Past Events

If You Go Date: April 1, 2015 Time: 6:30PM Where: Wolf Law, Wittemyer Courtroom The role of the Fool has deep origins in human society. In the past, kings and queens recognized the value—really, the necessity—of appointing Fools who would speak openly and even festively of uncomfortable matters that would...

If You Go Date: April 7, 2015 Time: 7:30PM Where: Muenzinger Auditorium A The Center of the American West is proud to host a screening of Losing the West a documentary about small ranching and farming, exemplified by the story of a lifelong Colorado cowboy. Howard Linscott IS the original...

If You Go Date: April 8, 2015 Time: 6:30 PM Where: Math 100 Cornell University Professor and Influential 'Talking Head' in Josh Fox's "Gasland," in Conversation with Professor Patty Limerick The Return of FrackingSENSE: What We Know, What We Don’t Know, and What We Hope to Learn about Oil &...

If You Go Date: April 20, 2015 Time: 6:30PM Where: Wolf Law Wittemyer Courtroom 2015 Wallace Stegner Recipient Each year, the Center of the American West presents the Wallace Stegner Award to an individual who has made a sustained contribution to the cultural identity of the West through literature, art,...

If You Go Date: April 28, 2015 Time: 6:30 PM Where: Wolf Law, Wittemyer Courtroom The Politics of Shale Gas in the United Kingdom The Return of FrackingSENSE: What We Know, What We Don’t Know, and What We Hope to Learn about Oil & Gas Development. With the help of...

If You Go Date: October 14, 2015 Time: 6:30PM Where: Eaton Humanities 1B50 The History of Humor and the Humor of History We are thrilled to announce the first Center of the American West Fool for a Day Award. This award was created to celebrate those individuals whose temperaments support...

If You Go Date: May 12, 2021 Time: 12:00PM Where: Virtual Phil Deloria is a social, cultural and political historian of the relations among American Indian peoples and the United States. Author of Playing Indian , and Indians in Unexpected Places. Historians Imagine is a monthly webinar devoted to this...

If You Go Date: April 14, 2021 Time: 12:00PM Where: Virtual Jenny Price is a public writer, artist, historian, and author of Stop Saving the Planet!: An Environmentalist Manifesto. Co-creator of the Our Malibu Beaches mobile-phone app. Historians Imagine is a monthly webinar devoted to this dimension of the craft...

If You Go Date: May 10, 2021 Time: 12:00PM Where: Virtual Diana DeGette and Fred Upton recently announced they are currently working on a new bipartisan piece of legislation they are calling “Cures 2.0” to build upon the incredible success they achieved with their first bill. They were also recently...

If You Go Date: April 15, 2021 Time: 12:00PM Where: Virtual University of Colorado President Mark Kennedy and University of Massachusetts President Marty Meehan who served in the U.S. House of Representatives together, joined us for a public conversation on April 15th. Kennedy as a Republican from Minnesota and Meehan...