Past Events

If You Go Date: November 21, 2005 Time: 6:30 PM Where: Old Main An Evening with Pam Houston, Laura Pritchett, and Gary Wockner A new anthology about reintroducing wolves in Colorado and the Southwest was discussed by a panel of three writers, including Pam Houston, on Monday, Nov. 21, at...

If You Go Date: January 9, 2006 Time: 6:30 PM Where: Old Main A Book Discussion with Author Timothy Egan Personal stories and eyewitness accounts of the 1930s’ Dust Bowl disaster on the high plains were part of Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Timothy Egan’s public discussion January 9, 2006, at the...

If You Go Date: January 19, 2006 Secretaries of the Interior Series Donald Hodel, who held two cabinet posts during the Reagan administration, including Secretary of the Interior, will speak at the University of Colorado at Boulder on January 19, 2006. Hodel will speak at 6:00 p.m. in the Eaton...

If You Go Date: February 4, 2006 Where: Montrachet Room, Marriott Hotel Re-release of Patricia Limerick's Landmark Book, Legacy of Conquest To celebrate the re-release of her landmark 1987 book, The Legacy of Conquest , University of Colorado at Boulder Professor Patricia Nelson Limerick joined with Stanford University historian Richard...

If You Go Date: February 20, 2006 Reflecting on The Contested Plains: Indians, Goldseekers, and the Rush to Colorado Elliott West, an award-winning author and Distinguished Professor of History at the University of Arkansas, gave a public talk at the University of Colorado at Boulder on February 20, 2006. West...

If You Go Date: March 22, 2006 Time: 6:00 PM Where: UMC, Room 235 How Professors and K-12 Teachers Together Can Revive the Study of History The University of Colorado at Boulder’s Center of the American West will present a talk by author and historian David Wrobel on March 22,...

If You Go Date: April 20, 2006 Time: 7:00 PM Where: Glenn Miller Ballroom, UMC Secretaries of the Interior Series Two prominent former Secretaries of the Interior, Stewart Udall and James Watt, will meet in a public event for the first time April 20 to discuss land management issues with...

If You Go Date: May 14, 2006 Where: Chautauqua Auditorium, Boulder, CO Sacred Singers and Cowboy Poetry with Dr. George Russell The Jubilate! Sacred Singers of Boulder performed works celebrating nature and the American West by Charles Ives, Aaron Copland, Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, William Billings, Bob Nolan, William Dawson,...

If You Go Date: May 15, 2006 Where: Chautauqua Community House, Boulder, CO How Soon, How Much, and How to Cut CO2? Noted energy expert Dr. Willett Kempton gave a talk on Monday, May 15, entitled “Preventing Climate Catastrophe: How Soon, How Much, and How to Cut CO2?” at the...

If You Go Date: May 22, 2006 Where: Chautauqua Park, Boulder, CO Current Administration Energy Policies and Public Policy Rebecca Watson, former Assistant Secretary for Land and Minerals Management at the U.S. Department of the Interior, lectured on “Current Administration Energy Policies” at Chautauqua Park in Boulder on Monday, May...