bosses address their female co-workers as “girls”? Sponsored by Department of Germanic & Slavic Languages & Literatures. For further information, please contact Rima Salys at 303-735-2449.
[Thursday, September 13, 11:00-1:00pm, UMC 415-417] Geoffrey Galt Harpham, President and Director of the National Humanities Center, will lead a faculty workshop to introduce and discuss opportunities for fellowships at the National Humanities Center, as well as current trends in links between humanities/arts and the natural sciences. For further information, please contact Paula Anderson, 303-492-1423.
[Friday, September 14, 12:00-1:00pm, British Studies (5th floor of Norlin Library)] Performance Friday! featuring Mary McDaniel (For Whom the Southern Bell Tolls) and Greg Thorson (Never Swim Alone) will do a preview on these one-act plays, produced by the Department of Theatre and Dance. Doors open at 11:30 for a free, light lunch. For further information, please contact Paula Anderson at 303-492-1423.
[Friday, September 14, 4:30pm, McKenna 112] Dr. Svetlana Adonyeva, Professor of Russian Folklore and Theory of Literature at St. Petersburg University will present a lecture in Russian, sponsored by the Slavic Studies Discussion Group: "Motherhood: Mythology and Social Institution." Her lecture is open to the public. For further information, please contact Rima Salys at 303-735-2449.
[Monday, September 17, 2:00pm, IMIG C-199] Musicology/Theory Colloquium, featuring Yonatan Malin (Wesleyan University), "The Polyrhythm of Speech, Singing and Playing: New Perspectives on German Lied." Sponsored by American Music Research Center. For further information, please contact Tom Riis at 303-492-7540.
[Wednesday, September 19, 4:00-5:00pm, Macky 202] CHA's Work-in-Progress Series, featuring Benjamin Deneault, PhD Candidate in the Department of English, "'The World runnes on Wheeles': Coaching and Early Modern Ecological Thinking." We encourage you to read the work before the session -- please contact Paula Anderson and a copy will be sent to you electronically. Mr. Deneault will present the work, leaving time for questions and discussion. Refreshments are provided. For further information, please contact Paula Anderson at 303-492-1423.
[Thursday, September 20, 12:00pm, British Studies (5th floor of Norlin Library)] Public lecture by Carolyn Dinshaw, Professor of English and Social & Cultural Analysis, New York University, "Out of Sync: Three Tales of the Catskills." What does it feel like to be a body in time -- or out of time, or in the wrong time? Dr. Dinshaw explores experiences of time that are not linear and progressive but are, rather, non-synchronous. Sponsored by Center for Medieval and Early Modern Studies (CMEMS), Center for British and Irish Studies, and Department of English. For further information, please contact Beth Robertson at 303-492-7608.
[Thursday, September 20 and Friday, September 21, British Studies (5th floor of Norlin Library)] The Center for British and Irish Studies (CBIS) announces a conference on “Questions of Emotion: Affect and Sensation” that will feature six scholars presenting on topics ranging from 18th and 19th-century literature to early 20th-century global film. Invited scholars are Jill Campbell (Yale), Steven Goldsmith (UC-Berkeley), Jeff Nunokawa (Princeton), Alan Richardson (Boston College), Ben Singer (Univ of Wisconsin-Madison), and Kristina Straub (Carnegie Mellon). Sponsored by CBIS. For further information, please contact Jill Heydt-Stevenson.
COMPLETE SCHEDULE OF EVENTS:
THURSDAY, Sept 20th: 12:00: The Conference begins with a paper by Carolyn Dinshaw, Professor of English and Director of the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality at NYU, and founder of Gay and Lesbian Quarterly. This talk is sponsored by Elizabeth Robertson, Director of the Center for Medieval and Early Modern Studies. Professor Dinshaw will present a paper entitled "Out of Sync: Three Tales of the Catskills. "
Thursday, September 20:
4:00: Introductory Remarks
4:15: Kristina Straub – “‘More Friendship than Honesty’: Amy and Roxana Revisited”
4:50: Steven Goldsmith – “Impasse and Magic: Criticism and the Work of Emotion”
5:35: Jeff Nunokawa - "Old Wine, New Bottle: Victorian Feelings, Contemporary Forms"
Reception and Discussion to follow
Friday, September 21:
3:15: Greetings and reception
3:30: Jill Campbell - "The Affect of Instruction: Maria Edgeworth's Didactic Appeal"
4:05: Alan Richardson - "The Romantic Image, the Reader's Eye, and the History of the Senses"
5:00: Ben Singer - "A Taxonomy of Pathos"
[Monday, September 24, 2:00pm, IMIG C-199] Musicology/Theory Colloquium, featuring Sanna Pederson (University of Oklahoma), "The Missing History of Absolute Music." Sponsored by American Music Research Center. For further information, please contact Tom Riis at 303-492-7540.
[Thursday, September 27, 7:30pm, Grusin Music Hall] The Center for Asian Studies is pleased to co-sponsor "Performance 2007: Japanese Dance and Music." This free event is open to the public. For further information, please contact Hideko Shimizu, 303-735-5625.
[Tuesday, October 2, 5:00pm, Eaton Humanities 250] Public lecture: "Dido and the Plots of Fama", by Philip R. Hardie, Senior Research Fellow, Trinity College, Cambridge University; author of "Virgil's Aeneid: Cosmos and Imperium" (1986), "The Epic Successors of Virgil" (1996), "Ovid's Poetics of Illusion" (2002) and editor of the Cambridge Companion to Ovid. Sponsored by Department of Classics. For further information, please email Peter.Knox@Colorado.edu.
[Tuesday, October 2, 7:00pm, Fleming Law 155] Visiting Artist Lecture Series, featuring Chris Jordan, who makes beautiful compositions of not-so-beautiful subjects. His photographs give meaning to numbers that are too large and shocking for us to grasp such as 11,000 jet trails, equal to the number of commercial flights in the US every eight hours or 426,000 phones, the number of phones retired in the United States every single day. Chris' visit is scheduled in conjunction with EcoArts and the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art's exhibition "Weather Report: Art and Climate Change," September 14 - December 21, curated by Lucy Lippard. "Weather Report" will include more than 50 artists, many of whom are collaborating with climate change scientists, renewable energy experts, and environmental specialists to create work that focus on climate change and a sustainable future. Chris' work will be on view at Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art and at Norlin Library on the CU Boulder campus. Go to www.bmoca.org and www.ecoartsonline.org for more information. Sponsored by Department of Art and Art History. For further information, please contact Valerie Albicker at 303-492-2539.
[Friday, October 5, 4:00pm, British Studies (5th floor of Norlin Library)] CHA Lecture Series. Stewart Hoover, Professor, School of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Colorado at Boulder, "The Persistence of Religion in Modern Culture." Sponsored by CHA. For further information, please contact Paula Anderson, 303-492-1423.
[Thursday, October 11, 4:00pm, British Studies (5th floor of Norlin Library)] State-of-the-Profession Colloquia, featuring Lyn Hejinian (University of California at Berkeley) and Alan Liu (University of California at Santa Barbara). This colloquium reviews the state of the profession of English studies, present and future. It considers such issues as challenges to the supremacy of print culture, changes in visibility of social collectivities, response to globalization, challenges to the privileging of cultures of the past by privileging cultures of the present, increases and redeployment of ancillary disciplines brought to bear upon the literary arts, and questions about the interactive potential of writerly and readerly activities. It is the hope of the organizers that their review will lead to a more informed awareness of how to structure programs and how major curricular revision out to proceed. Sponsored by Department of English, Center for British and Irish Studies, and CHA. For further information, please contact Mary Lowe or Jeffrey Robinson at 303-492-7382.
[Monday, October 15, 2:00pm, IMIG C-199] Musicology/Theory Colloquium, featuring Steve Mullins (University of Colorado at Boulder), "The Contra Gesture and the Value of Opposition in Spanish Flamenco." Sponsored by American Music Research Center. For further information, please contact Tom Riis at 303-492-7540.
[Tuesday, October 16, 7:00pm, Fleming Law 155] Visiting Artist Lecture Series, featuring Bently Spang, a multi-disciplinary artist and videomaker who works in site-specific video installation, photography, live performance, and short films. Spang's work emphasizes issues surrounding his Northern Cheyenne identity as he strives to illuminate the contradictions, injustices and intricacies of an living culture. Spang's exhibition: "Cyberskins" (technilogically wired powwow garments that draw from traditional and high-tech cultures) will be shown at Colorado College in the Coburn Gallery in Colorado Springs from October 11 to December 15, 2007. A public reception will be held on Thursday, October 11 at 4:30 at the same location. For more information:
www.coloradocollege.edu/coburn/exhibitions/cyberskins.html. Sponsored by Department of Art and Art History. For further information, please contact Valerie Albicker at 303-492-2539.
[Wednesday, October 17, 4:00-5:00pm, Macky 202] CHA's Work-in-Progress Series, featuring Beth Osnes, Department of Theatre and Dance, "Performing Mother: On the Stage and on the Streets." We encourage you to read the work before the session -- please contact Paula Anderson and a copy will be sent to you electronically. Professor Osnes will present the work, leaving time for questions and discussion. Refreshments are provided. For further information, please contact Paula Anderson at 303-492-1423.
[Friday, October 19, 12:00-1:00pm, British Studies (5th floor of Norlin Library)] Performance Friday! featuring excerpts from Dead Man Walking, produced by CU Opera at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Doors open at 11:30 for a free, light lunch. For further information, please contact Paula Anderson at 303-492-1423.
[Tuesday, October 23, 7:00pm, Fleming Law 155] Visiting Artist Lecture Series, featuring Nuha Khoury,“Art and Politics in Palestine: Art Education Under Occupation.” Dr. Khoury is the Dean of the Art School at Dar al-Kalima College in Bethlehem. She received her Ph.D in Islamic History from the University of Michigan and an authority on the present day situation in Palestine. Sponsored by Department of Art and Art History. For further information, please contact Valerie Albicker at 303-492-2539.
[Wednesday, October 24, 7:00pm, Muenzinger Auditorium] FREE screening of Dead Man Walking (UK/USA, 1995, English, Color, 122 min, Rated R), starring Susan Sarandon and Sean Penn, directed by Tim Robbins.
The prison chaplain warns Sister Helen Prejean she should not expect the impending execution of a convicted killer to be like “a James Cagney movie.” He has a point. Cagney, you will recall, bristled with indignation as he walked to the electric chair in one of his most memorable performances. By contrast, what makes Tim Robbins’ Dead Man Walking such a riveting, profoundly moving experience, is its unflinching realism.
Hollywood has traditionally made heroes out of bad guys, but that does not happen here. Matthew Poncelet, the Death Row inmate in this particular case, displays Cagney’s defiantly unrepentant attitude at first. But he soon confesses that he’s scared. Using Sister Helen Prejean’s 1993 autobiography as his inspiration, Robbins more than confirms his talent as both a screenwriter and a director. That he would even dare to make a movie about a spiritual journey such as this shows remarkable courage. And to his credit, Robbins presents a carefully balanced view of capital punishment, revealing the true complexity of this highly emotional issue.
Susan Sarandon’s unadorned face accurately mirrors the inner strength and momentary doubts of Sister Helen. She gives a remarkably sensitive performance. Sean Penn transforms Poncelet into a compelling full-bodied character whose brash arrogance is slowly stripped away. Dead Man Walking demonstrates the power of love in a way that’s absolutely unforgettable, making it easily one of the best movies of the year. (K. Carroll, Film Scouts Review)
Wednesday’s free screening, made possible by the Film Studies Program and CHA, is being shown in anticipation of CU Opera’s production of “Dead Man Walking” on October 26, 27 and 28 in Macky Auditorium (for ticket information, visit www.cuconcerts.org/deadman.html).
[Friday, October 26, 2:00-4:00pm, Grusin Hall, Imig Music Building] Dead Man Walking Symposium. Panelists include the composer, Jake Heggie; Sister Helen Prejean, CSJ (the real woman behind Dead Man Walking), and Professor Michael Radelet, chair of CU-Boulder’s Department of Sociology. Sponsored by College of Music and CHA. For further information, please contact Bill Gustafson at William.gustafson@colorado.edu.
[Monday, October 29, 2:00pm, IMIG C-199] Musicology/Theory Colloquium, featuring Jeremy Smith (University of Colorado at Boulder), "Turning a New Leaf: The East Music Publishing Firm and the Jacobean Succession." Sponsored by American Music Research Center. For further information, please contact Tom Riis at 303-492-7540.
[Tuesday, October 30, 7:00pm, Fleming Law 155] Visiting Artist Lecture Series, featuring Mary Jo Bole, a self-stylized cemetery aficionado. Ms. Bole has made an on-going research activity of visiting tombs, crypts, mausoleums, catacombs and other sites associated with the commemoration of the deceased. Her work is well informed by an extensive knowledge of ceramic history, from Meissen porcelains to American industrial ceramics. Ms. Bole is a Professor of ceramics in the Department of Art at Ohio State University. Sponsored by Department of Art and Art History. For further information, please contact Valerie Albicker at 303-492-2539.
[Wednesday, October 31, 4:00pm, Eaton Humanities 250] Public lecture by Peter Zarrow, Research Fellow at the Institute of Modern History at the Academia Sinica in Taipei, Taiwan, "From Empire to Nation: Conceptualizing the 'State' in Late Qing China." Zarrow is a leading expert on the intellectual and political history of the late Qing and early Republican periods of Chinese history and is the author of many books and articles, including Creating Chinese Modernity: Knowledge and Everyday Life, 1900-1940, China in War and Revolution, 1895-1949, Rethinking the 1898 Reform Period: Political and Cultural Change in Late Qing China, and Anarchism and Chinese Political Culture. Sponsored by Department of History and the Center for Asian Studies. For further information, please contact Tim Weston.
[Friday, November 2, 4:00pm, British Studies (5th floor of Norlin Library)] CHA Lecture Series. Alvin Plantinga, John A. O'Brien Professor of Philosophy, University of Notre Dame. "Religion and Science: Why Does the Debate Continue?" Sponsored by CHA. For further information, please contact Paula Anderson, 303-492-1423.
[Monday, November 5, 2:00pm, IMIG C-199] Musicology/Theory Colloquium, featuring Samuel Floyd, Jr. (Center for Black Music Research, Columbia College, Chicago). This colloquium is an open forum on the history of the CBMR and its current initiatives. Sponsored by American Music Research Center. For further information, please contact Tom Riis at 303-492-7540.
[Monday, November 5, 7:30pm, Grusin Auditorium] First Annual Robert and Ruth Fink Lecture, “Writing and Reading Black Music History: American Music and Narrative Metaphors,” by Samuel A. Floyd, founder and Director Emeritus of the Center for Black Music Research at Columbia College in Chicago. Sponsored by American Music Research Center. For further information, please contact Tom Riis at 303-492-7540 or Lisa Bailey at 303-735-0237.
[Wednesday, November 7, 5:30pm, British Studies (5th floor of Norlin Library)] Public lecture by Thomas Eder, University of Vienna. “Self Attribution, Introspection, and Narratology in Woolf, Musil, and Valéry” (in English). Thomas Eder is the author of Unterschiedenes ist / gut. Reinhard Priessnitz und die Repoetisierung der Avantgarde [The Differentiated is / good: Reinhard Priessnitz and the Repoeticization of the Avant-Garde] (Munich: Wilhelm Fink, 2003) and co-editor of Zur Metapher: Die Metapher in Philosophie, Wissenschaft und Literatur [On Metaphor: Metaphor in Philosophy, Science, and Literature] (Munich: Wilhelm Fink, 2007). He has also published over fifty articles and essays on contemporary Austrian literature and on literary theory. This lecture is part of a larger project on the use and misuse of theory of mind and cognitive science in narratology and literary theory. Sponsored by Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures, Department of French and Italian, Department of Comparative Literature and Humanities, Center for British and Irish Studies, and the Graduate Committee on the Arts and Humanities (GCAH). For more information, please contact Patrick Greaney at greaney@colorado.edu.
[Thursday, November 8, 4:00pm, British Studies (5th floor of Norlin Library)] State-of-the-Profession Colloquia, featuring Kevin Dettmar (Southern Illinois University) and Marlon Ross (University of Virginia). This colloquium reviews the state of the profession of English studies, present and future. It considers such issues as challenges to the supremacy of print culture, changes in visibility of social collectivities, response to globalization, challenges to the privileging of cultures of the past by privileging cultures of the present, increases and redeployment of ancillary disciplines brought to bear upon the literary arts, and questions about the interactive potential of writerly and readerly activities. It is the hope of the organizers that their review will lead to a more informed awareness of how to structure programs and how major curricular revision out to proceed. Sponsored by Department of English, Center for British and Irish Studies, and CHA. For further information, please contact Mary Lowe or Jeffrey Robinson at 303-492-7382.
[Thursday, November 8, 7:00pm, Eaton Humanities, Room 1B80] The History Department's 19th Athearn Lecture: "Challenges to History and the Murder of Brandon Teena" by Dr. John R. Wunder (Univ. of Nebraska) The 1993 murder of Brandon Teena, a transgender person, in rural Nebraska attracted national & international media attention. Writing the history of the murder is a complicated matter which offers important lessons for historians who care about truth and accuracy. Lecture is free & open to the public. See: http://www.colorado.edu/history/news/athearn.html or call (303) 492-6683 for more information.
[Thursday, November 8, 8:00pm, Old Main Chapel] "Think!", featuring Simon Sparks, Professor of Philosophy, Oglethorpe University in Atlanta. Public lecture entitled "What Counts As Art?" Is there a real distinction between what counts as a work of art and what doesn't? What makes Carl Andre's "Equivalent VIII" a work of art and not simply a pile of bricks? Is it the same thing that makes Holbein's portrait of Thomas More a work of art and not simply particles of non-organic matter suspended in linseed oil and pressed against an oak panel? Is art simply what we find in museums? If so, what about public art? What about works like Anthony Gormley's iron men dotted around European cities? What about buildings? Can they be art? Can a museum? A hotel? A parking garage? Professor Sparks is currently working on a book on Phenomenology and another on Nietzsche's metaphysics. All "Think!" events are free and intended for the public. For more information, please visit http://www.colorado.edu/philosophy/center/think.shtml. For further information on the series, contact Robert Pasnau or 303-492-4837. For announcements of upcoming "Think!" events, e-mail Diana Hsieh with that request. These lectures are sponsored by the Center for Values and Social Policy in the Philosophy Department, and are funded through the generosity of The Collins Foundation.
[Friday, November 9, 12:00-1:00pm, British Studies (5th floor of Norlin Library)] Performance Friday! featuring excerpts from She Loves Me, a musical produced by the Department of Theatre and Dance. Doors open at 11:30 for a free, light lunch. For further information, please contact Paula Anderson at 303-492-1423.
[Friday, November 9, 4:00pm, Eaton Humanities, room 245] Public lecture by Thomas Eder, University of Vienna. “Kristallisationspunkte von ‚Gestalt‘. 1800–1900–2000: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Christian von Ehrenfels, George Lakoff” (in German). Thomas Eder is the author of Unterschiedenes ist / gut. Reinhard Priessnitz und die Repoetisierung der Avantgarde [The Differentiated is / good: Reinhard Priessnitz and the Repoeticization of the Avant-Garde] (Munich: Wilhelm Fink, 2003) and co-editor of Zur Metapher: Die Metapher in Philosophie, Wissenschaft und Literatur [On Metaphor: Metaphor in Philosophy, Science, and Literature] (Munich: Wilhelm Fink, 2007). He has also published over fifty articles and essays on contemporary Austrian literature and on literary theory. Sponsored by Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures, Department of French and Italian, Department of Comparative Literature and Humanities, Center for British and Irish Studies, and the Graduate Committee on the Arts and Humanities (GCAH). For more information, please contact Patrick Greaney at greaney@colorado.edu.
[Monday, November 12, 2:00pm, IMIG C-199] Musicology/Theory Colloquium, featuring Joseph Horowitz (New Jersey Symphony, Pacific Symphony), "Rouben Mamoulian and American Music on Stage and Screen." Sponsored by American Music Research Center. For further information, please contact Tom Riis at 303-492-7540.
[Tuesday, November 13, 7:00pm, Fleming Law 155] Visiting Artist Lecture Series, featuring Dutch photographer Jan Theun van Rees. When van Rees walks into a room, he "sees" what might be beneath the floor, beyond the walls and above the ceiling. Van Rees has recently been working in Chicago, where he uncovers the hidden spaces of Frank Lloyd Wright's Unity Temple and the Chicago Cultural Centre. Van Rees graduated from the Academy of Visual Art in Groningen, Netherlands. Sponsored by Department of Art and Art History. For further information, please contact Valerie Albicker at 303-492-2539.
[Wednesday, November 14, 4:00-5:00pm, Macky 202] CHA's Work-in-Progress Series, featuring David Boonin, Department of Philosophy, "Repairing the Slave Reparations Debate: how I got into an argument with myself about David Horowitz and lost." We encourage you to read the work before the session -- please contact Paula Anderson and a copy will be sent to you electronically. Professor Boonin will present the work, leaving time for questions and discussion. Refreshments are provided. For further information, please contact Paula Anderson at 303-492-1423.
[Sunday, November 18, 4:00pm, Grusin Music Hall] Join the American Music Research Center (AMRC) in beginning a holiday tradition. The AMRC hosts a sing-along program led by Jubilate Artistic Director David Harris, pianist Bill Elliott, and AMRC Director Tom Riis. This program kicks off the Thanksgiving week by showcasing songs of nostalgia, home, and good times, anticipating the coming holiday season. For further information, please contact Tom Riis at 303-492-7540 or Lisa Bailey at 303-735-0237.
[Tuesday, November 27, 7:00pm, Fleming Law 155] Visiting Artist Lecture Series, featuring Marguerite Kahrl, whose work questions the mechanistic and anthropocentric roots of power in mainstream society. Her perspective of interrelatedness takes the form of idiosyncratic constructions built from materials chosen for their (essential) characteristic properties. In her large-scale drawings, Kahrl maps this framework exploring links and shifting viewpoints between subjects and settings. This practice of articulating systems, power and instability in an allegorical manner link her drawings, video, sculpture and performance work. Kahrl received her BFA from the University of Colorado, Boulder and her MFA from the Rhode Island School of Art and Design. Sponsored by Department of Art and Art History. For further information, please contact Valerie Albicker at 303-492-2539.
[Wednesday, November 28, 3:00pm, MKNA 112] GSLL Colloquium, featuring Beverly Weber, Assistant Professor of German, CU-Boulder. "Considering The Foreign Bride: Violence, Gender and Activism for Change." Necla Kelek, the best-selling author of a memoir entitled The Foreign Bride, has been a controversial voice in Germany–-in part because of her refusal to identify as a member of Turkish or Muslim communities in Germany. Her selection by the federal government as representative of the Muslim community for the Islam-Konferenz suggests the power her particular narrative has in German society. Her book seeks to explain the perceived lack of integration by Turkish immigrants via her own family history--specifically via claims regarding the “backwardness” of Turkish culture and the violence inherent in Turkish masculinity. This narrative, while not new, has resurged in a recent wave of autobiographical books in Germany which replicate this dominant narrative. The narratives constructed by Kelek and her contemporaries claim the right to “represent” immigrant women’s concerns, yet ignore immigrant groups’ attempts to construct critiques of violence that also critique cultural racism. My discussion frames this trend in a larger gendered discussion, one in which Germany constructs a national (German) and transnational (European) identity by claiming to be the the proper guardian of (immigrant) women’s rights, as the proper inheritor of the legacy of the Enlightenment. By reinforcing these discourses with their memoirs, Kelek and her contemporaries have effectively precluded attention to immigrant women who construct counter-narratives. Refreshments will be provided. Sponsored by Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures. For further information, please contact Beverly Weber, 303-492-2604.
[Wednesday, January 23, 4:00-5:00pm, Macky 202] CHA's Work-in-Progress Series, featuring Deborah Haynes, Department of Art and Art History. "Book of [THIS] Place: Art, Spirituality, and the Land." We encourage you to read the work before the session -- please contact Paula Anderson and a copy will be sent to you electronically. Professor Haynes will present the work, leaving time for questions and discussion. Refreshments are provided. For further information, please contact Paula Anderson at 303-492-1423.
[Friday, February 1, 12:00-1:00pm, British Studies (5th floor of Norlin Library)] Performance Friday! featuring the original dance stylings of Michelle Ellsworth of the Department of Theatre and Dance. Doors open at 11:30 for a free, light lunch. For further information, please contact Paula Anderson at 303-492-1423.
[Sunday, February 3, 1:00-3:00pm, Denver Center for the Performing Arts] Plainsong, a symposium featuring the novelist Kent Haruf, playwright Eric Schmiedl, photographer Peter Brown, and Kent Thompson, director of the play. Set on the high plains of eastern Colorado, this dramatization of The New York Times best-selling novel unflinchingly portrays love and loss in a small ranching community. A school teacher is left alone to care for his vulnerable sons, while two gruff bachelor brothers who know little about life beyond the ranch awkwardly offer a home to a pregnant tennage girl. As the characters' lives intertwine, they survive harshness and cruelty to recreate family and community in this warm regional drama. Stark, unsentimental, yet poetic, this story taps a deep well of human emotion. For tickets to the world premier of this play, please go to www.denvercenter.org. The symposium is free and open to the public. For further information, please contact Paula Anderson at 303-492-1423.
[Monday, February 4, 4:00-6:00pm, British Studies (5th floor of Norlin Library)]Plainsong, a symposium featuring the novelist Kent Haruf, playwright Eric Schmiedl, photographer Peter Brown, and Kent Thompson, director of the play. Set on the high plains of eastern Colorado, this dramatization of The New York Times best-selling novel unflinchingly portrays love and loss in a small ranching community. A school teacher is left alone to care for his vulnerable sons, while two gruff bachelor brothers who know little about life beyond the ranch awkwardly offer a home to a pregnant tennage girl. As the characters' lives intertwine, they survive harshness and cruelty to recreate family and community in this warm regional drama. Stark, unsentimental, yet poetic, this story taps a deep well of human emotion. For tickets to the world premier of this play, please go to www.denvercenter.org. The symposium is free and open to the public. For further information, please contact Paula Anderson at 303-492-1423.
[Friday, February 15, 4:00pm, British Studies (5th floor of Norlin Library)] CHA Lecture Series. "Is it Good for the Jews?" by Stanley Fish, Professor of Law, College of Law, Florida International University. Sponsored by CHA, and made possible with funds contributed by Gary and Helen Christy. For further information, please contact Paula Anderson, 303-492-1423.
[Wednesday, February 20, 4:00-5:00pm, Macky 202] CHA's Work-in-Progress Series, featuring Jim Symons, Department of Theatre and Dance, "Staging Shakespeare's Last History Play, Henry VIII." We encourage you to read the work before the session -- please contact Paula Anderson and a copy will be sent to you electronically. Professor Symons will present the work, leaving time for questions and discussion. Refreshments are provided. For further information, please contact Paula Anderson at 303-492-1423.
[Thursday, February 21, 7:30-9:00pm, Old Main Chapel] "Think!" Lecture Series, featuring Wes Morrison (CU-Boulder), "Why No One Needs to Fear Going to Hell." "Think!" lectures are sponsored by the Center for Values and Social Policy in the Philosophy Department of the University of Colorado at Boulder. They are funded through the generosity of The Collins Foundation. For further information, please contact Diana Hsieh.
[Thursday, February 28, 4:00pm, British Studies (5th floor of Norlin Library)] State-of-the-Profession Colloquia, featuring David Palumbo-Liu (Stanford University) and Melissa Mowry (St. Johns University). This colloquium reviews the state of the profession of English studies, present and future. It considers such issues as challenges to the supremacy of print culture, changes in visibility of social collectivities, response to globalization, challenges to the privileging of cultures of the past by privileging cultures of the present, increases and redeployment of ancillary disciplines brought to bear upon the literary arts, and questions about the interactive potential of writerly and readerly activities. It is the hope of the organizers that their review will lead to a more informed awareness of how to structure programs and how major curricular revision out to proceed. Sponsored by Department of English, Center for British and Irish Studies, and CHA. For further information, please contact Mary Lowe or Jeffrey Robinson at 303-492-7382.
[Friday, February 29, 12:00-1:00pm, British Studies (5th floor of Norlin Library)] Performance Friday! featuring excerpts from Beneath the Surface, a musical produced by the Department of Theatre and Dance. Doors open at 11:30 for a free, light lunch. For further information, please contact Paula Anderson at 303-492-1423.
[Monday, March 3, 5:30pm, Imig C-199] Olivier Messiaen Centennial: “Faith inside the Music,” performed by Hsing-ay Hsu, concert pianist, College of Music, University of Colorado at Buoulder. Since her stage debut at age 4, Hsing-ay Hsu (“Sing-I Shoo”) has performed at Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center, Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center, Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall (a sold-out recital), and abroad in Asia and Europe. Hsu has garnered numerous awards including the Juilliard William Petschek Debut Award, the William Kapell International Piano Competition second prize, the Ima Hogg National Competition first-prize, the Paul & Daisy Soros Graduate Fellowship Award, the Gilmore Young Artist Award, and the United States Presidential Scholar of the Arts Award from President Clinton. Upcoming Colorado performances include concertos with the Colorado Symphony Orchestra, the Colorado Springs Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Longmont Symphony Orchestra. Live broadcasts include Garrison Keillor’s Prairie Home Companion Live from Tanglewood with a live standing ovation from over 10,000 people and broadcast audience of 3.9 million, NPR’s Performance Today with Martin Goldsmith, Chinese CTTV and Phoenix TV, and on Danish Radio. Concerto appearances include the Austin, Baltimore, Houston, Pacific, New Jersey, Waterbury, China National, Shanghai, and Xiamen Symphony Orchestras. Upcoming projects include a multi-venue celebration of Messiaen’s Centennial. Her solo CD from Pacific Records (China) has received critical acclaim, and a CD of Ezra Laderman’s piano solos was just released by Albany Records. Born in Beijing, Hsu studied piano with her parents, uncle Fei-Ping Hsu, Herbert Stessin at Juilliard, and Claude Frank at Yale, and is currently the Artistic Administrator and Primary Coach of the Pendulum New Music Series at the University of Colorado in Boulder, where she resides with her husband, composer Daniel Kellogg. Upcoming concerts listed at www.hsingayhsu.com. This concert is sponsored by CHA as part of its colloquium on "Faith, Reason, Doubt." For further information, please contact Paula Anderson at 303-492-1423.
[Tuesday, March 4, 7:00pm, Fleming Law 155] Visiting Artist Lecture Series, featuring Lita Albuquerque, entitled "Stellar Axis: Antarctica Symbolic Network and Earth's Place in the Universe." Ms. Albuquerque is one of the rare artists and humanists who are responsible for thoughtfully and imaginatively placing the elemental concepts for a living, functional cosmology of 21st century culture within public consciousness. Her newest ephemeral Earth Art work, The Pole Project, a star map of blue diameters on ice is planned for installation at both the North and South Poles later this year. Ms. Albuquerque received her BFA from the University of California, Los Angeles. Her work is included in the archives of American Art at the Smithsonian Institution and is collected by prominent museums and Foundations, such as: the Whitney Museum of Art, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles and the Getty Trust. Sponsored by Department of Art and Art History, and co-sponsored by CHA. For further information, please contact Valerie Albicker at 303-492-2539.
[Thursday and Friday, March 6-7, British Studies (5th floor of Norlin Library)] CHA Colloquium. Keynote speakers: Wendy Brown (Political Science, University of California at Berkeley), and Carl Ernst (Religious Studies, University of North Carolina). Additional speakers will be Lloyd Burton (Public Affairs, University of Colorado Denver), Evan Fales (Philosophy, University of Iowa), and Paul Harvey (History, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs). Also presenting will be the 2007-08 CHA Fellows, Emmanuel David (Sociology), Ann Emmons (English), Michaele Ferguson (Political Science), Gabriel Finkelstein (History, CU-Denver), David Gross (History), Edward Holland (Geography), Bradley Monton (Philosophy), Maria O'Malley (English), and Sue Zemka (English). For further information, please contact Paula Anderson, 303-492-1423.
[Thursday, March 6, 7:30-9:00pm, Old Main Chapel] "Think!" Lecture Series, featuring David Boonin (CU-Boulder), "Two Cheers for Affirmative Action." "Think!" lectures are sponsored by the Center for Values and Social Policy in the Philosophy Department of the University of Colorado at Boulder. They are funded through the generosity of The Collins Foundation. For further information, please contact Diana Hsieh.
[Friday, March 14, 12:00-1:00pm, British Studies (5th floor of Norlin Library)] Performance Friday! featuring short films by Phil Solomon of the Films Studies Department. Doors open at 11:30 for a free, light lunch. For further information, please contact Paula Anderson at 303-492-1423.
[Tuesday, March 18, 7:00pm, Fleming Law 155] Visiting Artist Lecture Series, featuring Andrea Polli, Associate Professor of Integrated Media Arts at Hunter College. Professor Polli is a digital media artist living in New York City. Her work addresses issues related to science and technology in contemporary society. She is interested in global systems, the real time interconnectivity of these systems, and their effects on individuals. In January 2008, she returned from working in Antarctica through the National Science Foundation's Antarctic Artists and Writers Program. Polli is the Spring 2008 Cox Family Visiting Scholar/Artist in the Center for Humanities and the Arts at Cu-Boulder. This lecture is sponsored by Department of Art and Art History, and co-sponsored by CHA. For further information, please contact Valerie Albicker at 303-492-2539.
[Wednesday, March 19, 4:00-5:00pm, Macky 202] CHA's Work-in-Progress Series, featuring Jesse Stommel, PhD Candidate in English. "Pity Poor Flesh: The Dead and The Walking Dead in Contemporary Literature and Film." We encourage you to read the work before the session -- please contact Paula Anderson and a copy will be sent to you electronically. Mr. Stommel will present the work, leaving time for questions and discussion. Refreshments are provided. For further information, please contact Paula Anderson at 303-492-1423.
[Thursday, April 3, 2:00-4:00pm, UMC 245] Public lecture by Andrew Light, Department of Philosophy and Evans School of Public Affairs, University of Washington. "How Humanists and Social Scientists Can Take Advantage of Grant Opportunities at the National Science Foundation." This talk will provide an overview of funding opportunities in the humanities and social sciences at the US National Science Foundation, with a focus on the programs in science, technology, and society. For further information, please contact Paula Anderson at 303-492-1423.
[Thursday, April 3, 4:00pm, British Studies (5th floor of Norlin Library)] State-of-the-Profession Colloquia, featuring Wai Chee Dimock (Yale University) and William Keach (Brown University). This colloquium reviews the state of the profession of English studies, present and future. It considers such issues as challenges to the supremacy of print culture, changes in visibility of social collectivities, response to globalization, challenges to the privileging of cultures of the past by privileging cultures of the present, increases and redeployment of ancillary disciplines brought to bear upon the literary arts, and questions about the interactive potential of writerly and readerly activities. It is the hope of the organizers that their review will lead to a more informed awareness of how to structure programs and how major curricular revision out to proceed. Sponsored by Department of English, Center for British and Irish Studies, and CHA. For further information, please contact Mary Lowe or Jeffrey Robinson at 303-492-7382.
[Wednesday, April 9, 4:00pm, MKNA 112] The joint Colloquium between the Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures and the Department of Comparative Literature and Humanities, featuring Constantin Bogdanov, University of Constance (Germany) & Institute of Russian Literature, Russian Academy of Science (St.Petersburg). " How to Write (Russian) History? Putin, The Annales School, and the Intimization of History." Dr. Bogdanov will compare the cultural rhetoric displayed in present discussions about how Soviet history should be presented in new textbooks with the concept of ideal history as exemplified by Lucien Febvre of the French school of Annales. The discussion on post-Soviet history textbooks is closely connected with the ongoing process of the “restoration of national pride” launched by Putin’s cultural politics. Sponsored by the Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures, the Graduate Committee for the Arts and Humanities, Dean’s Fund for Excellence, and Department of Comparative Literature and Humanities. For further information, please contact Jan Kaufman at 303-492-7404.
[Thursday, April 10, 4:00pm, DUAN G131] Public lecture by J. Gordon Finlayson, "The Ethics of Resistance and the Problem of Normative Foundations: Adorno and Habermas." Professor Finlayson is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Sussex and is the author of numerous articles on topics including Kant, Hegel, Adorno, Habermas and contemporary politics in Germany, as well as the highly acclaimed Habermas: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford, 2005). He is currently completing a book-length study of Habermas' discourse ethics. Informal Q&A session with Dr. Finlayson on Friday, April 11 from 9-10am in ATLAS 229. Sponsored by the Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures, the Department of Comparative Literature and Humanities, the Department of Philosophy, and the Graduate Committee on the Arts & Humanities. For further information, please contact Jan Kaufman at 303-492-7404.
[Friday, April 11, 12:00-1:00pm, British Studies (5th floor of Norlin Library)] Performance Friday! featuring Jay Keister of the College of Music, giving examples of his recently-created Japanese ensemble. Doors open at 11:30 for a free, light lunch. For further information, please contact Paula Anderson at 303-492-1423.
[Wednesday, April 16, 4:00-5:00pm, Macky 202] CHA's Work-in-Progress Series, featuring Rob Rupert, Department of Philosophy. "Mental Representation in the Embedded Mind." We encourage you to read the work before the session -- please contact Paula Anderson and a copy will be sent to you electronically. Professor Rupert will present the work, leaving time for questions and discussion. Refreshments are provided. For further information, please contact Paula Anderson at 303-492-1423.
[Monday, April 21, 4:00pm, EDUC 220] The Americanist Colloquium, featuring a lecture by Christopher Looby (English, UCLA), "Queer Timing." Professor Looby is the author of Voicing America: Language, Literary Form, and the Origins of the United States and editor of The Complete Civil War Journal and Selected Letters of Thomas Wentworth Higginson and of the first modern edition of Robert Montgomery Bird's Sheppard Lee. He is author and editor of many other celebrated essays and collections, and his lecture at Boulder is drawn from a book-in- progress on "literary sexuality." Sponsored by Department of English. For further information, please contact Jordan Stein.
[Monday, April 21, 7:00pm, HUMN 1B50] The Department of French & Italian Lecturer Endowment presents its first speaker, Sebastiana Nobili (University of Bologna, Italy). "Rewriting as Reinventing: Pirandello's Play from Page to Stage." Reception preceding at 6:15pm. Co-sponsored by Department of Theatre and Dance. For further information, please contact Chiara Torriani at 303-492-5810.
[Thursday, April 24, 7:30-9:00pm, Old Main Chapel] "Think!" Lecture Series, featuring Neera Badhwar (University of Oklahoma). Topic to be determined. "Think!" lectures are sponsored by the Center for Values and Social Policy in the Philosophy Department of the University of Colorado at Boulder. They are funded through the generosity of The Collins Foundation. For further information, please contact Diana Hsieh.
[Saturday, April 26, 7:00pm and Sunday, April 27, 4:00pm, ATLAS Black Box Theatre] CU Italian Theatre Class presents E Permesso, Signor Pirandello? Two short plays, La patente and Dal naso al cielo. Free and open to the public. Co-produced by ATLAS Center for Arts, Media and Performance. For further information, please contact Chiara Torriani at 303-492-5810.
[Tuesday, April 29, 12:00-6:00pm, ATLAS Center Northeast Patio] Weather Station Installation in conjunction with the ATLAS Speaker Series and Film Screening on April 30, featuring Andrea Polli (Hunter College), the Spring 2008 Cox Family Visiting Artist in the Center for Humanities and the Arts. For further information, please contact Rebekah West at 303-735-0993.
[Wednesday, April 30, 6:00pm, ATLAS 100] ATLAS Speaker Series and Film Screening. The film Ground Truth follows weather and climate observation at the South Pole, McMurdo Station and field sites in the Dry Valleys of Antarctica and asks why people go to remote, uncomfortable and often hazardous locations, doing what is known as "ground truthing." Directed by Andrea Polli (Hunter College), the Spring 2008 Cox Family Visiting Artist in the Center for Humanities and the Arts. Videography and sound by Andrea Polli and Tia Kramer. Editing and graphics by Brandon Lied and Greg O'Brien. Transcripts and graphics by Klew Williams. Starring Hassan Basagic and Dr. Andrew Fountain of the LTER, Dr. John Cassano of the University of Colorado at Boulder, and many others. Sponsored by ATLAS and CHA. For further information, please contact Rebekah West at 303-735-0993.
