Sophie Weston Chien sits on the floor examining a textile

Sophie Weston Chien uses textiles to educate, share stories

Nov. 21, 2024

For Sophie Weston Chien, textiles are more than fabric—they’re maps, site models and stories woven together. As ENVD’s first Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellow, she is pioneering an innovative approach to design communication, one that connects community, ecology and history through the tactile art of tufted textiles.

Street sign pointing to the fictional Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry

Loving the art but not the artist

Oct. 22, 2024

¶¶Òõ¶ÌÊÓƵ Boulder philosopher Iskra Fileva explores the complexities in separating the magic of a story from the controversies of its teller.

a yoga class

Balancing yoga traditions with modern wellness requires flexibility

Sept. 26, 2024

¶¶Òõ¶ÌÊÓƵ Boulder scholar Loriliai Biernacki reflects on the differences between ancient yoga and yoga as it’s practiced today during Yoga Awareness Month.

Stephen Graham Jones in his office

Stephen Graham Jones slashes his way into Texas literary history

Sept. 12, 2024

Stephen Graham Jones, author of multiple bestselling horror novels among other award-winning works, has been inducted into the Texas Literary Hall of Fame.

a marble bas-relief showing Euripides (seated), a woman holding out a theater mask to him and the god Dionysus

Uncovered Euripides fragments are ‘kind of a big deal’

Aug. 22, 2024

¶¶Òõ¶ÌÊÓƵ Boulder Classics scholars Yvona Trnka-Amrhein and John Gibert identified previously unknown fragments of two lost tragedies by Greek tragedian Euripides.

A person in a purple Rockies T-shirt sits in a stadium, one arm crossed and the other extended to scratch her head.

Loving the losing baseball team

July 16, 2024

With the baseball season well underway, ¶¶Òõ¶ÌÊÓƵ Boulder history professor Martin Babicz offers thoughts on why some fans remain loyal to baseball’s perennial losers.

Nathan Elexander Moore

Dystopian ‘fissures of disaster’ intensify our own world

July 15, 2024

In a newly published story collection, The Rupture Files, Assistant Professor Nathan Alexander Moore explores identity and community in dystopian worlds.

Anna Tsouhlarakis at the National Portrait Gallery

Artist transcends traditional notions of Native American art

July 10, 2024

Whether in a somber performance in the National Portrait Gallery or in her wry takes on Native humor, Assistant Professor of art and art history Anna Tsouhlarakis follows her heart.

Soldiers training at Camp Hale in 1963-64

6 decades later, scholar locates site of secret CIA-Tibet training camp

June 4, 2024

Professor Carole McGranahan has long studied the Tibetan perspective of China’s invasion and occupation of Tibet, and with dogged research pinpointed the exact location of the CIA’s training of Tibetan soldiers to fight Chinese invaders—once a state secret. A commemoration will be held on June 9 at Camp Hale, Colorado.

Bill Porter appears at the Met Gala in entirely gold beaded attire, including large wings extending beyond his hands.

Is it fashion or costume? Sometimes it’s both

May 6, 2024

Associate Professor Markas Henry reflects on the sometimes vague or even non-existent line between clothing and show—a distintion that can blur at the annual Met Gala.

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