Upcoming CHA Events

Censorship Unbound: A Panel on Book Bans and the Right to Read in K-8 Schools and Libraries (10/25/23)

Anonymous — Wed, 25 Oct 2023 19:42:28 +0000

Censorship Unbound: A Panel on Book Bans and the Right to Read in K-8 Schools and Libraries (10/25/23) Anonymous (not verified) Wed, 10/25/2023 - 13:42

A Panel on Book Bans and the Right to Read in K-8 Schools and Libraries

Oct 25, 2023 | 5:30 - 7:30pm | Boulder Public Library - Canyon Theatre

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Part of the 5th Annual Children's Book Festival, partnered with the ��񱦵�'s School of Education.

In response to the alarming surge in challenges to literature, the Center for Humanities & the Arts (CHA) is taking a stand. The CHA is co-sponsoring a panel titled "Book Censorship and Honoring the Right to Read in K-8 Schools and Libraries" at the upcoming Children's Book Festival. The event aims to shed light on the critical issue of book bans and the preservation of academic freedom in educational institutions.

We invite teachers, students, families, librarians and all who are concerned about book bans and challenges to join us for the panel on Book Censorship and Honoring the Right to Read in K-8 Schools and Libraries. This panel event will take place on October 25, from 5:30pm - 7:30pm at the Canyon Theater & Gallery - Boulder Public Library (Main Library). Opportunity to purchase the festival authors’ books, signing, and a reception will follow the panel.

Event Hosts

This event is in partnership with the ��񱦵�'s School of Education, Boulder Book Store, Boulder Public Library, and the ��񱦵� Center for Humanities and the Arts (CHA).

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War in Israel and Gaza: Analysis, Explanations, Memories (10/11/23)

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War in Israel and Gaza: Analysis, Explanations, Memories (10/11/23) Anonymous (not verified) Wed, 10/11/2023 - 08:03

War in Israel and Gaza: Analysis, Explanations, Memories

A Panel Discussion with Profs. Zach Levey (International Affairs/JWST), John Willis (HIST), and Karim Mattar (ENG).

Date: Wednesday, October 11, 2023
Time: 5:00-6:00 pm
Location: University Memorial Center (UMC), Room 235 (1669 Euclid Ave, Boulder, CO 80309)

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Faced with the unfolding war and mass death in Israel and Gaza and potentially the entire region, we invite the campus and Boulder communities to a panel discussion to shed light on the conflict's context and history. We are keenly aware that this is anything but an easy conversation and that there is a lot of pain and suffering, also experienced by many members of our communities on and off campus, but it is an important conversation to have and an institution of higher learning such as CU is one of the better places to have it. Please attend.

Free and open to the public. No tickets required.
Visitor parking available at Euclid parking deck.

Organized by ��񱦵�'s Program in Jewish Studies and co-sponsored by CU's Center for Humanities & the Arts, Department of History, and International Affairs Program.

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Culture Crawl: Button Bonanza with Macky Centers (9/19/23)

Anonymous — Tue, 19 Sep 2023 19:14:09 +0000

Culture Crawl: Button Bonanza with Macky Centers (9/19/23) Anonymous (not verified) Tue, 09/19/2023 - 13:14

2023 Culture Crawl

Button Bonanza with Macky Centers - Craft Your Own Personalized Pinback Buttons

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More than music and momentous events, did you know that Macky Auditorium is home to a collection of outstanding research and cultural centers? So come craft with us and learn more!

On Tuesday, September 19 from 11am - 2 pm, join us for our event "Culture Crawl: Button Bonanza with Macky Centers - Craft Your Own Personalized Pinback Buttons". This event will be in the Macky Gallery where we will have an array of materials like printed paper, images, and other art supplies available to make a one-of-a-kind pinback button; you just need to unleash your creativity!

The Culture Crawl is a campus-wide event celebrating several cultural heritage sites and groups at ��񱦵�. Stop by the different locations and take part in immersive activities, performances, games and shows. Every location you visit gives you a chance to win a prize.

Find the full schedule of events at the Culture Crawl website: www.colorado.edu/libraries/culture-crawl

Event Information

Date: Tuesday, September 19, 2023
Time: 11am - 2pm
Location: Macky Auditorium, first floor gallery
Event is free and open to the public.

Event Hosts

This event is hosted by ��񱦵�'s Center for Humanities & the Arts (CHA), Center of the American West, and the American Music Research Center.

[video:https://vimeo.com/848495692]

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Difficult Dialogues: Antisemitism and Being Jewish in the US (9/13/23)

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Difficult Dialogues: Antisemitism and Being Jewish in the US (9/13/23) Anonymous (not verified) Wed, 09/13/2023 - 11:12

Antisemitism and Being Jewish in the US

This panel discussion focused on the rise of antisemitism in the last decade—a rise that some might say has never disappeared and has resurfaced with events like the march on Charlottesville, the attack on the Tree of Life synagogue, and recent comments by celebrities. This event was part of the semi-annual Difficult Dialogues event — a series of panel conversations that bring together people from on and off campus to discuss challenging issues from their own perspectives.

It is hard to know how to talk about antisemitism, and this difficult dialogue engaged with multiple topics as well as what it means to be Jewish today, especially in a multi-religious and multi-racial space such as Boulder county. Among the questions our panelists pondered was is: “How does antisemitism manifest in our communities today?", "Are Jews white?", "How is antisemitism different from or similar to to other forms of racism, bias, exclusion, and discrimination?", "Is criticism of Israel antisemitic?"

Event Information

Registration: https://colorado.edu/cha/dd23rsvp
Date: Wednesday, September 13, 2023
Time: Doors Open: 6:30pm | Event Timeframe: 7pm - 8:30pm
Location: in-person at Grace Commons Church, Oerter Hall: 1820 15th Street, Boulder, CO 80302
Flyer Download: www.colorado.edu/cha/sites/default/files/attached-files/fall_dd_print_flyer-antisemitism_and_being_jewish_09.13.2023.pdf
Event is free and open to the public. This event will not be recorded.

Panelists

Alex Bulkacz, MD, Family Medicine Specialist in Boulder County

Dr. Alex Bulkacz, MD, is a family medicine physician who has practiced in Colorado for over 30 years. He has experienced antisemitism in both the professional setting as well as personal, particularly during my time growing up in the American South but also here in Colorado. Dr. Bulkacz attended the Medical College of Pennsylvania and completed his residency in family medicine at the University of Colorado Hospital in Denver.

Gregg Drinkwater, PhD, inaugural Program Director for the UC Berkeley Antisemitism Education Initiative (AEI)

Dr. Gregg Drinkwater is the inaugural Program Director for the UC Berkeley Antisemitism Education Initiative (AEI), a project of the Center for Jewish Studies. An award-winning writer, educator, trainer, researcher, and organizational leader, Drinkwater’s work is rooted in fostering inclusive communities. He earned a PhD in U.S. History at the University of Colorado, Boulder, with a specialization in Jewish history and LGBTQ history. As a visiting professor at Boulder and at Rutgers University, Drinkwater has taught courses on American Jewish history; genocide and the Holocaust; queer U.S. history; gender and sexuality in Judaism; and global Jewish history from the ancient world to the present. Starting in 2003, Drinkwater served as the founding executive director of Jewish Mosaic, a national Jewish LGBTQ organization, where he built and managed a team across multiple cities, designed and oversaw the creation of a library of Jewish community resources, and conducted research, trainings, and conferences on issues of inclusion.

Stacey Aviva Flint, Director of Education and Community Engagement with Jewish Federations’ JEDI Initiative (Jewish Equity, Diversity and Inclusion)

Stacey Aviva Flint is a longtime nonprofit professional in the areas of Community Development and Jewish Engagement. She hails from a multicultural family of five generations and is passionate about relationship building to combat racism and antisemitism. Stacey is a national and internationally sought speaker and writer with Universities, Jewish institutions, and various coalitions of Jews of Color.

Jerry Pinsker, Chair of the Boulder Steering Committee of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL)

Jerry spent 31 years as a middle school educator, 5 in the NYC public schools and 26 in the Aurora Public Schools. Since retiring, Jerry has been a facilitator for the Anti-Defamation League's World of Difference program working with public school students throughout Colorado on anti-bias and diversity education. In addition, Jerry is a facilitator for ADL’s Words to Action program, working with Jewish students on strategies to recognize and combat antisemitism. Along with his work with ADL, Jerry was the facilities director for the Boulder Jewish Community Center. Jerry has lived in Boulder for over 45 years with his wife of 50 years, Marilyn. Both are founding members of Congregation Bonai Shalom. He has two children, Rachel and Aaron, one son-in-law Ryan and a granddaughter Daliah.

Pedro Silva, CHA Community Advisory Board member and former pastor at Boulder’s First Congregational UCC

Pedro Silva, YOUnify Director of Engagement, grew up with a Jewish mother and is the former pastor at Boulder’s First Congregational UCC. With his background, Pedro brings a unqiue perspective to this panelist discussion. For 3 years, Pedro served as the State Representative for the Boulder Caucus of Together Colorado, an organization of the Faith In Action Network, where he worked on a variety of issues at the local to state levels from affordable housing, gun violence, and voting to living wage legislation and the Family Leave Act. Pedro has hosted numerous in person and online conversations on race in Boulder County, has been an advocate for the homeless community, and has made a mark on the bridging movement through his volunteer work with Living Room Conversations and now as a Director of Engagement with YOUnify.

Rabbi Marc Soloway, Rabbi at Bonai Shalom (Boulder)

Rabbi Marc Soloway has been Bonai Shalom’s Spiritual Leader in Boulder, CO since 2004, the same year that he was ordained at The Ziegler School for Rabbinic Studies at The American Jewish University in Los Angeles. His rabbinical training spanned six years in London, Jerusalem, and Los Angeles. Before that, he was an actor and storyteller in his native London, and developed and performed a spirited one-man show of Jewish stories called The Empty Chair, as well as a show for children called The Jewish Princess and Other Stories with the acclaimed Besht Tellers Theatre Company. Marc is a fellow of Rabbis without Borders, an alum of the Institute of Jewish Spirituality, the former chair of Hazon’s rabbinical council and was in the Forward’s 2014 list of America’s most influential rabbis. Marc values dialogue and diversity and strives to integrate creativity, spirituality and sustainability into his life and his work.

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Lafayette Public Library: Asian American and Pacific Islander Identities (5/25/23)

Anonymous — Thu, 25 May 2023 17:29:22 +0000

Lafayette Public Library: Asian American and Pacific Islander Identities (5/25/23) Anonymous (not verified) Thu, 05/25/2023 - 11:29

Event: Introducing Asian American and Pacific Islander Identities

Join Julia Shizuyo Popham, PhD Student of ��񱦵�'s Department of Comparative Ethnic Studies, for a presentation on Asian American history and Asian American and Pacific Islander identities at the Lafayette Public Library on Thursday, May 25, 2023, at 6:30 pm. Tote bags will be available (first come, first served, while supplies last).

Event Info:

Date: Thursday, May 25, 2023
Time: 6:30PM - 7:30PM
Location: Meeting Room, Lafayette Public Library
Address: 775 Baseline Rd, Lafayette, CO 80026
Host: Lafayette Public Library
Audience: Open and welcome to all.
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Tote Bags:

The tote bags will include tools to help people learn about Asian American history and identity, with the purpose of creating more inclusive communities for AAPI Americans and stopping anti-Asian racism.

Each tote bag will contain:

2 texts by prominent voices in the AAPI community
access to a free, 3-week online Coursera course
access to other creative projects highlighting AAPI voices
notetaking tools (pen, notebook, sticky notes)

Each tote bag includes two titles from the following selection of books:

Asian American Histories of the United States by Catherine Ceniza Choy (Beacon Press, 2022)
Like Water: A Cultural History of Bruce Lee by Daryl Joji Maeda (NYU Press, 2022)
Habitat Threshold by Craig Santos Perez (Omnidawn, 2020)
The Sense of Wonder: A Novel by Matthew Salesses’s (Little, Brown and Company, 2023)
This is One Way to Dance: Essays by Sejal Shah (University of Georgia Press, 2020)
On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong (Penguin Books, 2021)

Find more books celebrating AAPI (Asian American and Pacific Islander) Month in the Lafayette Public Library catelog.

About the Speaker

Julia Shizuyo Popham’s interests lie at the intersection of affect, material culture, and racialized state violence. Her current work surrounds an extensive collection of paintings artist Fukunosuke Kusumi produced while confined in the Santa Anita Detention Facility in Arcadia, California and the Amache Incarceration Camp in Southeastern Colorado from 1942-1945. Through this work, she investigates the ways in which Kusumi engaged artmaking to endure seemingly unendurable conditions (gaman) and even make joy in the crevices of everyday trauma. In addition to her research, Julia volunteers with the Amache Alliance, an alliance dedicated to preserving the Amache incarceration site and its history. She also works with the Center for Humanities & the Arts, where she helps coordinate projects dedicated to educating ��񱦵� and Boulder County residents about anti-Asian racism and ways of becoming active bystanders against anti-Asian hate.

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Asian American History, Identity, & How to be an Anti-Racism Advocate (5/25/23)

Anonymous — Thu, 25 May 2023 16:54:00 +0000

Asian American History, Identity, & How to be an Anti-Racism Advocate (5/25/23) Anonymous (not verified) Thu, 05/25/2023 - 10:54

Asian American History, Identity, & How to be an Anti-Racism Advocate: An AAPI Heritage Month Talk

Dr. Jennifer Ho, Ethnic Studies Professor and CHA Director, will talk about what the term “AAPI” means—its origins, its use as label that combines “Asian Americans” and “Pacific Islander” into a single category, and the reason she embraces Asian American as a racial category of unity and solidarity. She will share her family’s immigration story to the US as a way to understand Asian American history and identity and will answer questions about any and all things related to Asian American history, society, experiences and general questions about race and racism, especially given the attacks against Asian Americans during the global COVID-19 pandemic. Ho will end the talk by sharing resources on what everyone can do to be anti-racism advocates.

This speaking engagement is sponsored by the College of Arts & Sciences' Office for Justice, Equity, Diversity & Inclusion.

About the Speaker

The daughter of a refugee father from China and an immigrant mother from Jamaica, Jennifer Ho is the director of the Center for Humanities & the Arts at the ��񱦵�, where she also holds an appointment as Professor of Ethnic Studies. She is the past president of the Association for Asian American Studies and the author of three scholarly monographs. In addition to her academic work, Ho is active in community engagement around issues of race and intersectionality, leading workshops on anti-racism and how to talk about race in our current political climate. You can follow her on Twitter @drjenho

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Global Asias Cyber Chat: Gendering Social Movements across Global Asia and Asian America (4/17/23)

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Global Asias Cyber Chat: Gendering Social Movements across Global Asia and Asian America (4/17/23) Anonymous (not verified) Mon, 04/17/2023 - 16:54

The Spring 2023 Global Asias Cyber Chat focuses on the role of women in social movements across Asia and Asian America.

This event was originally set to take place on March 7, 2023, and was rescheduled for April 17, 2023. This virtual panel will feature 3 scholars in conversation, roundtable style. Please note we are not recording this webinar.

Speakers and Topics

Professor Miliann Kang, PhD, teaches at the University of Massachusetts Amherst in the College of Humanities & Fine Arts. Dr. Kang will discuss the role of mothers in social movements, especially Asian American activism, from Lily Chin, mother of Vincent Chin, who galvanized nationwide organizing after her son's murder, to Patsy Mink, first woman of color elected to Congress who is known as the "mother of Title IX," to contemporary maternal activism against anti-Asian racism. Dr. Kang studies Asian American feminisms, immigrant women’s work and labor issues, race and reproductive politics, and gender, work and family issues in transnational contexts.

People often refer to 1990s Japan as the “lost decade” because of the economic malaise that set in after the bubble burst at the end of the 80s. Dr. Petrice Flowers, Associate Professor at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, will focus on how this decade and the following were a renaissance of activism, often led by women. Her research focuses on Japan in an international context and investigates the global-local connections between Japan and the world.

Dr. Deepti Misri is an Associate Professor in the Department of Women and Gender Studies at the ��񱦵�. Her areas of interest span South Asian literary and cultural production, transnational feminist studies, and feminist theory and criticism. Dr. Misri will consider women-led forms of activism and art in the context of Kashmir, also examining instrumentalist state mobilizations of “women’s rights” discourses, and reflecting on avenues for transnational solidarity with Kashmiri women.

ADA Accomodation

We will work with ADA Compliance to attempt to fulfill any disability requests for ASL interpreting for this event. Requests received less than 48 hours prior to the event cannot be guaranteed. To make a request, please email the Center for Humanities & the Arts (CHA) at cu-cha@colorado.edu.

Event Hosts

Co-Sponsored by ��񱦵�'s Center for Asian Studies and the Global Asias Initiative.

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