Philosophers, artists and more to be celebrated by Center for Humanities & the Arts
Center to recognize recent faculty achievements at CU «Ƶ on Feb.10
From film to books to music, 32 faculty achievements will be celebrated at the «Ƶ next week.
The Center for Humanities & the Arts will host a faculty celebration of recent major works on Feb. 10 from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. in the Center for British and Irish Studies Room of Norlin Library (M549, fifth floor). The event is free and open to the public. Food and drinks will be provided.
Jennifer Ho
The center aims to inspire interdisciplinary collaboration at CU «Ƶ. On top of an annual fellowship competition for faculty specializing in the humanities and arts, the center also provides funding and fellowships to faculty and graduate students for research and scholarship.
Jennifer Ho, the center’s director, hopes this social event will be an opportunity for people to learn more about what the faculty have been working on.
“I want the center to be a hub on campus for collaboration and community that draws in anyone interested in doing arts and humanities work or celebrating, enjoying, appreciating and finding value in arts and humanities scholarship and artistic production, humanistic inquiry,” Ho says. “I really see this as a place that can bring people together.”
Ho encourages everyone to attend, even those not directly involved in studying the arts and humanities. These fields of knowledge remind us of our humanity, Ho says.
Ho, a professor of ethnic studies, researches Asian American literature and culture, multiethnic and contemporary American literature, and discourse that focuses on or reflects racism and ethnicity.
She was appointed to lead the center last year and wants to prompt campus conversations about the importance of the arts and humanities. To that end, the center will also host faculty panel discussions on critical topics in a series called “Difficult Dialogues.”
On March 3, the series’ first panel discussion will encourage discussions on race and offer strategies to address it. John-Michael Rivera of the Program for Writing & Rhetoric will moderate a discussion with Sam Flaxman of ecology and evolutionary biology, Tiara R. Na’puti of communication, and Celeste Montoya of women and gender studies.
More broadly, Ho hopes to herald the value of the arts and humanities. She puts it this way:
“Arts and humanities give meaning to life. Without arts and humanities and without scholars researching and asking these really important questions and documenting history and exploring various world religions and teaching languages and introducing us to the literatures of other languages and cultures, we wouldn’t be able to really appreciate what it is about us that makes us human.”
The works to be celebrated next week include the following:
William Aspray
From Urban Legends to Political Fact-Checking: Online Scrutiny in America
Pubisher: Springer
Fake News Nation: The Long History of Lies and Misrepresentations in
America
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Historical Studies in Computing, Information, and Society: Insights from the
Flatirons Lectures
Publisher: Springer
Computing and the National Science Foundation
Publisher: ACM Books
David Boonin
Dead Wrong: The Ethics of Posthumous Harm
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Max Boykoff
Creative (Climate) Communications: Productive Pathways for Science, Policy
& Society
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Andrew Cain
Rufinus of Aquileia, Inquiry about the Monks in Egypt
Publisher: The Catholic University of America Press
Brian Catlos
Kingdoms of Faith: A New History of Islamic Spain
Publisher: Basic Books
Carol E. Cleland
The Quest for a Universal Theory of Life
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Bud Coleman
Theater Productions
Into The Woods by Stephen Sondheim
Ellis Island: The Dream of America by Peter Boyer
A Broadway Christmas Carol by Kathy Feininger
Jackson Crawford
The Wanderer’s Hávamál
Publisher: Del Rey
David Korevaar and Charles Wetherbee
Album
Longing - Chamber Music of REZA VALI
Three Violin Sonatas of Paul Juon
Patrick Ferrucci
Making Nonprofit News: Market Models, Influence and Journalism Practice
Publisher: Routledge
Holly Gayley
Inseparable Across Lifetimes: The Lives and Love Letters of Namtrul
Rinpoche and Khandro Tare Lhamo
Publisher: Snow Lion
John C. Gibert
Euripides’ Ion: an Interpretation
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Eugene Hayworth
Black Earth: A Journey Through Ukraine
Publisher: Haus Publishing
Michael Huemer
Dialogues on Ethical Vegetarianism Publisher: Routledge
Marina Kassianidou
Exhibition
Spacing Rehearsal, solo exhibition
(In)visible Hand, two-person exhibition with Joseph Coniff
Miriam Kingsberg Kadia
Into the Field: Human Scientists in Transwar Japan
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Daphne Leong
Performing Knowledge: Twentieth-Century Music in Analysis and Performance
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Henry Lovejoy
Prieto: Yorùbá Kingship in Colonial Cuba during the Age of Revolutions
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Tamara Meneghini
Elizabeth I – In Her Own Words
Publisher: Moonstone Publications
Nina L. Molinaro
The Art of Time: Levinas, Ethics, and the Contemporary Peninsular Novel
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
Krishnamurthy Sriramesh
The Global Public Relations Handbook: Theory, Research, and Practice
Publisher: Routledge
Julia Staffel
Unsettled Thoughts: A Theory of Degrees of Rationality
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Takács Quartet
Edward Dusinberre, Harumi Rhodes, Geraldine Walther, András Fejér
Album
Dohnányi: Piano Quintets Nos.1 & 2, String Quartet No.2
Label: Hyperion Records
Ross Taylor
Film
The Hardest Day.
Pheonix Film Festival
Miami Independent Film Festival
Keith Waters
Postbop Jazz in the 1960s: The Compositions of Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, and Chick Corea
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Jan Whitt
Untold Stories, Unheard Voices: Truman Capote and In Cold Blood
Publisher: Mercer University Press