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[Friday, June 10, 7:00pm, Aspen Rooms, University Memorial Center] Diverse influences from Thelonious Monk to Frank Gehry and from Man Ray to Johannes Gutenberg have shaped the internationally collected artist books of Don Glaister, Director of the Fine Binding Program at the American Academy of Bookbinding in Telluride, Colorado. He will present a slide presentation on his book bindings and artists who have influenced him. Sponsored by the CU University Libraries, ScriptaLab, Graduate Committee on the Arts and Humanities (GCAH), President's Fund for the Humanities, Art Museum, and Friends of the Libraries, and the Book Arts League and Inter Ocean Curiosity Studio. Free and open to the public. For more informaiton: Deborah.Fink@colorado.edu, http://scriptalab.org/?page_id=590.
[Friday, July 1, 7:00pm, RedLine, 2350 Arapahoe Street, Denver] "Formalisms" Opening. New work by Joel Swanson (ATLAS Technology, Arts and Media director at CU-Boulder). Sponsored by Graduate Committee on the Arts and Humanities (GCAH). For further information, please visit http://redlineart.org.
[Friday, August 5, 11:30am, University Club Ballroom (Euclid & Broadway)] "The Magic of Cross-Cultural Contacts in the Greco-Roman World," a seminar with Gideon Bohak (Professor of Jewish Culture at Tel-Aviv University and Visiting Professor in the Department of Classics at CU-Boulder). Professor Bohak is the world's leading authority on Jewish magic and is offering a course at CU through the Summer Session's FIRST program. For this event, Professor Bohak will present a variety of ancient magical texts from Greek, Roman, and Jewish contexts and will then lead a discussion about the nature of magic in the ancient and modern world. The seminar will be followed by lunch on the patio of the University Club. All CU students and faculty are encouraged to join in this interdisciplinary event. Sponsored by The Departments of Classics and Religious Studies and the Program in Jewish Studies. For further information, please contact Noel Lenski.
[Wednesday, September 7, 6:00-8:00pm, CU Art Museum] Opening reception for Through Soviet Jewish Eyes: Photography, War and the Holocaust (this exhibit runs through October 22).
To commemorate the "Night of the Murdered Poets," when more than a dozen Soviet Jewish writers, poets and cultural leaders were executed in a Stalinist prison on August 12, 1952, the Program in Jewish Studies and the CU Art Museum invite you to the opening of this exhibition, curated by David Shneer, professor of history and director of the Program in Jewish Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder, and Lisa Tamiris Becker, director of the CU Art Museum.
Through Soviet Jewish Eyes shifts our vision of WWII by showing it through the lens of Soviet photojournalists. The exhibition presents 58 photographs, printed over six decades, by the most important Soviet photojournalists including Evgenii Khaldei, Georgii Zelma and Dmitrii Baltermants. These arresting war images were the first to document the liberation of Nazi atrocity sites. The exhibition presents photographs that span the Nazi-Soviet war, from June 22, 1941 until V-Day on May 9, 1945. An opening section contextualizes the war-time images within the Constructivist and Socialist Realist traditions of Soviet photography in the 1920s and 1930s. Canonical images appear side by side with photographs that have never been exhibited. A large number of Soviet photographers were Jewish and the exhibition asks what this might have meant when confronting the war and Nazi atrocities through Soviet Jewish eyes. The exhibition includes archival materials, including contact sheets, glass negatives, scrap books, diaries, Soviet publications, and the photographers' personal book maquettes. For additional information, visit http://cuartmuseum.colorado.edu or contact the Program in Jewish Studies at 303-492-7143. As part of this exhibit, Professor Shneer will be presenting a special lecture at the Colorado Photographic Art Center at Belmar in Lakewood, CO on Thursday, September 8 at 7:30PM and a lecture and guided tour on Thursday, September 15 at 7PM at the CU Art Museum in Boulder.
Space is limited for both of these events and RSVPs are required. For more information and to RSVP, please email Jamie.Polliard@colorado.edu. Funding for this exhibition is generously provided in part by the HBB Foundation, the Arts and Culture (ACE) Student Enrichment Fees and by the CU Art Museum Benefactors and Members, Association for Jewish Studies Legacy Heritage Fund and donors to the Program in Jewish Studies.
[Tuesday, September 13, 7:00pm, Room 1B20 (Basement), Visual Arts Complex] Visiting Artist Lecture Series: Stan Shellabarger & Dutes Miller. Miller and Shellabarger explore the dynamics of love and loss through performance pieces that emphasize the artistic process as a metaphor for the cycles of life and death, of connection and separation. The Chicago-based couple has been creating collaborative works since they starting dating 17 years ago, bringing together their respective fascinations with the body to produce performance art that speaks to universal themes in relationships in a distinctly physical way. Free and open to the public. Sponsored by Department of Art and Art History. For more information, please contact Valerie Albicker, 303 492-2539.
[Thursday, September 15, 4:00pm, EDUC 220] Public lecture by Coílín Parsons, (University of Cape Town, South Africa). "Encyclopedias, Maps and Ulysses." Coílín Parsons received his PhD in English and Comparative Literature from Columbia University. He has published in Victorian Literature and Culture, Current Writing, and Interventions: The International Journal of Postcolonial Studies. He is currently working on a book called Maps to Modernism: Modern Irish Literature, Space and the Ordnance Survey. Sponsored by Department of English. For further information, please contact Laura Winkiel, 303-735-1745.
[Thursday, September 15, 5:00pm, British Studies (5th floor of Norlin Library)] Public lecture by world-renowned scholar, performer and author, Brenda Dixon Gottschild (PhD, NYU, 1981). Professor Dixon Gottschild is the Fall 2011 Cox Family Visiting Scholar/Artist, sponsored by CHA and hosted by Department of Theatre and Dance. This lecture is entitled "Africanist Presence Material: Researching Performance -- The (Black) Dancing body as a Measure of Culture." The lecture will follow with a reception and book signing. For further information, please contact Sharon Van Boven, 303-492-7355.
[Friday, September 16, 4:00pm, Norlin Quad] CAS Presents: "Puppets: A Live Wayang Golek," A Wayang Golek Sunda, rod puppet performance of West Java, Indonesia in collaboration with Gamelan Tunas Mekar under the direction of Balinese composer and Artist-in-Residence I Made Lasmawan. Dalang: Kathy Foley, Gamelan Director: I Made Lasmawan. Sponsored by the Center for Asian Studies. For further information, please contact casevent@colorado.edu, 303-735-5511.
[Tuesday, September 20, 5:00pm, Eaton Humanities 250] CAS Speaker Series, featuring Anthony Chambers, Professor of Japanese, Arizona State University. "On Translating Japanese Fiction, Old and New." Sponsored by Center for Asian Studies. For further information, please contact casevent@colorado.edu, 303-735-5511.
[Wednesday, September 21, 5:00pm, Eaton Humanities 250] CAS Speaker Series, featuring Anthony Chambers, Professor of Japanese, Arizona State University. "English as 'Other': Tanizaki's View." Sponsored by Center for Asian Studies. For further information, please contact casevent@colorado.edu, 303-735-5511.
[Wednesday, September 21, 5:00pm, Eaton Humanities 135] "'Old' and 'New' Paganism and the Conversion of the Late Antique West: An Interpretive Model," by Giovanni Cecconi, Professor of Roman History at the Universita degli Studi di Firenze, author of books on the history of the city in Late Antiquity and on the late Roman senator Quintus Aurelius Symmachus. Sponsored by Department of Classics, Department of History, and the Mediterranean Studies Initiative. For further information, please contact Noel Lenski, 303-492-8184.
[Thursday, September 22, 10:00am, Old Main Chapel] CAS Speaker Series: "Sporting Friendship in Sino-American Relations." "Hitting a Home Run across the Pacific: Major League Baseball in East Asia," a lecture by Jim Small of Major League Baseball, Asia. A roundtable discussion entitled "Strategy and Security: Sports in Sino-American Relations" will follow. Panelists include: Tim Oakes (CU-Boulder), Tim Weston (CU-Boulder), Tom Zeiler (CU-Boulder), and Steve Thomas (UCD). Sponsored by Center for Asian Studies. For further information, please contact casevent@colorado.edu, 303-735-5511.
[Friday-Sunday, September 23-25, Duane G1B20] The Committee on the History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Colorado Boulder is pleased to announce the 27th Conference on the History and Philosophy of Science. The topic for this year's conference is: "History and Philosophy of Physics." This year's keynote speakers are:
Daniel Kennefick (University of Arkansas), “Not Only Because of Theory: The Analysis of the Data from the 1919 Eclipse Expedition,”
and
Laura Ruetsche (University of Michigan), “Interpreting Physical Theories: The Art of the Possible.”
For further detatils of keynote times and contributed talks location, email RCHPS@colorado.edu, or visit the conference website at www.colorado.edu/philosophy/chps/conference.htm.
The Committee on the History and Philosophy of Science is co-sponsored by the departments of Anthropology, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, 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.
[Saturday, September 24, 10:00am, Eaton Humanities Building, Room 150] Fall Treasures presents Len Barron and his theater piece "Einstein and Niels Bohr: A Fairy Tale." Friends of the CU Libraries will host Len Barron, noted educator, writer and performer. Mr. Barron’s presentation illustrates not only the work of brilliant physicists and radical thinkers Albert Einstein and Niels Bohr, but their humanity as well. A light catered reception follows the presentation. Pay parking at Euclid Avenue AutoPark and Macky Lot 380. This event is free and open to the public. For further information, please contact Friends of the Libraries, 303-492-7511. Additional information: http://ucblibraries.colorado.edu/friends/activities.htm.
[Monday, September 26, 5:00pm, Hale 270] Anthropology Department Colloquium, "Women and Power in the Conambo River Basin, Ecuador." Dr. Brenda Bowser, an ethnoarchaeologist with a long-term field project in Amazonian Ecuador, will discuss her work in the Conambo River Basin with Achuar, Quichua and Zaparo-speaking people. She focuses on women’s use of pottery to explore strategies of power acquisition, the role of material culture in the construction of identity, and ways culture is transmitted. Sponsored by Department of Anthropology. For further information, please contact Cathy Cameron.
[Tuesday, September 27, 7:00pm, Room 1B20 (Basement), Visual Arts Complex] Visiting Artist Lecture Series: Binh Danh. Danh’s work investigates his Vietnamese heritage and our collective memory of war, both in Viet Nam and Cambodia—work that, in his own words, deals with "mortality, memory, history, landscape, justice, evidence, and spirituality." His technique incorporates his invention of the chlorophyll printing process, in which photographic images appear embedded in leaves through the action of photosynthesis. His newer body of work focuses on the Daguerreotype process. Free and open to the public. Sponsored by Department of Art and Art History. For more information, please contact Valerie Albicker, 303 492-2539.
[Thursday, September 29, 12:00 1424 Broadway Street, Boulder] "From Havens to the Markets: State, Development and the Mediation of Nature in Northwest China," a lecture by Afton Clark-Sather, PhD student, Department of Geography. Twenty years ago peasants in the semi-arid Zuli river valley in Eastern Gansu were subsistence farmers who spoke of depending on the heavens to eat. Today they are commodity producers who speak of depending on the markets to eat. This paper examines how a series of state-backed development programs that are part of China's domestic poverty alleviation program have remade how peasants relate to agricultural water, changing peasants from subsistence producers to commodity producers, and in the process remade both the rural political economy and the natural environment of Eastern Gansu. Sponsored by Center for Asian Studies. For further information, please email them at casevent@colorado.edu.
[Thursday, September 29, 7:00pm, British Studies (5th floor of Norlin Library, enter through east door)] Mediterranean Studies Featured Speaker: Peter Brown, Rollins Professor of History at Princeton University, will speak on "Alms, Work and the Holy Poor: Early Christian Monasticism between Syria and Egypt." Peter Brown is known throughout the world for having created the field of study referred to as late antiquity (250-800 A.D.), the period during which Rome fell, the three major monotheistic religions - Judaism, Christianity and Islam - took shape, and Christianity spread across Europe. He has taught as a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, the University of London, the University of California Berkeley, and Princeton University. He is the author of a dozen books, including Augustine of Hippo (1967, 2000), The World of Late Antiquity (1971), The Body and Society (1988), The Rise of Western Christendom (1996, 2003), and Poverty and Leadership in the Later Roman Empire (2002). Sponsored by Mediterranean Studies Initiative, Department of Classics, Department of History, and CHA. For further information, please contact Noel Lenski, 303-492-8184.
[Thursday, September 29, 7:00pm, Benson Earth Sciences Room 180] Modern Indian Identity: Dan Wildcat “Indigenuity: Exercising Indigenous Ingenuity in the Age of Cybernations.” Center of the American West is pleased to announce Dan Wildcat as the ninth guest in the Modern Indian Identity series. Dr. Daniel Wildcat, Ph.D., is a professor at Haskell Indian Nations University in Lawrence, Kansas, and an accomplished scholar who writes on indigenous knowledge, technology, environment, and education. His most recent book is Red Alert! Saving the Planet with Indigenous Knowledge (Fulcrum, 2009). Known for his commitment to environmental defense and cultural diversity, Dr. Wildcat has been honored by the Kansas City organization The Future Is Now with the Heart Peace Award. This free event is made possible by the generosity of the Carlston Family. Reception & book signing to follow. Books will be available for purchase at the event. For further information please visit centerwest.org.
[Friday, September 30, 12:00-1:00pm, British Studies (5th floor of Norlin Library)] Performance Friday! featuring excerpts from CU Opera's production of Marriage of Figaro. Doors open at 11:30 for free lunch. Sponsored by CHA. For further information, please contact Paula Anderson, 303-492-1423.
[Friday, September 30, 4:00pm, Hale 230] CAS Speaker Series: "Chai, Why? The Making of the Indian 'National Drink,'" a lecture by Philip Lutgendorf, Professor of Hindi and Modern Indian Studies at the University of Iowa. In this visually intriguing presentation, Prof. Lutgendorf will summarize his current study of the promotion and popularization of tea-drinking in 20th century India. His project, involving both archival and field research, focuses on the mass popularization of indigenized “chai” through changes in marketing, manufacturing, and consumption, and in eating habits, urban space, and social networks. His talk will emphasize the role played by advertising images in transmitting the “tea habit” to Indians, both prior to and following Independence in 1947. Sponsored by Center for Asian Studies. This event is free and open to everyone. For further information, please go to http://cas.colorado.edu/index.php/events-list.
[Saturday, October 1, 2:00pm, ATLAS 100] CAS Speaker Series: "Symposium on Contemporary Korean Art and Culture." In conjunction with the exhibition "Image Clash: Contemporary Korean Video Art." Sponsored by Center for Asian Studies. For further information, please contact casevent@colorado.edu, 303-735-5511.
[Wednesday, October 5, 7:00pm, ATLAS 100] "Sound Poetry Performance," with Jaap Blonk, a self-taught composer, performer and poet. For almost two decades the voice was his main means for the discovery and development of new sounds. From around the year 2000, Blonk started work with electronics, at first using samples of his own voice, then extending the field to include pure sound synthesis as well. He took a year off of performing in 2006. As a result, his renewed interest in mathematics made him start a research of the possibilities of algorithmic composition for the creation of music, visual animation and poetry. As a vocalist, Jaap Blonk is unique for his powerful stage presence and almost childlike freedom in improvisation, combined with a keen grasp of structure. With the use of live electronics the scope and range of his concerts has acquired a considerable reputation. Sponsored by Department of English and CHA. For further information, please contact Lori Emerson.
[Friday and Saturday, October 7 and 8, McKenna 103] The Kayden Colloquium, "Crime & Punishment in Latin America: Practices and Representations." This event brings together scholars of international reputation working on a variety of disciplines, who will present their research on the various topics related to crime and punishment in Latin America and beyond. They will also reflect on the remarkable momentum that this multidisciplinary field has gained in recent years. Sponsored by Department of Spanish & Portuguese, with support provided by the Kayden Book Award, Center for Latin American Studies, Department of Anthropology, and Graduate Committee on the Arts and Humanities (GCAH). Full program and further information: http://spanish.colorado.edu/General/crime-and-punishment-interdisciplinary-approaches.html.
[Tuesday, October 11, 7:00pm, Room 1B20 (Basement), Visual Arts Complex] Faculty Lecture Series: Matt Wedel. Working with human, animal and botanical forms, Matt’s ceramic sculptures challenges our expectations of both the scale and possibilities of working with clay. Dealing with child like perspectives, often through larger than life sculptures, Matt creates an imaginative world that appears both playful and free of restrictions. Speaking of his process Matt states, “Using landscape as a platform to begin working, I approach creating as if the possibilities were limitless, weightless, and immediate. I work amongst this landscape both from my imagination as well as from historical influences. It is a system set up to feed the vocabulary I have to create while allowing me to play with the vocabulary I know.” Free and open to the public. Sponsored by Department of Art and Art History. For more information, please contact Valerie Albicker, 303 492-2539.
[Tuesday, October 18, 7:00pm, Room 1B20 (Basement), Visual Arts Complex] Guest Lecture Series: Bonnie Rychlak. In 1980, Bonnie began working as an assistant to the sculptor Isamu Noguchi, who commuted between studios in Long Island City and the Japanese island of Shikoku. When Mr. Noguchi died in 1988, the Long Island City studio became a museum, and Ms. Rychlak became its registrar. Promoted to curator in 1997, she has helped cement Mr. Noguchi’s reputation with dozens of shows and publications in the United States and abroad. She has also helped biographers understand Mr. Noguchi, a lifelong wanderer who, she has said, “was always running from something.” Join us as Bonnie gives a lecture focusing on Isamu Noguchi’s ceramic artwork. Free and open to the public. Sponsored by Department of Art and Art History. For more information, please contact Valerie Albicker, 303 492-2539.
[Tuesday, October 18, 7:30pm, Old Main Chapel] Think! Talk, "How to Be Good," presented by Alastair Norcross. Abstract: Being good isn’t easy. From the perspective of morality, the world is a pretty awful place. Accordingly, morality demands a great deal of the conscientious individual. This isn’t an inevitable consequence of the nature of morality, though. It is, rather, a consequence of the extreme immorality of most people. Not surprisingly, the more good people there are, the easier it is to be good. Sponsored by Department of Philosophy. For further information, please contact them at 303-492-6132.
[Tuesday, October 25, 7:00pm, Room 1B20 (Basement), Visual Arts Complex] Visiting Artist Lecture Series: Anita Jung. Jung's works of art are semi autobiographical deriving their narratives from the everyday. She is particularly interested in materials that transform the mundane into something special that produces a feeling of the familiar but becomes disorienting, a displacement of mind/body and time. She is interested in aspects of the ephemeral, the overlooked, the discarded, the backgrounds of our lives. Through exploring this aspect of the domestic sphere, the manifestation of nostalgia and longing come into focus only to re-dissolve into abstraction. They remain intangible, allusive and fleeting, yet incessantly present. Free and open to the public. Sponsored by Department of Art and Art History. For more information, please contact Valerie Albicker, 303 492-2539.
[Wednesday, October 26, 7:00pm, Norlin Library 5th floor] Southwestern Anthropology: Lives and Legacies. Experience the legacy of two founding professors of anthropology at CU-Boulder—Omer Stewart: cultural anthropologist, social activist, founder of the Department of Anthropology; and Joe Ben Wheat: archaeologist, teacher, first curator of anthropology at CU’s Museum of Natural History—from the perspectives of Dr. Deward Walker and Dr. Stephen Lekson, who continue some of those legacies. Sponsored by the University Libraries, Department of Anthropology, Museum of Natural History.
[Thursday, October 27, 7:00pm, Old Main Chapel] The Center of the American West is proud to award John McPhee its highest honor, the Stegner Award. 2011 marks the 40th anniversary of John McPhee’s extraordinary work, Encounters with the Archdruid. McPhee’s excellence in journalism, as marked by both his Pulitzer Prize and his frequent contributions to The New Yorker, also reflects the Center’s commitment to lively and personable communication that clarifies, educates, and entertains. For more information, please contact admin@centerwest.org, 303-492-4879.
[Friday, October 28, 12:00-1:00pm, British Studies (5th floor of Norlin Library)] Performance Friday! featuring excerpts from Department of Theatre and Dance's production of Putnam County Spelling Bee. Doors open at 11:30 for free lunch. Sponsored by CHA. For further information, please contact Paula Anderson, 303-492-1423.
[Thursday, November 3, 7:00pm, Benson 180] The 23rd Athearn Lecture with Dr. Mae M. Ngai, Lung Family Professor of Asian American Studies and Professor of History at Columbia University. "The True Story of Ah Jake: Language and Justice in Nineteenth-Century California." Dr. Ngai is an American historian who focuses on nationalism, citizenship, ethnicity, and race in 20th-century United States history. Sponsored by Department of History. For further information, please contact Phoebe Young, 303-492-6683.
[Thursday, November 3, 7:00pm, UMC 235] "Augustine and the Jews, a free public lecture by noted author, scholar and historian Paula Fredriksen (Aurelio Professor of Scripture Emerita at Boston University and professor of religion at Hebrew University in Jerusalem). Noted for her outspoken critique of the film, The Passion of the Christ, she is a scholar of the historical Jesus and considered one of the world's foremost scholars on Saint Augustine. Her latest book, Augustine and the Jews: A Christian Defense of Jews and Judaism, draws upon the life, times and thought of Augustine of Hippo (396-430). Sponsored by Program in Jewish Studies with the Festival of Books and Culture at the Boulder JCC, Iliff School of Theology and the Center for Judiac Studies at the University of Denver. RSVPs are appreciated; please email Nicholas.Underwood@colorado.edu or call 303.492.7143. Books will be available for purchase and signing after the lecture.
[Friday, November 4, 2:00pm, Eaton Humanities Room 150] CAS Speaker Series: "Lu Xun: One Classical Poem 30 Years Apart," a lecture by Professor Eva Shan Chou, City University of New York, Baruch College. In 1903, when he was 21, Lu Xun wrote one of his most famous and patriotic classic poems. Yet this poem survives in his hand only because he wrote it out again in 1931. Why 1931 and what did the poem mean to him thirty years later? In Prof Chou's reading, this 1903 poem, which is usually probed for its predictive powers about the nascent Lu Xun, shows how continuing political turmoil made the poem continually pertinent. For further information, please contact casevent@colorado.edu, 303-735-5511.
[Monday, November 7, 7:00pm, ATLAS 102] "Perspectives on Documentary Studies," by Media scholar Patricia Aufderheide, University Professor and Director, Center for Social Media, School of Communication American University and Colorado based academy award nominee documentary filmmaker Daniel Junge. This presentation is part of an ICJMT Discussion Group Initiative. For further information, please contact Christina Lefevre-Gonzalez, 303-735-5795.
[Tuesday, November 8, 9:30am, Old Main Chapel] "Beyond the Copyright Wars," by Media scholar Patricia Aufderheide, University Professor and Director, Center for Social Media, School of Communication American University. This event is sponsored by University of Colorado Libraries and CU's Journalism and Mass Communication Program in support of the ICJMT Initiative. For further information, please contact Christina Lefevre-Gonzalez, 303-735-5795.
[Tuesday, November 8, 7:00pm, Room 1B20 (Basement), Visual Arts Complex] Visiting Artist Lecture Series: Spencer Finch. Finch carefully records the invisible world, while simultaneously striving to understand what might lie beyond it. Whether he is relying on his own powers of observation or using a colorimeter, a device that reads the average color and temperature of light, the artist employs a scientific method to achieve poetic ends. His work reinforces the fleeting, temporal nature of the observed world, illustrating his own version of a theory of relativity. Sponsored by Department of Art and Art History. For more information, please contact Valerie Albicker, 303 492-2539.
[Thursday, November 10, 12:00pm, 1424 Broadway Street, Boulder] The Center for Asian Studies would like to welcome you to a brown bag event, "Conservation of the Critically Endangered Tonkin Snub-Nosed Monkey in Ha Giang Province, Vietnam," a talk by Bert Covert, Professor and Chair, Department of Anthropology, CU-Boulder. The Tonkin snub-nosed monkey (Rhinopithecus avunculus) has been included on each of IUCN/SSC Primate Specialist Group’s top 25 most endangered primates of the world. The most recent population estimate for this species is 122-224. The largest and best protected subpopulation is that of Khau Ca forest in the newly established Tonkin Snub-nosed Monkey Species and Habitat Conservation Area of Ha Giang Province, Vietnam. Please bring your own lunch to this event and we will provide dessert. For more information about this and other Asia-related events, please visit our website or contact casevent@colorado.edu.
[Thursday, November 10, 4:00-7:00pm, British Studies (5th floor of Norlin Library)] "Memory and Literature After Auschwitz and the Gulag" symposium, featuring a lecture at 4:00 by Alexander Etkind (University of Cambridge) entitled "Magical Historicism: Memory and Fantasy in Fiction and Non-Fiction." A reception will follow at 5:00. At 5:30, Dominick LaCapra (Cornell University) will present "Nazism and the Postsecular." A roundtable discussion follows at 6:30. Hosted by Humanities Program and Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures, and supported by President's Fund for the Humanities and GCAH. For further information, please contact humanities@colorado.edu.
[Thursday, November 10, 7:00pm, Norlin Commons Room E113] "The Art of PAPER" by artist Ray Tomasso: a slide show presentation on the technical and cultural history of this remarkable material and its application in his work, including a discussion of the history of paper in the preservation and transmission of knowledge and as an industrial material of great plasticity and strength. Tomasso’s current exhibition in Norlin Library through 2012: The Master Papermaker and Paper Artist’s Works in Cast Paper. East lobby, first floor SW Stoa Gallery, second floor SW Science Alcove Gallery, and custom pieces flanking 2nd floor bay window. Also, “Erosion and Tradition,” a mixed media work displaying traditional book crafts in a single over-sized volume (second floor SW Science Alcove Gallery). Sponsored by University Libraries ScriptaLab, Friends of the Libraries, Graduate Committee on the Arts & Humanities, CU President’s Fund for the Humanities, CU Art Museum, Book Arts League. For further information, please contact Deborah.Fink@colorado.edu, 303-492-8302. Check www.ScriptaLab.org for a video of the talk.
[Friday, November 11, 9:30am, Hale Science, Anthropology Reading Room, 4th Floor] CAS Speaker Series: "Seeing Spirits: Spirituality and Visuality in Southeast Asian Media." What is the allure of making the invisible world visible? How does visualizing spiritual or religious worlds intersect with dreams of transparency or authority? How does obscurity intersect with politics? What are the stakes of visuality? This one-day seminar will host three internationally renowned anthropologists of Asia on contemporary visual culture. Together, these guest speakers pose wide-ranging questions about the relationship among the spiritual, the political and the visual. Patricia Spyer (New York University and Leiden University) will present on the rise of large-scale public murals by Christian artists in the aftermath of political and religious violence in Eastern Indonesia. Mary Steedly (Harvard University) will ask why new film freedoms in the aftermath of the Suharto regime resulted in the boom in a particular genre -- horror. Karen Strassler (Queens College, CUNY) will present on popular, street art paintings of the Javanese folk goddess, Ratu Kidul, that mimic photographic style. This event is free and open to the public. For more information, please visit our website at http://cas.colorado.edu/index.php/events-list.
[Tuesday, November 15, 7:00pm, British Studies (5th floor of Norlin Library)] The CU Mediterranean Studies Group announces a public lecture by Gerard Wiegers (Religious Studies, University of Amsterdam), "Crypto-Religion in the Mediterranean: The Life and Times of Samuel Pallache." This lecture is co-sponsored by Department of Religious Studies. The CU Mediterranean Studies Group is open to CU faculty and graduate students and other institutes of higher education. It is affiliated with the Mediterranean Seminar, sponsored by a 2011-12 CU Innovative Seed Grant and by various departments, centers and programs. For further information, please go to www.mediterraneanseminar.org.
[Tuesday, November 15, 7:30pm, Old Main Chapel] Think! Talk, "What Do We Owe to Animals?" by Jason Wyckoff. asking, "What Do We Owe to Animals?" Abstract: "Human beings use trillions of domesticated and wild animals every year for food, clothing, medical experimentation, product testing, transportation, and entertainment. Most of these animals are killed, and most domesticated animals are kept in conditions that we would regard as morally repugnant if the animals in question were our dogs or cats. Almost all of us consume animal products on a daily basis, but can we justify this consumption? Is it consistent with the moral ideals that most of us claim to accept? What do we owe to animals? I defend an answer that almost all of us resist: that what we owe them is the abolition of animal use." 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 email coloradothinktalks@gmail.com.
[Wednesday, November 16, 5:00pm, Wolf Law Building] CAS Speaker Series: "China Town Hall." National Speaker (via webcast): Dr. Brzezinski was national security adviser to the president of the United States from 1977 to 1981. In 1981, he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom "for his role in the normalization of U.S.-Chinese relations and for his contributions to the human rights and national security policies of the United States."On-site Speaker: David Gries, a former Central Intelligence Agency official, is executive director of China Vitae, an online database providing information to the public on over 4,000 Chinese leaders. Designed for scholars and analysts, the database boasts sophisticated search tools and analytical capabilities. Gries followed Asian affairs for more than 30 years as a government official residing in Washington and in five Asian countries. He speaks Chinese. At CIA he held executive positions in operations, analysis, and in the office of the Director. From 1963 through 1981, Gries served in American embassies and consulates in Taiwan, Singapore, Hong Kong, Japan, and China and was CIA station chief in a key Asian country. In 1981, he returned to Washington to become National Intelligence Officer for East Asia, where he represented CIA on East Asian analytical issues. In 1986, he became Director of Congressional Affairs and oversaw CIA's relations with Congress. For details, please visit http://www.ncuscr.org/cth
[Friday, November 18, 4:00pm, Hale 230] CAS Speaker Series: "Autobiography is Another Story: 'Lives' in Hindi," a lecture by Rupert Snell, University of Texas at Austin. Hindi has a rich tradition of writing about the self. This talk discusses examples (in translation) from a dozen works, ranging from self-consciously literary texts to the transcribed memoirs of a provincial station-master. Themes such as family life and childhood memories enliven these narratives, while darker moments also include jail writings by the sometime prime minister Chandrashekhar (imprisoned and released by Indira Gandhi during the Emergency of the mid-1970s) and by Ramprasad Bismil (imprisoned and executed by the British a half-century earlier). The focus is on the stylistics of the narratives: how do the various authors crystalize their sweet and bitter experiences into words, and bring them to the printed page? Sponsored by Center for Asian Studies. For further information, please visit the CAS website here: http://cas.colorado.edu/index.php/events-list
[Friday, November 18, 6:30pm, Eaton Humanities 150] CAS Speaker Series: ANPO: Art x War, a film screening and lecture by the film's director, Linda Hoaglund. ANPO:Art x War documents artistic and popular response to the renewal of the US-Japan post-war treaty supporting US military bases in Japan. The film focuses on artists and their work -- including painting, photography, anime, film, and music -- exploring how Japanese artists recorded responses to American military presence in the 1950s. These responses culminated in broad national protests in 1960. Free and open to the public. Sponsored by Center for Asian Studies. For more information, please contact cas@colorado.edu, or visit our website at: http://cas.colorado.edu/index.php/events-list.
[Thursday, December 1, 12:00pm, 1424 Broadway Street, Boulder (CAS Conference Room)] "The Basic Principles of Won Buddhism," presented by Dr. SeongJun Lee. Won Buddhism is a Buddhist revivalist movement founded in 1924 Korea by Sotaesan (1891-1943). It has a strong commitment to the elimination of suffering by seeing all people as one family. They focus on a three-fold practice involving cultivating the spirit through seated meditation and chanting of the Buddha's name, inquiry into human affairs and universal principles through academic study, and making a mindful choice in one's personal conduct. Rev. Lee is a widely-published scholar of Won Buddhism and also an accomplished practitioner. She will introduce the major teachings of Won Buddhism and explain what they have meant in her own life. Sponsored by Center for Asian Studies, and this event is free and open to the public. Please bring your own lunch and we will provide dessert. For more information please visit http://cas.colorado.edu/index.php/events-list or email casevent@colorado.edu.
[Friday, December 2, 12:00-1:00pm, British Studies (5th floor of Norlin Library)] Performance Friday! featuring Department of Theatre assistant professor Beth Osnes and her film (with Al Bartlet, Professor Emeritus of Physics), Mother: Caring for 7 Billion. Beth is featured as the “human tread” in this award-winning documentary film by Tiroir A Films, which follows the work she does to help women empower their voices for change, her personal life (as the youngest of ten children and an adoptive mother) and her travels to Ethiopia to work with the Population Media Center. Awarded “Best Film from Colorado” at the Boulder International Film Festival, February 2011 (www.motherthefilm.com). This film supports working towards the empowerment of women world-wide as the best solution for stabilizing population growth. Join us for portions of the film and a lively discussion. Doors open at 11:30 for free lunch. For further information, please contact Paula Anderson, 303-492-1423.
[Friday, December 2, 3:30pm, IBS 155] CAS Speaker Series: "Global Climate Change: A Geographic Perspective." Professor Andrea Nightingale (University of Edinburgh) will discuss how climate change and security concerns related to resource scarcity are transforming the Nepalese state. Nepal is undergoing a major political restructuring following the end of the Maoist People's War in 2006, and is also expected to experience significant changes in temperature due to climate change. This talk will theorize how the Nepalese state comes to be constituted through everyday practices of global climate change. Refreshments following lecture on IBS patio. Sponsored by Center for Asian Studies. For further information, please call 303-735-5122 or visit http://cas.colorado.edu/index.php/events-list.
[Wednesday, December 7, 4:30pm, 1424 Broadway Street (CAS conference room)] CAS Career panel. The Center for Asian Studies invites you to attend this event to learn how to prepare yourself for the job market and about opportunities for continuing your studies. This semester's panel will focus on resume writing for Asian success and maximizing social media and networking in the digital age, plus provide an introduction to the Peace Corps Master's Program. Panelists: Alice Renouf has been the Director of the Colorado China Council (CCC) since the late 1970s. For c. 15 years CCC initiated, funded and hosted adult educational programs on Chinese history, culture, language, and politics through multi-media events, lectures, seminars, exhibition at museums in Colorado and throughout the U.S. CCC also hosted many high level delegations between Colorado and China in all fields. Since about 1992 CCC has specifically focused on sending Americans to teach English, as well as other subjects, at Chinese schools. We have placed over 700 people in China to teach, and have provided a training program for them in Shanghai. Many of these people have been CU graduates. Yann Ropars jumped into the social media space in 2006 and now runs Extanz.com, an agency focused on HYBRID new media services: PR 2.0, content creation, social media engagement, creative campaigns. Extanz works with medium to large businesses in need of solid new media exposure. Ropars is the author of "Using PR 2.0 to Increase Your Brand's Competitive Edge", a chapter in the newly released BMA Colorado book, Advice from the Top - the Expert Guide to B2B Marketing. You can read Yann's blog at Extanz.com. Alea Richmond is a returned Peace Corps Volunteer from Ecuador, and served as a Community Health Volunteer from 2008-2010. She is also the Peace Corps Recruiter for CU-Boulder. For further information, please call 303-735-5511 or visit http://cas.colorado.edu/index.php/events-list.
[Wednesday, December 7, 7:00pm, Old Main Chapel] "The Words to Stir the Soul" events spotlight some of the region’s best writing by providing a unique opportunity for both readers and attendees to deepen their appreciation of the region in which we live. This year, the Center of the American West will feature the work of Boulder-based poet and essayist, Reg Saner. His writings and poems have been featured in more than 140 magazines and 40 anthologies. His most recent book, The Four-Cornered Falcon: Essays on the Interior West and the Natural Scene, was published in 2011. In 1999, Mr. Saner became Boulder’s first poet laureate. For more information, please contact admin@centerwest.org, 303-492-4879.
[Tuesday, January 24, 3:00pm, Guggenheim 201E] CAS Speaker Series: "Wetlands in Crisis in the Yellow River Basin: A Chinese NGO Seeks Bottom-up Solutions," a talk by the founder and former director of Green Camel Bell, a grassroots Chinese environmental NGO based in Lanzhou, Gansu. He is visiting the US from China and will be talking about desertification and other threats to wetlands in the ecologically sensitive area near the headwaters of the Yellow River. In addition to analyzing various threats to the wetlands, he will discuss the innovative work that Green Camel Bell did with community-based management to address these problems. Sponsored by Center for Asian Studies. For further information, please contact casevent@colorado.edu, 303-735-5122.
[Thursday, January 26, 12:00-1:00pm, CAS Conference Room, 1424 Broadway Street, Boulder] CAS Brown Bag Event: "The Magical World of the All-Female Japanese Troupe, Takarazuka." A talk by Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Theatre & Dance at CU-Boulder, Bud Coleman. From its founding in 1913, the all-female revue Takarazuka has grown from a modest entertainment in a hot springs outside of Osaka to an entertainment juggernaut which includes the very respected Takarazuka Music School, two large theatres, and selling 2.5 million tickets every year. This presentation will include a brief history of the company, clips from performances, and a look at how the company has changed (and not changed) during tumultuous events and movements of the 20th and 21st centuries. Bring your own lunch to this event, and we will provide the dessert. Sponsored by Center for Asian Studies. For further information, please contact casevent@colorado.edu, 303-735-5122.
[Friday, January 27, 12:00-1:00pm, British Studies (5th floor of Norlin Library)] Performance Friday! featuring College of Music faculty members Margaret McDonald and Erika Eckert, who will discuss the unique aspects of viola and piano collaboration and will give the audience an up-close and personal look at the rehearsal process. Portions of Rebecca Clarke's Sonata for Viola and Piano (1919) will be performed during this presentation. Doors open at 11:30 for free lunch. Sponsored by CHA. For further information, please contact Paula Anderson, 303-492-1423.
[Saturday, January 28, 7:00pm, Hale 270] CU Anthropology’s Distinguished Archeologist Lecture by Dr. Thomas L. Sever (Department of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Alabama Huntsville). “Space Archeology: Past and Present Human Effects upon Landscapes, Subsistence, and Climate Variability.” From space we can see things that we cannot see when we are on the ground, including relics of the ancient past. The use of satellite technology and its ability to see beyond the range of human vision is revolutionizing archeology. Sponsored by Department of Anthropology. For more information, please contact Payson.Sheets@colorado.edu.
[Tuesday, January 31, 3:30pm, Hellems 269] The Committee on the History and Philosophy of Science (CHPS) is pleased to announce the first Coffee Talk of the spring semester: Paul Shankman (Anthropology, CU-Boulder) will give a talk entitled, “Sex, Lies, and More Lies: New Information on the Controversy Over Margaret Mead’s Samoan Research." Coffee Talks are meetings with faculty and graduate students from different academic departments within the University of Colorado Boulder. At each meeting, a researcher presents his/her recent work in progress in an informal, constructive atmosphere that allows the speaker to receive critical feedback from those in other fields. In addition, the audience is provided an opportunity to learn about critical research being done in other departments. CHPS is cosponsored by Departments of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Geological Sciences, History, Mathematics, Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, Philosophy, Physics, and Anthropology; the College of Arts and Sciences; CU's Museum of Natural History; and The Center for Humanities and the Arts. For further information, please email rchps@colorado.edu.
[Friday, February 3, 4:00pm panel discussion in British Studies (5th floor of Norlin Library), and 7:30pm concert in Imig's Grusin Hall] The Center for British and Irish Studies presents "Shake to Shuffle: Canons in Rock, Rap and Jazz," a conference on three of the greatest Anglo-American cultural achievements of the 20th and 21st centuries. The conference features a panel with CU and DU professors and a concert by the Erik Deutsch Trio, "The Kids Are Alright: A Tribute to the Legends of British Rock." All events are free and open to the public. Contact: Gabrielle Dietrich. Additional information: http://www.colorado.edu/artssciences/british.
[Friday, February 3, 4:00pm, Hale 230] CU Anthropology’s Distinguished Cultural Anthropologist Lecture by Professor Anne Allison (Department of Anthropology, Duke University). “Precarious Japan: A Precarity of Life and Death in Times of Crisis.” Coined by activist Amamiya Karin from the Italian autonomist movement, the term “precariat” has come to stand for the un(der)employed and working poor in Japan whose ranks have skyrocketed since the onset of the country’s economic decline. Sponsored by Department of Anthropology. For further information, please contact Carole.McGranahan@colorado.edu or Carla.Jones@colorado.edu.
[Saturday, February 4, time TBA, ATLAS 100] CAS Speaker Series: International Symposium-"Keeping It Real!" As part of the exhibition, "Keeping It Real! Korean Artists in the Age of Multi-Media Representation," (opening Feb. 2, 2012) this symposium will feature most of the participating artists along with a few leading curators and scholars who specialize in Asian contemporary art. Sponsored by Center for Asian Studies. For further information, please contact casevent@colorado.edu, 303-735-5122.
[Tuesday, February 7, 3:00pm, Macky 202] CHA Faculty Fellowship Work in Progress, featuring Michael Huemer, Department of Philosophy, "The Illusion of Authority." Abstract: Most people believe that there are political agents who possess "authority"--a special moral status that entitles them to issue commands to the rest of society, entitles them to coerce obedience from the rest of society, and obliges citizens to obey those commands. I contend that this belief is an illusion: no one has ever possessed political authority. I discuss the reasons why people have been subject to this illusion. For further information, please contact Paula Anderson.
[Tuesday, February 7, 4:00pm, British Studies (5th floor of Norlin Library)] Public lecture by Christoph Bode (professor and chair of Modern English Literature in the Department of English and American Studies, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München), "Narrating Futures: Random Remarks on a New Research Paradigm." Professor Bode is a specialist in British, European, and American Romanticism and Modernist Literature. With a background in Philosophy and Aesthetics (Ästhetik der Ambiguität, 1988), he is also a Narratologist (The Novel, 2011; "Narrating Futures" project) and an expert in Poetics. Other facets of his research include Literary Theory and Travel Writing. He has been the president of the Gesellschaft für englische Romantik (Society for English Romanticism) since 2001. Sponsored by Department of English, CHA, and Journalism and Mass Communication's ICJMT Fund. For further information, please contact Paul Youngquist.
[Friday, February 10, 6:00pm, Eaton Humanities 250; and Saturday, February 11, 9:00am, CU Law School] "A Taste of the Middle East: Perspectives on Culture, Geography and Identity," a two-day workshop with Barbara Petzen, Education Director, Middle East Policy Council. Participants will learn how Arabic foods are prepared, get an understanding of the differing historical narratives in the region that perpetuate stereotyping and harmful perceptions. This workshop is designed for both teachers and the general public. Sponsored by Center for Asian Studies. Go to http://cas.colorado.edu/index.php/ssewa/workshops to register. For further information, please contact casevent@colorado.edu.
[Tuesday, February 14, 3:00pm, Macky 202] CHA Faculty Fellowship Work in Progress, featuring John Slater, Department of Spanish & Portuguese, “Dissidence in the Republic of Letters: Cienfuegos’ Attack on Early Modern Naturalism.” Abstract: During the second half of the 1620’s, Bernardo de Cienfuegos prepared a seven-thousand page manuscript on Iberian natural history, which included over a thousand illustrations. The manuscript was never published, but for a peculiar reason: Cienfuegos did not trust the printing press. Hundreds of times in the course of his work, Cienfuegos ridicules the work of published naturalists, enumerating their errors, pointing out instances in which illustrators made mistakes, misattributions were made, or unreliable sources were cited. We are accustomed to thinking of the Republic of Letters—and particularly the exchange of information, observations, plant samples, and life histories—as a triumph of early modern scientific life. But Cienfuegos suggests that these circles of correspondence institutionalized ignorance about Spain and the American colonies. For further information, please contact Paula Anderson.
[Thursday, February 16, 12:00-1:00pm, CAS Conference Room, 1424 Broadway Street, Boulder] CAS Brown Bag Event: "Tainted Milk, Toxic Rice, and Exploding Watermelons: Food Safety Activism and Consumer Politics in China." A talk by Amy Zader, Research Associate for Program for Teaching East Asia, Center for Asian Studies. Bring your own lunch to this event, and we will provide the dessert. Sponsored by Center for Asian Studies. For further information, please contact casevent@colorado.edu, 303-735-5122.
[Thursday, February 16, 6:30pm, UMC Glenn Miller Ballroom] Interactive Live Art Show - The Center of the American West invites you to a special Modern Indian Identity Event featuring multi-talented artist, activist, and public speaker, Bunky Echo-Hawk. FREE and open to the public. For more information, www.centerwest.org or 303-492-4067.
[Friday, February 17, 4:00pm, British Studies (5th floor of Norlin Library)] CHA's 5th Annual Eaton Lecture, featuring Eric Sundquist, "The Historian's Anvil, the Novelist's Crucible: The Place of History in Holocaust Literature." Professor Sundquist is the Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities at Johns Hopkins University. He has taught at UCLA, Berkeley, Vanderbilt, and Northwestern, where he was also Dean of the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences. He is the author or editor of twelve books, including King’s Dream (2009); Strangers in the Land: Blacks, Jews, Post-Holocaust America (2005), which received the Weinberg Judaic Studies Institute Book Award; and To Wake theNations: Race in the Making of American Literature (1992), which received the Christian Gauss Award from Phi Beta Kappa and the James Russell Lowell Award from the Modern Language Association. In 1997 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and currently serves on its Council. In 2007 he was named a recipient of a Distinguished Achievement Award from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, which supported a three-year program of research and teaching activities at UCLA related to the role of the Holocaust in American and modern culture. This lecture is sponsored by CHA with endowed funds from Leslie and Woody Eaton. For further information, please contact Paula Anderson.
[Friday, February 17, 4:00pm, Hale 230] CAS Speaker Series: "'Hotel' in a Small (South Indian) Town: An Auto-ethnography." Professor GK Karanth is a Senior Professor of Sociology at the Centre for Study of Social Change and Development, Institute for Social and Economic Change, Bangalore. Professor Karanth grew up in a small town near Bangalore, which is the high-tech capital of India and now a city of 9.5 million. His family ran a local restaurant or "hotel," and his lecture will be an ethnographic study of this experience. Sponsored by Center for Asian Studies. For more information, please visit http://cas.colorado.edu/index.php/events-list.
[Thursday, February 23, 5:00pm, Old Main Chapel] CHA's Spring 2012 Cox Family Visiting Scholar, hosted by the Comparative Literature Graduate Program, Fredric Jameson, will present a free lecture entitled "The Aesthetics of Singularity." One of the foremost contemporary Marxist literary and cultural critics, Professor Jameson is the William A. Lane Jr. Professor of Comparative Literature and Romance Studies at Duke University. His courses specialize in the modern French novel and cinema, and on critical theory with particular emphasis on Sartre, Marx, Freud and the Frankfurt School. Among his best-known works are The Political Unconscious, Postmodernism, or, the Logic of Late Capitalism, and his most recent The Hegel Variations. In January of this year, he was awarded the Modern Language Association's sixth Award for Lifetime Scholarly Achievement. For further information, please contact Patricia Paige or Ricardo Landeira.
[Friday, February 24, 12:00-1:00pm, British Studies (5th floor of Norlin Library)] Performance Friday! featuring Department of Dance assistant professor Michelle Ellsworth. Doors open at 11:30 for free lunch. Sponsored by CHA. For further information, please contact Paula Anderson, 303-492-1423.
[Tuesday, February 28, 3:00pm, Macky 202] CHA Faculty Fellowship Work in Progress, featuring Karen Jacobs, Department of English, "Tracing Sebald’s Postmodern Cartographies." Abstract: Trace Atlas: Itineraries of Postmodern Literary Space investigates a selection of recent theoretical works and post-1980 novels that imagine post-Cartesian engagements with space, mapping, and the atlas form, often against the backdrop of what is imagined to be a shattered or ungraspable global space. For further information, please contact Paula Anderson.
[Friday, March 2, 6:30pm, ATLAS 100] CAS Speaker Series Event: "Treasure of the Lisu - a film by Yan Chun Su." A screening of the film Treasure of the Lisu followed by a question and answer session with the filmmaker, Yan Chun Su. The film takes us into the wold of Ah-Cheng, a master musician and tradition bearer of the Lisu minority people in southwest China. Sponsored by Center for Asian Studies. For further information, please contact casevent@colorado.edu.
[Saturday, March 3, 10:30am, British Studies (5th floor of Norlin Library)] CAS Speaker Series Event: "First Annual Center for Asian Studies Symposium: Asia on Edge," featuring keynote speaker Juan Cole of University of Michigan. The challenges confronting countries throughout the entire region of Asia today are numerous, ranging from immediate crises of terrorism, natural disasters and autocratic government crackdowns to long-term economic, social and cultural changes in the lifestyles and identities of Asian people. This symposium will address some of these challenges with the keynote lecture by author and University of Michigan History Professor Juan Cole entitled "Pakistan After Bin Laden: The Crisis of Governance" and paper sessions by CU faculty and graduate students. Sponsored by Center for Asian Studies. For further information, please contact casevent@colorado.edu.
[Tuesday, March 6, 3:00pm, Macky 202] CHA Faculty Fellowship Work in Progress, featuring Lucy Chester, Department of History. Title and Abstract are forthcoming. For further information, please contact Paula Anderson.
[Thursday, March 8, 12:00pm, CAS Conference Room, 1424 Broadway Street] CAS Brown Bag Event: "The Socioeconomic Dimensions of Epidemic Cholera in Matlab, Bangladesh," a lecture by Elisabeth Root, Assistant Professor, Department of Geography. Sponsored by Center for Asian Studies. For further information, please contact casevent@colorado.edu.
[Friday, March 9, 12:00-1:00pm, British Studies (5th floor of Norlin Library)] Performance Friday! featuring excerpts from Department of Theatre and Dance's production of Antigone. Doors open at 11:30 for free lunch. Sponsored by CHA. For further information, please contact Paula Anderson, 303-492-1423.
[Tuesday, March 20, 3:00pm, Macky 202] CHA Faculty Fellowship Work in Progress, featuring Beth Dusinberre, Department of Classics, "The Art of Empire in Ancient Persia." Abstract: The Persepolis Fortification Archive is a group of about 20,000 government receipts, dating to the years around 500 BCE that was excavated at the Persian capital city of Persepolis better known for its palaces with soaring columns and glorious relief sculptures. The Fortification Archive uses multiple languages and formats to record disbursements made in food and beverages to people engaged in imperial business at and around Persepolis during the reign of Darius the Great. It consists of clay tablets of various shapes and sizes, most of them bearing the impression of sealstones used by offices and individuals. Beth Dusinberre has spent her CHA fellowship time drawing the seal impressions on the 750+ tablets of the archive written in Aramaic. Her drawings illuminate the imagery of these ancient artifacts and allow them to be folded into scholarly discussion of such issues as Achaemenid Persian imperial propaganda and resistance to that pressure, religious expression, stylistic developments and iconographic issues, regional/local variations and a kind of imperial koine that grew up in the Achaemenid empire, the degree of personal choice people exercised in selecting the images on their seals, and even idiosyncratic or personal methods and practices of impressing a seal on a tablet. The Persepolis Fortification Aramaic Tablet Seals demonstrate the tremendous cohesiveness and flexibility that characterized the Fortification Archive and Achaemenid administrative practices as a whole. For further information, please contact Paula Anderson.
[Tuesday, April 3, 3:00pm, Macky 202] CHA Faculty Fellowship Work in Progress, featuring Janice Ho, Department of English. "Democratic Friends in E.M. Forster's Early Novels." This talk looks at the early novels of E.M. Forster--The Longest Journey (1907) and Howards End (1911)--to argue that Forster deploys friendship as a trope for democratic citizenship, a figurative vehicle for imagining more egalitarian social and gender relations in the wake of early twentieth-century working class and women's movements for socio-political equality. The talk is drawn from a larger book project titled Liberal Citizenship, National Belonging, and the Twentieth-Century British Novel, which examines how different historical struggles redefined citizenship and national forms in twentieth-century Britain. For further information, please contact Paula Anderson.
[Tuesday, April 10, 3:00pm, Macky 202] CHA Faculty Fellowship Work in Progress, featuring Jill Heydt-Stevenson, Department of English. Title and Abstract are forthcoming. For further information, please contact Paula Anderson.
[Tuesday, April 17, 3:00pm, Macky 202] CHA Faculty Fellowship Work in Progress, featuring Mithi Mukherjee, Department of History. Title and Abstract are forthcoming. For further information, please contact Paula Anderson.
[Friday, April 20, 12:00-1:00pm, British Studies (5th floor of Norlin Library)] Performance Friday! featuring excerpts from CU Opera's production of Rossini's La Cambiale di Matrimonio. Doors open at 11:30 for free lunch. Sponsored by CHA. For further information, please contact Paula Anderson, 303-492-1423.
