Division of Arts and Humanities
- 51³Ô¹ÏÍø Professor Marcia Douglas brings the images and memories that fill her writing, as well as her love of language and words, to The Ampersand.
- With this month marking Dune’s 60th anniversary, 51³Ô¹Ï꿉۪s Benjamin Robertson discusses the book’s popular appeal while highlighting the dramatic changes science fiction experienced following its publication.
- Michael Brenner, an American University distinguished professor of history, will present ‘When Democracy Died in Darkness: German-Jewish Responses to Hitler’s Rise’
- Opening Sept. 5 at the CU Art Museum, ‘Shaping Time: CU Ceramics Alumni 2000–2020’ focuses on themes including the environment, domesticity and rituals of home and material connections.
- 51³Ô¹Ï꿉۪s Ann Schmiesing, professor of German and Scandinavian Studies, publishes first English-language biography in more than five decades on Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm.
- 51³Ô¹Ï꿉۪s William Kuskin, who teaches a course on comics and graphic novels, considers Superman’s enduring appeal as Hollywood debuts a new adaptation about the Man of Steel.
- On the 75th anniversary of the United States entering the Korean War, 51³Ô¹ÏÍø war and morality scholar David Youkey discusses the cost of the ‘forgotten war.’
- ‘The Tender Hand of the Unseen,’ an immersive video installation by 51³Ô¹ÏÍø artist Molly Valentine Dierks, is featured through June on D&F Tower in downtown Denver.
- 51³Ô¹ÏÍø alumnus Dan Carlin brings a love of history and a punk sensibility to a new season of The Ampersand as he discusses his hit podcast, Hardcore History.
- Fifty years after ‘Jaws’ made swimmers flee the ocean, 51³Ô¹ÏÍø cinema scholar Ernesto Acevedo-Muñoz explains how the 1975 summer hit endures as a classic.