Batik Cutting Board Coloring
Tuesday, February 28, 2023
4pm-5pm
The Hive @ALTEC
Hellems 159.
Epigraphy and the Rise of Islam: the religious landscape of late pre-Islamic Arabia
Thursday, March 2 at 5pm
Humanities 135
This talk will present new epigraphic discoveries from the late 5th to early 7th-century Hijaz region of Arabia. Dr. Al-Jallad will discuss religious continuities and transformations that occurred in this period and their implications for our understanding of the background of Islam.
Ahmad Al-Jallad did his doctoral work at Harvard University in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations. He currently researches the languages, writing systems, and cultures of pre-Islamic Arabia and is the Sofia Chair of Arabic at the Ohio State University. He is the author of The Religion and Rituals of the Nomads of Pre-Islamic Arabia: A reconstruction based on the Safaitic inscriptions, among other works.
We Measure the Earth with our Bodies: Book Reading with Tsering Lama
March 2, 2023
5:30pm Reception
6pm Book talk followed by Q&A
Chancellor's Hall and Auditorium
CASE Building, 4th floor
Join us for an extraordinary event: a book reading and dialogue with Tsering Yangzom Lama about her award-winning debut novel, We Measure the Earth with Our Bodies, the first novel in English by a Tibetan woman.
Breathtaking in scope and powerfully intimate, We Measure the Earth with Our Bodies is a gorgeously written meditation on colonization, displacement, and the lengths we’ll go to remain connected to our families and ancestral lands. Told through the lives of a family across three generations, this beautifully lyrical debut novel provides a nuanced portrait of the world of Tibetan exiles. We Measure the Earth with Our Bodies, won the 2023 New Writers Award for Fiction from the Great Lakes Colleges Association. A New York Times Summer Reads pick, her novel was shortlisted for The Scotiabank Giller Prize and longlisted for The Center for Fiction First Novel Prize and The Toronto Book Awards.
Indonesian Cultural Booth and Performance CU International Festival
Saturday, March 4 2023
3 PM - 7pm
Glenn Miller Ballroom
UMC