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| Thursday, March 01, 2012 |
 | Exhibition: “the invisible connectedness of things”
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
The exhibit the invisible connectedness of things created by internationally recognized visual artist Kim Abeles and co-presented by the University of Colorado Museum of Natural History and EcoArts Connections will be on display Tuesday Jan. 17 – Monday Oct. 1, 2012.
The exhibit is inspired by the spectacular structure, colors and longevity of lichens and the fact that they are bio-monitors of pollution. With a 16’ video wall, photos, paintings, puzzles, sculpture, “smog collector" plates and more, the exhibit explores the effects that transportation choices have on Boulder’s air quality. The project has been created in collaboration with atmospheric scientists, emissions specialists, lichenologists, transportation professionals and middle school students, among others. This exhibit is commissioned by EcoArts Connections (EAC) and co-presented by the University of Colorado Museum of Natural History and EAC in collaboration with Envirotest - Air Care Colorado, Manhattan Middle School and Spark: UCAR Science Education. |
| Reserved
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
KREN 1020-001 |
| GTP Workshop: The Importance of Learning in Community
9:30 AM - 10:30 AM
Adam Blanford, CIRTL evaluation liaison for the Graduate Teacher Program, will present this workshop, which will review strategies for and the advantages of developing a community of students in the classroom to facilitate student learning and reduce instructor stress. |
 | Keeping It Real: Korean Artists in the Age of Multi-Media Representation
10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Opening Reception February 2, 2012, 6-8pm with a major related symposium February 4, 2012 in ATLAS 100. Further details about the symposium to be announced.
Curated by J.P. Park, Assistant Professor of Art History, University of Colorado Boulder
This exhibition comments on the contemporary state of South Korean art by offering a unique and unprecedented opportunity to experience new art forms pioneered by emerging Korean artists working in Seoul, New York, and Europe. The artists in this exhibition lead us into a mysterious, ironic, and hybrid reality, a reality that completely challenges our perceptions of the world as we are conditioned to think about it. The works on view are a series of dialogues that illuminate conjunctures between real life and fantasy which present objects and human behaviors through a creative and conceptual kaleidoscope. The virtual reality in their art—a hyper-reality materialized in scientific, technological, and global idioms—unerringly subverts our intellectual, experienced, and intuitive knowledge about art and society. These artists belong to a new generation, born since the tumultuous social and political phase of modern Korean society subdued; without the Cold War, without riot police, yet possessing access to the larger world via the internet, opportunities to travel abroad, and products promoted locally by global corporations. The exhibition features photography, video, site-specific installation, and sculpture and includes the work of eight artists including:
Kyung Woo Han
Yong-ho Ji
Yeondoo Jung
Shin-il Kim
Sun K. Kwak
Hyungkoo Lee
Jaye Rhee
Kiwoun Shin
This exhibition is generously supported in part by the NBT Charitable Trust, the HBB Foundation, Arts Council Korea, Wayne F. Yakes, MD, the CU Art Museum benefactors and members, as well as by the CU Boulder Student Arts and Cultural Enrichment (ACE) fees. Additional funding for the related symposium is generously provided by the James and Rebecca Roser Visiting Artist Program and the Center for Asian Studies, University of Colorado Boulder. |
 | The Anxiety of Influence: Selections from the CU Art Museum's Ceramics Collection
10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Curated by Lisa Tamiris Becker, Director, CU Art Museum and Kim Dickey, Professor, Department of Art and Art History, University of Colorado Boulder
Drawing on Harold Bloom's seminal work of poetic criticism, "The Anxiety of Influence," to interpret the significant role that "influence" plays within the global history, culture, and tradition of ceramics, this exhibition will present Modern and Contemporary Ceramics as well as selected historic works from the CU Art Museum's permanent collection. The exhibition will feature major pieces by Scott Chamberlin, Rick Dillingham, Arthur Gonzalez, Wayne Higby, Anne Kraus, Graham Marks, Jim Melchert, Linda Sikora, Suo Tan, Peter Voulkos, Betty Woodman and many others. The exhibition will also include works on paper by noted ceramic artists such as Robert Arneson and Ken Price to further explore the conceptual, aesthetic, and methodological influences on Modern and Contemporary ceramic artists. While many previous exhibitions have chronicled the decorative and technological influences of various ceramic traditions as they travelled across Eastern and Western cultures, this exhibition is the first to apply Bloom's complicated post-Freudian theories of "influence" to the realm of ceramics and its poetics, in order to construct a more complex understanding of the medium.
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 | The Art of Michel Fingesten: Selections from the CU Art Museum's Permanent Collection
10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
curated by Davide Stimilli, Associate Professor of German, Comparative Literature, and Jewish Studies and Lisa Tamiris Becker, Director, CU Art Museum
Davide Stimilli will be giving a lecture titled, The Life and Work of Michel Fingesten during CU Boulder’s Week of Jewish Culture on March 7 at 7 pm in the ATLAS Black Box Theater. The CU Art Museum will remain open until 7 pm that evening preceding the lecture.
Michel Fingesten (originally Michl Finkelstein) was born in 1884 in the village of Buckovice (Buczkowitz), Silesia, in the Habsburg Empire, now part of the Czech Republic, from a Czech-Jewish father and an Italian-Jewish mother, and died in 1943 in Cerisano, Southern Italy, after the liberation by the allies of the camp in which he had been interned since 1941. He was one of the most original and productive graphic artists and bookplates designers of the twentieth century. He is especially noted for his Surrealist and Cubist influenced prints and paintings that capture the darkening mood of Europe as it slides into the brutality and devastation associated with Fascism, Nazism, and World War II.
In March 2011, Davide Stimilli, Associate Professor of German, Comparative Literature, and Jewish Studies, recommended the purchase of a large collection of Fingesten’s works, including 154 items, that had been assembled by an unknown collector, possibly bibliophile Fridolf Johnson, editor of the American Artist Magazine for several years, and was being offered by a New York State antiquarian. The CU Art Museum purchased this collection with funds generously provided by the Program in Jewish Studies, and the Fingesten Collection is now part of the CU Art Museum’s Permanent Collection.
The selection on display during CU Boulder’s Week of Jewish Culture includes fifteen works and is only meant to provide a first glimpse of the extraordinary range and virtuosity of Fingesten’s art, which includes provocative and often humorous Kafkaesque imagery and potent literary citations, which increasingly echo the darkness enveloping Europe.
Little is known about Fingesten’s early years, though there is agreement that he studied art in Vienna and Munich, and traveled to America, where he spent four years and witnessed the 1906 earthquake in San Francisco. It is also known that he traveled to China and Australia, until in 1913 he settled in Berlin where he enjoyed great popularity as a book and magazine illustrator. He fled Nazi Germany in 1936 and settled in Milan, where he built a circle of patrons who commissioned and avidly collected his works, including the architect Gianni Mantero, his greatest collector, for whom Fingesten created more than 90 bookplates—three of which are here displayed—until he was confined to the Fascist internment camp of Civitella del Tronto in 1940, and then transferred in 1941 to that of Ferramonti-Tarsia near Cosenza, Calabria. He died shortly after the liberation of the camp in 1943, apparently as the result of a wound infection after surgery in a military hospital.
2011-12 CU Art Museum exhibitions and programs are made possible in part through the generosity and support of the HBB Foundation, the College of Arts and Sciences, the Student Arts and Cultural Enrichment (ACE) fees, and the generosity of the CU Art Museum’s benefactors and members.
Please visit http://cuartmuseum.colorado.edu/ for more information about CU Art Museum exhibitions and Programs or call: 303-492-8300
CU’s Week of Jewish Culture incorporates the theme of Movers: Art and Conscience this year with authors, scholars and artists from around the world highlighting the visual aspects of Jewish culture paying close attention to Jewish forms of visual arts. The Week of Jewish Culture is dedicated to the exploration of 3500 years of Jewish culture, including its current, most cutting-edge manifestations!
Please visit jewishstudies.colorado.edu or call 303.492.7143 for more information.
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 | Alumni Lunch with ECEE Professor Bob McLeod
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
The Department of Electrical, Computer, and Energy Engineering cordially invites you to an ALUMNI LUNCHEON with a special presentation from Associate Professor Bob McLeod.
Thursday, March 1, 2012
Noon to 1 p.m.
The Taj Restaurant
2630 Baseline Rd.
Boulder, CO 80305
303-494-5216
Enjoy a gourmet Indian buffet lunch hosted by the department and CU Engineering Alumni Relations (no cost to you!). Mingle with Bob and fellow CU EE and ECEE alumni from the Boulder/Denver area and learn about Bob's research in the areas of optics, photonics, and lithography, including:
• Moore's lesser-known second law
• Why Heisenberg might spell the end of Moore's law(s)
• A way around the Heisenberg uncertainty of the photon?
Space is limited, so please RSVP as soon as possible to reserve your spot!
Have questions or want to RSVP over the phone? Call us at 303-492-2043.
See you at the Taj on March 1!
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| JPNS 3120 Sec. 1,2
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
S. Gibson
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 | Meditation for Stress Management
12:15 PM - 12:45 PM
Practice mindful meditation for increased awareness, presence and well-being. Beginners can learn
and practice meditation basics, while those more experienced with meditation can maintain their
practice.
Please arrive 10 minutes early if you would like brief meditation instruction.
Meet in the Center for Community, 4th floor room S484. |
| Spanish and Portuguese Modified Program
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM
M. Pleiss |
| Building Systems Seminar - Energy Savings Performance Contracting (ESPC)
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Title: Energy Savings Performance Contracting (ESPC): real energy savings in the real world.
Date: Thursday March 1st
Time: 4:00pm
Location: ECCR 131
Speaker: Michael Goodrum
Speaker Bio
W. Michael Goodrum is a M.S. candidate in the Building Systems Program expecting to graduate in May 2012 and has a B.S. in Nuclear Engineering from Texas A&M University. Michael spent 3 1/2 years working in commercial nuclear power before changing to a career in energy efficiency. Michael is an energy engineer at NORESCO, an energy service company, where he has been involved with measurement and verification (M&V) for energy savings performance contracts (ESPC) for the past 5 1/2 years. As an energy engineer, Michael has worked on both federal and private sector projects in various project locations and with a variety of HVAC systems.
Topic
Michael will provide an overview of the energy savings performance contracting industry and common energy efficiency retrofits completed for ESPC projects. The presentation will also include a discussion of the measurement and verification process for ESPC projects, including various approaches to verification, types of measurements, and common equipment used.
About NORESCO
NORESCO is an energy service company (ESCO) that provides energy efficiency retrofits through performance contracts in the federal, state, and private sectors. NORESCO is part of the United Technologies Corp. (UTC), Climate, Controls, and Security division and is headquartered in the Boston area. NORESCO has built on-site energy facilities that generate more than 350 megawatts of power, and has helped customers improve energy efficiency saving over 31 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity and 71 trillion Btus of fuel. NORESCO has projects across the United States and some internationally with office locations throughout the nation.
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 | Guaranteed 4.0 - Seminar by Donna O. Johnson
4:30 PM - 9:30 PM
Want to ace your classes? The Guaranteed 4.0 Learning System is an innovative approach to learning and success. Follow the system exactly and you'll get all A's--or get $100! Founder and Chemical Engineer Donna O. Johnson will be giving two free seminars on skills to succeed in the classroom and beyond. Dinner provided.
Two sessions available:
4:30-6:30 pm in the Discovery Learning Center
in the Engineering Building at Colorado and Regent)
7:30-9:30 pm in Math 100
(Mathematics building at Folsom and Colorado.) |
 | Why Tunisia and Egypt and Not Yet Iran
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Middle East expert Dr. Nader Hashemi compares Iran's failed 2009 Green Movement to the successes of the Arab Spring. Hashemi, assistant professor of Middle East and Islamic Politics at the University of Denver, also speaks about future prospects for democracy in Iran. |
| Intermed. Swedish-2
5:30 PM - 6:30 PM
M. Leonhardt-Lupa |
 | Sustainability Job Search Workshop
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
The process of finding jobs and internships can be overwhelming! If you’re interested in working in a career where you can make an environmental difference, this workshop is for you. We’ll cover some of the best job search strategies and provide helpful tips to using online resources.
After attending this workshop, you’ll be able to:
-identify social networking groups for sustainable professions
-work on WHAT TO SAY at those events & how to make the most of your network
-become familiar with other sustainable resources; i.e. Go Green section of Career Services’ website and other online resources
Space is limited, so show up EARLY and bring your laptop. |
| CU Theatre: Melancholy Play
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
Who knew melancholy could be so funny, sweet and — sexy?
Playwright Sarah Ruhl’s delightful “Melancholy Play,” an exploration of the American obsession with happiness — and the growing practice of medicating away uncomfortable emotions — inspires laughter one moment and tears the next. |
 | Doctoral Student Recital: Adam Ewing, baritone
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
Charles Griffes - Five Songs from the Chinese
Franz Liszt - Tre sonetti di Petrarca
Ralph Vaughan Williams - The House of Life
Charles Koechlin - Cinq mèlodies, Op. 5
With Allan Armstrong, piano. |
 | Hollywood, Colorado Lecture Series: “The Glenn Miller Story – Behind the Colorado Scenes”
7:30 PM - 8:30 PM
Presented by the CU Heritage Center and Boulder History Museum
Join us for another installment of the Boulder History Museum’s Hollywood, Colorado lecture series. Listen to a presentation about the filming of the Glenn Miller (A&S ex’26, HonDocHum’84) biography, The Glenn Miller Story,
shot on the CU campus, in Boulder and other Colorado locations in 1953.
Alan Cass (A&S ex’63, HonDocHum’99), founder and curator of the University of Colorado’s Glenn Miller Archive, will show us the history, trivia and bloopers in “The Sweetest Story Ever Told.”
Enjoy a pre-event reception at
6:30 p.m. with refreshments in the Glenn Miller Gallery at the CU
Heritage Center on the third floor of Old Main. |
 | Live Faculty Talk: Oldest Light
7:30 PM - 8:30 PM
The Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) is ancient light, generated when
the universe was a mere 400,000 years old. Since its discovery in 1964,
it has proven to be an invaluable source of information about the early
history of the universe. Measurements of the Cosmic Microwave
Background have yielded strong evidence that the universe had an early
epoch of rapid expansion, called inflation, during which the universe
was seeded with the progenitors of the large structures that we see
today. Strong evidence from the CMB and other observations also indicate
that the universe is dominated by mysterious dark matter and dark
energy, both of which are poorly understood. This talk will give a
brief overview of our present understanding of origin and evolution of
the universe, and will also discuss the promise of future CMB
measurements to unravel the nature of the mysterious dark components,
and how the universe has evolved over time. |
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