The Center for Humanities & the Arts (CHA) at ŷ���ڱ���Ƶ Boulder is holding the second installment of the Cox Family Process Speaker Series on Wednesday, March 30, 2022 at 12:30pm MT via Zoom Webinar. This event will feature renowned filmmaker and video essayist Kevin B. Lee and his work “.”

The Cox Family Process Speaker Series annual programming seeks to bring renowned artists and scholars to ŷ���ڱ���Ƶ Boulder each spring to speak about work that made them well-known in their fields of study and research.

ŷ���ڱ���Ƶ Kevin B. Lee

Kevin B. Lee directs Crossmedia Publishing at Merz Akademie, Stuttgart. He is a filmmaker, film critic, and producer of over 350 video essays that explore connections between film and media. He is also the Founding Editor and Chief Video Essayist at Fandor Keyframe and founding partner of dGenerate Films (a distribution company for independent Chinese cinema). He often collaborates with filmmaker and media artist Chloé Galibert-Laîné. Their work has been shown at IFFR, True/False Film Festival, Open City Documentary Film Festival, Camden International Film Festival and London Essay Film Festival, as well as art venues such as the Ars Electronica Festival and the WRO Media Art Biennale. Most recntly, he has been appointed the Locarno Film Festival Professor for the Future of Cinema and Audiovisual Arts at USI Università della Svizzera italiana. 

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ŷ���ڱ���Ƶ "Transformers: The Premake"

Transformers: Age of Extinction, the fourth installment of the Transformers movie franchise directed by Michael Bay, was released June 27, 2014. But for months ahead of the release, on YouTube one could already access an immense trove of production footage recorded by amateurs in locations where the film was shot, such as Utah, Texas, Detroit, Chicago, Hong Kong and mainland China. Transformers: the Premake turns 355 YouTube videos into a critical investigation of the global big budget film industry, amateur video making, and the political economy of images.

The Premake utilizes a “desktop documentary” technique that acknowledges the internet's role not only as a boundless repository of information but as a primary experience of reality. It creatively depicts the process in which we explore a deep web of images and data to reach moments of discovery and decisive action. In a blockbuster cinema culture rife with insipid remakes of franchise properties, The Premake presents a critical counter-image in which personalized digital media asks what Hollywood is really doing in the world.

[video:https://youtu.be/bC--SJZzuFc]

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One Year Later: Reflections and Resiliency after the Boulder Shooting (April 10, 2022) featured the ŷ���ڱ���Ƶ Center for Humanities & the Arts (CHA)’s Humanities @ Home competition winners and community members Jen Douglas, undergraduate student; Jessica Lawson, Instructor and alumna; and Ross Taylor, Assistant Professor of Journalism. The event will be moderated by Divisional Dean for Arts and Humanities John-Michael Rivera, whose research focuses on gun violence. Our panelists spoke on their art, their process, and how the act of creating has helped each of them reflect upon the March 22 Boulder Shooting at the Table Mesa King Soopers.

Thank you to everyone who joined ŷ���ڱ���Ƶ Chautauqua and ŷ���ڱ���Ƶ Boulder's Center for Humanities & the Arts for this in-person event showcasing resiliency through the creation of art as a response to gun violence in our local community.

With Opening Remarks from: Phil DiStefano (ŷ���ڱ���Ƶ, Chancellor)

To view more information on the Humanities @ Home competition, see here.

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On Friday, February 11th at 12pm MT, folks connected with Front Range digital-curious scholars for a followup in-person meetup from our January 28th Virtual NEH Visit.

Folks connected with fellow digital-curious humanities scholars from across the Front Range at this hosted lunch at ŷ���ڱ���Ƶ Denver Inwoks Lab in Downtown Denver. Address was Lawrence Court and UC Denver Buildings, 1250 14th St #1300, Denver, CO 80202.

Questions? Contact John Tinnell at john.tinnell[at]ucdenver.edu

This Digital Scholarship on the Front Range event is sponsored by:
ŷ���ڱ���Ƶ Denver History Department
ŷ���ڱ���Ƶ Denver College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences
ŷ���ڱ���Ƶ Boulder Center for Humanities and the Arts
ŷ���ڱ���Ƶ Boulder Center for Research Data & Digital Scholarship
DU College of Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences

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On Friday, January 28th, 2022 at 12pm MT, we hosted a virtual event connect with Sheila Brennan, Senior Program Officer from National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), to learn about grants offered by the NEH Office of Digital Humanities. This event was held virtually on zoom.

Save the Date: On February 11, join Front Range digital-curious scholars for a followup in-person meetup, with lunch provided at ŷ���ڱ���Ƶ Denver. .

This Digital Scholarship on the Front Range event is sponsored by:
ŷ���ڱ���Ƶ Denver History Department
ŷ���ڱ���Ƶ Denver College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences
ŷ���ڱ���Ƶ Boulder Center for Humanities and the Arts
ŷ���ڱ���Ƶ Boulder Center for Research Data & Digital Scholarship
DU College of Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences

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Friends of the Graduate School and host Dr. Jennifer Ho, Director of the Center for Humanities & the Arts and Professor of Ethnic Studies, held a virtual watch party on Wednesday, February 9th, 2022 at 4pm to cheer on our PhD competitors as they present their thesis in only 180 seconds.

4 - 4:30pm: Opening remarks by Dr. Ho and some insight on her own thesis

4:30 - 6pm: Watch the 3MT presentations together, virtually

6 - 6:30pm: Discussion of presentations

Registration was required to attend the watch party.

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The Spring 2022 installment of the Difficult Dialogues series between the Center for Humanities & the Arts and University Libraries seeked to address what it means to make a mistake and then to repair the harm (unintentional or intentional) that happens when we make mistakes with our friends, peers, co-workers, family, or on social media. We sometimes use an expression that may be anti-trans, ableist, racially insensitive, sexist—sometimes without knowing or understanding. We may do things that cause others harm, and we don’t understand what’s happening until we get called out.

So what do we do when we get called out? How do we rectify the harm and move forward?

This event featured Patricia Gonzalez, Assistant Dean for Inclusive Practices; Jessica Ladd-Webert, Director of the Office of Victim Assistance; and Elias Sacks, Director of the Program in Jewish Studies. The event will be moderated by Tyler Keyworth, Assistant Director of Restorative Justice & Conflict Resolution.

This event took place on Tuesday, January 25th at 12:30pm MT. Registration was required to attend. Due to the sensitivity of this topic, we did not record this event.

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