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CU Hosts the Vagina Monologues this February

Written by Eve Ensler, the Vagina Monologues tells stories and experiences which real women chose to share. The show aims to empower the audience and create conversations by shedding light on current issues such as sexual assault and body liberation. This show will be performed Feb. 19 at 7:30 p.m. and Feb. 20 at 2 and 7:30 p.m. in the Old Main Theater. Tickets will be sold in advance and the day of. All proceeds will be donated to iEmpathize. Please contact the producer at Nieve.Heskin@colorado.edu to purchase a ticket in advance.

Munich Summer Media & Internships interest meeting

Spend your summer in Munich studying media and completing an internship (in English)!  You will explore electronic media policy, management, theory and ethics with CU and international faculty.  Following your coursework, you will then complete an internship with a German media company/organization.  Overall, students will earn 9 credits in 9 weeks.  Meet the program director and learn more at a meeting on Feb. 10 from 4 to 4:30 p.m. in UMC 415. (Photo by Kat Kennedy)

Munich summer media and internships interest meeting

Spend your summer in Munich studying media and completing an internship (in English). You will explore electronic media policy, management, theory and ethics with CU and international faculty. Following your coursework, you will then complete an internship with a German media company/organization. Overall, students will earn nine credits in nine weeks. Meet the program director and learn more at a meeting on Feb. 10, 4 to 4:30 p.m. in UMC 415. (Photo by Kat Kennedy).

Mini-conference: Jews and Jewishness in Britain

Friday, Feb. 12, 2 to 5 p.m. British Studies Room, 5th Floor Norlin Library In the year 1290, King Edward I expelled all Jews from England, and in 1657, Oliver Cromwell let them back in. What impact did Jews have on British politics, culture and religion in the years that followed? Join us for talks by and discussion with historian Todd Endelman (Ohio State University) and literature scholars Jason Rosenblatt (Georgetown University) and Jonathan Freedman (University of Michigan).

For the Health of It: Ask a Sexpert

Looking for ways to spice up your sex life? Have questions about sex or self-pleasure that you've been too afraid to ask? Join us on Wednesday, Feb. 10, 3 to 4 p.m. in UMC 416 for an open discussion and Q&A with a local sex therapist about fun ways to explore your sexuality, whether on your own or with a partner. We'll talk about getting in touch with your own sexuality, ways to improve communication about sex with a partner, and tips for using aphrodisiacs and sex-toys to spark up stimulation.

Paul Barolsky - Art history visiting scholar lecture

Monday, April 18, 5:30 p.m. British/Irish Room on the 5th floor of Norlin Library, University of Colorado Boulder. Professor, University of Virginia McIntire Department of Art. Paul Barolsky teaches and writes about Renaissance art and literature. His most recent book, Michelangelo and the Finger of God, was published in 2003 by the Georgia Museum of Arts in its Issues in Art History series.

Dani Leventhal visiting artist lecture

Tuesday, March 1, 6:30 p.m., Visual Arts Complex 1B20. Please join us for a free public lecture by multimedia artist and filmmaker, Dani Leventhal. Dani Leventhal creates videos and drawings that unearth a curious beauty of everyday life. Employing this process of accumulation and excision, Leventhal creates videos, collages and installations that probe her life and her surroundings while encompassing a broad range of themes, from the explicitly political to the mundane and domestic. http://danileventhal.org/home.html

Colin Eisler - Art History Visiting Scholar Series

Colin Eisler will give a public presentation on his research on Monday, Feb. 1 at 5:30 p.m. in the British/Irish Room on the 5th floor of Norlin Library. Eisler is a widely published expert on early Netherlandish art, and professor at New York University’s Institute of Fine Arts. His research and writing have been furthered by many grants and awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Humanities Senior Fellowship and a Henry Fellowship at Magdalen College, Oxford.

Visiting Artist Lecture - Quinn Jacobson

Photographer Quinn Jacobson will give a public presentation of his work on Feb. 9 at 6:30 p.m. in the Visual Arts Complex 1B20. Jacobson specializes in historic photographic processes such as the wet collodion process, daguerreotype and calotype. His work often is centered on "otherness", or people and places on the fringe of society. Quinn calls this his tripod of concepts: memory, identity and difference. He's probably best known for his part in the revival of the Wet Plate Collodion process in Europe.