LANGUAGE, CULTURE AND CLIMATE IN A RAPIDLY CHANGING SIBERIAN ENVIRONMENT
Monday, Feb. 8, 2016 | 3-4:30 p.m.
Humanities Building – Carolyn Tanner Irish (CTIHB)
One of the major issues of our time is climate change and its immediate and long-term effects on the world we live in. In the Circumpolar Arctic, climate change is proceeding at an accelerated rate and affects all walks of life. Increasing temperatures have resulted in coastal erosion and the displacement of people, changes in mammals, fish and vegetation. Thinning sea ice has made the hunting of sea mammals more dangerous on the one hand and has opened up access to waterways that both make natural resources available, but also intensified security issues.
Indigenous peoples are directly affected by these changes.
In Siberia, the situation is particularly grim. There are 50 or so different ethnolinguistic indigenous peoples living in this vast territory and all are undergoing extensive and intensive cultural disruption. Who are these people and what is at stake? In this talk I put a face to these peoples, mapping out the Siberian linguistic ecology and demonstrating direct links between language usage, the lexicon, and traditional indigenous practices.
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GECKOS LIVE
Monday, Feb. 1-Sunday, May 1, 2016
Natural History Museum of Utah
Bulging eyes, sticky toepads, incredible night vision and disposable body parts — welcome to a gecko’s world!
Geckos are incredibly adaptable and have conquered habitats from balmy tropical beaches and lush rainforests to frigid mountain slopes and parched deserts. More than 1,200 species range from shadowy, nighttime hunters with bulging eyes and squawking voices to bold, nectar eaters that scamper around in daylight, adorned in neon colors.
Come meet live geckos from around the world that re-create their natural environments in astonishing detail. Then explore interactives that allow you to experience gecko night vision, listen to gecko voices, try to spot camouflaged geckos and build a custom gecko for various environments.
Purchase tickets here.
CAREER PLANNING AND INTERNSHIPS IN THE WORLD OF SMART HOME AND INTERNET OF THINGS
Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2016 | 12-1 p.m.
Orson Spencer Hall, Hinckely Caucus Room 255
Join us as economics alum Matt Eyring discusses career planning as well as some sponsored internships through Vivint. As chief strategy and innovation officer at Vivint Inc., Eyring leads Vivint’s directional growth initiatives in teh home automation, security, wireless Internet, energy management and solar markets.
ANGELA SMITH: SEX, SEXUALITY AND DISABILITY
Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2016 | 3-4:30 p.m.
S.J. Quinney College of Law, Room 6500
This seminar session will consider the ways in which disability, sexuality and the experience of sex intersect. It will look at some examples of disabled people’s narratives and scholarly work to consider how sexual experience and identity are shaped by having a non-normative body in an ableist society.
INTEGRATING RENEWABLE ENERGY IN THE WESTERN UNITED STATES
Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2016 | 4-5 p.m. | FREE
Aline Skaggs Biology Building, Room 210
The creation of the Energy Imbalance Market in the Western United States is changing how the electric grid operates in fundamentally important ways and allowing for better integration of low-carbon renewable energy. Policymakers, planners and grid operators are working to integrate variable renewable resources while maintaining system reliability and affordability.
Dr. Elizabeth J. Wilson joins us to discuss how these actors may innovate organizationally to improve renewable resource integration and system efficiencies. She is a professor of energy and environmental policy and Law at the Humphrey School of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota. Her research examines policies and institutions supporting energy system transitions. Wilson holds a doctorate in engineering and public policy from Carnegie Mellon University and was selected as a Leopold Leadership Fellow in 2011 and an Andrew Carnegie Fellow in 2015.
ETHICS CLUB FUNDRAISING EVENT
Wednesday, Feb. 10, 2016 | 11-2 p.m.
Marriott Library Plaza
Join the Ethics Club at the Marriott Library Plaza for a fundraising event by donating to Shriner’s Hospital for Children. No contribution is too small.
FACULTY CLUB BASKETBALL PRE-GAME SOCIAL
Wednesday, Feb. 10, 2016 | 5:30-6:30 p.m.
Marriott University Park Hotel in Research Park, 480 Wakara Way
All faculty are invited to join the Faculty Club and come to the Faculty Club pregame social. Bring your family and enjoy pizza, beverages and good conversation before the Utes vs. Washington Huskies basketball game. The social is free for members, and free game tickets for you and your family will be available at the social. To reserve your pizza and tickets for the game, email shawnee.worsley@utah.edu. Faculty Club membership applications will be available at the door.
All faculty are invited to join the Faculty Club for just $5 per month. Members have access to monthly socials, discounted hotel rooms at the Marriott University Park, discounted theatre and museum tickets with group gatherings before or after, free basketball and volleyball tickets with pregame pizza parties, the family holiday party, access to the Faculty Club cabin and more. Visit facultyclub.utah.edu for more information.
SCIENCE NIGHT LIVE: FEATURING ASSISTANT PROFESSOR BRAXTON OSTING
Wednesday, Feb. 10, 2016 | 5:30-7 p.m.
Keys on Main, 242 South Main Street, Salt Lake City
Why do bees construct honeycombs using hexagons? What is the most efficient way to stack oranges at the supermarket? I’ll discuss these and some related beautiful geometrical questions and then talk about how these ideas can be applied to the important problem of image segmentation.
Featuring: assistant professor Braxton Osting, mathematics
SALT LAKE CITY PUBLIC OPEN HOUSE SEEKING INPUT ON THREE MASTER PLANS
Thursday, Feb. 11, 2016 | 6:30-8 p.m.
Dilworth Elementary School, 1953 S. 2100 East, Salt Lake City
Salt Lake City is hosting a public open house this week. The city is seeking your input on three master plans that may impact your community:
East Bench Master Plan (Review and comment on the draft plan)
21st and 21st Small Area Plan (Review and comment on design alternatives)
Parley’s Way Corridor Plan (Review and comment on the draft plan)
It’s open house format so drop-in any time between 6:30-8 p.m.
To participate online, visit slcgov.com/opencityhall.
RED BUTTE GARDEN OUTDOOR CONCERT SERIES TICKETS GO ON SALE
Friday, Feb. 12, 2016 | 10 a.m.
redbuttegarden.org/concerts
The Lumineers are coming to Red Butte! Tickets for the May 25 show go on sale Feb. 12.
The Lumineers
The Cleopatra World Tour
special guest SOAK
RESIDUE
Friday, Feb. 12, 2016 | 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, Feb. 13, 2016 | 7:30 p.m. and 9 p.m.
Performing Arts Building, Room 202
Taking its title from the idea of what is left after someone dies, Residue explores the situations of love and loss, and what’s left after passing. Georgia Powers and a coroner trace back through Georgia’s life in attempt to put together her narrative after she has died; all this told in a 20-minute world premier which features movement and poetic storytelling.
Prior to their travels to the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival in Denver, the ensemble will share three performances of Residue as a work-in-progress showing in the Performing Arts Building (PAB) on campus. After the performance, they will engage the audience in a short, informal feedback session before revising the piece for the festival.
Free with a suggested donation of $5. This project is partially funded by the FAF Grant and the College of Fine Arts; additional support from Lyft and Who’s Louis Theatre Company.
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LYRIC OPERA ENSEMBLE: MOZART’S IDOMENEO
Friday, Feb. 12-Saturday, Feb. 13, 2016
Libby Gardner Concert Hall
Be sure not to miss this extraordinary event as the Lyric Opera Ensemble brings to life Mozart’s opera “Seria, Idomeneo.” In a display of pure artistry, mythical characters will come to life through lyrical arias, emotional ensembles, and unforgettable recitatives. Monsters, kings and gods surround this tragic opera. Come and see what happy ending is in store as only Mozart could compose.
General admission: $12.50
Arts Pass event: Free to U students with UCard,
Other students:$6.50
Faculty, staff and seniors:$6.50
BOISE STATE VS UTAH HOCKEY
Saturday, Feb. 13, 2016 | 8:30-11 p.m.
Salt Lake City Sports Complex
It’s Senior Night at the Utah Ice Sheet as the Utes welcome in Boise State for the final game of the regular season. The Utes won the season series against the Broncos last season, going 2-1-1 against them.
Get tickets here.
PRESIDENTS DAY – NO SCHOOL
Monday, Feb. 15
Presidents Day — No school.
FULBRIGHT SCHOLAR PROGRAM – PRESENTATION FOR FACULTY
Wednesday, Feb. 17, 2016 | 3-4 p.m.
Orson Spencer Hall, Hinckley Caucus Room 255
The Core Fulbright Scholar Program offers nearly 600 teaching, research or combination teaching/research awards in over 125 countries. In addition, several new programs have been established to meet the changing needs of U.S. academics, including flexible, multi-country grants.
Please join us to learn if the Fulbright is right for you.
For more information, please contact professor Howard Lehman, Fulbright program director at howard.lehman@poli-sci.utah.edu.
‘MIST OF THE EARTH’: AN EXHIBITION
Jan. 8-March 17
Marriott Library
Denise Milan’s “Mist of the Earth” presents an exhibition of photo-works that brings together memory and history and invites viewers on a journey of imagination and reflection about the environment challenges of development.