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Crafternoon: Languages and Craft

Elizabeth Williams — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 16:19:25 +0000

Crafternoon: Languages and Craft Elizabeth Williams Fri, 02/20/2026 - 09:19

Thursday, March 5th, 2026 3:30pm to 4:30pm MST
Hellems Arts and Sciences, N253
1550 Central Campus Mall, Boulder, CO 80309

Hosted by ALTEC (Anderson Language and Technology Center) in collaboration with world language faculty and student partners, Crafternoon: Languages and Craft, an interactive cultural and linguistic experience where you can learn a craft and explore a new language at the same time. This event brings together instructors and student representatives from multiple countries to share hands-on cultural practices and introduce participants to different world languages.

Representing Indonesia, Moci, will guide participants through a paper-weaving activity inspired by traditional Indonesian bamboo weaving. In Indonesia, bamboo weaving is widely practiced and serves practical everyday purposes, including food containers, mats, and even structural elements of traditional houses. While crafting, participants will also learn basic Indonesian expressions and cultural insights connected to the tradition.

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Lead the Conversation. Shape the Future. Become a Torchbearer.

Elizabeth Williams — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 21:14:21 +0000

Lead the Conversation. Shape the Future. Become a Torchbearer. Elizabeth Williams Wed, 02/18/2026 - 14:14

Sakura Foundation is pleased to continue its partnership with Go For Broke National Education Center by offering the National Torchbearer Program to Denver area participants! If you’re age 21 to 39 and are passionate about meaningful dialogue, civic engagement, and building authentic cross-cultural connections, the National Torchbearer Program is your space to grow, challenge yourself, and make a lasting impact.

Rooted in the enduring legacy of the Go For Broke spirit, Torchbearers provides the space to:

Listen to and learn from diverse lived experiences
Empathize across differences
Engage constructively around today’s social issues and dynamics
Build lifelong connections with peers who are committed to equity and community

🗓️ Applications are now open
⏰ Deadline: March 14, 2026

Have questions? Contact us at info@SakuraFoundation.org

Step forward. Take the torch.

Apply Now

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Midwinter Cross-Cultural Celebration

Elizabeth Williams — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 20:26:21 +0000

Midwinter Cross-Cultural Celebration Elizabeth Williams Mon, 02/16/2026 - 13:26

You are warmly invited to attend the Geography Department's Midwinter Cross-Cultural Celebration. This gathering is intended as an opportunity to come together as a community and celebrate the many traditions that carry us through the season!
Wednesday, February 25^th
5:30–7:30 PM
Guggenheim Lobby
Food and drinks will be served at 5:50 PM, following Iftar fast-breaking.
The event will celebrate Losar, Ramadan, Holi, Lunar New Year and the Chinese Spring Festival, Imbolc, Mardi Gras, and Valentine’s Day.
We welcome suggestions for any additional holidays or festivities, foods, or meaningful ways of observing these traditions to help make the event special! Please feel free to share any suggestions through this form. We want this event to reflect our community and greatly appreciate your input!

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Creative Futures Fellowship

Elizabeth Williams — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 17:36:20 +0000

Creative Futures Fellowship Elizabeth Williams Wed, 02/11/2026 - 10:36

The new С�� Boulder Creative Futures Fellowship is designed for researchers, inventors and creators in the arts, humanities and social sciences. Federal and state innovation grants often overlook the powerful, translational potential of these disciplines. This fellowship bridges that gap, offering funding, support and community to transform new ideas, creative works and social innovations into positive impact beyond the university. Eligible projects must focus on delivering tangible outcomes that strengthen communities, advance positive social change or create economic opportunity.

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Global Network Social: Bowling, Pizza, and Billiards

Elizabeth Williams — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 19:54:36 +0000

Global Network Social: Bowling, Pizza, and Billiards Elizabeth Williams Thu, 02/05/2026 - 12:54

Join students, staff, and faculty in С��’s College of Arts & Sciences who identify as international or who are interested in supporting international students for an afternoon of pizza and bowling!

Date & Time: February 19, 3:00–4:15 p.m.
Location: The Connection Bowling Lanes, University Memorial Center

Food will be provided. All are welcome, but registration is required.

Please note: This event is limited to students, staff, and faculty in the College of Arts & Sciences.

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Event: The Literary and the Nuclear: Thinking Wartime through Manga, Fiction, Art, and Translation

Elizabeth Williams — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 18:10:50 +0000

Event: The Literary and the Nuclear: Thinking Wartime through Manga, Fiction, Art, and Translation Elizabeth Williams Wed, 02/04/2026 - 11:10

March 11, 2026, from 5:30pm
Lucile Berkeley Buchanan Building, Room 220.

Kobayashi will talk about her work across media, drawing on historical research to tell very human stories about the huge, faceless forces of war and radiation.

Erika Kobayashi is one of the most exciting writers and artists working in Japan today, creating works that weave together meticulously researched historical fact and fiction, guided by what is invisible to the eye: time and history, family and memory, voices and traces. Her practice spans literature, comics, and visual art, and is rooted in long-term archival research. Her works in English translation include Trinity, Trinity, Trinity and Sunrise: Radiant Stories (Astra House, translated by Brian Bergstrom) and the graphic work Seeing the Light: A Graphic Odyssey―with Cat―Through the History of Radiation (translated by Winifred Bird, designed by Brennan Kelly, and published by arbaro books).

Brian Bergstrom is an award-winning translator and lecturer. His writing and translations have appeared in publications including Granta, Paris Review, Aperture, Lit Hub, and The Penguin Book of Japanese Short Stories. His translation of Kobayashi’s Trinity, Trinity, Trinity won the 2022 Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission Prize for the Translation of Japanese Literature, and he is also the translator of her short story collection Sunrise: Radiant Stories. His latest translations include The Dilemmas of Working Women by Fumio Yamamoto (HarperVia 2025) and Capital from Zero by Kōhei Satiō (Astra House, 2026). He is currently based in Montréal, Canada.

Co-Sponsored by the Department of Asian Languages and Civilizations, and the Albert Smith Nuclear Age Fund from the College of Arts and Sciences.
For any questions, please email Professor Daryl Maude: daryl.maude@colorado.edu.

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1990s Experimental Film in Japan: Women’s Anarchic Visions of the Everyday

Elizabeth Williams — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 18:10:07 +0000

1990s Experimental Film in Japan: Women’s Anarchic Visions of the Everyday Elizabeth Williams Wed, 02/04/2026 - 11:10

Sunday, Feb. 22nd
2:15-4:15 PM
ATLAS 100

The Life of Ants (Ari no seikatsu) / Yūko Asano, Japan, 1994, 14 min
Benighted but Not Begun (Yukikuredo machiakazu) / Yukie Saitō, Japan, 1994, 22 min
The Place Which Isn’t Necessarily Wrong (Anagachi machigatteru tomo ienai kū) / Hiromi Saiki, Japan, 1996, 18 min
Night Park/White Roses (Yoruno kōen / shiroi bara) / Mari Terashima, Japan, 1997, 11 min
A Dandelion, Rosaceae (Bara-ka tanpopo) / Utako Koguchi, Japan, 1990, 8 min

Curated by Wakae Nakane and Miryam Sas

Emerging from Japan’s independent film culture of the 1990s, these five works by women filmmakers mark a quiet but decisive shift within experimental cinema. Enabled by the growing accessibility of small-gauge film and alternative exhibition spaces, the filmmakers move away from strict formal abstraction toward the textures of everyday life, bodies, rituals, and intimacies.

Across animation, performance, and experimental narrative forms, the films attend to gendered power relations, sexuality, and the fragile boundaries between private experience and social structure. Playful, unsettling, and resistant to easy classification, they articulate an anarchic language that renders the familiar strange, inviting viewers to linger in the ambiguities of intimacy and desire.

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Religious Studies Event: The Urdu Shiʿi Practice of Khiṭābat (oratory)

Elizabeth Williams — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 20:07:54 +0000

Religious Studies Event: The Urdu Shiʿi Practice of Khiṭābat (oratory) Elizabeth Williams Thu, 01/22/2026 - 13:07

Join the Department of Religious Studies on February 24th for The Urdu Shiʿi Practice of Khiṭābat (oratory)

January 24th, 5-6pm
Eaton Humanities 135

On any given day in Karachi, Pakistan's largest city, tens and hundreds of Urdu-speaking Shiʿa khāṭibs (orators) address audiences that have gathered to listen to them. In this talk, I draw upon twenty months of ethnographic and archival fieldwork in Karachi to argue that khiṭābat (oratory) is best conceptualized as "intellectual practice." By intellectual, I refer to aspects of oratory such as designating topics of oration, presenting clear arguments, and providing citations as evidence for claims. By practice, I refer to aspects of oratory such as the materiality of the ritual space, the technologies that mediate between orators and their audiences, and the relationship between what is said in an oration with where and when the oration is taking place. In attending to khiṭābat as intellectual practice, I push back against dominant scholarly tendencies that divide “popular” practice from “elite” texts, often relegating practice as secondary to doctrine or belief. Attending to khiṭābat as intellectual practice is helpful because it shifts the methodological emphasis from an abstract or a solely discursive domain of ideas to the world in which such ideas are articulated, debated, and circulated. Additionally, rethinking khiṭābat as intellectual practice is also productive because it moves the conversation on Muslim ritual practice beyond mere functionalism (intended towards specific ends, like ideological dissemination or the reification of tradition) or mere phenomenology (reducing khiṭābat to bodily techniques or individual reception).

Mohammad Nabeel Jafri holds a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (Canada) Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Centre for Modern Indian Studies, University of Göttingen. He is a scholar of Islam in modern South Asia, with a focus on Twelver Shiʿi practice in Pakistan. He received his PhD from the Department for the Study of Religion at the University of Toronto in 2024. His dissertation, Orating Knowledge: Urdu Shiʿi Khiṭābat in Contemporary Karachi, received the 2024 S. S. Pirzada Dissertation Prize in Pakistan Studies, awarded by the University of California, Berkeley. His research interests include ritual practice, semiotics, authority, and language use.

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Mongolia Field School Program - Info session Jan 29

Elizabeth Williams — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 17:59:27 +0000

Mongolia Field School Program - Info session Jan 29 Elizabeth Williams Thu, 01/22/2026 - 10:59

The American Center for Mongolian Studies (ACMS) is hosting a webinar about upcoming Mongolian Field Schools (MFS).

Join us on Zoom on January 29, 2026, at 8:00 PM ET to hear directly from Mongolia Field School alumni. Alumni will share what they expected before joining the program, what daily life in the field school was like, and how the experience shaped them personally and academically. They’ll also highlight memorable moments, discuss challenges, and offer advice for students preparing to join the Summer 2026 cohort. A live Q&A will follow.

Mongolia Field School (MFS), hosted annually by ACMS, offers an immersive educational trip designed to provide both academic insight and hands-on experience in Mongolian studies and other related fields. Our Field School programs welcome scholars, researchers, students, teachers, and anyone interested in embarking on a journey to explore Mongolia’s natural habitat, biodiversity, cultural heritage, and traditional values.

For the 2026 Mongolia Field School, three courses will be offered:

Modern Nomads: Social and Environmental Change in Mongolia: June 29-July 9, 2026
Lens on Mongolia: Photography, Culture, and Language: July 19-25, 2026
Change and Continuity: Managing Biodiversity in Hustai National Park: July 27-August 9, 2026

We warmly invite members of your department to join us for an informational webinar on January 29 at 8:00 pm ET.

Webinar Registration: Webinar for 2026 MFS.

Additional Information: Mongolia Field School

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1/30/26 Deadline - 2026 Special Training Program for Japanese-Language Teachers

Elizabeth Williams — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 23:44:46 +0000

1/30/26 Deadline - 2026 Special Training Program for Japanese-Language Teachers Elizabeth Williams Tue, 01/06/2026 - 16:44

2026 Special Training Program for Japanese-Language Teachers
The Japan Foundation, Los Angeles, in collaboration with the Japanese-Language Institute, Urawa, is excited to announce this special program for the 2026 fiscal year! One of the key priorities in U.S.–Japan relations is strengthening grassroots exchange to help the next generation develop a deeper understanding of Japan. In support of this goal, we will offer two specialized teacher training programs in the summer of 2026 for non-native K–12 Japanese-language teachers in the United States. These programs are designed to enhance participants’ Japanese language proficiency and professional skills. Please see details below:

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Application Deadline: January 30th, 2026 @5:30PM (PST)
Download Application Documents: https://www.jflalc.org/event-details.php/323/
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Duration
The 1st Group: June 5, 2026, to June 29, 2026 (25 days) (tentative)
The 2nd Group: June 21, 2026, to July 15, 2026 (25 days) (tentative)

Description
Participants will strengthen their Japanese-language proficiency, an essential skill for teaching, through a variety of language-focused activities. They will also deepen their understanding of linguistic areas such as vocabulary and grammar.

In addition, participants will gain knowledge and firsthand experience of Japanese culture and society through lectures, workshops, and other planned activities. Field trips, visits to local schools, and cultural demonstrations are also included to provide practical content that can be incorporated into their Japanese-language classes.

Venue
Pre-departure Orientation in Los Angeles
Main Training at The Japan Foundation, Japanese-Language Institute, Urawa

Participants
24 Teachers Per Group

Benefits
Single-room accommodations at JFJLI Urawa (shared rooms may be required during field trips).
Meals provided, partly through cash allowances.
Teaching materials and other curriculum-related expenses covered.
Overseas travel insurance with coverage limits (excluding preexisting conditions and dental care).
Round-trip discount economy airfare from the participant’s nearest international airport.
Airport and foreign travel taxes covered.
Set in-kind allowances to support program participation.

Application Procedures
Please email jflainfo'@'jpf.go.jp to inform us of your intention of applying (Please also include the last day of school for you).
Download and complete the application forms.
Email application forms to the contact in step 1.
Results will be announced by the end of March 2026.

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