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Events

 

Conference on World Affairs

Wednesday, April 6 - Saturday, April 9
More than 100 panels, performances, and keynote events comprise this Boulder tradition. The 74th Conference on World Affairs is returning in person and via livestream; all events are free and open to the public. Sessions on climate change and adaptation, food systems, water, ethics, politics, and equity will provide diverse and thought-provoking perspectives. See the schedule, get the app, and register to attend sessions via a CU Today webpage.
 

A New Perspective to Coordinate Climate Action

Two showtimes: Wednesday, April 6, 10:30-11:30 a.m.
Friday, April 8, 2:00-3:00 p.m.
Fiske Planetarium
2414 Regent Drive, CU Boulder main campus

This partnership between the The Clock Tower Project and Fiske Planetarium will stimulate an evolving conversation around climate communication and explore creative ways to inspire coordinated action. We are looking for feedback on the impact of the dome film, and to co-create ideas on how to best engage, inspire and support people along a journey towards building solutions. The free event includes: 1) a screening of an engaging short dome film: The Clock Tower Project: A New Perspective of Time & Humanity, 2) a panel discussion with climate scientists, educators, and visionaries, and 3) an opportunity to engage with one another over coffee/treats. Don't miss the opportunity to be a part of this important conversation! See more on The Clock Tower Project website.
 

Airborne Era: Opening reception

Wednesday, April 13, 4:30-6:00 p.m.
SEEC Gallery (South Atrium)
4001 Discovery Drive, CU Boulder east campus

Experience a body of photographic work by Kelsey Simpkins visualizing the air around us and exploring our changing relationship to air. Funded by the Nature Environment Science Technology (NEST) Studio for the Arts. See more on the calendar event. Free and open to all. Light refreshments will be served.
 

More than Polar Bears: Human Health and Climate Change

Thursday, April 14, 9:30-11:00 a.m.
Center for Community (C4C) room S336, J.D. Abrams Lounge
2249 Williard Drive, CU Boulder main campus
Or via Zoom

Join us for a discussion about how a warming climate undermines human health. A panel discussion by MDs Jay Lemery, Professor of Emergency Medicine, CU School of Medicine; Cecilia Sorensen, Emergency Medicine, CU Hospital; and Bhar Chekuri, Climate & Health Fellow, Anschutz. Sponsored by the Program for Writing & Rhetoric.
 

Panel discussion on bipartisan climate solutions

Thursday, April 14, 10:00-11:00 a.m.
SEEC Auditorium, East Campus; and Zoom

Please join U.S. representatives Joe Neguse (D-Colorado, in person) and John Curtis (R-Utah, virtual) in a panel discussion about bipartisan climate solutions. Learn about the lawmakers' motivations for working on climate change issues, where they see opportunities for building consensus on efforts to mitigate and adapt to climate change, and thoughts on reducing the political polarization of the issue. Recent CU Boulder ENVS graduate Renae Marshall and CIRES Fellow Matt Burgess, assistant professor of Environmental Studies, will moderate. Co-sponsored by CIRES and the Bruce D. Benson Center for the Study of Western Civilization. Open to the community. Eventbrite tickets are required for the in-person event. Learn more and register to attend.
 

Comedy for Climate Change

Stand up for climate change live performance
Friday, April 15, 7:30 p.m.
Old Main Chapel Theatre
1600 Pleasant Street, CU Boulder main campus

Enjoy student-created climate comedy in the form of stand-up, sketch comedy, and song, along with winning videos from the Inside the Greenhouse 7th Annual International Climate Comedy Video Contest. Free and open to all.
 

Climate Literacy and Energy Awareness Network (CLEAN) webinar

Climate and mental health: Acknowledging grief and inspiring hope
Tuesday, April 19, 4:00-5:00 p.m.
During this webinar, we will review research linking climate change and mental health. We will focus on skills for coping with and moving through personal grief and loss related to climate change. Emphasis will also be placed on supporting students in processing and transforming climate change-related grief and loss. As a component of this, we will learn how to inspire hope in yourself and your students through examples of innovation, advocacy, and community action. Presenter Courtney Welton-Mitchell, Ph.D. is trained as a social psychologist and a mental health clinician and has worked as a practitioner and researcher in global disasters and complex humanitarian crises. See more and register on the CLEAN website.
 

Campus Sustainability Summit

Thursday, April 21
University Memorial Center, main campus

In 2021, CU Chancellor Phil DiStefano issued the Campus Call to Climate Action. Now, come learn how CU Boulder is answering that call with a solutions showcase of campus research, programs and innovations related to sustainability, climate and the environment. Faculty, staff and students are invited to share, learn and celebrate CU Boulder’s wide array of sustainability leadership and accomplishments, including the partnership with United Nations Human Rights to co-host the Right Here, Right Now Global Climate Summit in the fall of 2022. See more about the event in a CU Today news story.
 

Coffee & Conversations on Community Engagement

Iterative design, assessment and DEI
Thursday, April 21, 12:00-1:00 p.m.
via Zoom

Join CU Engage and the Office for Outreach and Engagement for this drop-in virtual event designed to help you think through the partnership building process. Katie Kleinhesselink (OOE) and guests will discuss projects from the perspectives of CU and community partners and focus on program design that includes ongoing assessment of community needs and issues of equity and inclusion. See the OOE website for more info and to sign up for the session.
 

Mobile Food Pantry

Thursday, April 21, 2:00-4:00 p.m.
University Memorial Center (UMC) South Terrace Plaza, main campus

The Mobile Food Pantry is free and open to CU Boulder students, faculty, and staff as well as community members of Boulder and Broomfield Counties. Up to 30 pounds of food per person, including fresh produce, dairy, and meat, will be distributed on a first-come, first-served basis. Please bring reusable bags with you, or some other way to carry items easily. Drive through isn't available at this Mobile Food Pantry; if you're driving, limited parking is available in the Euclid Parking Garage. A volunteer will be present at the entrance of the Euclid Parking Garage to provide additional information. If you are not feeling well or have symptoms of illness, please stay home and send someone else to pick up food for you. See more info on the event listing.
 

Not So Far Removed: Changes at the Poles & Implications for Colorado

Science Under the Dome - Climate Change in Our Backyard series
Thursday, April 21, 7:00 p.m.
Fiske Planetarium
CU Boulder main campus
$10 adult; $7 child, senior, or veteran

Thousands of miles away, icy frontiers seem to be in a world completely removed from our own. There, some of the harshest conditions on the planet comprise the normal day-to-day. These regions are experiencing changes that are occurring faster than expected, but with the change occurring so far away, could it possibly impact us here in Colorado and the continental U.S.? Join Dr. Tasha Snow on her research adventures to the far reaches of our planet, taking ice cores from the middle of Greenland in the north, to navigating treacherous iceberg-riddled oceans to map warm waters reaching Antarctic glaciers in the south. She will take you through  projects being conducted by Colorado researchers, changes that are being witnessed by our scientists, and how these changes impact us in Colorado. See more and get tickets on the Fiske website.
 

Living in Fire Adapted Ecosystems: Our Built Environment

Thursday, April 28, 4:30-6:00 p.m.
The Boulder Watershed Collective in partnership with the Northern Colorado Fireshed Collaborative and the Center for Sustainable Landscapes and Communities is hosting a Living with Wildfire Learning Series to shine a light on potential impacts and adaptations moving forward from the Marshall Fire. The webinar will consider what we can do to better protect our homes from wildfire, and what city and county officials are considering in terms of wildfire survivability of our built environment. Local and national wildfire professionals and researchers out of UC Davis and Oregon State will touch on factors that best protect structures in wildland urban environments, and innovative engineering and building materials we can all consider. Learn more and sign up for the event via Eventbrite.

Art exhibits

 

Airborne Era: Photographs by Kelsey Simpkins

March 30 - June 9
Opening reception Wednesday, April 13
SEEC Gallery, East Campus

Visit the SEEC Gallery space, just off the south Atrium, for a meditation on air and air quality. How do we think about this invisible substance that is so necessary to us moment by moment? Are wildfire smoke, COVID, and pollution changing our relationship to air? Experimental photographs by NEST Community Artist Fellow Kelsey Simpkins.

 

Sensing Ice: Explorations of Knowing Nature exhibit

Through spring semester
Jerry Crail Johnson Earth Sciences & Map Library
Benson Earth Sciences building, CU Boulder main campus

Enter this exhibit to contemplate the evolving human relationship with the ice on our planet. Immersive multimedia reveals the lifecycle of the world’s ice and snow. It features large-format photography and video from ENVS PhD Chris Dunn's research and music by Alaskan composer Matthew Burtner, performed and recorded on-site with glaciers. Images from different elevations in Nepal and Greenland to evoke a global trajectory that is at once measurable and sensual. To most of us, the earth’s icy landscapes seem remote. Yet, the furthest reaches of the earth are responding directly to us and our daily decisions. Exhibit produced by NEST in collaboration with the CU Boulder Libraries. See more about the exhibit on the Libraries' website.
 

LaMont Hamilton:  To Hear the Earth Before the End of the World

Through July 16
CU Art Museum, main campus

This light and sound installation is organized around elements of air, earth, fire, water, and aether. The work includes field recordings artist LaMont Hamilton captured during his research and travels to Europe and North and South America where he gained, "a ground zero understanding of our changing Earth. Hearing glaciers cracking, smelling forest fires, the mechanical cacophony of land being razed—all felt on a cellular level.” Audiences are invited to spend time within a heightened sensory environment wherein Hamilton asks us to listen to the sounds of a changing climate that involves both creation and destruction. Each week a different element will be featured. See more on the Museum's website.
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