Center for Humanities and the Arts /asmagazine/ en Difficult Dialogue focuses on extremism, antisemitism /asmagazine/2024/11/11/difficult-dialogue-focuses-extremism-antisemitism Difficult Dialogue focuses on extremism, antisemitism Rachel Sauer Mon, 11/11/2024 - 15:18 Categories: News Tags: Center for Humanities and the Arts College of Arts and Sciences community

欧美口爆视频 Boulder鈥檚 Center for Humanities & the Arts welcomes German delegation for latest in Difficult Dialogue Series


Late last month, a delegation from Germany joined scholars from the University of 欧美口爆视频 Boulder to discuss extremism, antisemitism and misinformation.

The discussion was organized by the 欧美口爆视频 Boulder Center for Humanties & the Arts (CHA) in collaboration with the  and with support from the U.S. State Department. It was the latest of the CHA鈥檚 Difficult Dialogue Series.

The six visiting delegates, representing various regions in Germany, asked not to be photographed or quoted but engaged in a structured discussion facilitated by CHA Director Jennifer Ho. Topics spanned antisemitism, media literacy and the global effects of extremism, reflecting the delegates鈥 interest in the CHA鈥檚 approach to fostering meaningful discussions around divisive issues.

The Difficult Dialogue series is designed to emphasize open-mindedness, respectful listening and personal storytelling. This approach enables participants to confront challenging topics and seek mutual understanding without pressure to agree.

During last month鈥檚 discussion, participants shared their perspectives on democracy, racial inequities and the historical issues that influence the present-day political landscape, such as what is happening in Gaza. The U.S. and German participants exchanged experiences and strategies for navigating division, demonstrating the CHA鈥檚 commitment to conversations that resonate across borders.

Through the Difficult Dialogue series, the CHA aims to connect people from diverse backgrounds, emphasizing that discussing challenging topics is essential to problem-solving and cultural understanding. By hosting this German delegation, the CHA continues to affirm its dedication to promoting respectful dialogue rooted in the humanities, the center stated.

The next event in the Difficult Dialogue series is scheduled for Nov. 13 and is titled 鈥淚s that a fact?!鈥 The session will focus on how to find facts in a world filled with misinformation. This community conversation is co-hosted with 欧美口爆视频 Chautauqua and open to the public and will be held at 6 p.m. at the Chautauqua Community House Rocky Mountain Climbers Club room.

For more information, visit Chautauqua鈥檚 website: 

The University of 欧美口爆视频 Boulder鈥檚 Center for Humanities & the Arts (CHA) is known internationally for its Difficult Dialogue series, which fosters meaningful conversations about complex issues.


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Who is Kamala Harris? /asmagazine/2024/08/06/who-kamala-harris Who is Kamala Harris? Anonymous (not verified) Tue, 08/06/2024 - 15:46 Categories: Views Tags: Center for Humanities and the Arts Division of Social Sciences Ethnic Studies Faculty The Conversation Jennifer Ho

Kamala Harris鈥 identity as a biracial woman is either a strength or a weakness, depending on whom you ask


Who is Kamala Harris?

Though Harris has had a very public life in politics for decades, speculation about who exactly she is and what she stands for has circulated across social media platforms and news stories for several years.

Many of these conversations focus on the , since she is a mixed-race, Jamaican and Indian woman who does not have biological children and who was born to two immigrant parents in Oakland, California.

Jennifer Ho is a professor of Asian American studies in the 欧美口爆视频 Boulder Department of Ethnic Studies and director of the Center for Humanities and the Arts.

As I鈥檝e previously written about , some have questioned how  or Asian identities are. Interest in Harris鈥 familial background and race was reignited on July 31, 2024, when Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump falsely suggested that Harris has misled voters about her racial and ethnic identity.

鈥淚 didn鈥檛 know she was Black until a number of years ago when she happened to turn Black and now she wants to be known as Black. So, I don鈥檛 know, 鈥 Trump asked during an interview with the National Association of Black Journalists in Chicago.

By saying this, Trump tapped into the long history of racism in America, where some white people have  and policed the boundaries of race.

More than  and likely see themselves reflected in Harris鈥 layered background. But many Republicans are also trying to use  against her.

For ardent Trump supporters, Harris may seem to represent all that they oppose, including woke politics and Democrats being 鈥渃ontrolled by ,鈥 as Trump鈥檚 running mate JD Vance has said.

For Democrats, Harris represents the U.S.鈥檚 multiracial, feminist future.

Which means, what people believe about Harris largely depends on the party they already plan to vote for more than who the Democratic presidential nominee really is.

Harris and her many firsts

Many political observers and  that  into the Democratic Party, precisely because she is a Black-South Asian woman. Many  see elements of themselves in Harris: the celebration of her ethnic cultures, her achievements as a person of color, and her unprecedented and pathbreaking model being a woman of color who is the nominee of a major party seeking the highest office in the country.

A  in July and August centered on the identities of those who support Harris.

, Black men for Harris, , white dudes for Harris, , LGBTQ+ people for Harris, among others, have all gathered in Zoom meetings that had tens of thousands of attendees鈥. These online gatherings have jointly  for Harris.

The number and diversity of people rallying for Harris shows her widespread appeal. Harris鈥 white male supporters 鈥 a key voting demographic for Democrats鈥攁lso show how Harris鈥 candidacy is inclusive to many different kinds of people.

Inclusivity may be a keyword of Harris鈥 campaign, especially in opposition to her rival鈥檚 campaign. Vance鈥檚  has spawned endless memes  of people who recognize the insensitivity and ignorance of such a remark.

Audience members cheer for Kamala Harris at a rally in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, July 23. (Photo: Jim Vondruska/Getty Images)

Harris鈥 supporters have responded to the GOP鈥檚 critiques of her and turned them into  celebrating her identity, attesting to Harris鈥 popularity with a younger, media-savvy electorate.

Using Harris鈥 identity against her

Republicans, meanwhile, are questioning Harris鈥 qualifications precisely based on her ethnic and racial identity, calling her a 鈥淒EI鈥 candidate. This is a reference to the term 鈥渄iversity, equity and inclusion.鈥 The , but in workplaces or school settings it can look like treating everyone equally and fostering a culture where all people, regardless of their background or identities, feel welcomed. DEI policies intend to respond to the historic oppression that marginalized people have faced.

As the scholar , 鈥淭he term 鈥楧EI hire鈥 actually implies that only heterosexual, white men are qualified for such high leadership positions.鈥

Some in the GOP have renamed the DEI acronym .鈥 U.S. Reps.  both have disparaged , with Hageman going a step further by saying that Harris is  of the barrel.鈥

The gender factor

Harris is the second woman major-party presidential nominee, following Hillary Clinton鈥檚 candidacy in 2016. So far, Harris doesn鈥檛 seem to be facing persistent questions about whether ,  did.

But Harris has faced both sexist and racist comments, particularly online.  found that 78% of disparaging sexist and racist comments on Twitter, now called X, during November and December 2020 were directed at Harris.

Some Republicans have continued making sexist attacks on Harris in this election campaign. In a , , the head of the group Pastors for Trump, called Harris a 鈥渉o,鈥 or whore, riffing off a right-wing meme of 鈥淛oe and the Ho.鈥

Christian nationalist  took to social media on July 22 to call Harris a representative of the 鈥渟pirit of Jezebel.鈥 Other  have claimed that , citing an early relationship she had with Willie Brown, a prominent Democratic politician from San Francisco and later speaker of the California State Assembly, as the reason for her success.

This false story of Harris鈥 romantic past aligns with old , rooted in the rape of Black women by white slave owners during antebellum slavery.

And the tactic of questioning Harris鈥 authentic racial background could apply not just to Harris but to nearly all multiracial people.

Yet there are  and see in Harris their own story.

Top image: Kamala Harris speaks at a campaign rally in West Allis, Wisconsin, July 23. (Jim Vondruska/Getty Images)


Jennifer Ho is a professor of Asian American studies in the Department of Ethnic Studies at the .

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Research colloquium addresses ongoing crisis of liberal democracy /asmagazine/2024/02/12/research-colloquium-addresses-ongoing-crisis-liberal-democracy Research colloquium addresses ongoing crisis of liberal democracy Anonymous (not verified) Mon, 02/12/2024 - 13:04 Categories: News Tags: Center for Humanities and the Arts Events Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literature History International Affairs Jewish Studies Sociology

Eminent German historian Paul Nolte will discuss whether the golden age of democracy is over or whether it can escape collapse and recover


One of Germany鈥檚 leading contemporary historians will present a research colloquium addressing the stage of crisis that liberal democracy has entered in the early 21st century鈥攁sking whether the golden age of democracy over and is on course for eventual collapse, or whether it can recover.

Historian will present the colloquium, titled 鈥淐risis or Transformation? From Good-old Democracy to Rough Democracy, ca. 1970-2020,鈥 which is jointly organized by the University of 欧美口爆视频 Boulder Program in Jewish Studies, the Louis P. Singer Endowed Chair in Jewish History and the Pacific Office of the German Historical Institute Washington in cooperation with the .

Historian Paul Nolte will discuss the crisis in liberal democracy at a research colloquium Tuesday.

It will be from 2-3:30 p.m. Tuesday in Center for Academic Success and Engagement (CASE) E422. To receive the pre-circulated text on which the discussions will be based, please RSVP by email to cujewishstudies@colorado.edu.

At 欧美口爆视频 Boulder, the visit is co-sponsored by the Center for Humanities and the Arts; the International Affairs Program; and the Departments of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures, History and Sociology.

As one of Germany鈥檚 leading contemporary historians, Nolte holds a chair in modern history with a special emphasis on contemporary history and international relations at the . His research areas include social, intellectual and political history of the 18th to 20th centuries, especially post-1945 Germany and the United States; transatlantic history of democracy; public intellectuals and social, economic and political concepts and mentalities; urban history and metropolitan cultures; religion and civil society in Western societies; and public history and cultures of memory. 

Research colloquium

   What: Crisis or Transformation? From Good-old Democracy to Rough Democracy, ca. 1970-2020

  When: 2-3:30 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 13

  Where: CASE E422

Nolte has written more than a dozen books and has served as a fellow or guest professor at Oxford University, Harvard University and the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill. Among his many transatlantic undertakings is chairing the academic advisory committee of the Berlin Program for Advanced German and European Studies, which brings American PhD candidates to Germany.

His colloquium will focus on the current state of crisis in which liberal democracy exists, when they are under attack from neo-authoritarian ideas, movements and regimes, externally as well as from within. He will address what a potential recovery could look like, asking, 鈥淲hat if we were not witnesses to a crisis of democracy, but rather to its transformation, with the current predicaments being the new normal?鈥

Nolte will discuss how, from a historical point of view, 鈥減re-crisis鈥 democracy corresponded to social structures, cultural milieus and technological environments that will never return. Further, this longing often projects a relatively short period in the trajectory of democracy, participation and liberal society as an ideal state, while it was in itself full of shortcomings, rigid structures and privileges for the few.


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Program aims to offer deeper insight into Israel, Gaza war and history /asmagazine/2023/11/27/program-aims-offer-deeper-insight-israel-gaza-war-and-history Program aims to offer deeper insight into Israel, Gaza war and history Anonymous (not verified) Mon, 11/27/2023 - 13:26 Categories: News Tags: Center for Humanities and the Arts English History International Affairs Jewish Studies

In response to public requests, 欧美口爆视频 Boulder experts will discuss range of topics in Arab-Israeli conflict at Wednesday forum, which is open to the community


A weekend cease-fire extension and the continuing release of hostages have raised some hopes, but the devastating war in the Middle East has also raised many questions.

Many members of the University of 欧美口爆视频 Boulder campus community have asked for expert insight into the conflict and its centuries-long history. In response, the Program in Jewish Studies will host 鈥淓xplaining Conflict and War in Israel, Gaza, and the West Bank: Community Discussions with 欧美口爆视频 Faculty Members鈥 from 5 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 29, in UMC 382-384.

Map of Israel and Palestine

The event, which is open to the public, is being organized by the Program in Jewish Studies and co-sponsored by the Center for Humanities and the Arts, the Department of English, the Department of History and the International Affairs Program.

It will follow an informal format and allow individuals and smaller groups of participants to discuss a specific sub-topic, ranging from antisemitism to the long history of the Arab-Israeli conflict, with faculty experts, including:

The program will continue the discussions about the war, which is a significant escalation of the decades-long conflict. The war began with the terrorist attacks by Hamas, which killed 1,200 civilians on Oct. 7. Not since the Holocaust had this number of Jews been murdered in a single day. Israel鈥檚 response to the terrorism, an invasion of the Gaza Strip, has drawn criticism from some observers.

The Program in Jewish Studies sponsored a panel discussion last month, as well.

Wednesday鈥檚 event will offer another forum for these discussions. Many members of the 欧美口爆视频 Boulder campus community are directly affected by the war, given that they have family and friends in the region who have been hurt or killed.

For weeks, tensions have been running high on many U.S. university campuses, including 欧美口爆视频 Boulder, and many students feel threatened and unsafe. Social media continues to be saturated with inflammatory posts, partial truths and falsehoods.

For more information, please contact the Program in Jewish Studies at 303-492-7143 or 欧美口爆视频JewishStudies@colorado.edu


 

 

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Rise of book banning stems from 鈥榗ulture war,鈥 experts say /asmagazine/2023/10/26/rise-book-banning-stems-culture-war-experts-say Rise of book banning stems from 鈥榗ulture war,鈥 experts say Anonymous (not verified) Thu, 10/26/2023 - 11:39 Categories: News Tags: Center for Humanities and the Arts Literacy education Maxwell Garby

At a panel discussion co-sponsored by 欧美口爆视频 Boulder Center for Humanities and the Arts, literacy experts championed children鈥檚 access to literature


Though censorship and book banning are nothing new, the recent upswing in this censorship in public institutions has compelled many to protest these limitations on their access to diverse views.

During a panel discussion hosted at the Boulder Public Library Wednesday evening, co-sponsored by the University of 欧美口爆视频 Boulder Center for Humanities and the Arts, Adam Crawley, a 欧美口爆视频 Boulder assistant teaching professor of literacy studies and the discussion's moderator, led a conversation on the right to read in K-8 schools and libraries and the fundamental right to access literature.

Jo Currier, a fifth-grade teacher in the Boulder Valley School District and a mother of three, offered the perspective of a parent and an educator. Currier strongly supported 鈥減romoting access for all students and representation in the curriculum.鈥

欧美口爆视频 author , who explores Asian American culture and identity in her picture books and middle school novels, said that as a second-generation Chinese American, she recognizes the importance of children being able to read books in which the characters are like them. 鈥淚 write the books that I needed as a kid,鈥 she said. 鈥淓veryone deserves to see themselves represented in a book.鈥

Panelists Adam Crawley (left), Jo Currier, Andrea Wang and David Farnan discuss frequently challenged children's books.

David Farnan, director of the Boulder Public Library who has extensive experiences dealing with censorship, noted that this current surge in book banning is due, in part, to the ongoing 鈥渃ulture war.鈥 Mentioning the librarian code of ethics, Farnan emphasized that he 鈥渨ill not just oppose but resist censorship in all of its forms.鈥

Farnan said he believes the recent uptick in censorship is related, in part, to an 鈥渙rchestrated attack primarily on LGBTQ authors and stories, and authors and stories about people of color.鈥 He added that this attack is on 鈥渁ny type of curriculum having to do with a story that is not having to do with White hegemony.鈥

Wang added that this is also due to the 鈥渇ear of the other,鈥 and cited the 鈥渞ising anti-Asian sentiment since the pandemic began.鈥

In response to the question of whether censorship might ever be appropriate, Currier noted how some curriculum can tend to favor one predominant perspective over less dominant ones, so educators face a challenging dilemma. Should they opt to substitute these materials with more diverse viewpoints, or should the original content be taught, but through a more critical lens? As difficult a question as that is, it is important to make sure that there is equal opportunity for representation, Currier said.

Another challenging aspect is the issue of self-censorship. Pointing to a few recent examples鈥攊ncluding the being canceled at the Frankfurt Book Fair and, earlier this year, an author's decision not to publish a novel set in Russia following criticism from Ukrainian readers鈥擣arnan said that these acts are 鈥渏ust solely inappropriate鈥 and that it both 鈥渦nderestimates the power of books and overestimates it too."

鈥淏ooks do not cause harm,鈥 Farnan said. 鈥淭hey may represent viewpoints that are different. They may be offensive, they may be something that you find difficult to identify with, but you can choose not to read them. The point of books is, in some ways, to explore ideas and selves and identities and worlds that you cannot and do not live.鈥


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The 鈥榓rts and humanities give meaning to our lives鈥 /asmagazine/2023/02/07/arts-and-humanities-give-meaning-our-lives The 鈥榓rts and humanities give meaning to our lives鈥 Anonymous (not verified) Tue, 02/07/2023 - 10:46 Categories: Events Tags: Center for Academic Success and Engagement Center for Humanities and the Arts Center for Teaching and Learning Ethnic Studies Events Research Bradley Worrell

Jennifer Ho, director of 欧美口爆视频 Boulder鈥檚 Center for Humanities & the Arts, discusses the state of arts and humanities in higher education as the center prepares to celebrate its 25th anniversary, and she champions the inherent value of the arts and humanities


The Center for Humanities & the Arts (CHA) at the University of 欧美口爆视频 Boulder turns 25 this year. 

To commemorate the quarter-century milestone, CHA is hosting a celebration from 3:30 p.m. to 5 p.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 15, at the Center for Academic Success and Engagement (CASE) building鈥檚 Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL), CASE E390. is recommended and can be completed . For more information on the event, visit the CHA website鈥檚 25-year anniversary webpage

At the top of the page: A scene from the 欧美口爆视频 Shakespeare Festival's 2019 production of Twelfth Night. Above: Jennifer Ho, CHA director and ethnic studies professor, teaches courses on Asian American culture and Critical Race Theory at 欧美口爆视频 Boulder.

Jennifer Ho, CHA director and ethnic studies professor, said the celebration will offer an opportunity to look back on CHA鈥檚 successes and to discuss and plan how to promote, support and celebrate the arts and humanities. 

Ho recently participated in a five-question interview about the current state of arts and humanities in higher education, looming challenges for arts and humanities scholarship, strategies CHA employs as it strives to be an effective advocate for the arts and humanities, and more. Her responses follow below. 

Question: How has the situation for the arts and humanities in higher education changed over the last quarter century? 

Ho: I think there鈥檚 a tendency to lament the decline of arts and humanities, especially humanities, in higher education, because we see a declining number of arts and humanities majors and decreased funding. And that鈥檚 definitely a part of the narrative at 欧美口爆视频 Boulder and nationwide. 

However, there have also been more humanities and arts centers that have opened nationwide in the last 25 years鈥攐ne at Brandeis just started up a year ago鈥攁nd the scholarship and artistic productions by faculty, students, and staff have continued to flourish, on and off campus. 

One positive change that I鈥檝e noticed is an opening up of what we consider to be valuable works of arts and humanities鈥攕howcasing both the artistry and scholarship of faculty of color on subjects that 25 years ago we wouldn鈥檛 have been seeing depicted in art and music or validated through scholarship such as transgender issues, addressing Islamophobia, centering Black joy, and using an equity, inclusivity and justice lens within arts and humanities鈥攖hat鈥檚 definitely a positive change I鈥檝e seen in the last 25 years. 

Question: What do you see as the immediate and looming challenge to arts and humanities scholarship generally and also at 欧美口爆视频 Boulder? 

Ho: Politics and money. These are the two most pressing challenges to arts and humanities nationally and perhaps at 欧美口爆视频 Boulder. Financially the CHA is fine, for now, though we rely on the generosity of the university for our budget鈥攁nd if that changed, we wouldn鈥檛 be able to offer the grants, fellowships, awards and programs that make the CHA a vital hub on campus for arts and humanities. 

I鈥檇 love to be able to endow some of our programs; for example, to raise a million dollars so that we鈥檒l always be able to fund graduate students with dissertation fellowships, summer awards and material grants for student artists. 

Politically, I believe things are fine for now at 欧美口爆视频 Boulder, but like most people I鈥檓 keeping my eye on what is happening in Florida. The book bans, the bills preventing people from teaching certain subjects, what鈥檚 happening at the New College of Florida鈥攁ll of this is very concerning about the political climate in education that impacts those of us working in arts and humanities. 

In fact, next year at the CHA, we are hoping to take this up as a theme: Liberty, Freedom, Democracy and the Fight for Ideas. We often see words like 鈥渓iberty,鈥 鈥渇reedom,鈥 鈥渄emocracy鈥 invoked by people who tend to be on the more conservative side of the spectrum, and I鈥檇 like to delve into what we mean when we use these terms and what freedom of thought and expression actually looks like relative to the work we do at the CHA in supporting arts and humanities. 

 

We don鈥檛 just need science; we need critical thinking skills of interpretation to think about these as human issues."

Question: If a student or parent asked you to explain the 鈥渧alue鈥 of the arts and humanities, how might you respond? 

Ho: I love getting this question because it allows me to show my passion for arts and humanities, because the first thing I鈥檇 say is that arts and humanities give meaning to our lives. And then I鈥檇 say that they teach us how to think critically about our world. Art is literally and figuratively the color, sound, movement and texture of our world. 

When the pandemic had us sheltering at home, we turned to stories and art and music to alleviate our anxiety and provide solace in our uncertainty. And humanities courses don鈥檛 just teach us how to write better (which is what many people will say is the value of humanities)鈥攈umanities courses and books help us think better鈥攖hey push us to critically examine the world and ask not just 鈥渨hat鈥 is happening but 鈥渨hy鈥 and 鈥渉ow.鈥 

If we didn鈥檛 have humanities scholarship, we wouldn鈥檛 be able to solve some of the world鈥檚 most pressing problems鈥攂ecause we don鈥檛 just need science; we need critical thinking skills of interpretation to think about these as human issues. 

Question: What strategies does the CHA employ as it strives to be the most effective advocate for the arts and humanities? 

Ho: I think and talk in terms of stories鈥攁nd the stories that the CHA has to share about why arts and humanities are vital is the most effective way I know for us to advocate for arts and humanities. 

An audience gathered at a CHA event titled 鈥淒ifficult Dialogues: Being Black in Boulder鈥 in the Fall of 2022. The event included a film screening and then a panel discussion that featured Jennifer Ho as one of the panelists.

A story I tell about bridging the CHA to the greater Boulder County community involves a competition we held for 欧美口爆视频 Boulder staff, students and faculty to produce works of arts and humanities that engaged the theme of 鈥渞esilience鈥 in light of the Boulder King Soopers mass shooting. 

The entries we received were powerful and poignant鈥攁nd the winning submission was by a 欧美口爆视频 Boulder undergraduate student who was a survivor and witness to that tragic day鈥攚ho wrote a series of letters to March 22 (the day of the shooting). You can find them and the other winning entries on our website

We then had a community event at Chautauqua where the awardees spoke about their works. It was a powerful event鈥攁nd a reminder that arts and humanities have the ability to do so much: to heal, to communicate, to inspire and to witness. 

The student who wrote her letters to March 22 did so because of our competition and it became part of her healing from this horrific event. This is one story among many about why arts and humanities are so crucial to our lives. 

Question: You hold three degrees in English. What drew you to this discipline, and how does your experience dovetail with the mission of CHA? 

Ho: Stories. Stories. Stories. That鈥檚 why all my degrees are in English. I taught myself to read when I was 5, because I didn鈥檛 want to rely on my parents reading to me鈥攊t鈥檚 among my first memories: being on my sofa and sounding out words and figuring out the stories in my picture book. 

Fiction is my first true love because it allowed me to travel to multiple worlds in different bodies鈥攁nd it still does. Who tells stories to whom and for what purpose鈥攖his is a powerful tool to have. 

When I started college, I realized it wasn鈥檛 just the pleasure of reading novels that I wanted to explore, but the power of representation. The first time I read a book written by a Chinese-American author about Chinese-American experiences was when I was a first year student at UC Santa Barbara. 

That moment changed my life鈥攂ecause up until then, I didn鈥檛 think Chinese or Asian American people wrote books鈥攂ecause I had never been assigned a book by an Asian American person and never had a librarian direct me to any Asian American books, fiction or non-fiction. Seeing yourself reflected in stories is a powerful thing鈥攁nd not seeing that is also powerful, because it means you don鈥檛 have a model of what you can be if you can鈥檛 see yourself reflected in narrative. 

At the CHA, we want everyone to be able to tell their own story鈥攚hether that鈥檚 in the form of scholarship, music, media, visual art, dance, drama, or so many of the other disciplines that inform humanities and arts. So, I think my love of stories and my desire to have people tell their stories and be inspired by the stories of others works well at the CHA.


 

Jennifer Ho, director of 欧美口爆视频 Boulder鈥檚 Center for Humanities & the Arts, discusses the state of arts and humanities in higher education as the center prepares to celebrate its 25th anniversary, and she champions the inherent value of the arts and humanities

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Today and in coming weeks, multiple events commemorate the mass shooting on March 22, 2021


Today is the one-year anniversary of the mass shooting in Boulder. Events are scheduled today and in the coming weeks to help people observe and reflect on the event.

Today, the city of Boulder will hold a number of commemorations鈥攁ll open to the public. These include:

  • A patrol car will be parked in front of the Boulder Police Department (.) for individuals to leave their condolences if they so choose through the evening of March 22. Any items left in remembrance will be given to the family of Officer Eric Talley and/or saved at the department.
  • A moment of silence wherever you are at in Boulder at 2:30 p.m. on March 22.
  • Communitywide Day of Remembrance gathering at the from 4:30 to 6 p.m. on March 22.

At 2:30 p.m. on March 31, the University of 欧美口爆视频 Boulder will dedicate a tree on Farrand Field in memory of those lost.

Also appearing now through April 10, the is featuring an exhibit titled 鈥.鈥

And on April 10, 欧美口爆视频 Boulder will host a panel discussion titled 鈥溾 at 6:30 p.m. at Chautauqua Community House. There is no charge for tickets, but registration is required.

欧美口爆视频 Boulder Chancellor Philip P. Distefano will make opening remarks. John-Michael Rivera, associate dean for arts and humanities in the College of Arts and Sciences, will moderate a panel discussion. Rivera鈥檚 research focuses on gun violence.

The event will include two 欧美口爆视频 Boulder faculty members and a student whose work in remembrance of the shooting was recognized by the Center for Humanities & the Arts. Their work can be seen at this website.

Today and in coming weeks, multiple events commemorate the mass shooting on March 22, 2021.

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What it means to disagree agreeably /asmagazine/2020/11/17/what-it-means-disagree-agreeably What it means to disagree agreeably Anonymous (not verified) Tue, 11/17/2020 - 13:36 Categories: Events Tags: Center for Humanities and the Arts

New Lunch with Limerick discussion to examine what it means to maintain unity while confronting divided opinions


What does it mean to disagree?

Jennifer Ho

That is the central question of an upcoming Lunch with Limerick discussion event, to be held at noon on Nov. 20, featuring Jennifer Ho, the director of the Center for Humanities & the Arts and a professor of ethnic studies.

Lunch with Limerick is a virtual interview series held over Zoom that is hosted by the Center of the American West and moderated by Patty Limerick, the center鈥檚 director, that delves into current issues and a variety of topics relevant to the West and beyond.

Ho and Limerick will discuss questions such as: How do we maintain unity when we confront divided opinions? How can we respect one another while vehemently debating topics we feel passionate about? Is it possible to separate the person from the provocation?

Patty Limerick

"I have always felt fortunate to have Jennifer Ho as my colleague at 欧美口爆视频, and there is no one whose company I would prefer over hers, when it comes to an energetic exploration of some of the most important issues confronting higher education today. Anyone who has been alarmed by reports and rumors that the expression of belief, principle and opinion has become constrained in universities today will have, with this program, a chance to see that academic discussion remains invigorating, robust, good-natured and, often enough, pretty darned funny!" said Limerick, who is also a professor of history at 欧美口爆视频 Boulder.

And Ho agrees:

鈥淚 can鈥檛 imagine that I鈥檓 going to be disagreeing too much with Patty, but I am confident that if I find myself disagreeing with her (or she me) that our mutual respect for one another as people but also as intellectuals will allow us to disagree robustly because our admiration for one another as great minds and debaters allow us to take on one another seriously. I hope others will see how disagreement can be a sign of respect.鈥

Event Details:

What It Means to Disagree, Admit a Degree of Uncertainty, and Maintain a Robust Friendship: A Dialogue

Event Date: Nov 20, 2020
Event Time: 12:00 PM

This event is co-sponsored by the Center for Humanities & the Arts.

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Philosophers, artists and more to be celebrated by Center for Humanities & the Arts /asmagazine/2020/02/07/philosophers-artists-and-more-be-celebrated-center-humanities-arts Philosophers, artists and more to be celebrated by Center for Humanities & the Arts Anonymous (not verified) Fri, 02/07/2020 - 12:32 Categories: Events Tags: Center for Humanities and the Arts Alaynah Penalosa

Center to recognize recent faculty achievements at 欧美口爆视频 Boulder on Feb.10


From film to books to music, 32 faculty achievements will be celebrated at the University of 欧美口爆视频 Boulder next week.

The Center for Humanities & the Arts will host a faculty celebration of recent major works on Feb. 10 from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. in the Center for British and Irish Studies Room of Norlin Library (M549, fifth floor). The event is free and open to the public. Food and drinks will be provided.

Jennifer Ho

The center aims to inspire interdisciplinary collaboration at 欧美口爆视频 Boulder. On top of an annual fellowship competition for faculty specializing in the humanities and arts, the center also provides funding and fellowships to faculty and graduate students for research and scholarship.

Jennifer Ho, the center鈥檚 director, hopes this social event will be an opportunity for people to learn more about what the faculty have been working on. 

鈥淚 want the center to be a hub on campus for collaboration and community that draws in anyone interested in doing arts and humanities work or celebrating, enjoying, appreciating and finding value in arts and humanities scholarship and artistic production, humanistic inquiry,鈥 Ho says. 鈥淚 really see this as a place that can bring people together.鈥

Ho encourages everyone to attend, even those not directly involved in studying the arts and humanities. These fields of knowledge remind us of our humanity, Ho says.

Ho, a professor of ethnic studies, researches Asian American literature and culture, multiethnic and contemporary American literature, and discourse that focuses on or reflects racism and ethnicity.

She was appointed to lead the center last year and wants to prompt campus conversations about the importance of the arts and humanities. To that end, the center will also host faculty panel discussions on critical topics in a series called 鈥淒ifficult Dialogues.鈥 

On March 3, the series鈥 first panel discussion will encourage discussions on race and offer strategies to address it. John-Michael Rivera of the Program for Writing & Rhetoric will moderate a discussion with Sam Flaxman of ecology and evolutionary biology, Tiara R. Na鈥檖uti of communication, and Celeste Montoya of women and gender studies.

More broadly, Ho hopes to herald the value of the arts and humanities. She puts it this way: 

鈥淎rts and humanities give meaning to life. Without arts and humanities and without scholars researching and asking these really important questions and documenting history and exploring various world religions and teaching languages and introducing us to the literatures of other languages and cultures, we wouldn鈥檛 be able to really appreciate what it is about us that makes us human.鈥

The works to be celebrated next week include the following:

William Aspray

From Urban Legends to Political Fact-Checking: Online Scrutiny in America

Pubisher: Springer

Fake News Nation: The Long History of Lies and Misrepresentations in 

America

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Historical Studies in Computing, Information, and Society: Insights from the 

Flatirons Lectures

Publisher: Springer

Computing and the National Science Foundation

Publisher: ACM Books

David Boonin

Dead Wrong: The Ethics of Posthumous Harm

Publisher: OUP Oxford

Max Boykoff

Creative (Climate) Communications: Productive Pathways for Science, Policy 

& Society

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Andrew Cain

Rufinus of Aquileia, Inquiry about the Monks in Egypt

Publisher: The Catholic University of America Press

Brian Catlos

Kingdoms of Faith: A New History of Islamic Spain

Publisher: Basic Books

Carol E. Cleland

The Quest for a Universal Theory of Life

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Bud Coleman

Theater Productions

Into The Woods by Stephen Sondheim

Ellis Island:  The Dream of America by Peter Boyer

A Broadway Christmas Carol by Kathy Feininger

Jackson Crawford

The Wanderer鈥檚 H谩vam谩l

Publisher: Del Rey

David Korevaar and Charles Wetherbee

Album

Longing - Chamber Music of REZA VALI

Three Violin Sonatas of Paul Juon

Patrick Ferrucci

Making Nonprofit News: Market Models, Influence and Journalism Practice

Publisher: Routledge

Holly Gayley

Inseparable Across Lifetimes: The Lives and Love Letters of Namtrul 

Rinpoche and Khandro Tare Lhamo

Publisher: Snow Lion

John C. Gibert

Euripides鈥 Ion: an Interpretation

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Eugene Hayworth

Black Earth: A Journey Through Ukraine

Publisher: Haus Publishing

Michael Huemer

Dialogues on Ethical Vegetarianism Publisher: Routledge

Marina Kassianidou

Exhibition

Spacing Rehearsal, solo exhibition

(In)visible Hand,  two-person exhibition with Joseph Coniff

Miriam Kingsberg Kadia

Into the Field: Human Scientists in Transwar Japan

Publisher: Stanford University Press

Daphne Leong

Performing Knowledge: Twentieth-Century Music in Analysis and Performance

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Henry Lovejoy

Prieto: Yor霉b谩 Kingship in Colonial Cuba during the Age of Revolutions

Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press

Tamara Meneghini

Elizabeth I 鈥 In Her Own Words

Publisher: Moonstone Publications

Nina L. Molinaro

The Art of Time: Levinas, Ethics, and the Contemporary Peninsular Novel

Publisher: Bucknell University Press

Krishnamurthy Sriramesh

The Global Public Relations Handbook: Theory, Research, and Practice

Publisher: Routledge

Julia Staffel

Unsettled Thoughts: A Theory of Degrees of Rationality

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Tak谩cs Quartet

Edward Dusinberre, Harumi Rhodes, Geraldine Walther, Andr谩s Fej茅r

Album

Dohn谩nyi: Piano Quintets Nos.1 & 2, String Quartet No.2

Label: Hyperion Records

Ross Taylor

Film

The Hardest Day.

Pheonix Film Festival

Miami Independent Film Festival

Keith Waters

Postbop Jazz in the 1960s: The Compositions of Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, and Chick Corea

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Jan Whitt

Untold Stories, Unheard Voices: Truman Capote and In Cold Blood

Publisher: Mercer University Press

Center to recognize recent faculty achievements at 欧美口爆视频 Boulder on Feb.10

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欧美口爆视频 Boulder鈥檚 Center for the Humanities and the Arts, funded by NEH, to explore new ways of preparing PhD students for a broader job market

 

Helmut Muller-Sievers, CHA director and Eaton Professor of Humanities and the Arts.

The (CHA) at the University of 欧美口爆视频 Boulder has been awarded one of 28 National Endowment for the Humanities planning grants to explore 鈥淭he Next Generation Humanities PhD.鈥

With this grant, a representative group of faculty, graduate students, administrators and alumni will make proposals that envision the future of PhD programs for the next 10 to 20 years.

欧美口爆视频 Boulder鈥檚 grant proposal focuses on four broadly conceived areas: training PhD students in digital research and data management; reconceiving the PhD dissertation; offering non-academic internships to graduate students; and establishing a network of 欧美口爆视频 alumni interested in supporting and mentoring PhD students.鈥淲e are glad to have received this very competitive grant,鈥 said Helmut Muller-Sievers, CHA director and Eaton Professor of Humanities and the Arts.

鈥淚t is a recognition of our efforts to improve graduate education at 欧美口爆视频 Boulder, and a chance to join a wonderful group of private and public universities in a proactive discussion about the future of the humanities PhD in the US,鈥 Muller-Sievers said.

Ann Schmiesing, interim dean of the Graduate School and vice provost for graduate affairs.

鈥淔or some time now, we have known that the old model of keeping students for up to eight years in PhD programs, training them exclusively for a shrinking academic job market, and confining them to write up their research in long monographs is untenable.鈥

To address that shortcoming, Helmut-Sievers said, 鈥淭his grant allows us to think about changing this model while at the same time improving the intellectual and educational experience of our students. Best of all, it puts us into close communication with 28 universities that have similar projects underway.鈥

The NEH concurs: 鈥淭he academic-focused future we鈥檙e accustomed to training graduate students for is disappearing,鈥 NEH Chairman William D. Adams said in a .

鈥淚f graduate programs wish to make a case for the continuation of graduate education in the humanities, they鈥檙e going to have to think about the professional futures of their students in entirely different ways.鈥

Ann Schmiesing, interim dean of the and vice provost for graduate affairs (and professor of German) congratulated the CHA on winning the grant:

鈥淭his exciting grant affirms the innovative and forward-looking approaches that 欧美口爆视频 Boulder humanities and arts disciplines are taking to graduate education.鈥  

The universities awarded this grant will form a consortium and meet in February 2017 in Washington, DC, to exchange ideas and experiences, and to discuss next steps.

Participants will then have the opportunity to apply for much-larger implementation grants.

The announcement of the awards and the list of participating institutions can be found . 

 

The Center for Humanities and the Arts at 欧美口爆视频 Boulder has been awarded one of 28 National Endowment for the Humanities planning grants to explore 鈥淭he Next Generation Humanities PhD.鈥

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