Global seminar: International operations (Hong Kong). Travel to Hong Kong this summer and study operations management in one of the largest trading centers in Asia. You will engage in daily site visits to local businesses and learn first-hand about manufacturing in mainland China during an overnight field trip to Guangdong Province. Find out more at a meeting: Oct. 13, 5 to 6 p.m. in KOBL 350.

Terry Lautz will discuss his new book John Birch: A Life. "This is the remarkable story of who he actually was: an American missionary-turned-soldier who wanted to save China, but became a victim instead." - Oxford Press. Lautz is trustee and director of the Harvard Yenching Institute and visiting professor at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University. Thursday, Oct. 13, 5 to 6:30 p.m. Humanities 250.

If you stutter, you have FRIENDS. On Saturday, Oct. 29, the CU Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences Department is teaming up with the Boulder FRIENDS in order to provide a one-day workshop for you to find support, information and meet other people dedicated to living successfully with stuttering. The workshop format includes presentations, small discussion groups, panel presentations and group activities. Its a wonderful opportunity for families and individuals to come together and learn about stuttering and meet other people.

*Researches at the University of Colorado Boulder seek healthy individuals between 18 and 24 years of age for laboratory and brain imaging studies on online dating. *We are seeking participants who are heterosexual, currently single, and interested in dating. *Participants receive $12-$24 per hour for participation.

MALfunction: A series of events pairing an artist and researcher whose works raise similar questions about technology. FREE & open to the public. #2: Democratization, Oct. 20, 6:30 p.m. - Museum of Natural History, CU Boulder Researcher: Nathan Schneider will critique the sharing economy and discuss opportunities for platforms to share ownership and governance. Artist: JP Merz will introduce the tradition of performing music with technology and propose ways of democratizing sound through a lecture and performance.

Oct. 6, 5 to 8 p.m. the Department of Art & Art History is hosting the Emerging Artist Studio Tour in partnership with Boulder Open Studios. This once-a-year event will open up over 52 studio doors of the Visual Arts Complex, and activate exhibition spaces to show off our best student work. Featuring MFA studios, BFA studios, curated undergraduate group shows, undergraduate film screenings, visiting artist print exhibition, Art History MA research presentations, light refreshments and more.

Umar Saif is a Pakistani computer scientist and entrepreneur known for his work using ICT solutions on developing-world problems. Often credited as one of the main forces behind the IT ecosystem in Pakistan, Saif is the founder of Plan9, Pakistan's largest startup incubator. In 2011, he was included in the MIT Technology Review's list of 35 Top Young Innovators. He will lecture on leveraging technology for human need. Nov. 14, 4:15 to 5:30 p.m. ATLAS 100.

On Oct. 7-8, the renowned JACK Quartet will perform "FLiGHT," an ambitious work-in-process conceived by the pioneering American composer and Pulitzer Prize winner, Roger Reynolds. The performance is a full-length immersive artistic experience that, according to Reynolds, “responds to the varieties of human experience with FLiGHT: gods, angels and demons, dreams, birds, kites, balloons, gliders, powered FLiGHT and space exploration.” Oct. 7–8, 7:30 to 9 p.m. Black Box Theater.

NEXT is an interdisciplinary journal of the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder featuring the work of emerging scholars whose scholarship explores religion in its many expressions and facets. NEXT now invites submissions for its upcoming edition to be published in March 2017 addressing this theme: Religion and Identity in a Shrinking World. See the full call for papers at: http://www.colorado.edu/rlst/sites/default/files/attached-files/nextcal…

This is the last chance to register for the non-credit French 1 course at ALTEC. Classes begin on Oct. 18 for French 1 and 2, and Oct. 11 for French conversational. Please register before it's too late. To register for French 1, click here French 2: Click here French Conversational Click here