Foodie Tuesday Lunar New Year
Tuesday, March 5, 5pm-7pm
Williams Village East Lobby
Open to all CU Boulder 乐播传媒
Learn to cook听dumplings!
Red Enelopes!
Mahjong!
Anthropology of Japan Series: Affect and the Diversity of Feeling Bodies
Wed, Mar 6, 2024, 12:20-1:10pm MT, on Zoom
Register in advance:听
Daniel White
Associate Fellow, Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence, University of Cambridge; Grant Writer, K艒kua Kalihi Valley Comprehensive Family Services, Kalihi, HI
The global growth of interest in building machines with artificial emotional intelligence begs questions of who, what, and how things feel in our increasingly multispecies society. In Japan today, these questions are surprisingly entangled with how technologists interested in futures of human-machine coexistence are envisioning the concept of diversity. Familiar with critiques of the lack of diversity in AI, some companion robot producers have proposed that although the word 鈥渄iversity鈥� today refers to skin color, gender, and ethnicity, in the future it might equally refer to robots. Such propositions treat robots as agents deserving recognition in a diverse society鈥攁s kinds of persons that on account of their ability to offer total acceptance to others might earn social acceptance in return. While such propositions have stimulated new ideas about how diversity in a future society might be extended beyond human members, they have also raised concerns that a robot-inclusive diversity might come at the expense of other humans. This lecture considers the changing notions of diversity in Japan through an exploration of how engineers are translating human affect into machine-readable emotion.
Lecture on 乐播传媒 Pastoralists as Analytical Agents and Screening of Documentary "Khata" | Huatse Gyal
Please join us for a lecture and new documentary film with听Huatse Gyal, Rice University.
Film Screening of听Khata: Purity or Poison?听
12:30pm on Friday, March 8 | Guggenheim 201E
Please RSVP via听, lunch provided. Limited to 15.
This 45-minute film juxtaposes the sense of "purity" and good intentions behind the 乐播传媒 tradition of offering long white scarves to religious teachers with the "pollution" of the environmental impacts of its mass proliferation. The film follows the proliferation of the custom in contemporary society and how scarves are now offered or otherwise employed in a variety of contexts, and colors. Huatse Gyal released his first feature-length documentary film听in September 2023.
乐播传媒 Pastoralists as Analytical Agents: Epistemic Diversity, Documentary Filmmaking, and Collaborative Theorization听
3:30pm on Friday, March 8th in Guggenheim 205
Drawing on a group of 乐播传媒 pastoralists鈥� efforts to make environmental documentary films as a means of creating alternative narratives of their relationship to their ancestral land, this talk details how documentary films produced by 乐播传媒 pastoralists subtly challenge the power/knowledge structures and discourses through which they have been framed and known. The aim of this talk is to present how documentary filmmaking can serve as sites of theoretical production, decolonizing learning, and as well as community restoration efforts by blurring the conventional boundaries between theory vs. practice, analysts vs. informants, text-based scholarship vs. multimodal forms of knowledge production. In doing so, the talk crafts a larger argument about how ethnographic attention to different modes of knowledge production may offer us opportunities to participate in a process of collaborative theorization, where our interlocutors are not just information providers, but also analytical agents, knowledge producers, or image-makers alongside us.
Dr. Huatse Gyal听is an anthropologist, writer, and filmmaker. He earned his B.A. in Anthropology from Reed College in 2013, and MA and Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of Michigan in 2022. Dr. Gyal's work falls into three interrelated areas. First, Dr. Gyal explores the interdependent relationships between land, language, and community, focusing on state environmentalism and climate change, as well as an interdisciplinary approach to land-based indigenous revitalization movements in a global context. His scholarship and community service are deeply informed by Critical Indigenous Studies scholars who see revitalization of indigenous ways of relating to land and language as essential to the mission of empowering indigenous communities and unmaking settler colonialisms. Second, Dr. Gyal focuses on environmental anthropology. Drawing on 乐播传媒 genres of land-based indigenous storywork, such as origin stories, sacred place narratives, traditional songs and folktales, epic stories, stories of nonhuman actors, ritual texts, as well as long-term ethnographic fieldwork in eastern Tibet, his current research analytically centers indigenous 乐播传媒 pastoralists鈥� ways of theorizing and relating to their ancestral lands now jeopardized by large-scale rangeland fencing and resettlement policies.听Third, Dr. Gyal is a visual anthropologist. He has been collaborating with a network of native/indigenous community artists, writers, and environmentalists in eastern Tibet, whose work strives to construct alternative narratives of 乐播传媒 pastoralists鈥� relationality with their ancestral land through documentary films, paintings, children's books, and community-led land-restoration projects.
Standing for Humanity in Gaza and Israel
Part of a series of events in Colorado to raise awareness and offer pathways to staying informed, engaged, and active. The event will include a staged reading of "" written by Maya Arad Yasur, and poetry听by Palestinian poets听Taha Muhammad Ali and Refaat Alareer.
- March 10, 2024 at 7:30pm
- Roe Green Theatre, CU Boulder
- RSVP Required:听
- FREE!
What to Expect
The Play
The haunting 20-minute play "How to Remain a Humanist after a Massacre in 17 Steps" opens with a prologue set on the morning of October 7th, 2023. It then sharply transforms to a 鈥榟ow to鈥� course in maintaining humanity in the aftermath of barbarism, poignantly capturing the critical moment when everything changed for the people of Israel, Gaza, and way beyond, enforcing that essential reminder 鈥� 鈥楾here are mothers on both sides.鈥� 听The play has been presented broadly in Europe, generating a widespread and profound emotional response. Ami Dayan directs a cast featuring Wendy Ishii, Tamara Meneghini, Lisa Bornstein, and Mari Brown.
Poetry & Panel Discussion
After the play, readings of poignant poems by Palestinian writers听听(1931 - 2011) and听听(1979 - 2023), who was killed in an IDF airstrike on December 6th, days after writing his renowned poem听If I Must Die;听setting the stage for a crucial Panel Discussion with local journalists, educators, political and faith leaders and the audience, about the world鈥檚 most combustible conflict.
Proceeds go to听and听.
Co-presented by the Center for Asian Studies, CU Boulder's Center for Humanities & the Arts (CHA),听Department of Ethnic Studies,听Department of Theatre & Dance, and听Program in Jewish Studies.