Fall 2021

Graduate Student Workshop with Dr. Philip Deloria: The Ethics & Evolution of the Ph.D

Anonymous — Thu, 18 Nov 2021 21:24:29 +0000

Graduate Student Workshop with Dr. Philip Deloria: The Ethics & Evolution of the Ph.D Anonymous (not verified) Thu, 11/18/2021 - 14:24

On Thursday, November 18, 2021 at 12pm noon via Zoom, Dr. Philip Deloria from Harvard University held a workshop with graduate students to discuss the future of Ph.D programs and the ways in which programs can be renewed/revitalized to fit a changing world of academia.

This virtual workshop was exclusively for graduate students at ��ƷSM��ӰƬ. Registration was required to meet and participate in the virtual workshop with Dr. Deloria, one of the leading scholars on social, cultural and political histories of the relations among American Indian peoples and the United States. Deloria received the Ph.D. in American Studies from Yale University in 1994, taught for six years at the ��ƷSM��ӰƬ, and then at the University of Michigan from 2001 to 2017, before joining the faculty at Harvard in January 2018.

Deadline to register was Monday, November 15, 2021 at 11:59pm MT.

Philip J. Deloria is the Leverett Saltonstall Professor of History at Harvard University, where his research and teaching focus on the social, cultural and political histories of the relations among American Indian peoples and the United States. He is the author of several books, including Playing Indian (Yale University Press, 1998), Indians in Unexpected Places (University Press of Kansas, 2004), American Studies: A User’s Guide (University of California Press, 2017), with Alexander Olson, and Becoming Mary Sully: Toward an American Indian Abstract (University of Washington Press, 2019), as well as two co-edited books and numerous articles and chapters. Deloria received the Ph.D. in American Studies from Yale University in 1994, taught at the University of Colorado, and then, from 2001 to 2017, at the University of Michigan, before joining the faculty at Harvard in January 2018.

Deloria is a trustee of the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of the American Indian. He is former president of the American Studies Association, an elected member of the American Philosophical Society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the recipient of numerous prizes and recognitions, and serves as president of the Organization of American Historians in 2022.

This event was co-sponsored by the Center for Humanities & the Arts (CHA), the Center for Native American and Indigenous Studies (CNAIS), and the Doctoral Consortium for the Literatures and Languages.

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The Dream State of Lenape & the Indigenous Constitution with Dr. Philip Deloria

Anonymous — Thu, 18 Nov 2021 20:46:27 +0000

The Dream State of Lenape & the Indigenous Constitution with Dr. Philip Deloria Anonymous (not verified) Thu, 11/18/2021 - 13:46

Does American pluralism also require a single-minded embrace of the idea of the liberal rights-bearing subject, or could we also imagine a pluralism built around political collectivities? It turns out that United States history has resources for considering group-based pluralism, in the form of American Indian nations. An imaginative return to the first formal American treaty points directly to the key elements in what we might read as an Indigenous Constitution, hiding in plain sight within the U.S. Constitution.

Dr. Philip Deloria, the Leverett Saltonstall Professor of History at Harvard University, gave this virtual lecture on Thursday, November 18th, 2021 from 4-5:30pm.

This event was free and open to the public.

This event was made possible by the Center for Humanities & the Arts (CHA), the Center for Native American and Indigenous Studies (CNAIS), and the Doctoral Consortium for the Literatures and Languages.

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Difficult Dialogues: Fall 2021

Anonymous — Fri, 05 Nov 2021 20:39:55 +0000

Difficult Dialogues: Fall 2021 Anonymous (not verified) Fri, 11/05/2021 - 14:39

The Center for Humanities & the Arts (CHA) & CU Libraries DIFFICULT DIALOGUES collaboration for Fall 2021 was on the theme of “Saying No, Slowing Down.” To that end, we are holding space for saying no to holding a formal event and practicing the theme of slowing down by simply claiming this webspace to acknowledge the difficulty of telling someone that you are too exhausted to take on additional labor and to also take time to slow down and take time for oneself.

To that end, we will use this space to share resources on saying no and slowing down, but we may be adding to it slowly.

Sincerely,

CHA & ��ƷSM��ӰƬ Libraries

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Humanities @ Home: Conspiracy Theories

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Humanities @ Home: Conspiracy Theories Anonymous (not verified) Thu, 10/28/2021 - 11:28

The third installment of Humanities @ Home, a panel series partnership between CU Advancement and the Center for Humanities & the Arts!

Humanities @ Home: Conspiracy Theories
Thursday, October 28, Noon – 1 pm (MT)
Virtual Zoom Webinar.

This panel, which took place on Thursday, October 28th, 2021 at 12pm noon via Zoom Webinar, took place right before Halloween, and featured Alexandra Siegel, Assistant Professor of Political Science; Greg Gondwe, Assistant Professor of Journalism; and Toby Hopp, Associate Professor of Advertising, Public Relations and Media Design.

This panel examined the ways in which conspiracy theories have amplified in recent years, particularly since the 2020 election and throughout the course of the COVID-19 pandemic:

Why are conspiracy theories so wildly popular in the age of social media?
How do these conspiracy theories affect our lives, our media consumption, and our perceptions of our communities?

The event was free and open to the public.

Event recording can be found here.

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Seeing Asian American Life through the Video Essay

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Seeing Asian American Life through the Video Essay Anonymous (not verified) Thu, 09/23/2021 - 12:08

This virtual panel and screening with video essayist Kevin B. Lee, whose work both demonstrates how one can use the arts, literature, theory, and history to offer an understanding of human experience, was held on September 23rd, 2021 at 6pm MT via Zoom Webinar.

We screened Lee's video essays, including Mourning with Minari and Once Upon a Screen: Explosive Paradox (see descriptions below). Afterward, Lee joined Professors Hyaeweol Choi (Religious Studies and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, UI), Jennifer Ho (Ethnic Studies and Center for Humanities and the Arts, University of Colorado–Boulder), and Corey Creekmur (Cinematic Arts, English, and Gender, Women's, and Sexaulity Studies, UI) to discuss his video essay on Minari and Asian American experience. The discussion was moderated by Teresa Mangum, Director of the UI Obermann Center for Advanced Studies, and will consider the relationships among art, politics, and the uses of the video essay form to comment on and engage with current events, including traumatic events.

Mourning with Minari
—On March 15 2021, Lee Isaac Chung’s Minari earned six Academy Award nominations, including for Best Picture—an unprecedented feat for a film featuring an Asian American story, cast, and director. The next day, eight people, six of whom were women of Asian descent, were murdered by a mass shooter in three Atlanta-area spas. The proximity of these events starkly sets the poles of the Asian American experience, between exalted model minorities and dehumanized figures toiling at the margins of society.

Once Upon a Screen: Explosive Paradox
—A childhood experience is projected on a shadowy wall of a former movie theatre in Daly City. A racist cinematic trauma passed between friends and family is remembered among the rustling of leaves and reflections of trees on an iPad screen. An essay about how past and present interrupt one another like movies being perpetually edited.

This event was free and open to the public.

About 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.

WEBSITE: https://www.alsolikelife.com/

This event is funded by the Korea Foundation and hosted by the Korean Studies Research Network, with support from the Obermann Center for Advanced Studies and the ��ƷSM��ӰƬ, Center for Humanities & the Arts. Additional co-sponsors will be added as they are confirmed.

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