Less than 90 minutes before the documentary film “Fog of Srbrenica” was set to play at the 2017 ACT Human Rights Film Festival, Serbian filmmaker Samir Mehanovic’s cell phone rang. Mehanovic, who has the physique of a former Olympic weightlifter, was casually walking the few blocks from The Armstrong Hotel to the afternoon screening at […]
Happy Friday. The last Friday of April and it has dawned a beautiful morning. I hope all is well for you as you close out this week. I have little to report this week (how often have I started Friday emails that way and they end up several pages long?). Lin Kidder will be in […]
Folks: Happy Friday! I hope all is well with all of you. Some of you already know this first bit of news. Nancy has accepted a position at UNC. Her last day will be next Friday. While Nancy has been her under a year, she is already deeply embedded in our community. She has brought […]
Graduate student Savanna Depew, was awarded Top Student Paper by the Western States Communication Association for her submission, “Home is where the Work is: The Role of Businesses in the Creation of a Sense of Belonging for Diasporic Communities.” Depew wrote the paper in Dr. Eric Aoki’s Global Identities class in April of 2018. Depew […]
Folks: Happy Friday. For many of you tomorrow is opening night of the film festival. I am sorry I am not there. I am writing from Montgomery Alabama where I am attending the Southern States Communication Association Annual Convention and doing research on civil rights memory with colleagues and dear friends. More on that in […]
Happy Friday! What a spring week this has been as we return from spring break. Warm. Sunny. Breezy. Now overcast and drizzly. Well, welcome to springtime in the Rockies, yes? Lots of bits and pieces to catch you up on this week. Kari has a new essay out in advanced digital form: Segarra, Ignacio Moreno […]
How is one to start a Friday email the day after the terrible shootings in New Zealand? Well, I guess by acknowledging the shootings, but affirming our shared anger and angst caused by the killings. But we should also look clearly at the ways these shootings are of a piece with the (often white) nationalism […]
Welcome to Friday. Wee hoo! First, I want to acknowledge that today is International Women’s Day. As I was thinking about this, I thought about a couple of the leaders of this department—Ann Gill and Sue Pendell. Both served as chair of the department, with Ann going on to serve as Dean of the College […]
A Colorado State University professor has co-authored a book that examines how President Donald Trump has used Twitter and public speeches to provoke emotions with perceived threats to the white population.
Welcome to March! As is the way with March, we open the month with a beautiful morning but will likely go to bed to the beginnings of a solid March snowstorm. Ah Colorado! All sorts of things to talk about this week. Liz has a new essay “Complaints about technology as a resource for identity-work” […]
