Past Events

If You Go Date: September 30, 2009 Time: 7:00 PM Where: Beaver Meadows Visitor Center Auditorium, Rocky Mountain National Park Reflections of a National Park Manager – 42 Years on the Griddle Retired Yellowstone National Park Superintendent Bob Barbee spoke as part of the third Randy Jones Memorial Lecture, jointly...

If You Go Date: November 12, 2009 Time: 7:00 PM Where: Eaton Humanities, Room 250 The Center celebrated the release of its newest book, Remedies for a New West: Healing Landscapes, Histories, and Cultures . Published by the University of Arizona Press, this exciting new collaborative volume, coedited by Patty...

If You Go Date: February 24, 2010 Time: 7:00 PM Where: Wittemyer Courtoom, Wolf Law School An Interview with Thomas Jefferson, as portrayed by Clay Jenkinson Thomas Jefferson was the third President of the United States, an avid inventor, and principal author of the Declaration of Independence. Thomas Jefferson and...

If You Go Date: February 25, 2010 Time: 7:00 PM Where: Denver Museum of Nature & Science An Interview with Theodore Roosevelt, as portrayed by Clay Jenkinson Theodore Roosevelt was the twenty-sixth President of the United States and is remembered for his leadership of the Progressive Movement as well as...

If You Go Date: March 4, 2010 Time: 7:00 PM Where: Eaton Humanities, Room 150 How Rainbow Trout Beguiled America and Overran the World CU-Boulder Professor, award-winning journalist, and aquatic ecologist Anders Halverson celebrated the release of his newest book, An Entirely Synthetic Fish: How Rainbow Trout Beguiled America and...

If You Go Date: April 14, 2010 Where: Old Main 10th Anniversary Celebration of the National Landscape Conservation System (NLCS) The Bureau of Land Management’s National Landscape Conservation System – an extraordinary, but under-recognized, collection of treasured public lands – is celebrating its tenth birthday with a signature event at...

If You Go Date: April 15, 2010 Time: 7:30 PM Where: Rocky Mountain PBS, Channel 6 Living with Energy Following up on the success of the Center of the American West report, What Every Westerner Should Know About Energy Efficiency and Conservation , this film emphasizes the sexiness of our...

If You Go Date: September 28, 2010 Time: 9:00 AM Where: Wittemyer Courtoom, Wolf Law School 2010 Wallace Stegner Award Recipient Patty Limerick interviewed the 2010 Stegner Award recipient, Ted Turner, for a morning of engaging discussion. Each year, the Center celebrates the life and achievements of an individual who...

If You Go Date: October 21, 2010 Time: 7 :00 PM Where: Benson Earth Sciences, Room 180 Join us as Center of the American West affiliate and local historian, Buzzy Jackson, releases her newest book, Shaking the Family Tree: Blue Bloods, Black Sheep, and Other Obsessions of an Accidental Genealogist...

If You Go Date: December 2, 2010 Time: 7:00PM Where: Benson Earth Sciences, Room 180 Modern Indian Identity “In the Courts of the Conqueror: A Native American Experience” We are pleased to announce Walter Echo-Hawk , a lawyer, tribal judge, scholar, and activist, as the eighth guest in our Modern...