Arts & Humanities
- Upon the 65th anniversary of the Motown record label, a CU Boulder professor says that, from Taylor Swift to K-pop, 鈥淚t鈥檚 all Motown; they are not creating anything new.鈥
- Sixty years after The Beatles鈥 first appearance on 鈥淭he Ed Sullivan Show,鈥 CU Boulder historian Martin Babicz reflects on their impact on U.S. culture and politics.
- Romance authors were early adopters of digital self-publishing. A new book by Christine Larson explores how their willingness to experiment and their close networks helped them thrive when the publishing industry shunned their work.
- CU Boulder Asian languages faculty members Yingjie Li and Yu Zhang reflect on what some consider the luckiest year in the Chinese zodiac.
- An expert from the College of Media, Communication and Information notes that, in its ongoing conquest of legacy media studios, the tech industry has made use of a very old playbook.
- At what would have been Al Capone鈥檚 125th birthday, CU Boulder cinema researcher Tiel Lundy explains the enduring popularity of gangsters in film and the American imagination.
- In this month鈥檚 campus update, David Humphrey, assistant vice chancellor for diversity, equity and inclusion, discusses why it鈥檚 important to keep history relevant and alive.
- CU Boulder Associate Professor Kelly Sears is premiering her short animated feature 鈥淭he Lost Season鈥 at the Sundance Film Festival.
- As we prepare to celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Professor Ashleigh Lawrence Sanders shares insight on King鈥檚 fuller legacy, his trajectory as an activist and why people tend to boil him down to a few simplistic words and phrases. 聽
- Award-winning author and CU Boulder Professor Stephen Graham Jones shares advice with writers who may be reflecting on their 50,000 words for National Novel Writing Month.