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| Friday, March 02, 2012 |
| CEAE Graduate Program Visit Day
All Day
Prospective civil engineering graduate students: save the date for our Graduate Program Visit Day on March 2, 2012! Details and itinerary coming soon. |
 | 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. |
| Sustainablility Planning: Building the Business Case
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Sustainable Practices program at CU Boulder offers non-credit training in sustainability for working adults. This course will teach the fundamentals of developing a sustainability plan for an organization.
Students will learn various approaches to crafting a purpose and vision statement for sustainability and determining goals and initiatives. Students will also gain insight on determining initiatives based on various factors and criteria to ensure the success of a sustainability plan.
In order to build the business case for sustainability, students will learn which aspects to track and monitor and how to develop a basic return on investment (ROI) worksheets. Key components will be presented on engaging employees in the process through forming green teams and communications.
Fundamentals of the change process and behavior modification strategies and theory will also be presented. |
 | 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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| GTP Friday Forum: Using Highlighter to Teach Your Students to Read & Critique Scholarly Articles
11:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Michael Klymkowsky, professor of biology, will demonstrate the potential and efficacy of using Highlighter to teach your students to read and critique scholarly articles so they are prepared for in-class discussions. |
 | Tai Chi and Health: Drop In Workshop
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Join this drop in group to learn Tai Chi exercises as a way to release stress, facilitate physical and psychological wellness, and increase a sense of calmness.
Presented by Counseling & Psychological Services. |
 | Memorializing the Persecution of Gay Men and Lesbians in Nazi Germany
12:00 PM
CU's Week of Jewish Culture presents: “'Memorializing the Persecution of Gay Men and Lesbians in Nazi Germany: Whom are we Remembering and Why Did It Take So Long?'” with David Shneer, professor of History and director of the Program in Jewish Studies at CU Boulder
As part of its year-long theme on visual culture, Professor Shneer will be bringing images of memorials to the Nazi persecution of gay men and lesbians. In this talk, he will outline the history of gays and lesbians in Nazi Germany and beyond, and then focus on how this tragedy was memorialized. |
| Spanish and Portuguese Modified Program
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
M. Pleiss |
| GTP Workshop: Nonverbal Communication: How It Differs Across Cultures
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Antonia Johnson, president of Clear Talk Mastery, will present this workshop. Dr. Johnson has experience with more than 20 different cultures. She presents solutions to problems that occur because of differences in nonverbal communication. |
| Italian 1020
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
N. Soto-Lightbourn |
 | Guest Master Class: Jonathan Leathwood, guitar
1:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Jonathan Leathwood is one of the few guitarists to perform on six-string and ten-string guitars, mixing modern and traditional works in his innovative programs. His last London concert led Classical Guitar to call him “a genius”; the Musical Times of London has written of his “remarkable talent and singular artistry,” while Fabio Zanon wrote in Violão Intercambio that “he has to be seen to be believed.”
Jonathan was born in 1970 and has come to Denver from his native England. His first visit to the Lamont School of Music (at DU) was in 1996, when he spent the Spring Quarter as visiting guitar instructor at the invitation of Ricardo Iznaola, then on sabbatical. Recently Denver University awarded him its Artist’s Diploma, the first time they have made this award in individual performance, and made him the first recipient of the Ricardo Iznaola Guitar Scholarship. Jonathan is also guitar instructor at the University of Colorado at Boulder. |
 | : Interested in Online Communities? Join us for the Social Media Panel Discussion for Graduate Stud
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Would you like to hear about how other grad students and post-docs who are using or have used online communities and social media for research, teaching, and job searches? Come hear panelists tell their stories and provide advice, insider tips, and lessons learned about department wikis, LinkedIn, Facebook, Academia.edu, and GoingOn. Cookies, coffee and tea provided. To help us plan, please RSVP at http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/X7MX757
Panelists include:
Tracy Giordano, MA Candidate, Information & Learning Technologies, UC Denver
Pavla Harris, PhD Candidate, Sociology, CU Boulder
Travis Ramos, MS, Engineering for Developing Communities, CU Boulder
Shelli Walker, PhD Candidate, Sociology, CU Boulder
Facilitated by: Jennifer Cullison, PhD Student, History & Graduate Student Peer Career Adviser, Career Services, CU Boulder |
 | INTERNATIONAL COFFEE HOUR, FRIDAYS, 4-5:30 PM, UMC GRILL ACROSS FROM BABY DOE'S
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
INTERNATIONAL COFFEE HOUR, FRIDAYS, 4-5:30 PM, UMC GRILL ACROSS FROM BABY DOE'S
All CU students, faculty and staff are all welcome each Friday, from 4 - 5:30 pm, across from Baby Doe's in the UMC Grill. The conversations are great and refreshments are free! Sponsored by CU International and the Office of International Education, 492-8057.
Contact: Rebecca Sibley
Additional information:
http://www.colorado.edu/oie/isss/ |
 | Through Soviet Jewish Eyes: Photography, War, and the Holocaust in Fort Collins
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
CU's Week of Jewish Culture continues in Fort Collins!
David Shneer’s book, Through Soviet Jewish Eyes: Photography, War and the Holocaust examines the lives and works of two dozen Jewish photographers who were empowered by the Soviet state to photography World War II and the Holocaust. Shneer examines how Jews came to be the “documentors of the revolution” and what they did when they were confronted with a war that targeted them as Soviets and as Jews. A slideshow of the internationally traveling photography exhibit that compliments the book will be available for viewing prior to the presentation. Copies of Through Soviet Jewish Eyes will be available for sale and signing by Professor Shneer.
David Shneer is professor of History and director of the Program in Jewish Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder. He holds a PhD from the University of California-Berkeley and has been called a “taboo-breaking scholar” by Tikkun magazine and “a new Jewish superhero,” by Jewcy magazine. Professor Shneer’s work concentrates on modern Jewish society and culture, especially Yiddish culture, Russian Jewish history, and Jews and sexuality. His books include Queer Jews, finalist for the Lambda Literary Award, Yiddish and the Creation of Soviet Jewish Culture, finalist for the National Jewish Book Award, and New Jews: The End of the Jewish Diaspora. Through Soviet Jewish Eyes was a finalist for the 2011 National Jewish Book Award. |
 | Collage Concert
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
Collage 2012 is a one-hour, non-stop journey through the colorful and exciting medium of music for woodwinds, brass and percussion. With lighting and staging to compliment the solo, chamber and Symphonic Band repertoire, this concert is appealing in every way. Collage features the finest one hundred wind and percussion students from the College of Music and is a showcase for the virtuosity of these student performers. Free to the public, this program is always an audience favorite.
Program to include the following:
Malcolm Arnold - Four Scottish Dances
Giovanni Gabrieli - Canzon Quarti Toni
John Stevens - Suite for Two
Gordon Jacob - 'Begone Dull Care' from Old Wine in New Bottles
Percy Grainger - Colonial Song
Phillip Glass - Saxophone Quartet
Eric Whitacre - Noisy Wheels of Joy
Emmanuel Séjourné - The Martian Tribes
James Stevenson - Overture
Elliott Carter - Canonic Suite
Wagner - Elsa's Procession to the Cathedral
Allan McMurray, Matthew Roeder, Dana Biggs, Ingrid Larragoity, Jeff Lehman, and Devin Otto, conductors.
Performers include members of the CU Wind Symphony, Symphonic Band, Flatirons Brass Quintet, and other student performers. |
| 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: Sam Welsh, piano
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
Ravel - Valses nobles et sentimentales
Mozart - Sonata in A Minor, K. 310
Schubert - Fantasy in C Major, D. 760 |
 | 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. |
 | Laser: Pink Floyd: The Wall
9:30 PM - 10:30 PM
Listen to Pink Floyd's The Wall accompanied by choreographed laser light and special effects under the planetarium dome. |
 | Laser: MUSE
10:45 PM - 11:45 PM
Listen to the music of MUSE accompanied by choreographed laser light and special effects under the planetarium dome. |
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