Past Events

If You Go Date: March 12, 2021 Time: 12:00PM Where: Virtual Back on November 20, when Patty Limerick, director of the Center of American West, and Jennifer Ho , director of the Center for Humanities & the Arts , held their first Zoom public program to discuss the divisiveness splintering...

If You Go Date: March 10, 2021 Time: 12:00PM Where: Virtual B. Erin Cole is a historian, museum professional and cartoonist. Currently turning some of her research on zoning, race and sexuality into a longform comic for public audiences. Author of the comics, I Am A HistorianI Make Exhibits and...

If You Go Date: March 5, 2021 Time: 12:00PM Where: Virtual On March 5, as part of the Memories of Service/Visions for the Future:CU’s Student Veterans as Key Figures in Sustaining the Mission of Higher Education series Limerick interviewed CU student veterans Zach Guiliano & Bob Draughon. Zach , a...

If You Go Date: February 26, 2021 Time: 12:00PM Where: Virtual On February 26, the Center launched a new series, Memories of Service/Visions for the Future:CU’s Student Veterans as Key Figures in Sustaining the Mission of Higher Education in which Limerick interviewed CU student veterans Nisa Jovel & Reed Robins...

If You Go Date: February 10, 2021 Time: 12:00PM Where: Virtual Ari Kelman is a historian of the Civil War and Reconstruction, the politics of memory, and Native American history. Author of Battle Lines: A Graphic History of the Civil War andA Misplaced Massacre: Struggling Over the Memory of Sand...

If You Go Date: November 20, 2020 Time: 12:00PM Where: Virtual Patty Limerick, director of the Center of the American West, and Jennifer Ho , director of the Center for Humanities & the Arts , talked about what it means to disagree. The partisan politics and extreme divisiveness of our...

If You Go Date: November 13, 2020 Time: 12:00PM Where: Virtual The Center of the American West teamed up with the CU Latinx Law Students to orchestrate a virtual event, that brought two noted scholars of immigration into a consequential conversation. The goal was ambitious: to lay out terms that...

If You Go Date: October 02, 2020 Time: 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM Where: Virtual Featuring Former Oregon Secretary of State, Phil Keisling, and Author, Cameron Blevins For decades, the Postal Service held the contradictory roles of the most taken-for-granted federal agency and the federal agency with the most consistent...

If You Go Date: October 01, 2020 Time: 12:00PM Where: Virtual Featuring Boston College Historian, Conevery Valencius In 2020, only a pathologically cheerful individual could say that the United States is a nation in a state of health. Between the malady of the coronavirus and the affliction of divisive polarization,...

If You Go Date: September 25, 2020 Time: 12:00PM - 1:30 PM Where: Virtual Featuring Executive Director of the Western Governors’ Association, Jim Ogsbury In 2020, reasons for gloom over the state of American governance are in over-supply. People looking for a remedy for that despair may wonder where to...