CU on the Weekend Lectures
For more than two decades, CU on the Weekend presented lectures for the public. CU Boulder’s finest scholars shared their cutting-edge work from nearly all fields and disciplines. The series officially produced its last two programs during Fall 2023, but our office recorded many of the lectures, available below.
Protecting Antarctica: Science, Diplomacy, and Storytelling from the Bottom of the World · Sept. 23, 2023
Defining Beer in the Ancient World · Nov. 3, 2023
America's Broken Political Process and the Path Forward · Sept. 17, 2022
What Do You Do When the Earth Shakes? Children, Adults, and Generational Gaps in Protective Action Behavior · Oct. 22, 2022
A Study of Inequity in Sport · February 3, 2023
Music of the "Long" '70s: Black Power, Punk, Jambands, and Jewish Soul · March 3, 2023
How GPS Changed Everything · April 15, 2023
Creative (Climate) Communications for a Better World · Sept. 25, 2021
Can Humans Live with Wildfire? · Nov. 13, 2021
Rights of Indigenous People and Developing International Law · Dec. 4, 2021
Where Have You Experienced Biology Today? · Feb. 12, 2022
Camping Grounds: Public Nature in American History · March 12, 2022
Tales From Under the Mediterranean: Reminiscences of a Maritime Archaeologist · April 23, 2022
Presente! Latina Legislative Leadership in the Colorado General Assembly · May 14, 2022
A Mission to Touch the Sun · Sept. 19, 2020
Compromise in an Era of Party Polarization · Oct. 10, 2020
Reflections on Musical Time · Nov. 21, 2020
Coyotes, Wolves and Why Their Return Matters · Feb. 6, 2021
Pursuing Citizenship in an Era of Enforcement · March 13, 2021
Face to Face with the Radical Right · April 24, 2021
Jazz, Dada and the Music of Paris after World War I · Sept. 28, 2019
An Arctic Perspective on Contemporary Global Warming · Oct. 12, 2019
Performance and Politics: The Rise and Fall of the Brazilian Left · Nov. 16, 2019
Media Challenges in Campaign 2020 · Dec. 7, 2019
The Growing Field of Cannabis Research · Feb. 15, 2020
Bernstein as Teacher: Exploring the Language of Music · Sept. 8, 2018
Building for Eternity: The Romans Conquer the Sea · Oct. 13, 2018
The Knowledge Illusion · Nov. 3, 2018
CU Rockets: The Heroes of Future NASA Missions · Dec. 1, 2018
Learning to Live with Megafires · Jan. 26, 2019
Pop Music Video and the Cuban Nation · Feb. 23, 2019
Ancient Aliens and Contemporary Archaeology · March 16, 2019
Christians, Muslims and Jews in Medieval Spain · April 21, 2019
What do you Hear? Listening to Modernist Music · Sept. 30, 2017
Future of Energy in Colorado Series:
Balancing Oil, Gas, Air and Water Resources · Oct. 14, 2017
Keeping Politics From Derailing Critical Climate Action · Nov. 4, 2017
How Renewable Technologies can Transform Energy · Dec. 9, 2017
The Dark Side of Government Speech · Jan. 27, 2018
Plants That Unmask Criminals · Feb. 24, 2018
The Wild Lives of Asteroids · March 17, 2018
Environmental History of the High Rockies · April 21, 2018
CU in the Great War · Sept. 24, 2016
The Undertold Story of how Latinos Shaped Boulder County · Oct. 22, 2016
Justice in a Warming World · Nov. 5, 2016
A Musical Exploration of Grief Beyond Words · Nov. 12, 2016
Shattering and Steaming Mars a Recipe for Life? · Dec. 3, 2016
What Darwin Didn't Know About Animal Evolution · Feb. 11, 2017
Korey Wise and Other Wrongful Convictions · Feb. 25, 2017
Mayan Commoners and Their Uncommon Lives · March 11, 2017
Chinese and American Views on the Media's Role · April 22, 2017