Gather in Community for 60th Annual Festival of Lessons and Carols

This Advent service of scripture, carols, and choral pieces is modeled on the original service at Kings College, Cambridge, weaving in the expansive diversity of global Christianity. This year there will be pieces from CC Mariachi Tigre, the CC Choir, and others from the CC community. The wider Colorado Springs community and beyond can register to join us virtually for this annual Advent celebration.

Protect Yourself Against Flu and COVID-19

Over the last week, the Student Health Center has confirmed multiple cases of the flu. You can receive both the COVID-19 booster shot and flu vaccine at this Saturday’s booster clinic. Although walk-ins will be accommodated, you’re encouraged to make an appointment for Saturday, Dec. 11, 9 a.m.-1 p.m.

If you only need a flu vaccine, call the Student Health Center, (719) 389-6384, to schedule that stand-alone vaccination. The Student Health Center is experiencing a high volume of calls; please be patient and leave a message so a staff member can call you back.

Basic mitigation strategies like wearing masks, washing hands frequently, and social distancing protect the campus community from BOTH flu and COVID-19. If you are feeling COVID or flu-like symptoms, stay home and contact a medical provider who can determine appropriate testing (the Student Health Center for students). This symptom comparison chart may also help.

CC Launches Year-Long Series Addressing Anti-Asian Racism

The year-long “Forever Foreign” series is bringing notable scholars, authors, and films to campus and to the greater community, and will culminate with keynote lectures by two Pulitzer Prize-winning Asian-American writers and public intellectuals — Viet Thanh Nguyen and Ayad Akhtar — in the second week of Block 7. In their work, both Nguyen, author of “The Sympathizer” and “The Committed,” and Akhtar, author of “Homeland Elegies,” write evocatively about the legacies of America’s two longest wars and the intersections of violence, migration/displacement, memory, and racism. Nguyen’s work addresses the legacies of the war in Vietnam and Akhtar’s those of the war on terror. Their writings suggest that the lived experiences of Asian diaspora communities and the phenomenon of anti-Asian racism can be productively approached by situating them within the broader history of the U.S. as a global imperial power and the many wars that it has fought in Asia. View the “Forever Foreign” series event schedule.

Join the Collaborative for Community Engagement’s Bonner Fellowship!

The Collaborative for Community Engagement is currently recruiting for first and second-year students to start in the Spring of 2022! The official deadline for applications is December 19, at 11:55 p.m. Read the full job description and apply on Handshake.

The Bonner Fellowship is a cohort-based, long-term, developmental, paid community engagement fellowship in which students commit to an average of 24 hours of community engagement, community-based learning, and community building per block.

Contact the CCE’s Civic Leadership Program Coordinator, Tyra Voget (tvoget@coloradocollege.edu“>tvoget@coloradocollege.edu) with any further questions.

Stephanie Doktor Wins 2021 Best Essay in Popular Music Scholarship

Visiting Assistant Professor Stephanie Doktor received an award from the American Musicological Society for her article, “Finding Florence Mills: The Voice of the Harlem Jazz Queen in the Compositions of William Grant Still and Edmund Thornton Jenkins,” published in the Journal of the Society for American Music. The award was presented at the American Musicological Society virtual conference on Nov. 21.

Despite Mills’ overwhelming popularity among New Negro Renaissance communities, she is little known today. Disregard for Black creative life in the early 20th century undercut preservation of her music, leaving only a meager collection. Doktor analyzes the music of Still and Jenkins that was scored for Mills and posits a new way to hear her voice through these compositions — one that contests the written reception of her racially biased listeners.

The committee was impressed with the timeliness of Doktor’s work in addressing musical constructions of race, modernity, and history. Doktor supported her arguments with a mixture of deep archival work and strong engagement with relevant, contemporary theorization. The committee celebrated this essay because Doktor helps the reader “hear” Mills, although no recordings exist, through a detailed examination of compositions written for the singer, revealing how voices often subvert gendered and racialized stereotypes. Cambridge University Press is making the article available for free for 6 months because of the award.

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