The Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center at Colorado College honors a rich culture and history by showcasing Black artists and Black voices in a variety of events and programs, both virtual and in-person. Join us for theatre performances, to art exhibitions and spoken word.

Featuring:

Colorado College Associate Professor of Classics and Judson Bemis Professor in the Humanities Sanjaya Thakur has been selected as an Elizabeth A. Whitehead Distinguished Scholar at the American School for Classical Studies, Athens, for the 2022-23 academic year.

The ASCSA is the oldest American overseas research center for advanced inquiry in the fine arts and humanities. Its mission is to advance knowledge of Greece and all aspects of Greek culture, from antiquity to the present, by training young scholars, sponsoring and promoting archaeological fieldwork, providing resources for scholarly work, and disseminating the results of that research. Thakur joins the list of eminent professors of classics and archaeology who have held the highly coveted position, but is one of the few liberal arts college faculty members to ever hold the fellowship.

Thakur regularly teaches courses on both Greek and Roman sports and sports history at Colorado College and the classes have won him acclaim among students. While in residence, Thakur will be working on several related academic projects, the first on athletics in Homer’s “Odyssey” and the second, a study of depictions of boxers on ancient Greek vases.

The year-long “Forever Foreign” series is bringing notable scholars, authors, and films to campus and to the attention of the 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 Block 7.

You’re invited to join reading groups to discuss these authors’ books during Block 6. A limited number of copies of the books will be available for those who register in advance and multiple copies will be on reserve in Tutt Library. Register for the reading groups here.

Next week, Deepa Iyer, human rights lawyer and activist, presents, “From Silos to Solidarities: Post 9/11 and Beyond,” Monday, Jan. 31, 3-4:30 p.m. on Zoom.

Later this block, join Zareena Grewal, associate professor of religion, American studies, and ethnic studies at Yale University, for “Islam is a Foreign Country: Race, Religion, and U.S. Empire,” Thursday, Feb. 3, 5 p.m. also on Zoom.

We know that climate change disproportionately affects the Arctic, but little is known about how warming influences critical processes such as pollination and plant reproduction in this vast region. As part of the Summer Collaborative Research Program, Lucy Zicarelli ’21, Caroline Brose ’22, and Alex Jennings ’22 worked at Toolik Field Station in Alaska with Professor Roxaneh Khorsand to quantify the effects of warming on the plant-pollinator network. They used passive warming experiments to test how plants and pollinators respond to increased temperatures and early snowmelt.

Come celebrate and learn about this and other collaborative research projects that CC faculty and students worked on last summer at the Summer Research Symposium on Tuesday, Feb. 8, at 3 p.m. in Cornerstone Arts Center. A short oral presentation in Celeste Theatre will begin the event followed by poster presentations in the main space of Cornerstone.

Maggie Anderson ’25 plays piano for her fellow WSO participants after they performed service work at Concrete Couch project Concrete Coyote on Wednesday, Jan. 19, 2022.