The faculty-staff and student editions of CU-Boulder Today regularly publish three times per week. During breaks, we reduce our publishing schedule. For 2013 Fall Break, the faculty-staff edition will publish on Wednesday, and the student edition will publish on Tuesday.

Tanya Heikkila Associate Professor, School of Public Affairs, CU-Denver Friday, Nov. 22 at 3 p.m. CSTPR Conference Room, 1333 Grandview Ave. Dr. Heikkila will discuss her research on water resource governance. She will explore the methods, approaches and challenges to studying the complex institutions and human interactions that structure water conflicts and cooperation, drawing lessons from her work on interstate river basins in the western U.S., on the Florida Everglades, and the Mekong River basin.

We'll work under special hours during the break. Friday (March 21): 11 a.m.–8 p.m. Saturday-Sunday (March 22-23): CLOSED Monday-Thrusday (March 24-27): 10 a.m.–5 p.m. Friday-Sunday (March 28-30): CLOSED Regular hours starting March 31

Dec. 7 - 20 The CU Art Museum and the Department of Art & Art History present You, Me, and Everyone We Don't Know, the Fall 2013 BFA Exhibition, held in the Projects Gallery of the CU Art Museum building, part of the Visual Arts Complex on the University of Colorado at Boulder campus. This exhibition features AJ Davis, Taylor Lawrence, Leif V. Newberg, George P. Perez, and Susan Walicki

Dec. 6 | 5 — 7 p.m. The CU Art Museum and the Department of Art & Art History present You, Me, and Everyone We Don't Know, the Fall 2013 BFA Exhibition, held in the Projects Gallery of the CU Art Museum building, part of the Visual Arts Complex on the University of Colorado Boulder campus. This exhibition features AJ Davis, Taylor Lawrence, Leif V. Newberg, George P. Perez, and Susan Walicki.

The UMC is open Mon. - Wed. of fall break. Stop by to eat and play! Special fall break UMC building hours: Fri., Nov. 22: 7am-11pm Sat., Nov. 23: 7am-8pm Sun., Nov. 24: 7am-6pm Mon. Nov. 25 - Wed., Nov. 27: 7am-6pm Thurs. Nov. 28 - Sun., Dec. 1: Closed Mon., Dec. 2: Resume normal hours The Connection Bowling, Billiards & Games has special hours Fri., Nov. 22 - Wed., Nov. 27 and is closed Thurs., Nov. 28 - Sun., Dec. 1. Check our website for dining hours.

This Friday's installment of the Classic LRT Holiday Show Lineup brings us: Thanks, But No Thanks, the Thanksgiving feast that will fill you with gravy and giggles. So come on by, ya butterballs. This Friday Nov. 22 In the Hale Science Building Room 270 Show starts at 8 p.m. Doors open at 7:30 p.m. Tickets Only $3 LRT Online

We will look at the relationship between politics, economics, aesthetics and the way moral and social issues are treated in the best Russian films from the last 20 years. Taught in English, no prerequisites. Instructor: Dragan Ilic. T-Th 3:30-4:45 p.m. and screening W 5 - 7:50 p.m., HUMN 1B90

Why do we tell stories? What is the essence of narrative? Of fiction? Does life have meaning? What are the limits of the imagination? What does it mean to be a person? Discover the grotesque, bizarre, surreal, absurd, supernatural and fantastic in Russian short stories and films. T – Th 12:30 - 1:45 p.m. Econ 13. Taught in English. Instructor: Laura Olson Osterman (lolson@colorado.edu). Recommended prereq., one upper division humanities course.

RUSS 2221: Modern Russian Culture. The Soviet Union no longer exists, but modern Russian culture and society are inevitably connected to the experience of communism and revolution. This course will address major themes in Russian and Soviet culture, including the roles of the intellectual and the arts under a totalitarian regime. We will attempt to understand how past events affect social and cultural forces in Russia today. This course fills the core curriculum for Historical Context.