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[Thursday, August 9, 4:30-6:30pm, Hale 270] Think! Talk, "What Rights May be Defended by Means of War?" by Jeff McMahan (Rutgers University). Sponsored by the Center for Values and Social Policy in the Department of Philosophy. For further information, please contact them at 303-492-6132.
[Friday, August 17 and Saturday, August 18, 9:00am, Norlin Library, British Studies Room M549] Letters and Epistolary Culture in China: Epistolary communication, literature, and culture have been crucial elements of Chinese social life for more than two thousand years. This workshop will bring together twenty scholars working in fields as diverse as literature, history, archaeology, and art history, and ranging from ca. 200BC to the 20th century and provide an opportunity for them to present and discuss their research in order to arrive at a deeper understanding of the Chinese culture of written communication. Further information and full program is found at http://spot.colorado.edu/~richtea/workshop.html, or you may contact antje.richter@colorado.edu.
[Monday, August 27, 4:00pm, Eckeley S-274] "Community-Based Conservation in Globalizing India," a lecture by Dr. C. Gladwin Joseph, Senior Fellow and former Director of the Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment (ATREE). Dr. Joseph will give an overview of India’s current conservation and livelihood issues and how ATREE is organized to address these issues. Sponsored by Center for Asian Studies. For further information, please go to http://cas.colorado.edu.
[Wednesday, September 5, 6:30 pm, Old Main] The Center of the American West is proud to announce the release of A Ditch in Time: The City, the West, and Water, written by the Center's Patty Limerick with Jason Hanson. Water holds an under-exploited capacity to show the connections tying together distant places and seemingly unrelated groups. This book traces the history of water in Denver, using a case study to explore important and often under-recognized patterns in regional and national history. Energized by a quality of wit and humor rarely encountered in books about natural resources and bureaucracies, and enriched with photographs and maps, this book raises questions of consequence about the complex relationship among cities, suburbs, and rural areas, the crucial role of engineering in shaping the West, and the varying roles of contention and cooperation, litigation and negotiation, at work in the control of water. Followed by a reception, book sales, and book signing in the Heritage Center, located on the top floor of Old Main. For further information, please call 303-492-4879.
[Monday, September 10, 12:00, CAS Conference Room, 1424 Broadway, Boulder] CAS Brown Bag: "Building Identity in West Asia: The Genoese under Sultan Mehmed II, 1453-81," lecture by Celine Dauverd, Assistant Professor, Department of History. Prof. Dauverd will discuss identity formation in West Asia with a particular focus on the Genoese community in the Constantinople of Sultan Mehmed II. Sponsored by Center for Asian Studies. For further information, please go to http://cas.colorado.edu
[Tuesday, Sept 11, 7:00pm, Boedecker Theater, Dairy Center, Boulder] Public lecture on "Sound Design and Feature Films" by Richard Beggs, Academy Award-winning sound designer. Sponsored by Film Studies Program with a grant from GCAH. For further information, please contact alex.cox@colorado.edu, 303-735-1646.
[Wednesday, September 12-Friday, September 14] The Center of the American West and the Public Lands Foundation announce a bicentennial event, The Nation Possessed: The Conflicting Claims on America’s Public Lands, September 12-14, 2012, at the University of Colorado Boulder, to reckon with the dramatic history of the federal government’s management and allocation of the public domain, and to find guidance in the past for the future. The two hundredth anniversary of the creation of the General Land Office, the agency that orchestrated the allocation and the management of the territory and resources on a nearly unimaginable scale, provides a prime occasion to consider America’s public lands heritage. The conference is comprised of both free public events and a paid conference. The paid portions include the Symposium and the Round Table and all public events. In order to attend the panel discussions, you need to register for the Conference at this link: https://cucs.colorado.edu/confreg/thenationpossessed. For a list of all conference events please visit http://centerwest.org/events/the-nation-possessed/. For more information, please contact admin@centerwest.org, 303-492-4879.
[Wednesday, September 12, 12:30pm, Glenn Miller Ballroom] The Nation Possessed: Welcome Event (free and open to the public), brought to you by the Center of the American West and the Public Lands Foundation. Speakers include University of Colorado President Bruce Benson and Native American Rights Attorney Walter Echo-Hawk. For more information, please contact admin@centerwest.org, 303-492-4879.
[Thursday, September 13, 6:30-8:30pm, Glenn Miller Ballroom] The Nation Possessed: Reenactment/Preenactment Event (free and open to the public), brought to you by the Center of the American West and the Public Lands Foundation. The Public Domain and the Public Lands: 1812, 1912, 2112 Reenactment/Preenactment Event with Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and a Visitor from the Future. For more information, please contact admin@centerwest.org, 303-492-4879.
[Friday, September 14, 7:00pm & Saturday, September 15, 3:00pm, ATLAS Black Box Theater] The Crane Wife: A puppet theatre performance based on the Japanese folk tale of the same name. The show features puppets, actors, shadow theatre, masks, movement, and live music. Inspired by Japanese culture and aesthetic as well as Japanese theatre forms such as Bunraku, Kabuki and Noh, the show creates an enchanting atmosphere to take the audience on a mystical journey. Contact Margarita Blush at margaritablush@yahoo.com, 303-620-6971.
[Thursday, September 20, 5:00pm (reception at 4:30), British and Irish Studies (5th floor of Norlin Library)] Lecture on William Hogarth by Frédéric Ogée, Professor of English at the University of Paris 7 (Diderot), in connection with the exhibit "Hockney and Hogarth: Selections from the CU Art Museum's Collection of British Art," on view at the CU Art Museum from September 7 to October 27, 2012. Sponsored by the CU Art Museum and the Center for British and Irish Studies. For further information, please contact catherine.labio@colorado.edu.
[Friday, September 21, 12:00-1:00pm, British Studies (5th floor of Norlin Library)] Performance Friday! featuring excerpts from Theatre and Dance's production of Michael Frayn's Noises Off. Hire an eccentric company of British actors to perform a poorly written sex “comedy” — including gratuitous lingerie and back-stage shenanigans — and you get one of the funniest farces ever written. Doors open at 11:30 for free lunch. Sponsored by CHA. For further information, please contact Paula Anderson.
[Friday, September 21, 12:00-2:00pm, Hale 450] Talk by Professor Joyce Flueckiger, Department of Religion at Emory University, "Gold in the Kitchen: Wedding Pendants Creating Protection, Identity, and Relationships in South India." This presentation will explore the variety and meaning of south Indian women's sacred gold wedding tali necklaces. Sponsored by Center for Asian Studies. Contact casevent@colorado.edu.
[Friday, September 21, 4:00-6:00pm, Hale 230] Talk by Professor Joyce Flueckiger, Department of Religion at Emory University, "When the World Becomes Female: Possibilities of a South Indian Goddess." Dr. Flueckiger's talk will be a public lecture about her forthcoming new book entitled When the World Becomes Female: Possibilities of a South Indian Goddess. Sponsored by Center for Asian Studies. Contact casevent@colorado.edu.
[Friday, September 21, 6:30pm, Koelbel Building, Room 210] "Syria and the Arab Uprisings," a lecture by Haytham Bahoora, Assistant Professor of Arabic, Asian Languages & Civilizations. As violence in Syria continues unabated, the fate of the uprising and the future of the nation remain unclear. What are the characteristics of the Syrian uprising that make it different than the other Arab uprisings? What are the structural causes of the uprising and why has it thus far failed to unseat the Syrian regime? This talk will consider these questions in the broader context of the uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt and will suggest possible outcomes in Syria. Sponsored by Center for Asian Studies. For more information, please go to http://cas.colorado.edu/index.php/ssewa/workshops.
[Sunday, September 23, 4:00pm, Muenzinger Auditorium] One of the four films in the Nikkatsu 100th Anniversary Film Retrospective, Suzaki Paradise-Red Light District tells the story of a young Japanese couple who end up living at the outskirts of the Suzaki red-light district in Tokyo. Sponsored by the International Film Series at CU-Boulder, Center of Asian Studies, the Japan Foundation and the Consulate-General of Japan at Denver. For further information, please go to http://cas.colorado.edu.
[Tuesday, September 25, 6:30pm, Visual Arts Complex, 1B20 Auditorium] Visiting Artist Lecture Series presents Harmony Hammond, an artist, art writer and independent curator who lives and works in Galisteo, NM. Considered a pioneer of the feminist art movement - co-founder of A.I.R., the first women’s cooperative art gallery in New York (1972) and Heresies: A Feminist Publication on Arts & Politics (1976) - Hammond lectures, writes and publishes extensively on painting, feminist art, lesbian art, and the cultural representation of “difference”. As Professor of Art at the University of Arizona, (Tucson), she taught painting, combined media and interdisciplinary graduate critique seminars for seventeen years (1989-2006). Currently she serves as a mentor for MFA students. Hammond has had over 40 solo exhibitions and her work has been shown internationally. Her work is represented in the permanent collections of many museums including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; the Brooklyn Museum; the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC; and the Art Institute of Chicago. She has received fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim, Adolph and Esther Gottlieb, Joan Mitchell, Andrea Frank, Puffin, and Pollock-Krasner Foundations, Art Matters, the New York State Council on the Arts, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Sponsored by Visiting Artist Program. For further information, please contact Valerie Albicker at albicker@colorado.edu, 303-492-2539.
[Wednesday, September 26, 7:00pm, Muenzinger Auditorium] One of the four films in the Nikkatsu 100th Anniversary Film Retrospective, "One Million Yen Girl" tells the story of a 21-year-old recently released from prison, and her struggle to deter neighborhood gossip and family conflicts. Sponsored by the International Film Series at CU-Boulder, Center of Asian Studies, the Japan Foundation and the Consulate-General of Japan at Denver. For further information, please go to http://cas.colorado.edu.
[Friday, September 28, 4:30pm, Hale 230] "Make Way for the Unreliable Narrator," a talk by Kate Brown (Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Maryland Baltimore County). History is often a collision of biography, ethnography and autobiography. Rather than deploy tactics that legitimize scholarship to make it appear authoritative, Brown argues for the broadening scholarly voice to include that of the unreliable narrator. The unreliable narrator, who is heard, but not fully believed, is valuable for casting a wider gaze and calling into question accepted truths. Sponsored by Department of Anthropology. For more information, please contact dani.merriman@colorado.edu.
[Saturday, September 29, 4:00pm, Hellems 199] "The Determinative Power of Culture and the Intersection of History, Biography and Critical Media Scholarship," a talk by Janice Peck (Associate Professor, Journalism & Mass Communications, CU-Boulder). This presentation uses Jean-Paul Sartre’s proposition—“a life develops in spirals; it passes again and again by the same points but at different levels of integration and complexity”—to reflect on the relationship of biography and scholarship. Sponsored by Department of Anthropology. For more information, please contact dani.merriman@colorado.edu.
[Sunday, September 30, 7:30pm, Grusin Hall] Min'yo: Japan's Musical Roots, a concert of min’yo folk music and dance featuring Takeda Masahiro and Takeda Hiroko, award-winning folk performers and professional min’yo musicians from Japan (Sunday, Sept. 30) and a lecture demonstration by CU Professor Jay Keister (Monday, Oct. 1). The lecture will analyze several key min’yo songs and examine the meanings and significance in their words and music. Sponsored by Center for Asian Studies. For further information, please contact casevent@colorado.edu, 303-735-5511.
[Monday, October 1, 2:00pm, Grusin Hall] Min’yo: Japan’s Musical Roots, a series of events designed to introduce the sounds of Japanese folk songs to the Colorado audience. This event features a lecture demonstration by Professor Jay Keister of the College of Music's Musicology Colloquium. Takeda Masahiro and Takeda Hiroko, award-winning folk performers from Japan, will participate. Sponsored by Center for Asian Studies. For further information, please contact casevent@colorado.edu, 303-735-5511.
[Tuesday, October 2, 7:00pm, Hellems 252] 24th Athearn Lecture featuring Dr. Louis S. Warren (the W. Turrentine Jackson Professor of Western U.S. History, University of California Davis). "The Rising of God's Red Son: The 1890 Ghost Dance Gospels and the Crisis of the Arid West." Dr. Warren teaches and writes about 19th and 20th century Western U.S. history: immigration, environmental issues and demographic impacts. A specialist in environmental history, Warren is an authority on the history of conflicts between hunting and animal rights, no-growth and slow-growth movements, and Buffalo Bill Cody's legacy. His acclaimed book, Buffalo Bill's America: William Cody and the Wild West Show (Knopf 2005), has won numerous awards, including the 2007 Beveridge Prize from the American Historical Association, the Western Writers of America Spur Award in 2005 and the 2005 Great Plains Distinguished Book Prize. He also wrote The Hunter's Game: Poachers and Conservationists in Twentieth-Century America (Yale University Press 1997), which won the Western Heritage Award for Outstanding Non-fiction Book from the National Cowboy Hall of Fame and Western Heritage Center. He is Editor-in-Chief of Boom: A Journal of California. This free lecture is sponsored by Department of History. For further information, please go to http://history.colorado.edu/programs-and-publications/robert-g-athearn-lecture-series.
[Tuesday, October 2, 7:30pm, Old Main Chapel] Think! Talk, featuring David Boonin. "Why Blackmail Should be Legal." Abstract: David is legally free to decide whether or not to reveal embarrassing personal information about Alastair. Alastair is legally free to decide whether or not to give David some of his money. David’s act of blackmailing Alastair seems to be nothing more than a combination of David and Alastair exercising these two freedoms. But David’s act of blackmailing Alastair is illegal. In this talk, Professor Boonin will present a puzzle that arises from these facts, consider a variety of solutions that have been offered to the puzzle, argue that none of these solutions are satisfactory, and conclude that blackmail should be legal. David Boonin is a Professor in the Philosophy Department at CU. He is also currently serving as Associate Dean for Arts and Humanities. Sponsored by Center for Values and Social Policy in the Department of Philosophy and funded through The Collins Foundation. For further information, please contact the Philosophy department at 303-492-6132.
[Wednesday, October 3, 4:00pm, Hazel Gates Woodruff Cottage] The Women and Gender Studies Speaker Series - Global Studies in Gender and Sexuality presents "Nationalist Heterosexuality and Migrant (Il)Legality in the Irish Republic," by Eithne Luibhéid (Associate Professor, Department of Gender and Women’s Studies, University of Arizona). Centering on controversies over immigrant women who gave birth to citizen children in Ireland between 1997-2004, this talk brings queer and migration scholarship into critical dialogue to explore how nationalist heterosexual norms shape immigrants’ likelihood of becoming designated by the state as documented or undocumented. It argues that struggles over immigrants’ childbearing expanded the grounds for designating growing numbers of immigrants as unwanted and undocumented; redefined who was deemed as a desirable, documented immigrant; and refashioned sexual norms that are inextricable from gender, racial, class, and geopolitical hierarchies of citizenship. The transnational dimensions of these struggles are explored by tracing how Irish politicians and courts looked to U.S. jurisprudence to justify more restrictive immigration and citizenship policies, while U.S. groups referenced restrictions in Ireland to support anti-immigrant campaigns in the United States. Sponsored by women and Gender Studies. Co-sponsored by the Department of Ethnic Studies and the GLBTQ Resource Center. For further information, please contact wgst@colorado.edu, 303-492-3205.
[Thursday, October 4, 4:00-6:00pm, Hale 230] "Bad Friday: Rastafari after Coral Gardens,"* film and discussion with Deborah A. Thomas (Department of Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania). For many around the world, Jamaica conjures up images of pristine beach vacations with a pulsating reggae soundtrack. The country, however, also has one of the highest per capita murder rates in the world, and the population is actively grappling with legacies of Western imperialism, racial slavery, and political nationalism – the historical foundations of contemporary violence in Jamaica and throughout the Americas. Bad Friday focuses on a community of Rastafarians in western Jamaica who annually commemorate the 1963 Coral Gardens “incident,” a moment just after independence when the Jamaican government rounded up, jailed and tortured hundreds of Rastafarians. It chronicles the history of violence in Jamaica through the eyes of its most iconic community, and shows how people use their recollections of past traumas to imagine new possibilities for a collective future. *Film trailer at http://www.badfridaythemovie.com/bad-friday.htm. Sponsored by Department of Anthropology. For more information, please contact anthro@colorado.edu.
[Thursday, October 4, 5:00pm, Eaton Humanities 135] CAS Speaker Series: "Affective Labor, Ethnic Migrant Youth and the Precariat in Neoliberal China,” a lecture by Hai Ren, Assitant Professor of East Asian Studies at the University of Arizona. Professor Ren will examine how ethnic minority migrant youth in China pursue work opportunities that involve the investment of affective labor. Professor Ren’s definition of affective labor involves a two-fold process: the management of feelings that serves to personalize impersonal commercial transactions and the strategic deployment of feelings to produce individuals who are expected to advance the state’s neoliberal project of national development. Sponsored by Center for Asian Studies. For further information, please go to http://cas.colorado.edu.
[Thursday, October 4, 6:30pm, Hale 230] Annual Lester Lecture, featuring Manual Vasquez (University of Florida). "The Materialist Turn in Religious Studies: Promises, Challenges, and Pitfalls." This free lecture is sponsored by Department of Religious Studies. For further information, please contact Greg Johnson or go to http://rlst.colorado.edu.
[Friday, October 5, noon to 2:00pm, University Club] Mediterranean Studies Roundtable, featuring Steven Epstein, Ahmanson-Murphy Distinguished Professor of Medieval History, University of Kansas at Lawrence. "The Language of Genoese Slavery." This work-in-progress discussion presents a transcultural perspective on late medieval and early modern slavery in the Mediterranean by applying recent developments in the pragmatics field in linguistics to an 18th-century question concerning the abolition of slavery. Respondents: Catherine Cameron (Anthropology), Robert Ferry (History), Noel Lenski (Classics) and Teresa Toulouse (English). Free and open to the academic community -- for advance registration and copies of the paper, please contact Aaron Stamper. Register by September 28 and receive a free boxed lunch at the event. Funded by a CU Innovative Seed Grant, The Dean's Fund for Excellence, Center for Medieval and Early Modern Studies, and various CU-Boulder programs, departments and centers. In collaboration with the Mediterranean Seminar/UCMRP at the University of California Santa Cruz.
[Friday, October 5, 2012, 5:00pm, UMC Art Gallery (2nd floor)] "Building the City, Negotiating the Nation: The 1929 Barcelona International Exhibition" by Dr. Joan Ramon Resina. Professor Resina specializes in modern European literatures and cultures with an emphasis on the Spanish and Catalan traditions. Sponsored by the Spanish and Portuguese Department with support from GCAH (Graduate Committee for the Arts and Humanities). For further information, please contact juan.herrero-senes@colorado.edu, 303-492-5848.
[Tuesday, October 9, 5:00pm, VAC 308] "Civil War Scrapbooks North and South: Newspaper and Nation," a lecture by Ellen Gruber Garvey (Professor of English, New Jersey City University). The Civil War was a watershed moment for newspaper reading. Men and women not only read newspapers but saved and arranged the articles and poetry they read in scrapbooks, marking their sense of living through momentous events and creating their ideal newspapers, mimicking published ones. They experienced a mediated war. This talk explores these extraordinary records of reception and of the meaning of media in the lives of Americans. Garvey is the author of The Adman in the Parlor: Magazines and the Gendering of Consumer Culture (Oxford University Press), winner of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing prize for best book on the history of the book. She has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Humanities Center, and the Massachusetts Historical Society, and held the Walt Whitman Distinguished Chair in American Literature in the Netherlands. She co-edits the journal Transformations: The Journal of Inclusive Scholarship and Pedagogy. Her forthcoming book, Writing with Scissors: American Scrapbooks from the Civil War to the Harlem Renaissance (November 2012), is the topic of this talk. Sponsored by the Departments of Art and Art History, English, and the CU Art Museum. Coffee preceding the lecture. For further information, please contact Claire Farago.
[Tuesday, October 9, 6:30pm, Visual Arts Complex, 1B20 Auditorium] Visiting Artist Lecture Series presents Liz Quackenbush. At first glance, the artwork of Liz Quackenbush appears whimsical, playful and cosmic. An underlying theme of nature is inherent in her forms, which range from hand-built, frog sculptures, to colorful, floral plates and vases. She creates multidimensional forms, some functional and some not so functional, that are varied and dynamic and hold one's attention. According to Quackenbush, "the specific visual syntax that forms such a central part of my work is derived primarily from my own, very personal, experience of nature as an intimate part of daily life." Quackenbush plays with concepts of form and dimension, material, ornamentation, craftsmanship, tradition, and nature. It is the dynamic of her materials, technique, and forms that create beauty and intrigue in her pieces. Liz Quackenbush received her BFA from the University of Colorado and her MFA from the School for American Craftsmen at Rochester Institute of Technology. Sponsored by Visiting Artist Program. For further information, please contact Valerie Albicker, albicker@colorado.edu, 303-492-2539.
[Wednesday, Oct 10, 7:00pm, Muenzinger Auditorium] Free screening of Starship Troopers 2 by its Academy Award-winning director, Phil Tippett - followed by a Q&A and discussion of special visual effects. Sponsored by Film Studies Program with a grant from GCAH. For further information, please contact alex.cox@colorado.edu, 303-735-1646.
[Thursday, October 11, 11:00am, IBS 155] "Crisis and Reconciliation in Swat, Pakistan: Seen through the Eyes of Women,"an engaging talk from Professor Anita Weiss (Department of International Studies, University of Oregon, Eugene). Sponsored by Center for Asian Studies with support from Departments of Anthropology, Asian Languages & Civilizations, Geography, IBS, International Affairs, and Women & Gender Studies. For further information, please contact casevent@colorado.edu.
[Friday, October 12, 3:00pm, British Studies (5th floor of Norlin Library)] CHA's Radical Philology (recently renamed New Horizons of Philology) presents two talks that take up the different aspects of book history, material culture, and radical philology in the romantic period: Andrew Piper (Associate Professor, Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures and the Department of Art History and Communication Studies, McGill University), “Reactive Life: The Instrumentality of Romantic Autobiography.” Professor Piper is also the author of Dreaming in Books: The Making of the Bibliographic Imagination in the Romantic Age (Chicago, 2009), which The New Republic named one of the best art books of 2009 and which was awarded the MLA Prize for a First Book as well as honorable mention for the Harry Levin Prize for the American Comparative Literature Association. And Thora Brylowe (Assistant Professor, Department of English, University of Pittsburgh), “Pressing Hellenism: Grecian Urns on Romantic Paper.” Professor Brylowe is currently at work on a book-length study entitled Print, Paint, Poem: The Sister Arts as Cultural Practice, which looks at crosscurrents in the fields of visual art and literary production, from the establishment of the Royal Academy of Arts in England through the “crisis in the arts” just after the turn of the nineteenth century. Sponsored by CHA, Deparment of English and the Faculty in Journalism and Mass Communication. For further information, please contact Jeff Cox.
[Thursday, October 18, 6:00pm, Eaton Humanities 250] "Recent Developments in Iranian Women's Writing," a lecture by Dr. Nasrin Rahimieh, Professor of Comparative Literature and the Maseeh Chair and Director of Dr. Samuel M. Jordan Center for Persian Studies and Culture at the University of California, Irvine. In this talk, Prof. Rahimieh will discuss recent developments in Iranian women's writing, situating them in the history of modern Persian prose and poetry. The burgeoning of women's writing in the wake of the 1979 revolution might at first appear as a paradox. But this most recent chapter of Persian literary history and womens' role in it is a consequence of Iranian discourses of modernity and the debates about women's education and their place within the fabric of the nation. Drawing on literary works published in the late two decades, Prof. Rahimieh will demonstrate how a thematic focus on domesticity in novels and short stories lays bare the gendered construction of modern Iran. Sponsored by Center for Asian Studies. For further information, please contact casevent@colorado.edu, 303-735-5511.
[Thursday, October 18, 7:00pm, 5th floor, Norlin Library] “Hazel Barnes and the Existential Challenge in the 21st Century.” Why does the legacy of CU Professor Emerita Hazel Barnes (1915-2008), teacher, translator and philosopher, continue to reverberate across disciplines, including philosophy, literature, history, and psychology? How has existentialism influenced media, education, social change, self-perception, values, and ethics? Join a distinguished panel of Barnes' colleagues and experts to learn more and join the discussion! Sponsored by the University Libraries and Friends of the Libraries and supported by a GCAH grant. For further information please go to ucblibraries.colorado.edu/ or contact Deborah.Fink@colorado.edu, 303-492-8302.
[Friday, October 19, 12:00-1:00pm, British Studies (5th floor of Norlin Library)] Performance Friday! featuring excerpts from CU Opera's production of Igor Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress. This tale of idle hands and the trouble they cause is based on a series of engravings by William Hogarth. The story follows Tom Rakewell during his descent from rural pleasures into the whirl of London society life, which leads him toward madness and despair. A collection of colorful characters, including the devil himself, lead Tom from pastoral happiness through an urban underbelly, illustrating life's temptations and pitfalls on this eclectic journey. The Rake’s Progress is a quirky, entertaining morality tale that any opera lover will surely delight in. Sung in English. Doors open at 11:30 for free lunch. Sponsored by CHA. For further information, please contact Paula Anderson.
[Friday, October 19, 3:15pm, Eaton Humanities 1B90] Public lecture by Richard Kraut (Northwestern University), “An Aesthetic Reading of Aristotle's Ethics.” Abstract: What property is Aristotle adverting to when he uses the word kalon, as he so frequently does in his ethical writings? The word can mean "beautiful," but the leading translations of the Nicomachean Ethics instead use "fine" or "noble" rather than "beautiful." Kraut will argue that in some of the most important passages that use this word, kalon has aesthetic force, and that "beautiful" would therefore be the best translation. If this is right, Aristotle sees the beauty of ethical activity as one of the reasons for acting virtuously. Sponsored by the Departments of Philosophy and Classics with additional funding from GCAH. For further information, please contact the Philosophy Department at 303-492-6132.
[Friday, October 19, 4:00pm, Hale 230] CAS Speaker Series: "Legal Pluralism in South Indian Fisheries: A Typology of Interplays,” a lecture by Dr. Maarten Bavinck, Director of Centre for Maritime Research, University of Amsterdam. This talk investigates the interactions that take place between various legal systems in the context of fishing, and draws up a typology that ranges from indifference to conflict, to accommodation. Sponsored by Center for Asian Studies. For further information, please go to http://cas.colorado.edu.
[Saturday, October 20, 7:30pm, Old Main Chapel] Rajeev Taranath in Concert: Rajeev Taranath is one of the world's leading exponents of the sarod. A distinguished disciple of Maestro Ali Akbar Khan, his performances masterfully combine the depth and rigor of the tradition of Hindustani classical music with an inspired imagination and emotional intensity. The 2-hour concert will be followed tomorrow by a workshop for students and public, which is designed to give them a chance to learn about Indian music and culture. Free and open to the public. Sponsored by AID-Colorado, CUSG Representative Council, and Center for Asian Studies. For more information, please contact casevent@colorado.edu, 303-735-5511.
[Sunday, October 21, 10:30am, Concert Hall, College of Music] Rajeev Taranath, Workshop: Rajeev Taranath is one of the world's leading exponents of the sarod. A distinguished disciple of Maestro Ali Akbar Khan, his performances masterfully combine the depth and rigor of the tradition of Hindustani classical music with an inspired imagination and emotional intensity. This workshop follows a 2-hour concert the preceding day, and is designed to give them a chance to learn about Indian music and culture. This event is free and open to the public. Sponsored by AID-Colorado, CUSG Representative Council, and Center for Asian Studies. For more information, please contact casevent@colorado.edu, 303-735-5511.
[Tuesday, October 23, 6:30pm, Visual Arts Complex, 1B20 Auditorium] Visiting Artist Lecture Series presents Fritz Haeg. Haeg's work has included edible gardens, public dances, educational environments, animal architecture, domestic gatherings, urban parades, temporary encampments, documentary videos, publications, exhibitions, websites, and occasionally buildings for people. Recent projects include Sundown Schoolhouse - an itinerant educational program; Edible Estates - an international series of domestic edible landscapes; and Animal Estates - a housing initiative for native animals in cities around the world which debuted at the 2008 Whitney Biennial. Sponsored by Visiting Artist Program. For further information, please contact Valerie Albicker, albicker@colorado.edu, 303-492-2539.
[Thursday, October 25, 5:00pm, Humanities 250] CAS Speaker Series: "Japanese American Relations: A Personal Odyssey." A lecture by Mariko Terasaki Miller, first woman to be appointed an Honorary Consul-General of Japan. Ms. Miller, whose distinguished personal history is documented in a biography entitled “Mariko,” written by Kunio Yanagida, will talk about her childhood experiences in China during the Sino/Japanese war, the role her father Hidenari Terasaki played in negotiations between Japan and the United States prior to the outbreak of the Pacific War and the family’s internment by the Japanese authorities. Sponsored by Center for Asian Studies. For further information, please contact casevent@colorado.edu, 303-735-5511.
[Friday, October 26, 12:00pm, UMC 415] The CU Mediterranean Studies Group presents a roundtable/workshop with Noel Lenski (professor of Classics, CU-Boulder), "A Tale of Two Colonates: The Legal Status of Tenants and Slaves in the Late Antique Eastern and Western Mediterranean." Formal respondents include: Scott Bruce, Brian Catlos, Peter Hunt and Anne Lester. Pre-register to receive the workshop paper. Box lunch will be provided to those registering on or before Oct. 15. For further information and to register, please contact Aaron Stamper.
[Monday, October 29, 5:30pm, Abram's Lounge, Center for Community] CAS Speaker Series: "CHINA Town Hall,” a national day of China-related programming, designed to provide Americans with an opportunity to discuss issues related to U.S.-China relations with leading experts in the field. This year’s program will open with a webcast from Beijing featuring Gary Locke, U.S. ambassador to China, discussing U.S.-China relations, followed by a talk by a local speaker to be determined. Fees for attendance will be collected at the door; $10 for general public, free with a student ID. Sponsored by the Center for Asian Studies and the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations. For further information, please go to http://cas.colorado.edu.
[Tuesday, October 30, 7:30pm, Old Main Chapel] Think! Talk by Prof. Alastair Norcross, "Is Premarital Abstinence Immoral?" Abstract: Many people claim that premarital sex is immoral. Some groups, such as “True Love Waits” even pressure teenagers to sign a pledge to abstain before marriage. But, given the seriousness of the promises we make to each other when we marry, and the high incidence of divorce, with its attendant harm for all involved, especially the children, perhaps it’s actually premarital abstinence that’s immoral. We owe it to our partners and our children not to make serious promises, before getting as much evidence as we can that we will keep those promises. To protect the institution of marriage, and for the sake of the children, we need to recognize the serious immorality of premarital abstinence. Sponsored by Center for Values and Social Policy in the Philosophy Department, and funded through the generosity of The Collins Foundation. For further information, please contact coloradothinktalks@gmail.com.
[Thursday, November 1, 4:00pm, UMC Art Gallery] CHA's Translation Initiative, featuring David Wacks (Associate Professor, Department of Romance Languages, University of Oregon). "Translation in Diaspora: Sephardic Spanish-Hebrew Translation in the Sixteenth Century." Anyone interested in the study of language, history, religion or just a general thirst for knowledge should attend this event by Professor Wacks, a prominent scholar in his field. This is the first in a series of lectures and seminars brought to you by Professors John Slater and Núria Silleras-Fernández with collaboration from CHA, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Mediterranean Studies and Jewish Studies, thanks to the support of an Innovative Seed Grant from CU-Boulder. For more information about the series and to obtain a copy of Professor Wacks' paper, please contact Harrison Meadows.
[Friday, November 2, 10:00am, Macky 202] CHA's Translation Initiative, featuring a seminar discussion led by Professor Wacks (Associate Professor, Department of Romance Languages, University of Oregon) for graduate students and professors on "Translation in Diaspora." This is the first in a series of lectures and seminars brought to you by Professors John Slater and Núria Silleras-Fernández with collaboration from CHA, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Mediterranean Studies and Jewish Studies, thanks to the support of an Innovative Seed Grant from CU-Boulder. For more information about the series and to obtain a copy of Professor Wacks' paper, please contact Harrison Meadows.
[Tuesday, November 6, 6:30pm, Visual Arts Complex, 1B20 Auditorium] Visiting Artist Lecture Series presents Alex Bag. In Bag's ironic performance videos, the artist adopts a series of personae to create droll conceptual parodies. With her signature deadpan delivery and deliberately low-tech style, Bag mixes the vernacular of pop culture with irreverently humorous monologues. Performing in multiple guises amidst fragments of pop detritus, Bag skewers the tropes of consumer and media culture. Questioning how we define ourselves in relation to television, fashion, advertising and the art world, she creates mediated parodies that teeter between celebration and critique. She received her BFA from Cooper Union. Her first solo New York museum presentation opened at the Whitney Museum of American Art in January 2009. Bag became known for her video performances, in which she humorously critiqued TV culture and the cliches of the contemporary art world. An extraordinarily flexible actress, Bag often appeared herself, taking on a multitude of roles. In the video that gained her initial recognition, "Untitled Fall 95" (1995), she played an art student who, as though in a video diary, depicted her desires and hopes as an artist and in her everyday schooling. In other videos she has frequently investigated the advertising structures of network TV (as in "Coven Services," 2004), or the most diverse TV genres and formats ("Fancy Pantz," 1997, "Gladia Daters," 2005). Sponsored by Visiting Artist Program. For further information, please contact Valerie Albicker, albicker@colorado.edu, 303-492-2539.
[Thursday, November 8, 5:00pm, Old Main Chapel] CHA's Fall 2012 Cox Family Visiting Scholar, hosted by Department of Asian Languages and Civilizations, Stephen Owen (Harvard University), will present "Poetry That is Not Poetry but 'Something Else': The Chinese Song Lyric." Professor Owen is the Western world's leading authority on traditional Chinese literature and a major figure in the field of Comparative Literature. His numerous books include Norton Anthology of Chinese Literature and Readings in Chinese Literary Thought. This lecture will examine the verse genre known as CI and the concept of a genre that defines itself by what it is not. For further information, please contact the Department of Asian Languages and Civilizations at 303-492-6639.
[Thursday, November 8, 5:00pm, Humanities 150] CAS Speaker Series: "Career Tracks in Asian Studies." Learn about exciting career opportunities with our panel of experts in the fields of publishing, international business & communication and translation. Students with an interest in Asia will gain insight into leveraging their knowledge about Asia into promising global careers. Networking reception to follow. Sponsored by Center for Asian Studies. For further information, please contact casevent@colorado.edu, 303-735-5511.
[Friday, November 9, 12:00, IBS 155A] "The Role of the Eastern African Rift Valley in Hominid Origins and Evolution – A Case Study from Ethiopia." Dr. Giday WoldeGabriel of the Earth and Environmental Sciences Division at Los Alamos National Laboratory is our special guest. Dr. WoldeGabriel, who is a Los Alamos National Laboratory Fellow, is the lead geologist and co-leader of the Middle Awash Project, which is based at the University of California, Berkeley. Evidence from geobiostratigraphic records (i.e., geological, faunal, and floral data) [from the African Rift Valley] and results of stable isotope analyses suggest changes in paleoclimatic conditions consistent with rifting and subsidence with time. For example, the paleoclimatic records closely associated with hominid remains and associated other fossils in the Middle Awash region suggest a transition from cool, humid, and wet forests during the late Miocene and early Pliocene periods (6 to 4 million years) to open, drier lowlands with mixed trees and grasslands in the Plio-Pleistocene (<4 million years). This public talk is co-sponsored by the Departments of Anthropology and Geological Sciences, the University of Colorado Museum of Natural History, and the Institute of Behavioral Science. For more information, please contact Alexandria Halmbacher.
[Friday, November 9, 4:00pm, Hale 230] “Death in the Clouds: Bioarchaeology in the Northern Highlands of Peru,” presented by Dr. Catherine Gaither, Metro University forensic archaeologist and bioarchaeologist. Archaeologist Klaus Koschmieder has been conducting a multiyear survey of the area bordered by the Utcubamba and Jucusbamba rivers in the Luya Province of the department of Amazonas in northern Peru. He has identified numerous archaeological sites dating to the Late Intermediate and Late Horizon periods in Peruvian prehistory, and the Early Colonial Period following Spanish conquest of the region. The results of the bioarchaeological analysis of human skeletal remains recovered from these sites offer insight into the general health problems faced by the populations inhabiting this area through time. The focus of this presentation will be to present some of the more interesting results obtained over the course of four field seasons and discuss the implications of these results for our understanding of the cultures that lived in this area of Peru. Sponsored by the archaeology and biological anthropology graduate students of the Department of Anthropology. For more details contact alexandria.halmbacher@colorado.edu.
[Friday, November 9, 6:30pm, UMC 382] CAS & SSWA Speaker Series: "Water, Conflict and Coexistence in Israel/Palestine." Barbara Petzen of Middle East Connections will discuss the conflict over water resources and their control and allocation amongst Israel and Palestine and their neighbors. We will examine political, humanitarian, and environmental aspects of these questions, with special attention to the Jordan River valley and the Dead Sea, the status of the region's aquifers, and the rise of large-scale, export-oriented agriculture. Sponsored by Center for Asian Studies and SSWA. For further information, please contact kunga.lama@colorado.edu, 303-735-5224.
[Saturday, November 10, 8:30am to 3:30pm, BESH Benson Earth Sciences Room 185] CAS & SSWA Speaker Series: "Complex Realities of Israel & Palestine," a professional develop workshop for educators exploring various approaches and resources for teaching the complex realities of Israel and Palestine. Barbara Petzen is an independent education consultant specializing in professional development on the Middle East and Islam, global education and study tours to the Middle East. She previously worked as education director at the Middle East Policy Council, where she created a comprehensive resource for educators seeking balanced and innovative materials for teaching about the Middle East at TeachMideast.org. She also served as outreach coordinator at the Harvard Center for Middle Eastern Studies, starting just before September 11, 2001. She taught courses on Middle Eastern history, Islam and women's studies at Dalhousie University and St. Mary's University in Nova Scotia, Canada, and served as tutor and teaching assistant at Harvard University, where she will at some point complete her doctoral dissertation in Middle Eastern history on European governesses in the Ottoman Empire and Egypt. She earned her BA in International Politics and Middle Eastern Studies at Columbia College and a second Honours BA as a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University in Oriental Studies. Her academic interests include Ottoman and Middle Eastern history, the history and present concerns of women in the Middle East and Muslim communities, the role of Islam in Middle Eastern and other societies, relations and perceptions between Muslim societies and the West, and the necessity for globalizing K-12 education in the United States. Sponsored by Center for Asian Studies and SSWA. For further information, please contact kunga.lama@colroado.edu, 303-735-5224.
[Monday, November 12, 5:00pm, Eaton Humanities 135] Public lecture by Philip Holt (Professor of Classics, University of Wyoming), entitled ""What is a Hero Cult? Definitions and Borderlines." Greek hero cult is an extension, magnified, of the tendance or cult of ordinary dead. Can we distinguish between the two, and how can we tell whether what we are looking at is a hero cult or not? This talk will examine the question, setting out some criteria and testing them against some borderline cases of actual cults. Sponsored by Department of Classics with a grant from GCAH (Graduate Committee on the Arts and Humanities). For further information, please contact John Gibert.
[Tuesday, Nov 13, 7:00pm, Muenzinger Auditorium] Free screening of Straight to Hell, introduced by its composer, Dan Wool - followed by a Q&A about the use of music in feature films. Sponsored by Film Studies Program with a grant from GCAH. For further information, please contact alex.cox@colorado.edu, 303-735-1646.
[Thursday, November 15, 12:00, CAS Conference Room (1424 Broadway St.)] CAS Brown Bag: "Nuclear Koreas." Dr. Jerry Peterson, Professor in Department of Physics, will discuss DPRK Nuclear Weapons Development. The two halves of the Korean Peninsula have pursued very different directions with the opportunities that derive from nuclear fission. The Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea has had a long program to develop the materials for nuclear weapons, and has demonstrated its success by testing. Has this program been in pursuit of a legitimate search for security? An expression of Chuch's extreme self-reliance? Or a means of extortion? The Republic of Korea, on the other hand, has increasingly based its economic prowess upon nuclear electricity, with 30% of its power from clean nuclear reactors and a strongly increasing global role as a supplier of these large and highly technical facilities. The origins and successes of these two approaches will be analyzed. Sponsored by Center for Asian Studies. For further information, please contact kunga.lama@colorado.edu.
[Thursday, November 29, 12:00, 1424 Broadway, 1st Floor Conference Room] FLAS (Foreign Language & Area Studies) Fellowship Information Session: FLAS fellowships administered by the Center for Asian Studies (CAS) are awarded competitively to graduate students studying modern Asian languages and related area studies. The U.S. Department of Education funds and oversees these awards. Join us to find out how you can receive up to $18,000 for tuition and fees. For more information, please contact Joanne Sakaguchi at 303-735-6052, joanne.sakaguchi@colorado.edu, or visit http://cas.colorado.edu/content/foreign-language-and-area-studies-fellowships.
[Friday, November 30, 12:00-1:00pm, British Studies (5th floor of Norlin Library)] Performance Friday! featuring excerpts from Theatre and Dance's production of A Broadway Christmas Carol. This production is a hilarious, charming reboot of Charles Dickens’ classic holiday tale featuring parodies of some of Broadway’s most familiar and beloved show tunes. Doors open at 11:30 for free lunch. Sponsored by CHA. For further information, please contact Paula Anderson.
[Wednesday, December 5, 6:30pm, Duane Physics G1B30] Film screening. Narrated by Robert Redford, Watershed tells the story of the threats to the once-mighty Colorado River and offers solutions for the future of the American West. As the most dammed, dibbed, and diverted river in the world struggles to support thirty million people and the peacekeeping agreement known as the Colorado River Pact reaches its limits, this film introduces hope for the future. Join the film’s producer and award-winning filmmaker James Redford, and Watershed’s director Mark Decena as they chat about the film. Following a screening of the film, Patty Limerick, Director and Chair of the Board of the Center of the American West, Justice Gregory Hobbs of the Colorado Supreme Court, Jim Lochhead, CEO and Manager of Denver Water, and Karin Sheldon of Western Resource Advocates, joined by the filmmakers, will talk about the film and the Colorado River. Sponsored by Center of the American West. For further information, please contact admin@centerwest.org, 303.492.4879.
[Tuesday, December 11, 7:30pm, Old Main Chapel] Think! Talk, featuring Professor Michael Huemer." The Illusion of Authority." Abstract: Why do 535 people in Washington have the right to issue commands to 300 million others, most of whom have never met them? And why should the 300 million obey those orders? Philosophical theories of "political authority" aim to answer this sort of question. This lecture will review some of the reasons for thinking that all such theories fail, and thus that in fact, no government has ever possessed legitimate authority. Also discussed will be the reasons for the widespread illusion of authority, and the practical implications for individuals and government employees of relinquishing that illusion. All “Think!” lectures are sponsored by the Center for Values and Social Policy in the Philosophy Department and funded through the generosity of The Collins Foundation. For further information, please contact coloradothinktalks@gmail.com.
[Thursday, January 10, 7:00pm, CU Museum of Natural History] Public lecture by Dr. Mark Mitchell (PhD 2011) on “Archaeology of the San Juan High Country: New Views from the Uncompahgre Cirque Site," a presentation of the Indian Peaks Chapter, Colorado Archaeological Society (IPCAS). Abstract: Southwest Colorado’s San Juan Mountains encompass the largest contiguous expanse of alpine tundra in the Southern Rocky Mountains but archaeologists know little about how or when American Indian peoples used the region’s high-altitude resources. Recent work carried out by Paleocultural Research Group (PCRG) and the U.S. Forest Service at the Uncompahgre Cirque site, an extensive quarry workshop perched high on the east flank of Uncompahgre Peak, sheds new light on the prehistory of this spectacular landscape. Sponsored by Department of Anthropology. For further information please email: indianpeaksarchaeology@gmail.com or go to indianpeaksarchaeology.com.
[Friday, January 18, 4:00pm, Hale 230] Public lecture by A&S Dean and Professor Steven Leigh on “Diet and Microbes in Primates.” Professor Leigh's research focuses on human and primate evolution and integrates many different kinds of data across the discipline of anthropology, including information from genetics, anatomy, archaeology and socio-cultural anthropology. Sponsored by Department of Anthropology. For further information, please contact anthro@colorado.edu.
[Friday, January 25, 12:00-1:00pm, British Studies (5th floor of Norlin Library)] Performance Friday! featuring chamber music from College of Music's professors Erika Eckert (viola) and Margaret McDonald (piano). Doors open at 11:30 for free lunch. Sponsored by CHA. For further information, please contact Paula Anderson.
[Friday, January 25, 4:00pm, Atlas 100] CAS Speaker Series: "The Remaking of Asia: What does the Shift of Power from the West to the East Portend?" At the end of 19th century, Asia was regarded as a collection of ruined countries by Western colonial powers. But a new era began in 1905 with Japan’s unexpected triumph in the Russo-Japanese War. Recently, the spotlight has been on Asia as China and India follow Japan as rising powers. These Asian countries are not necessarily aspiring to be the “next” United States. Rather, they are determined to make their mark in the global arena without succumbing to powerful Western influences. The assertiveness of Asian powers calls into question many previous assumptions, among them the notion that development and modernization equal Westernization. Pankaj Mishra will examine some of these shattered verities of Western power, and also analyze the diverse ways in which the rise of Asia might shape our common future. Reception to immediately follow. For more information, please contact casevent@colorado.edu or 303-735-5122.
[Monday, January 28, 12:00pm, Guggenheim 201E] CAS Brown Bag: "Politics of Convenience: Ethno-Religious Tolerance and Intolerance in the Medieval Mediterranean" by Brian Catlos, Associate Professor, Department of Religious Studies. The Medieval Mediterranean is known both as the crucible of Crusade and Jihad, the arena of the so-called "clash of civilizations," and the cradle of Abrahamic culture, and the locus of tremendous inter-religious acculturation and convivencia among the Christians, Muslims and Jews who cohabited its shores. Historical debate regarding the nature of ethno-religious interaction in this diverse environment remains both highly charged and highly polarized. As part of his project Paradoxes of Plurality: Ethnic and Religious Diversity in the Medieval Mediterranean and Beyond, Brian Catlos (Religious Studies, CU Boulder) is developing a theoretical approach to communal relations that aims to reconcile the apparently conflicting data and account for changes in policy and social and cultural relations among these groups -- an approach that may well have applications far beyond the Middle Ages and the Mediterranean. The present talk presents one facet of this approach -- the Principle of Convenience -- as it can be apprehended through the experiences of three individuals: a Christian, a Muslim, and a Jew, each of whom held considerable power within an "infidel" regime and each of whom met a grisly end, apparently as a consequence of religious difference. Sponsored by Center for Asian Studies. For more information, please contact casevent@colorado.edu, 303-735-5511.
[Friday, February 1, 4:00pm, Hale 230] Anthropology Department Colloquium with Maria Nieves Zedeño (Research Professor, Anthropology Department, University of Arizona), “Relational Archaeology, Indigenous Archaeology, and the Challenges of Application.” Sponsored by Department of Anthropology. For further information, please contact Douglas Bamforth.
[Saturday February 2, 7:00pm, Hale 270] Public lecture by Maria Nieves Zedeño (Research Professor, Anthropology Department, University of Arizona), “Bison Hunting as a Social Institution: A Bird’s Eye View.” Through Indigenous Archaeology, Dr. Zedeño believes it is possible to recast the prehistoric ancestral Blackfoot bison hunting tradition of the northwestern Plains (AD 1000-1750) as an institution based on religious principles and corporate forms of social and political control rather than as an economic pursuit. She explains, “New advances in theory and method used to date stone surface architecture and map it at unprecedented scales reveal that bison hunting involved extensive labor management and landscape engineering that can legitimately be called monumental.” Dr. Zedeño’s early professional activities were motivated by her interest in ceramic technology, population movement, regional interaction, and ethnic coresidence in the American Southwest. Recently she has been devoted to understanding traditional land use history vis-à-vis past and present community identity and social cohesion. She has been successful at securing research funding from federal and private sources and completing collaborative projects with numerous tribes representing Pueblo, Numic, Algonquian, and Siouan languages and ethnic groups, in the U.S., as well as Canada. Sponsored by Department of Anthropology, the Archaeological Institute of America, and the University of Colorado Museum of Natural History. For further information, please contact Douglas Bamforth.
[Wednesday, February 6, 7:00pm, Eaton Humanities 1B50] CAS Speaker Series: A Bollywood Othello: Screening Vishal Bhardwaj's "Omkara," A screening of the film, "Omkara," an Indian film adaption of Shakespeare's "Othello." The film was showcased at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival. That same year, it won Best Artistic Contribution in Cinema of a Director at the Cairo International Film Festival. This screening will feature a discussion led by Laura Brueck, Assistant Professor of Hindi Literature and South Asian Studies, in the Department of Asian Languages and Civilizations. This screening is part of the “Spring Into Shakespeare!” series that celebrates the work of William Shakespeare. For more information, visit http://www.colorado.edu/cwc/shakes.html. This event is free and open to the public. Sponsored by CAS. For more information, please contact casevent@colorado.edu, 303-735-5511.
[Thursday, February 7, 4:00pm, University Club Ballroom] Public lecture by Harvey Hames (Chair and Professor, History Department, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev), entitled "The Gospels into Hebrew: Why, for Who, by Who and How?" Sponsored by a CU-Boulder Innovative Seed Grant and organized by John Slater and Nuria Silleras-Fernandez along with the CHA Translation Initiative and in collaboration with Department of Spanish & Portuguese, Jewish Studies and Mediterranean Studies. For further information and to receive an advance copy of readings for this lecture, please contact Harrison Meadows.
[Thursday, February 7, 5:00pm, Old Main Chapel] CHA's Spring 2013 Cox Family Visiting Scholar/Artist, Susan Napier (Tufts University) will give a public lecture entitled "Mourning, Melancholia, and Miyazaki: Apocalypse and Nostalgia in the Films of Studio Ghibli." Professor Napier is a leading scholar of Japanese anime and manga. Her books include The Fantastic in Modern Japanese Literature: The Subversion of Modernity, Anime from Akira to Howl's Moving Castle: Experiencing Japanese Animation, and From Impressionism to Anime: Japan as Fantasy and Fan Cult in the Western Imagination." Sponsored by CHA and hosted by Department of Asian Languages and Civilizations. For further information, please contact Janice Brown.
[Friday, February 8, 12:00-1:00pm, British Studies (5th floor of Norlin Library)] Performance Friday! featuring excerpts from Theatre and Dance's production of Shakespear's As You Like It, directed by Lynn Nichols. All the world’s a stage. Play your part. Rosalind, Shakespeare’s great love teacher will show you how. She’s been doing it for over 400 years! Doors open at 11:30 for free lunch. Sponsored by CHA. For further information, please contact Paula Anderson.
[Friday, February 8, 5:00 and 6:30pm, CU Art Museum and ATLAS 100] Opening Reception and Artist/Curator Conversation with David Maisel (artist) and Julian Cox (Founding Curator of Photography and Chief Curator at the de Young Museum in San Francisco). The conversation begins at 6:30, and is in conjunction with David Maisel's Black Maps: American Landscape and the Apocalyptic Sublime exhibit in the CU Art Museum from February 9 to May 11. Maisel's Black Maps is a solo show surveying four chapters of his larger ongoing series. Composed of large-scale photographs, this exhibition leads the viewer on a hallucinatory journey through landscapes in the American West that have been transformed through the physical and environmental effects of industrial-scale water diversion projects, open-pit mineral extraction, and urban sprawl. Maisel's powerful aerial photographs exist as aesthetic and political archives documenting the impact of both human consumption and inhabitation. More than mere records, these photographs evoke sublime beauty and apocalyptic destruction, positioning Maisel at the forefront of a complex new approach to framing and interpreting issues of contemporary landscape and culture. Maisel's mineral-based, painterly color prints transform poisonous human-altered landscapes into subjects and objects of extreme beauty while simultaneously unveiling the magnitude of hidden ecological devastation that punctuates the vast interior of the American West, a space that is often represented in the visual, cinematic, and literary arts as endless and eternal. This exhibition is supported in part by the HBB Foundation, CU Art Museum benefactors and members, CU Boulder Student Arts and Cultural Enrichment fees, and by Center of the American West. Support for the artist/curator conversation is provided by CHA, and the Roser Visiting Artist Grant. For further information, please contact Lisa Tamiris Becker.
[Saturday, February 9, 10:00am, Eaton Humanities 150] "May This Be The Best Year Of Your Life: A Memoir," author presentation and book signing by Sandra Bornstein. This local educator and writer describes how her peaceful and predictable life is forever changed when she relocates to Bangalore, India with all its unfamiliar customs, sights, sounds and smells, and what she learns as wife, mother, teacher, traveler, expat, and friend. Sponsored by Friends of the University Libraries. For further information please contact Mary Jane Campbell, 303-492-7511, or visit http://ucblibraries.colorado.edu/friends/activities.htm.
[Monday, February 11, 12:00pm, Guggenheim 201E] CAS Brown Bag: "Following the Caterpillar Fungus: Nature, Commodity Chains, and the Place of Tibet in China's Uneven Geographie" by Emily Yeh, Associate Professor, Department of Geography. Caterpillar fungus has become the single most important source of income for rural Tibetans in China. Skyrocketing prices have enabled Tibetans to navigate the increasingly cash-intensive economy while also fueling conflicts and engendering moral quandaries. We examine political and moral economies along the commodity chain, focusing on the cultural politics of value and how these intersect with inequality in China’s uneven geography of capitalism. A more-than-human analytical framework points to the role of caterpillar fungus in creating an assemblage in which Tibetans are articulated with the commodity chain. However, a geographic imaginary of a pristine Tibetan nature erases the labor of Tibetan harvesters and constitutes Tibet as a natural resource for a Chinese middle class anxious about health and pollution, maintaining deep-rooted inequalities. A new set of meanings has also emerged to sell caterpillar fungus, centered on the biomolecular nature of its active ingredients rather than Tibetan nature, risking Tibetans’ complete disarticulation from the commodity chain. The erasure of Tibetan labor and nature parallels the erasure of Tibetan political grievances and Tibetans themselves. This case calls for an expansion of the scope of commodity fetishism as well as opening up the ‘human’ in more-than-human geographies. Sponsored by Center for Asian Studies. For more information, please contact casevent@colorado.edu, 303-735-5511.
[Tuesday, February 12, 4:30pm, British Studies (5th floor of Norlin Library)] Public lecture by Jose Maria Rodriguez-Garcia (Duke University) entitled "Decisions and Indecisions in Jose Orgega y Gasset, Carl Schmitt and Maria Zambrano." Professor Rodriguez-Garcia's research interests lie in the areas of Spanish political intellectual history and its transAtlantic projections, the literatures of pluri-national Span, the history of lyric forms, and in translation and comparative poetics with special focus on Colombia, Spain and Mexico. His book The City of Translation: Poetry and Ideology in Nineteenth Century Colombia (2010) was the recipient of the PROSE award. Sponsored by Comparative Literature Graduate Program, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, and Dean's Fund for the Humanities. For futher information, please contact the department at 303-492-7308.
[Wednesday, February 13, 5:00pm, HUMN 250] CU's Mediterranean Studies Group presents Closed Sea, an award-winning documentary by Stefano Liberti and Andrea Segre. This free screening will be followed by a panel discussion featuring the co-directors of Closed Sea, Fred Denny, Professor Emeritus of Religious Studies, and Alex Cox, Assistant Professor of Film Studies. Sponsored by CHA, Center for Western Civilization, Center for Media, Religion and Culture, Department of French and Italian, Department of Religious Studies, Boulder International Film Festival. For further information, please contact Michela Ardizzoni.
[Monday, February 18, 4:30pm, Hale 260] CAS Speaker Series: "Career Tracks in Asian Studies." We invite students to learn about exciting career opportunities with our panel of experts in fields related to Asia and international affairs ranging from government service to private translation. The panelists will describe their own career paths and will share advice about how to leverage knowledge of Asia into a promising global career. Networking reception immediately following. This session's panelists include George Taylor, Taka Muraji and Colin Williams. Sponsored by Center for Asian Studies. For more information, please contact casevent@colorado.edu.
[Thursday, February 21, 8:00am to 12:30pm, British Studies (5th floor of Norlin Library)] Fourth Annual Undergraduate Conference on Diversity, "Dynamics of Inclusion." The aims of this conference are to highlight the outstanding work of undergraduate writers on diversity-related issues and to promote inclusive critical dialogue around them. 8:00: International breakfast. 8:15: Interactive opening icebreaker with Nii Armah Sowah, 1000 Voices Project. 8:45-9:45: CU Dialogue Project with immigrant employees, facilitated by Pilar Prostko. 10:00-11:30: Featured student presenters. 11:30-12:30: Motus Playback Theatre performance. Sponsored by Program for Writing & Rhetoric. For further information, please contact Jim Walker or Tracy Ferrell.
[Thursday, February 21, 6:30pm, Benson Earth Sciences, Room 180] The Center of the American West is proud to present Josh Garrett-Davis, author of Ghost Dances: Proving up on the Great Plains, for a reading and book signing. There are places in America that have long held our collective imagination for their timeless beauty and mystery. The gifted young writer Josh Garrett-Davis takes a singular journey back to his native Midwestern American Plains and gives us a striking portrait of a unique American place. Politics and prairie, art and religion, all combine into a new picture of the region -- one that is quite different from the long-standing images of the area as either a wasteland or a heroic frontier. Free and open to the public. For further information, please contact Jennifer at 303-492-4879. Book sales and signing to follow.
[Thursday and Friday, February 21 and 22, 9:00-5:50, Old Main Chapel] "New Perspectives on Medieval Chinese Poetry," a conference in celebration of the 30th anniversary of the Department of Asian Languages and Civilizations. Presentations by ten leading scholars, each followed by discussion, 9:00-11:45 and 1:15-5:30 on both days. Sponsored by the Offices of the President, UCB Chancellor, UCB Vice-Chancellor for Research, Dean of Arts and Sciences, Graduate Committee on the Arts and Humanities, and Center for Asian Studies. For further information including detailed schedule of papers, contact the Department of Asian Languages and Civilizations at 303-492-6639.
[Monday, February 25, 12:00pm, Guggenheim 201E] CAS Brown Bag: "What are Friends for?: Friendships, Social Networks, and Generational Change for Professional Women in Bangalore, India" by Rachel Fleming, PhD Candidate, Department of Anthropology. As more women in Bangalore, India's high-tech hub, enter professions in information technology and other high-skill sectors, their participation in new work environments and higher earnings mean that their social networks and spaces of socializing are shifting from previous generations. With these new social options come new personal dilemmas that lead women to seek support from increasingly varied friendship networks. Based on interviews with professional women and their mothers and grandmothers in Bangalore, this talk will engage the meaning of friendships for three generations of women. Sponsored by Center for Asian Studies. For more information, please contact casevent@colorado.edu, 303-735-5511.
[Tuesdays, February 26-May 21, 6:30pm, Hale 270] FrackingSENSE: What We Know, What We Don’t Know, and What We Hope to Learn about Natural Gas Development. The Center of the American West, CU Continuing Education, Boulder County, and the AirWaterGas Research Network invite you to a new lecture series. Beginning February 26th on Tuesday nights through May 21st, a speaker with substantial expertise on natural gas development will provide a measured, honest exploration of this controversial topic. Each presenter will be scrupulous about acknowledging areas of uncertainty (“What We Don’t Know”), and emphasizing open questions that require careful deliberation. CU historian Patty Limerick will launch the series with a talk placing natural gas development in the history of Western American extractive industries. Throughout the series, Limerick will act as moderator. Recognizing that many members of the audience will hold strong opinions, we look forward to honest – and civil and respectful – discussions of a crucially important topic. For more information please go to www.centerwest.org or AirWaterGas.org, or call 303.492.4879.
[Wednesday, February 27, 3:00-4:00pm, Macky 202] CHA Faculty Fellow Work in Progress, featuring Jackie Elliott, Department of Classics. "Fragments of the Roman epic past: the Annales of Ennius." Ennius’ Annales (“Annals”), written in the first third of the second century BCE, is a work of critical importance to Roman literary history. The poet himself was in antiquity widely acknowledged to stand at the head of literary activity at Rome: he was termed the father of Roman poetry (at e.g. Horace, Epistles 1.19.7, Propertius 3.3.6), both reverently and, by those with Oedipal tendencies, ironically. The poem for its part initiated the long tradition of hexametric epic at Rome (a tradition in which Vergil’s Aeneid and Ovid’s Metamorphoses were, for example, among many others written), by showing for the first time that it was possible to fit the Latin language to the Homeric hexameter. The epic told the history of Rome from the City’s origins to the poet’s own day. In it, much of the Roman poetic vocabulary and many of the recurrent images of the Roman historical imagination were forged. Yet this poem met an early demise: from the time of its publication in around 19 BCE, Virgil’s Aeneid took the Annales’ place in the school curriculum and in society at large. As a result, the poem is extant in only 623 lines, which represent perhaps no more than 5% of the original work. In my project, I confront the peculiar problems of reconstructing a poem whose significance in the literary traditions it initiated far outweighs its own extant remains. Sponsored by CHA. For further information, please contact Paula Anderson.
[Thursday, February 28, 7:00pm, British Studies (5th floor of Norlin Library)] “Joining Forces: Book Arts in Collaboration” with Kitty Maryatt and Sammy Lee. Kitty Maryatt will describe how she works with her students at the Scripps College Press (Claremont, California) to create limited edition letterpress books each semester. She will also show how her own work influences and has been influenced by her projects at the College.
Sammy Seung-min Lee of Studio SML | k, Denver, works hand-in-hand with South Korean artists to create sculptural book works that reflect their philosophies and artistic processes as well as her own. She will talk about her synergetic experiences in partnering with other artists while respecting and preserving creative boundaries. This event is in conjunction with the December 5-March 8 exhibit in the Library's east lobby. Sponsored by University Libraries ScriptaLab, Rocky Mountain Chapter of the Guild of Book Workers, Book Arts League, Friends of the Libraries, and Archives and Special Collections. For more information about the exhibit, please see http://ucblibraries.colorado.edu/news/JoiningForcesExhibit.pdf. For further information about this presentation, please contact Deborah Fink, 303-492-8302.
[Friday, March 1, 10:00am, British Studies (5th Floor of Norlin Library)] Second Annual Center for Asian Studies Symposium, "Listening to Asia." Join us for an interdisciplinary inquiry into contemporary Asian societies and cultures. This year, we explore the sounds of love and war, the voices of the subaltern and the middle classes, and music and dance from throughout the region. Please visit http://cas.colorado.edu/content/listening-asia-cas-symposium-schedule-abstracts for a full schedule and presentation abstracts. Sponsored by Center for Asian Studies. For more information, please contact casevent@colorado.edu, 303-735-5511.
[Friday-Sunday, March 1-3, 10:00am-5:00pm, Ewing Farm, Lafayette] Special fee-based workshop: “Let Me Count the Ways” [to sew signatures together] with Kitty Maryatt. This workshop is held in conjunction with the December 5-March 8 exhibit “Joining Forces: Book Arts in Collaboration” in Norlin Library's east lobby. Sponsored by University Libraries ScriptaLab, Rocky Mountain Chapter of the Guild of Book Workers, Book Arts League, Friends of the Libraries, and Archives and Special Collections. For more information about the exhibit, please see http://ucblibraries.colorado.edu/news/JoiningForcesExhibit.pdf. For further information about this workshop, please contact sammy@studiosmlk.com.
[Tuesday, March 5, 6:30pm, Hale 270] FrackingSENSE: What We Know, What We Don’t Know, and What We Hope to Learn about Natural Gas Development with Susan Tierney - "Unconventional Natural Gas: Trends, Opportunities, and Challenges with America’s New Energy Resource." The Center of the American West, CU Continuing Education, Boulder County, and the AirWaterGas Research Network invite you to this lecture series (Tuesday nights February 26 through May 21), featuring a speaker with substantial expertise on natural gas development who will provide a measured, honest exploration of this controversial topic. Each presenter will be scrupulous about acknowledging areas of uncertainty (“What We Don’t Know”), and emphasizing open questions that require careful deliberation. Throughout the series, Patty Limerick of The Center of the American West, will act as moderator. Recognizing that many members of the audience will hold strong opinions, we look forward to honest – and civil and respectful – discussions of a crucially important topic. For more information, contact Jennifer Aglio at 303-492-4879 or visit www.centerwest.org or AirWaterGas.org.
[Wednesday, March 6, 12:00-1:00pm, Macky 202] CHA Faculty Fellow Work in Progress, featuring Brian Catlos, Department of Religious Studies. "Understanding Diverse Societies as Complex Systems: The Case of Muslim-Christian-Jewish Relations in the Pre-Modern Mediterranean." The ethno-religious diversity of the Medieval Mediterranean is undoubtedly the region's most salient historical characteristic, and the nature of Muslim-Christian-Jewish relations here has been the subject of considerable scholarly attention. Approaches to this topic, however, have become polarized by scholars who subscribe either to a "clash of civilizations" model of ethno-religious relations, or a nostaglia-tinged notion of innocent convivencia. Partisans each camp drawn on data that appears to support their respective positions, but without effectively addressing data that appears to run counter. This presentation presents a novel theoretical approach to these relations that reconciles the two positions and accounts for both sets of data by understanding diverse societies as complex systems. Seen in this light, the apparent paradoxes of plurality are resolved, and a model of understanding such relations emerges that is applicable not only to the pre-Modern Mediterranean but, perhaps, to diverse societies even today. Sponsored by CHA. For further information, please contact Paula Anderson.
[Friday, March 8, 12:00-1:00pm, British Studies (5th floor of Norlin Library)] Performance Friday! featuring Donna Mejia, Assistant Professor of Dance, who will dance her critically acclaimed solo “Idolatry,” and speak about her scholarship regarding the impact of the Internet's digital diasporas on identity/collective cultural production. Donna Mejia is the first artist of the transnational dance genre to teach at the university level, and tours globally as a headlining artist. Her distinctive aesthetic dialogs North African/Arabic dance with American Hip Hop and Electronic music. Doors open at 11:30 for free lunch. Sponsored by CHA. For further information, please contact Paula Anderson.
[Friday, March 8 – Saturday, March 9, Eaton Humanities] CAS Speaker Series: Listening to Asia. “CU Asian Studies Graduate Student Association Conference,” with keynote speeches by Michael Puett, Professor of Early Chinese history at Harvard University, and Sharalyn Orbaugh, Professor of Modern Japanese Literature at the University of British Columbia. In addition, peer-reviewed graduate student panelists will give presentations on a variety of Asia-related topics. Sponsored by Center for Asian Studies. For more information and detailed schedule, see http://cubasga.wordpress.com/
[Monday, March 11, 12:00pm, Guggenheim 201E] CAS Brown Bag: "Chinese Tourists in Taiwan: Tourism and State Territoriality" by Ian Rowen, PhD Candidate, Department of Geography. After years of travel bans and despite an ongoing dispute over sovereignty and territory, Chinese tourists have poured into Taiwan since 2008. In this paper, I develop an argument, based on theories of governmentality and performativity, that treats borders and territories as dynamic processes rather than places. I use this theory first to argue that tourism should be treated as a technology of state territorialization in general, and then to analyze the spatial politics of tourism between China and Taiwan in particular. I apply this analytical framework to ethnographic data collected during fieldwork in tourist sites in Taiwan in summer 2012. I conclude that tourism is producing multiple sensations ofstateness in Taiwan and exacerbating contradictions between China and Taiwan's programs of state territorialization. Sponsored by Center for Asian Studies. For more information, please contact casevent@colorado.edu, 303-735-5511.
[Monday, March 11, 4:00pm, ATLAS 100] CAS Speaker Series: Listening to Asia. “Rape and Sexual Violence in Contemporary India,” Dr. Seema Khanwalkar will give a talk, followed by general discussion, on rape and sexual violence in contemporary India. The recent gang rape of a young woman in Delhi on December 16, 2012 and her subsequent death attracted world-wide attention and provoked mass protests against sexual assault not just all over India but also in other countries in South Asia. Sponsored by Center for Asian Studies. For more information, please contact casevent@colorado.edu.
[Tuesday, March 12, 6:30pm, Hale 270] FrackingSENSE: What We Know, What We Don’t Know, and What We Hope to Learn about Natural Gas Development with Reagan Waskom - "Water for Energy: How much does it take? How much will we need?" The Center of the American West, CU Continuing Education, Boulder County, and the AirWaterGas Research Network invite you to this lecture series (Tuesday nights February 26 through May 21), featuring a speaker with substantial expertise on natural gas development who will provide a measured, honest exploration of this controversial topic. Each presenter will be scrupulous about acknowledging areas of uncertainty (“What We Don’t Know”), and emphasizing open questions that require careful deliberation. Throughout the series, Patty Limerick of The Center of the American West, will act as moderator. Recognizing that many members of the audience will hold strong opinions, we look forward to honest – and civil and respectful – discussions of a crucially important topic. For more information, contact Jennifer Aglio at 303-492-4879 or visit www.centerwest.org or AirWaterGas.org.
[Wednesday, March 13, 3:00-4:00pm, Macky 202] CHA Faculty Fellow Work in Progress, featuring Mitzi Lee, Department of Philosophy. "Greed and Justice in Aristotle's Ethics." What’s wrong with greed? It has been variously understood as a sin against God, or as a character flaw consisting of an addiction to the pleasure that comes from gain. However, when Aristotle identifies injustice with greed, or pleonexia, he has something else in mind. As I argue, what Aristotle has in mind by ‘greed’ is not simply excessive attachment to profit and gain for oneself, but two characteristic cognitive mistakes that go along with it: (i) the tendency to overestimate the benefit one will derive from material goods, and (ii) the tendency to give undue weight to one’s own interests in making judgments about proportionality and desert. Greed has the effect of corrupting our ability to make accurate and impartial comparative judgments about proportionality, equality, and fairness, when the interests of others are at stake. This is the reason why Aristotle identifies pleonexia as the cause of injustice. Sponsored by CHA. For further information, please contact Paula Anderson.
[Wednesday, March 13, 5:00pm, Eaton Humanities 135] CAS Speaker Series: Listening to Asia. “The Legal Environment and Law About the Environment in China,” a lecture by two experts on Chinese law: Benjamin L. Liebman and Alex Wang. Prof. Liebman is Robert L. Lieff Professor of Law and Director of the Center for Chinese Legal Studies at Columbia Law School and his talk is entitled, “Stability Without Law? The State of Legal Development in China.” Prof. Wang is Visiting Assistant Professor of Law at Boalt Law School at the University of California, Berkeley his talk is entitled, “A Green Leap Forward? Governance, Law & Environmental Protection in China.” Sponsored by Center for Asian Studies. For more information, please contact casevent@colorado.edu.
[Friday, March 15, 11:00am, (Visual Arts Complex) VAC 1B32] Meet Glenn Phillips: Glenn Phillips is Principal Project Specialist and Consulting Curator in the Department of Architecture and Contemporary Art at the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles. His exhibition California Video won the International Association of Art Critics award for best exhibition of digital media, video, or film in 2008. His other exhibitions include Time/Space, Gravity and Light; Marking Time; Evidence of Movement; Reckless Behavior; Pioneers of Brazilian Video Art 1973-1983; Surveying the Border: Three Decades of Video Art about the United States and Mexico; and Radical Communication: Japanese Video Art 1968-88. Prior to working at the Getty he was Assistant Curator for Special Projects at the Whitney Museum of American Art, where he worked on a number of exhibitions, including No Wave Cinema; The American Century: Art & Culture 1900-2000; the 1997, 2000 and 2002 Whitney Biennial exhibitions; Bitstreams: Art in the Digital Age; and Tony Oursler: The Darkest Color Infinitely Amplified. For the Pacific Standard Time initiative he is co-curator of the three-part exhibition It Happened at Pomona: Art at the Edge of Los Angeles 1969-73, and a member of the curatorial team for the exhibition Crosscurrents in L.A. Painting and Sculpture 1950-1970 at the J. Paul Getty Museum. He is co-director, with Lauri Firstenberg, of the Pacific Standard Time Performance and Public Art Festival. Sponsored by Department of Film Studies. For further information, please contact Eric Coombs Esmail, 303-735-1021.
[Friday, March 15, 11:30am, Ketchum 116] CAS Speaker Series: Listening to Asia. “Reforming Welfare Regimes in Russia and China: The Enduring Impact of the Socialist Social Contract,” a lecture by Professor Thomas F. Remington of Emory University. Remington’s research focuses on whether what business elites and average citizens wanted with respect to their welfare services was being heard by the government. Sponsored by Center for Asian Studies. For more information, please contact casevent@colorado.edu.
[Friday, March 15, 6:00pm, Eaton Humanities 150] CU Art Museum and the Art History Program's annual lecture series presents “Raphael After the Holocaust: Aesthetics and the Maternal in the Face of History and Contemporary Violence,” a lecture by Griselda Pollock, Professor of Social and Critical Histories of Art and Director of the transdisciplinary Centre for Cultural Analysis, Theory and History at the University of Leeds. Known for her critical interventions in feminist, social and postcolonial studies in art's histories, her current interests focus on feminist interventions in psychoanalytical aesthetics and trauma, cultural memory and the Holocaust. For further information, please contact Rebecca Winterfield, 303-492-3008.
[Saturday and Sunday, March 16 and 17, 10:00am (Visual Arts Complex) VAC 1B20] The 9th Annual Brakhage Center Symposium. Through screenings and discussions the 9th Brakhage Center Symposium will explore art practices, assumptions about cinema art, the historical avant-garde, and the media arts. We have seen, for many decades, the parallel development of experimental filmmaking alongside electronic moving image arts. This year's symposium will play host to perspectives on the relation and poetics of these practices. This year's programmers are: Glenn Phillips, Principal Project Specialist and Consulting Curator Department of Architecture and Contemporary Art at the Getty Research Institute, Mark Toscano, Archivist and Preservationist at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and Don Yannacito, University of Colorado Boulder First Person Cinema Guest Filmmaker Programmer. Artists Jennifer Reeder (Visiting Artist in Department of Art and Art History) and Jennifer West will be joined by Sally Dixon (former Director of Film In the Cities program ), Suranjan Ganguly (University of Colorado Boulder), John Powers (University of Wisconsin, Madison) and Tom Gunning (University of Chicago). Special guests Steina and Woody Vasulka will be attendance. Sponsored by Department of Film Studies. For further information, please contact Eric Coombs Esmail, 303-735-1021.
[Tuesday, March 19, 5:00pm, Macky Auditorium 229] Each year, thanks to the generosity and kind support of CU alumni Jeannie and Jack Thompson, the Center of the American West awards cash prizes to talented CU students writing on Western topics. Judges from a broad range of scholarship and specialties seek writing with vibrancy and appeal to a broad, informed audience. We hope that the recognition bestowed by these awards helps to launch the careers of budding CU writers. All CU-Boulder degree students are welcome to enter. Categories include poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and memoir/essay. The contest culminates in April with a dazzling awards banquet to honor the winners and the many participating judges. For further information, please visit our website or contact Roni at 303-735-1399.
[Tuesday, March 19th, 6:30, Hale 270] FrackingSENSE: What We Know, What We Don’t Know, and What We Hope to Learn about Natural Gas Development with Charles Davis - "The Politics of Fracking." The Center of the American West, CU Continuing Education, Boulder County, and the AirWaterGas Research Network invite you to this lecture series (Tuesday nights February 26 through May 21), featuring a speaker with substantial expertise on natural gas development who will provide a measured, honest exploration of this controversial topic. Each presenter will be scrupulous about acknowledging areas of uncertainty (“What We Don’t Know”), and emphasizing open questions that require careful deliberation. Throughout the series, Patty Limerick of The Center of the American West, will act as moderator. Recognizing that many members of the audience will hold strong opinions, we look forward to honest – and civil and respectful – discussions of a crucially important topic. For more information, contact Jennifer Aglio at 303-492-4879 or visit www.centerwest.org or AirWaterGas.org.
[Wednesday, March 20, 11:30am, Guggenheim 201E] CAS Special Brown Bag Event: "Community Rebuilding Efforts in the Post-3.11 Japan." Hear a first-hand account of relief work in the wake of the 3.11 triple disaster in North Eastern Japan. What were the immediate challenges faced by victims and relief workers? What are the long term issues? How does a country with highly developed technology and top notch disaster preparedness deal with a natural disaster that exceeds all expectations and breaks all simulated models? This brown bag event features Jim Peterson, missionary in Japan with the Evangelical Covenant Church for the last twenty years. Mr. Peterson was born and raised in Japan, earned his B.A. from University of Washington, Jackson School of International Studies (Japan Regional Studies), his M. Div. from North Park Theological Seminary, and his D. Min. from North Park Theological Seminary. Mr. Peterson currently lives in Tokyo, Japan with U.S. base in Colorado Springs. Sponsored by Center for Asian Studies. For more information, please contact casevent@colorado.edu.
[Wednesday, March 20, 4:00-5:00pm, Macky 202]CHA Faculty Fellow Work in Progress, featuring Carlo Caballero, College of Music. "Ballet and Musicology: Unconsummated Tryst." Even though ballet was one of the most popular spectacles in 19th-century Parisian theaters, musicologists studying this period in France have passed over it in favor of instrumental music, song, and opera. Yet opera and ballet were nearly always presented together on the most prestigious stages of Europe, either as double bills or as ballet-divertissements embedded within operas. How did they come to trace divergent paths? The indifference of modern music scholars to 19th-century dance music, in contrast to their willingness to bask in the reflected glow of opera, might seem casual, but its roots are deep. The first part of the paper shows that this indifference may be traced back to ideologies and exclusions that likewise informed the very origins of musicology as a discipline. Prejudices against theatrical and social dance go back to 19th-century aesthetic priorities rooted in historical teleologies, the desire to raise music above physical labor, canon formation, and fascinations with disembodiment. The second part of the paper shows how a new attention to old ballet music could benefit musicological research in several areas--including work on its seeming antipode, instrumental music. To illustrate the creative exchange between dance music and instrumental music, I offer three case-studies from my current work. These examples focus on the espagnolade, the revival of the pavane, and the valse à cinq temps. In each case, innovations in 19th-century theatrical dance carved a path to instrumental works by composers such as Chopin, Fauré, Debussy, and Chaikovsky. Sponsored by CHA. For further information, please contact Paula Anderson.
[Wednesday, March 20, 5:30pm, Eaton Humanities 250] "How the Greek Historians Explained History: The Case of Herodotus." Public lecture by Dr. Chris Pelling, Regius Professor of Greek, Oxford University. Abstract: Are scientific and historical explanations felt as operating in the same way, and in particular need they imply inevitability or even predictability? That is an issue still; it was also an issue in the fifth-century BCE, when both historiography and (in particular) medicine were simultaneously developing explanatory concepts and categories. In this talk, Professor Pelling will explore some points of contact between Herodotus and the early Hippocratic writings, and see whether they have anything to tell us still about the practice of writing, and particularly of reading, history. Sponsored by Department of Classics with a grant from GCAH. For further information, please contact Jackie Elliott.
[Thursday, March 21, 7:00pm, Benson 180] The makers of the film TINY: a story about living small, Merete Mueller and Christopher Smith, discuss the small house movement, good design, the nature of home, and the changing American Dream. TINY is a documentary about home, and how we find it. The film follows one couple’s attempt to build a “tiny house” from scratch, and profiles other families who have downsized their lives into homes smaller than the average parking space. Can living small go big? Sponsored by Center of the American West. For further information, please contact Jennifer Aglio, 303-492-4879.
[Friday, March 22, 4:00pm, Hale 230] The Archaeology Student Speaker Series, featuring Dr. Steven Houston (Paul Dupee Family Professor of Social Sciences, Brown University). "The Temple of the Night Sun: Configuring Maya Kingship at El Diablo, Guatemala." For the Classic Maya, links between rulers, time, and the heavens play a strong role in establishing and reworking the nature of kingship. Several seasons of excavation at a sector of El Zotz, Guatemala -in a hill-top palace known as "El Diablo" -reveal a building that touches on these themes at the dawn of a dynasty. Death and its hopeful aftermath are memorialized, explored, and set forth in a monumental confection of red-painted stucco. The building itself was visible from many kilometers away, including from Tikal, a near-neighbor of El Zotz. This paper reports on the tomb housed in the temple, the complex stratigraphy of the overall building, and the richly modeled stuccos that adorn its facade and project cosmic themes of broader relevance. Professor Houston's main research focuses on Maya concepts of materials and of bodies, along with writing up excavations from Piedras Negras and El Zotz, Guatemala. His recent books, with colleagues, include The Classic Maya, The Memory of Bones, The First Writing, The Shape of Script, Fiery Pool, Veiled Brightness and, in press, The Life Within. Sponsored by Department of Anthropology. For further information, please contact them at anthro@colorado.edu.
[Tuesday, April 2, 6:30, Hale 270] FrackingSENSE: What We Know, What We Don’t Know, and What We Hope to Learn about Natural Gas Development with Kirby Wynn - "Garfield County’s Lessons Learned about Oil and Gas Development: Building Relationships with Industry and the Community to Effectively Address Citizen Concerns." The Center of the American West, CU Continuing Education, Boulder County, and the AirWaterGas Research Network invite you to this lecture series (Tuesday nights February 26 through May 21), featuring a speaker with substantial expertise on natural gas development who will provide a measured, honest exploration of this controversial topic. Each presenter will be scrupulous about acknowledging areas of uncertainty (“What We Don’t Know”), and emphasizing open questions that require careful deliberation. Throughout the series, Patty Limerick of The Center of the American West, will act as moderator. Recognizing that many members of the audience will hold strong opinions, we look forward to honest – and civil and respectful – discussions of a crucially important topic. For more information, contact Jennifer Aglio at 303-492-4879 or visit www.centerwest.org or AirWaterGas.org.
[Wednesday, April 3, 3:00-4:00pm, Macky 202] CHA Faculty Fellow Work in Progress, featuring Adam Bradley, Department of English. "The Poetry of Pop Songs." The lyrics to pop songs are among the most memorable and treasured words in the world; they are also among the most disparaged and overlooked. My talk will center on a series of encounters with the poetry of pop. It explores the pop song—be it Bob Dylan's "Subterranean Homesick Blues," Michael Jackson's "Billie Jean," or Lady Gaga's "Bad Romance"--as an aesthetic artifact comprised of two distinct but related texts: the visible language of the song lyric and the aural ‘text’ of the song in performance. How can we better understand the strange alchemy that transforms sometimes prosaic or even paltry words into profound emotional experiences? At what points in what songs in what genres do lyrics emerge from background to foreground? How do we divide or balance our attention between the linguistic and the musical in our aural experience? Sponsored by CHA. For further information, please contact Paula Anderson.
[Monday, April 8, 11:00am, CAS Conference Room, CAS (formerly IBS 3), 1424 Broadway] CAS Brown Bag: "A Peruvian Inca in Emperor ShÅwa's Court" by Miriam Kingsberg, Assistant Professor, Department of History. In 1958, Japan undertook its first archaeological excavation outside Asia. Sponsored by one of the nation's leading newspapers, the Scientific Expedition to Nuclear America made path-breaking contributions to scholarly understanding of the origins of civilization in Peru. In this talk, I explore the ways in which archaeologists and the media collaborated to transform the unlikely topic of pre-Columbian history into an enduring public obsession. During the two decades of the so-called "Inca boom" (1958-1978), an explosion of exhibitions, publications, television broadcasts, and art and literature devoted to the early Andes both cultivated and fed the seemingly limitless curiosity of Japanese consumers. Analyzing these materials suggests a myriad of ways in which the "the Peruvian Inca in Emperor ShÅwa's Court" came to serve as a foil against which postwar Japan constructed and critiqued its own past, present, and future trajectory and place in the world. Sponsored by Center for Asian Studies. For more information, please contact casevent@colorado.edu, 303-735-5511.
[Wednesday, April 10, 9:00am, ATLAS Black Box Theater] CAS Speaker Series: Listening to Asia. "When China talks, does anybody listen?” a CAS-sponsored panel at the 2013 Conference on World Affairs. Tim Weston, Associated Director of the Center for Asian Studies and Associated Professor of History, will serve as our panel moderator, which will include the following panelists: Zulfiqar Ahmad, Independent Researcher and Writer, New Delhi; Peter Lighte, Vice Chairman, Corporate and Investment Bank, China, J. P. Morgan, New York City; Jim Walsh, Research Associate, MIT Security Studies Program, Cambridge; Tom Gold, Professor of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley. Sponsored by Center for Asian Studies. For more information, please visit www.colorado.edu/cwa/.
[Friday, April 10, 12:30-2:00pm, Macky 202] Work-in-progress seminar with Konstantinos Ioannidis, "Ekphrasis and Agency: Anthropology, Rhetorics and the Historiography of Art." The paper is available in advance from Claire Farago. This paper takes Alfred Gell’s model of an anthropology of art as its starting point to examine how the ekphrastic rhetor addresses depicted objects, and then waits for an answer from them. The argument of this paper attempts to defetishize rhetorical tropes by assigning social functions to them. Its aim is to reread the relevant ekphrastic material to discover painted and/or described objects that act as social agents. Co-sponsored by the Center for Humanities and the Arts, The Department of Art and Art History, and the Mediterranean Studies Group.
[Thursday, April 11, 5:30pm, Eaton Humanities 1B50] CAS Speaker Series: Listening to Asia. “Asian Language Night 2013,” skits, speeches, songs, poetry recitation, video presentations, and dance in Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Hindi, Farsi and Arabic by students learning in these language programs. In order to accommodate those who do not know the language being presented, a simultaneous English translation is provided on a screen made available for this purpose. Reception with refreshments to follow. Sponsored by Center for Asian Studies. For more information, please contact casevent@colorado.edu.
[Thursday, April 11, 7:00pm, ATLAS 100] A reading by Vanessa Place, one of the most influential and controversial contemporary experimental writers. She will read from her new book "Boycott," in which she rewrites canonical feminist texts by removing all references to women and replacing them with masculine terms. “Boycott” responds to conceptual artist Lee Lozano’s "Boycott Piece," in which Lozano refused to speak to women as a protest against patriarchy. Place is an attorney, artist, and writer based in Los Angeles. As an attorney, she represents indigent sex offenders on appeal. She has written about her legal work in the nonfiction book “The Guilt Project: Rape, Morality, and the Law” (2010), and she has published her appellate briefs as literature in her trilogy “Tragodia.” Place is also the author of “Dies: A Sentence” (2006), a 50,000 word, one-sentence novel in verse; and the novel “La Medusa”(2008). Sponsored by Department of German and Slavic Literatures and Languages. For further information, please contact Patrick Greaney.
[Friday, April 12, 12:00-1:00pm, British Studies (5th floor of Norlin Library)] Performance Friday! featuring excerpts from Theatre and Dance's and CU Opera's productions of Little Women. A tale of growing up through hardships and the importance of family, the story of Little Women has become absorbed into the canon of American literary classics. It’s not the opera or the film, the novel or the television show. It’s the same enchanting story of the March sisters beloved for generations — as a musical. Doors open at 11:30 for free lunch. Sponsored by CHA. For further information, please contact Paula Anderson.
[Friday, April 12, 5:00pm, Eaton Humanities 135] Public lecture by Professor Konstantinos Ioannidis (Department of Theory and History of Art, Athens School of Fine Arts), entitled "Backwards Looking Modernism: Art in Greece during the 1930s." In public commissions executed during the fascist dictatorship of John Metaxas (1936-40), prominent Greek modernists mixed Byzantine formal repertory with cubist and fauvist elements to create nationalistic stereotypes. During the past three years, heated debates in Greece regarding the moral implications of the dire financial situation there often recall the intellectual and artistic climate of the 1930s. Co-sponsored by the Center for Humanities and the Arts, The Department of Art and Art History, and the Mediterranean Studies Group. For further information, please contact Claire Farago.
[Monday, April 15, 4:00pm, CAS Conference Room, CAS (formerly IBS 3), 1424 Broadway] "Catastrophic Asia: Information Session," an open information and Q&A session for those considering formulating proposals for the 2013-2014 Center for Asian Studies theme, ‘Catastrophic Asia.’ Throughout the academic year, the Center will host a series of events and activities, culminating in the Spring 2014 symposium. The theme seeks to explore Asian vulnerability to, experiences with, and recovery from natural and/or human-induced environmental disasters such as seismic events, extreme climate events, pollution events, and the broader environmental and social challenges presented by a warming planet, including economic, demographic, epidemiological, and political threats. Sponsored by Center for Asian Studies. For more information, please contact casevent@colorado.edu.
[Tuesday, April 16, 3:15-5:00pm, MUEN E123] Distinguished Speaker Series, featuring Michael Nauenberg (Research Professor of Physics, UC Santa Cruz). “Teaching Natural Philosophy in the Age of the Enlightenment." The Committee on the History and Philosophy of Science is co-sponsored by the departments of Geological Sciences, History, Mathematics, Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, Philosophy, Physics, the College of Arts and Sciences, CU Museum of Natural History, and the Center for Humanities and the Arts. For further information about this series, please contact rchps@colorado.edu.
[Tuesday, April 16, 5:00-6:00pm, British Studies (5th floor of Norlin Library)] The Mediterranean Studies Group invites you to a public lecture by Nicholas Purcell (Camden Professor of Ancient History, Oxford University). "Not Just About Slavery: Selling People in Greco-Roman Antquity." Professor Purcell has revolutionized the way we think about Mediterranean history. In his groundbreaking The Corrupting Sea (2000), co-authored with Peregrine Horden, he charted a new course for the study of this cultural crucible by demonstrating that it consists of a series of micro-regions, each with a constituent micro-culture, that was linked together by this peculiar body of water in ways that have connected cultures and economies in the region into a kaleidoscopic whole. He has now turned his attention to the question of slavery and will speak to the Mediterranean Studies Group on selling people in Greco-Roman antiquity. For further information, please contact Noel Lenski.
[Tuesday, April 16, 6:30, Hale 270] FrackingSENSE: What We Know, What We Don’t Know, and What We Hope to Learn about Natural Gas Development with Joe Ryan - "What Do We Know and Not Know about the Risk of Oil and Natural Gas Development to Our Water Supplies." The Center of the American West, CU Continuing Education, Boulder County, and the AirWaterGas Research Network invite you to this lecture series (Tuesday nights February 26 through May 21), featuring a speaker with substantial expertise on natural gas development who will provide a measured, honest exploration of this controversial topic. Each presenter will be scrupulous about acknowledging areas of uncertainty (“What We Don’t Know”), and emphasizing open questions that require careful deliberation. Throughout the series, Patty Limerick of The Center of the American West, will act as moderator. Recognizing that many members of the audience will hold strong opinions, we look forward to honest – and civil and respectful – discussions of a crucially important topic. For more information, contact Jennifer Aglio at 303-492-4879 or visit www.centerwest.org or AirWaterGas.org.
[Wednesday, April 17, 11:00-1:00, Macky 202] The Mediterranean Studies Group invites you to attend a guided seminar with Nicholas Purcell (Camden Professor of Ancient History, Oxford University). "Valuing People: Humans as Commodities in the Ancient World." Professor Purcell has revolutionized the way we think about Mediterranean history. In his groundbreaking The Corrupting Sea (2000), co-authored with Peregrine Horden, he charted a new course for the study of this cultural crucible by demonstrating that it consists of a series of micro-regions, each with a constituent micro-culture, that was linked together by this peculiar body of water in ways that have connected cultures and economies in the region into a kaleidoscopic whole. He has now turned his attention to the question of slavery and will speak to the Mediterranean Studies Group on selling people in Greco-Roman antiquity. Advance copies of the articles and book chapters regarding this seminar may be obtained by contacting Aaron Stamper.
[Thursday, April 18, 7:00pm, British Studies (5th floor of Norlin Library)] CAS Speaker Series: Listening to Asia. “Ecumenism in Tibet: Public Panel with Ringu Tulku,” In nineteenth-century Tibet, a circle of Buddhist luminaries compiled eclectic collections of texts from a wide range of traditions in order to preserve their distinctive lineages. These collections have been crucial to preserving Tibet's unique tantric heritage in the diaspora. What was the approach to ecumenism among these luminaries? How has this approach shaped Tibetan Buddhism as it has grown and taken root beyond the Tibetan plateau? A panel of scholars who are visiting CU Boulder for a conference titled, "Translating Buddhist Luminaries: A Conference on Ecumenism and Tibetan Translation" will address these questions. Our keynote speaker for the panel and conference is Ringu Tulku, an expert in ecumenism in nineteenth-century Tibet and the author of The Ri-me Philosophy of Jamgon Kongtrul the Great. Please contact Holly Gayley gayley@colorado.edu if you are interested in attending the conference as an observer. Sponsored by Center for Asian Studies. For more information, please contact casevent@colorado.edu.
[Friday, April 19, 4:00pm, location TBA] 2013 Distinguished Lecture in Cultural Anthropology by Lisa Rofel (University of California, Santa Cruz). Professor Rofel is a renowned scholar of China, gender and modernity. She has authored numerous articles and two books. Attending to generationally distinct memories of political and personal history, Rofel is gifted at conveying intimate experiences of modernity and labor. Her most recent book, Desiring China, asks how celebrations of desire intersect with both ideologies of freedom and nationally specific forms of neoliberalism. Sponsored by Department of Anthropology. For more information, contact Carla Jones.
[Monday, April 22, 12:00pm, Guggenheim 201E] CAS Brown Bag: "Buddhism to-go: creating mobile sacred space through smartphone meditation apps" by Joanna Piacenza, MA Candidate, Department of Religious Studies. Buddhism online, like many representations of religions online, has taken on new definitions with its new medium, replacing historically accepted practice with nondescript spirituality: Buddhist blogs emphasize vague mindfulness while negating the doctrine rebirth; the Dalai Lama chooses ambiguous spiritual language over heavily Buddhist discourse in his tweets; smartphone applications filter out institution in favor of the individual. This presentation addresses shifting perceptions and representations of Buddhism in contemporary American society, as framed through a smartphone meditation application. The deinstitutionalization, demythologicalization and psychologicalization of Buddhism has morphed the ritual of meditation into a private, personalized, and self-help practice, which in turn has detached the practice from its Asian roots. This presentation investigates how the medium of the smartphone, with is highly mobile and audial characteristics, has helped change the message of meditation. Sponsored by Center for Asian Studies. For more information, please contact casevent@colorado.edu, 303-735-5511.
[Tuesday, April 23, 6:30pm, Hale 270] FrackingSENSE: What We Know, What We Don’t Know, and What We Hope to Learn about Natural Gas Development with Jana Milford and Gabby Petron - "Atmospheric Perspectives on Oil and Gas Operations." The Center of the American West, CU Continuing Education, Boulder County, and the AirWaterGas Research Network invite you to this lecture series (Tuesday nights February 26 through May 21), featuring a speaker with substantial expertise on natural gas development who will provide a measured, honest exploration of this controversial topic. Each presenter will be scrupulous about acknowledging areas of uncertainty (“What We Don’t Know”), and emphasizing open questions that require careful deliberation. Throughout the series, Patty Limerick of The Center of the American West, will act as moderator. Recognizing that many members of the audience will hold strong opinions, we look forward to honest – and civil and respectful – discussions of a crucially important topic. For more information, contact Jennifer Aglio at 303-492-4879 or visit www.centerwest.org or AirWaterGas.org.
[Tuesday, April 23, 7:00pm, Wolf Law 304] CAS Speaker Series: "Visions & Prophecies in Tibetan Buddhism: An Evening with Khenpo Sodargye from Larung Buddhist Academy," This event is a rescheduling of the canceled April 2 event. A lecture by Khenpo Sodargye, a prominent Nyingma teacher. The revelation of terma (literally "treasures") is a longstanding practice in the Nyingma tradition of Tibetan Buddhism. Treasures are texts and sacred objects said to be hidden in the Tibetan landscape and in the mind-streams of Buddhist masters. In this public lecture, Khenpo Sodargye of Larung Buddhist Academy in Serta shares his knowledge about what terma signifies, how it is revealed, and what kinds of dreams, visions and prophecies emerge in the mind-stream of a tertonor "treasure revealer." This event is free and open to the public. Sponsored by CAS. For more information, contact casevent@colorado.edu.
[Wednesday, April 24, 3:00-4:00pm, Macky 202]CHA Faculty Fellow Work in Progress, featuring Myles Osborne, Department of History. "Making Mau Mau: Publicity, Propaganda, and the Press in 1950s Kenya." The 1950s was a decade of upheaval in Africa. In Egypt, Nasser humiliated the governments of Britain and France in the “Suez Crisis.” In South Africa, minority white rule was solidified and formalized as apartheid. But no event provoked more controversy – and indeed uproar – than the Mau Mau rebellion, which focused the eyes of the world on Kenya. Sporting dreadlocks and frequently armed with home-made guns, Mau Mau fought a war against British forces which lasted almost the entire decade. This project places Mau Mau at the center of a debate that raged across the world during the 1950s. For Britain, Mau Mau undermined the basis of its entire post-war colonial empire, by threatening to rubbish claims that it was improving life for Africans byproviding education, development, and economic opportunities. For intellectuals in Africa and the Caribbean, Mau Mau was the start of a struggle that would pit peoples of color against imperialists. The Soviet Union saw it as a propaganda coup, to demonstrate the failures of empire. In the United States, Malcolm X called for a "Mau Mau in Harlem;" WEB Dubois and the NAACP wasn't so sure. And all the time, Mau Mau leaders wrote treatises to Members of Parliament in London and allies in India, trying to build support for their struggle. Sponsored by CHA. For further information, please contact Paula Anderson.
[Thursday, April 25, 5:00pm, Humanities 250] CAS Speaker Series: "Imagining China in Medieval Japan: The Case of Fujiwara no Teika." For writers, clerics, officials, and others living in Japan around the turn of the thirteenth century, China—which they referred to using multiple dynastic names of the past and contemporary present—functioned simulanteously as the matrix of a shared regional culture and as a contrastive background against which patterns of Japanese cultural formation could be discerned. This lecture will discuss the imagining of contemporary and ancient China in various works written by the influential Japanese poet and courtier Fujiwara no Teika (1162-1241), including his kambun diary, Meigetsuki, and the Tale of Matsura, a pseudo-historical poetic narrative written in Japanese and set in Tang China. Sponsored by Center for Asian Studies. For further information, please contact casevent@colorado.edu, 303-735-5122.
[Thursday, April 25, 6:30pm, Hale 270] The Center of the American West is proud to announce the 2013 Wallace Stegner Award Winner: Western American Historian and Author, Elliott West. “Elliott West is the best historian of the American West writing today.” – Richard White. Each year, the Center of the American West presents the Wallace Stegner Award to an individual who has have faithfully and evocatively depicted the spirit of the American West. Elliott West, who received his doctorate from the University of Colorado, is author of six books, most recently The Essential West: Collected Essays (2012). His book, The Last Indian War: The Nez Perce Story (2009) is one of three of his books to receive the Western Heritage Award and two to win the Western History Association’s Caughey Prize. His book, The Contested Plains (1998), received six national awards, including the PEN-West Award as the year’s best non-fiction book, and the Francis Parkman Prize as the outstanding book in American history. It is considered a classic in the field. This event is made possible by the generosity of Al and Carol Ann Olson. For more information, please contact 303-492-4879 or visit www.centerwest.org.
[Friday, April 26, 4:00pm, Eaton Humanities 250] CAS Speaker Series: "Public Forum on the Future of Asian Studies," A roundtable discussion addressing the future of Asian area studies from a variety of perspectives (K-12 education, publishing, higher education, etc.). Panelists include: Frank Conlon, Professor Emeritus of History, South Asian Studies and Comparative Religion at the University of Washington and former Director of the UW South Asia Center; Susan McEachern, Editorial Director of Rowman & Littlefield; and Lynn Parisi, Director of the Program for Teaching East Asia at the CU Center for Asian Studies. Tim Oakes, Director of the CU Center for Asian Studies and Professor of Geography will serve as the moderator. After initial comments by each of the panelists, the event will continue with questions and comments from the audience. Sponsored by Center for Asian Studies. For more information, contact casevent@colorado.edu.
[Monday, April 29, 3:15-5:00pm, Hellems 267] The Committee on the History and Philosophy of Science hosts its last Distinguished Speaker Series event of the semester featuring Ken Alder (Department of History, Northwestern University). "The Measure of the World: The Origin of the Metric System and Our Scientific Values." The Committee on the History and Philosophy of Science is co-sponsored by the departments of Geological Sciences, History, Mathematics, Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, Philosophy, Physics, the College of Arts and Sciences, CU Museum of Natural History, and the Center for Humanities and the Arts. For further information, please contact rchps@colorado.edu.
[Tuesday, April 30, 4:00pm, Hale 230] "Whither Biodiversity? Using the Past to Forecast Earth’s Future." The Department of Anthropology, the Institute of Behavioral Science, and the Environmental Studies Program present a public talk by distinguished professor Elizabeth A. Hadly (Paul S. and Billie Achilles Chair of Environmental Biology; Professor of Geological and Environmental Sciences-by courtesy; and Senior Fellow at Woods Institute for the Environment; Stanford University). Examining species’ responses to past environmental changes is one of the best ways of unraveling how they will respond in the future. Major environmental events provide insights into the resilience of animals over time. In North America, the transition from the Late Pleistocene glacial period to the Holocene interglacial witnessed the extinction of two-thirds of all the large-bodied mammalian genera and coincided with expansion of modern humans. The smaller mammalian survivors of this extinction persisted but showed range changes, species turnover, and diversity decline. Subsequent but smaller climatic events, such as the Medieval Warm Period, continued to exert impacts on animals by causing adjustments in population abundances, body size and changes in genetic diversity. This retrospective view yields predictions for animals in the future. We will certainly lose species, while a few will thrive. Other species will abandon their former homes and occupy new areas. Surviving animals may change in size, behavior and/or genetic diversity. Although past climates exerted evolutionary pressures on animals, the rate and magnitude of changes over the next century suggest perturbations too rapid for present species to adjust, resulting in a world very different than it has been for millions of years. In addition to climatic changes, our planet faces the added pressure of 7+ billion people and all the resources we require. Charting the future of biodiversity requires not only history, which details the timing, scale, and magnitude of past global state shifts, but also the use of systems theory to forecast our planet’s future. For further information, please see www.stanford.edu/group/hadlylab/index.html or contact Paul Shankman.
[Tuesday, April 30, 6:30pm, Hale 270] FrackingSENSE: What We Know, What We Don’t Know, and What We Hope to Learn about Natural Gas Development with Nick Flores - "Economic Issues of Shale Oil and Gas Development." The Center of the American West, CU Continuing Education, Boulder County, and the AirWaterGas Research Network invite you to this lecture series (Tuesday nights February 26 through May 21), featuring a speaker with substantial expertise on natural gas development who will provide a measured, honest exploration of this controversial topic. Each presenter will be scrupulous about acknowledging areas of uncertainty (“What We Don’t Know”), and emphasizing open questions that require careful deliberation. Throughout the series, Patty Limerick of The Center of the American West, will act as moderator. Recognizing that many members of the audience will hold strong opinions, we look forward to honest – and civil and respectful – discussions of a crucially important topic. For more information, contact Jennifer Aglio at 303-492-4879 or visit www.centerwest.org or AirWaterGas.org.
[Tuesday, April 30, 7:30pm, Old Main Chapel] Think! Talk, featuring Dr. Brian Talbot entitled, "Philosophers' Problems are Everyone's Problems." Abstract: Dr. Talbot argues that most philosophical questions - even seemingly esoteric ones - are questions that everyone should try to answer. Because of this, being a philosopher should be a lifelong occupation for everyone, regardless of their day job. Talbot discusses the implications for how philosophy should be studied and taught at the university level. Sponsored by Department of Philosophy. For further information, please contact them at coloradothinktalks@gmail.com.
[Thursday, May 2, 6:30pm, Math 100] The Center of the American West, in partnership with AirWaterGas, Boulder County, and Continuing Education, is proud to announce a very special FrackingSENSE Lecture Series Event: A conversation with Governor Hickenlooper about Natural Gas Development in Colorado. Patty Limerick will interview the Governor about Natural Gas Development and Fracking, followed by a question and answer period with audience members. Recognizing that many members of the audience will hold strong opinions, we look forward to honest – and civil and respectful – discussions of a crucially important topic. We ask that all audience members come prepared to engage with these issues productively. Questions will be collected on 3x5 cards and will be presented to the Governor through a moderator. Free and Open to the Public. Come early, as seating is limited. Once the hall reaches capacity, people will be turned away. For more information, contact 303-492-4879 or visit www.centerwest.org.
[Monday, May 6, 4:00pm, Macky 202] Public lecture by Rhonda Garelick (University of Nebraska, Lincoln), "In Defense of Luxury: The Journalistic Collaboration of Coco Chanel and Paul Iribe, 1932-1935." Professor Garelick is the author of Rising Star: Dandyism, Gender, and Performance in the Fin-de-siecle and Electric Salome: Loie Fuller's Performance of Modernity. Her talk is drawn from her current book project, Antigone in Vogue: Coco Chanel and the Myths of Fashion. Sponsored by Department of French and Italian and CHA. For further information, please contact Chris Braider.
[Tuesday, May 14, 6:30pm, Hale 270] FrackingSENSE: What We Know, What We Don’t Know, and What We Hope to Learn about Natural Gas Development with Dan Grossman - "EDF – An Environmental Perspective." The Center of the American West, CU Continuing Education, Boulder County, and the AirWaterGas Research Network invite you to this lecture series (Tuesday nights February 26 through May 21), featuring a speaker with substantial expertise on natural gas development who will provide a measured, honest exploration of this controversial topic. Each presenter will be scrupulous about acknowledging areas of uncertainty (“What We Don’t Know”), and emphasizing open questions that require careful deliberation. Throughout the series, Patty Limerick of The Center of the American West, will act as moderator. Recognizing that many members of the audience will hold strong opinions, we look forward to honest – and civil and respectful – discussions of a crucially important topic. For more information, contact Jennifer Aglio at 303-492-4879 or visit www.centerwest.org or AirWaterGas.org.
[Tuesday, May 21, 6:30pm, Hale 270] FrackingSENSE: What We Know, What We Don’t Know, and What We Hope to Learn about Natural Gas Development with Bernie Goldstein - "Does Living Near Hydrofracturing Activity Put Our Health at Risk?" The Center of the American West, CU Continuing Education, Boulder County, and the AirWaterGas Research Network invite you to this lecture series (Tuesday nights February 26 through May 21), featuring a speaker with substantial expertise on natural gas development who will provide a measured, honest exploration of this controversial topic. Each presenter will be scrupulous about acknowledging areas of uncertainty (“What We Don’t Know”), and emphasizing open questions that require careful deliberation. Throughout the series, Patty Limerick of The Center of the American West, will act as moderator. Recognizing that many members of the audience will hold strong opinions, we look forward to honest – and civil and respectful – discussions of a crucially important topic. For more information, contact Jennifer Aglio at 303-492-4879 or visit www.centerwest.org or AirWaterGas.org.
