Friday, December 6
CU Museum Paleontology Hall
Detailed schedule below

Around the world, relationships between people and horses have had a tremendous impact on the human story, forever changing ways of life from transport to communication, subsistence, and belief. Drawing together leading scholars and thinkers from around the world to share perspectives on the human-horse story, this symposium celebrates the release of the 2024 Eugene M. Kayden Book Prize Award winning book, Hoof Beats: How Horses Shaped Human History. This symposium will bring together one external invited speaker and six internal (CU community) speakers to talk about different aspects of horse culture, including three specialists in Asia (Dr. Stephanie Su, Dr. William Taylor, and Dr. Tamar McKee). The book at the heart of the symposium, Hoof Beats, is drawn from my own field research in Asia, and thematically focuses on Asian horse cultures in the deep past.

8:30am Welcome Remarks

8:35am ྟ(rTa) of Tibet: Tracing the Evolution of Horses on the Tibetan Plateau from Prayer to Protest –&�Բ�����;Tamar McKee, Center of the American West

9:00am The Heavenly, the Royal, and the Patriotic: The Changing Symbolism of Horses in Chinese Art –&�Բ�����;Stephanie Su, Art and Art History

9:45am The Mounted Warrior: Contextualizing Human Osteological 'Riding' Markers –&�Բ�����;Lauren Hosek, Department of Anthropology

10:15am Odin the Horse Master: the Mythic Evidence of a Nordic Horse Cult and its Social Implications –&�Բ�����;Mathias Nordwig, Nordic Program, Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures

11:00am Equids in the Old Oyo Empire, West Africa - Olumide Ojediran, Department of Anthropology

11:30am Animal Suffering, Anti-Cruelty Activism, and Equine Ventriloquism During the Great Horse Flu of 1872-1873 –&�Բ�����;Thomas Andrews, Center of the American West

12:00pm Seminar, The Strongest Riders in the World: Ancient Horsemanship as Modern Sport in Central Asia –&�Բ�����;Will Grant, author of The Last Ride of the Pony Express

2:30pm Panel Discussion with All Symposium Participants, Q&A

4pm Discussant: Horses and the Human Story, from the Eurasian Steppes to the Great Plains  - William Taylor, Assistant Professor of Anthropology & Curator of Archaeology at the CU Museum of Natural History, author of Hoof Beats: How Horses Shaped Human History, book signing

7:30pm Keynote Lecture, Hoof Beats and the Humans in the Saddle: History, Culture, and Epistemology in a Distant Land -Akin Ogundiran, Northwestern University

Free and Open to the Public

Made possible by the Kayden Book Award, College of Arts & Sciences, the University of Colorado Natural History Museum, The Center for the American West and the Center for Asian Studies

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December 2, 2023, 8:00 AM-12:00 PM

University Memorial Center, CU �鶹ӰԺ

This is the inaugural workshop of the relaunched South, Southeast, and West Asia (SSEWA) Outreach Program of the Center for Asian Studies at CU �鶹ӰԺ. The half-day professional development workshop for secondary social studies teachers explored “Barbie” and other films that became controversial in Asia for territorial disputes, among other reasons. The workshop sought to increase participants’ knowledge of the history and geography of Southeast Asia and learn how to use pop culture as a jumping-off point for a broader discussion on race, culture, geography, and history. Speakers: J. Richard Stevens is the Associate Dean of Undergraduate Education and an Associate Professor in Media Studies at the College of Media, Communication and Information at CU �鶹ӰԺ. He is the author of Captain America, Masculinity, and Violence: The Evolution of a National Icon (2015) and is currently working on his second book, Transforming Culture: Hasbro, Marvel, and the Rise of Hypercommercial Media Franchising. Dr. Stevens’ research delves into the intersection of ideological formation and media message dissemination, comprising studies such as how cultural messages are formed and passed through popular culture, and how sites of popular culture struggle are changing American public discourse. Vincent Piturro is a Professor of Film and Media Studies at MSU Denver and holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from CU �鶹ӰԺ. Dr. Piturro’s areas of study include Westerns, science fiction, documentaries, Italian cinema, and TV history. He hosts a yearly Science Fiction Film Series in conjunction with the Museum of Nature and Science, and his recent book, The Science of Sci-Fi Cinema, was co-written with several scientists from the Museum. Dr. Piturro writes a monthly review column for the community newspaper, The Front Porch, and is a regular host and lecturer at the Denver International Film Festival. Timothy Oakes is a Professor of Geography at CU �鶹ӰԺ, where he currently teaches a class on the geography of China. His research work focuses on social and cultural transformation in contemporary China and the uses and reinventions of local culture as a resource for economic development and governance objectives. Dr. Oakes is the author of The Belt and Road method: geopolitics, technopolitics and power though an infrastructure lens and From creation city to infrastructural urbanism: the Chinese National New Area as an infrastructure space. He is also the project director for “China Made,” funded by the Henry Luce Foundation. China Made explores the domestic and international dimensions of China’s infrastructure development. To learn more about SSEWA topics and resources, visit https://bit.ly/ssewaoutreach. To be updated on future professional development opportunities, send an email to the SSEWA Outreach Coordinator at Hannah.Palustre@colorado.edu. This professional development workshop is funded by the Title VI National Resource Center (NRC) grant from the U.S. Department of Education.

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Part of the Waging Peace in Vietnam Exhibit and Events

November 8, 5:00 - 7:00 PM British and Irish Studies Room, Norlin Library

Poetry helps us speak the unspeakable and feel deeply. Award-winning poets whose poems of war, memory, and reconciliation will arouse our empathy and understanding of the war in Vietnam and its profound consequences. Professor Julie Carr, Department of English and Creative Writing, Moderator Poets Reciting Via ZOOM: Jan Barry Teresa Mei Chuc Wayne Karlin Yusef Komunyakaa Hoa Nguyen Kimberly Nguyen Doug Rawlings Bruce Weigl Waging Peace events are co-sponsored by University Libraries, the Applied History Initiative, and the Department of History in addition to the Partnerships for International Strategies in Asia (PISA)

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Part of the Waging Peace in Vietnam Exhibit and Events

November 7, 5:30-7:30PM British and Irish Studies Room, Norlin Library

Racial tension was high when a fight broke out between White and Black sailors aboard the massive Kitty Hawk aircraft carrier that serviced the bombing missions over Vietnam. Discovering the unfair, unequal, and frankly discriminatory treatment to which Blacks were subjected, Marv Truhe, the JAG officer assigned to the case, mounted a vigorous defense of the Black sailors. His book draws on the original documents he collected and saved. Marv Truhe, former Navy JAG officer, author of Against All Tides: The Unknown Story of the USS Kitty Hawk Race Riot Waging Peace events are co-sponsored by University Libraries, the Applied History Initiative, and the Department of History in addition to the Partnerships for International Strategies in Asia (PISA)

[video:https://youtu.be/RNwu1TUWbkY]

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Panel Discussion on the Legacies of War 
Part of the Waging Peace in Vietnam Exhibit and Events

November 6, 5:00-7:00PM Humanities 250

War does not end when the last shots are fired. The Vietnamese population, as well as American soldiers and their families, continue to this day to bear the costs of war. This panel will investigate consequences of the war in Vietnam and efforts to mitigate those impacts. Steven Dike, Arts and Sciences Honors Program, CU �鶹ӰԺ, Moderator Five-Minute film on Project RENEW featuring Ho Van Lai, victim of unexploded cluster bomb. ​Heather Bowser, Daughter of Vietnam Veteran exposed to Agent Orange; founder and director of Children of Vietnam Veterans Health Alliance, comprising more than 5,000 American children survivors of Agent Orange. Susan Hammond, Founder and Executive Director, War Legacies Project Linda J. Yarr, Research Affiliate, Center for Asian Studies, CU �鶹ӰԺ Waging Peace events are co-sponsored by University Libraries, the Applied History Initiative, and the Department of History in addition to the Partnerships for International Strategies in Asia (PISA)

[video:https://youtu.be/I5sUYP3A5Dg]

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Talk by Ron Haeberle, former Army photographer, whose photos of the My Lai Massacre published in Life Magazine helped to shift public opinion  Part of the Waging Peace in Vietnam Exhibit and Events

November 2, 5:00-6:30 PM CASE Building room E340

Ron Haeberle will share his experience of coming upon the massacre of Vietnamese civilians by US soldiers, and the effort to share his photos with the world. Ross Taylor, Assistant Professor, College of Media, Communications and Information, Moderator Waging Peace events are co-sponsored by University Libraries, the Applied History Initiative, and the Department of History in addition to the Partnerships for International Strategies in Asia (PISA)

[video:https://youtu.be/dkGZuboNEJk]

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Screening of documentary on GI Antiwar Movement Sir! No Sir! 
Part of the Waging Peace in Vietnam Exhibit and Events
This video contains the discussion after the film only.

November 1, 4:30-6:30PM Humanities 135

Students may access the film remotely through the library. Non-students can access via NETFLIX. This remarkable documentary tells the story of soldiers and sailors who actively opposed fighting in the war in Vietnam, and their ultimate impact on the prosecution of the war. Professor Steven Dike, Arts and Sciences Honors Program, Moderator David Zeiger, Producer and Director, Commentary and Q&A via ZOOM Waging Peace events are co-sponsored by University Libraries, the Applied History Initiative, and the Department of History in addition to the Partnerships for International Strategies in Asia (PISA)

[video:https://youtu.be/4nh2mMeaZeQ]

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Tuesday, March 21 at 5pm CASE Building, room E422 Book talk by Jodi Kim, Professor, Media & Cultural Studies, University of California Riverside Jodi Kim’s research and teaching interests are at the intersections of Asian American studies, critical ethnic and race studies, postcolonial theory, feminist epistemologies, and critiques of US empire and militarism. Her first book, Ends of Empire: Asian American Critique and the Cold War (University of Minnesota Press, 2010), offers a critique of American empire in Asia through an interdisciplinary analysis of Asian American cultural productions and their critical intersections with Cold War geopolitics and logics. Her second book, Settler Garrison: Debt Imperialism, Militarism, and Transpacific Imaginaries (Duke University Press, 2022) theorizes how the United States extends its sovereignty across Asia and the Pacific in the post-World War II era through a militarist settler imperialism that is leveraged on debt as a manifold economic and cultural relation undergirded by asymmetries of power. Kim demonstrates that despite being the largest debtor nation in the world, the United States positions itself as an imperial creditor that imposes financial and affective indebtedness alongside a disciplinary payback temporality even as it evades repayment of its own debts. Kim reveals this process through an analysis of how a wide array of transpacific cultural productions creates antimilitarist and decolonial imaginaries that diagnose US militarist settler imperialism while envisioning alternatives to it. Event Co-Sponsored by The English Department, Media Studies, Ethnic Studies, Asian Languages and Civilizations.

[video:https://youtu.be/T9xVIviVHNc?si=itDhirWepB9EmUSv]

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This discussion will examine issues such as how various forms of Asian popular culture have responded to or engaged with other forms of national and hemispheric popular cultures, such as those in Europe, the Americas, Africa, and the Pacific, how Asian American and Asian diaspora communities have drawn on Asian popular cultures, and the implications of homegrown Asian popular cultures circulating within and beyond Asia. with Carla Jones (CU �鶹ӰԺ) co-editor of Re-Orienting Fashion: The Globalization of Asian Dress Dr. Vernadette Gonzalez, (University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa), working on an interdisciplinary critical reader about the K-pop group BTS Anita Mannur (Miami University), author of Intimate Eating, moderated by Tim Oakes, professor of Geography and Center for Asian Studies Interim Faculty Director Co-Sponsored by the Center for Humanities and the Arts, and the Global Asias Initiative

[video:https://youtu.be/_8CGPjtYv_c]

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Monday, February 13, 11:30 a.m. on Zoom

An information session and roundtable discussion hosted by the Center for Asian Studies.

Speakers will include Asian Languages and Civilizations faculty members Katherine Alexander, Assistant Professor of Chinese, Marjorie Burge, Assistant Professor of Japanese, and Evelyn Shih, Assistant Professor of Chinese. Moderated by Center for Asian Studies Executive Director Danielle Rocheleau Salaz.

CLAC is a curricular framework that provides opportunities to develop and apply language and intercultural competence within all academic disciplines through the use of multilingual resources and the inclusion of multiple cultural perspectives. Since 2017, CU faculty have been applying CLAC to courses across the curriculum to better engage and enrich learning by heritage language users and students of Asian languages.

CLAC courses provide a structure for students to deepen their study content from an English-language course through the incorporation of additional source materials in another language. These courses have been shown to enhance student learning, create a deeper sense of community and belonging, and improve language skills.
Join us to learn about the CLAC model, hear about the experiences of faculty at CU who have successfully designed and led CLAC courses, and find out about opportunities for course development grants for CLAC programming using Asian languages. Although funding is only available for Asian-language course development grants, we encourage participation from across disciplines and languages as the CLAC model is valuable for all languages and students.

[video:https://youtu.be/uGtvHpFNNWE]

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