Past Events

If You Go Date: June 12, 2006 Modern Indian Identity Peace Chiefs at Work: Stories About Remarkable American Indian Leadership in This Generation Twenty-first-century Indian people face a particular and peculiar dilemma with history and time. Novelists and filmmakers have had extraordinary success in romanticizing the Western past, and one...

If You Go Date: June 19, 2006 Time: 7:30 PM Where: Chautauqua Community House The Center’s next event, part of its summer lecture series on energy, will feature Greg Franta, principal architect and team leader of the Rocky Mountain Institute/ENSAR Built Environment Team Franta will speak on “Green Building Practices”...

If You Go Date: July 25, 2006 How a Great University Forgot Education Harry R. Lewis, a Harvard Professor and former Dean of Harvard College, offers his provocative analysis of how America’s great universities are failing students and the nation. America’s great research universities are the envy of the world...

If You Go Date: August 14, 2006 Where: Chautauqua Auditorium, Boulder, CO Portrayed by Bill Mooney Two-time Grammy and two-time Emmy nominee Bill Mooney of Boulder performed an original one-man show as famed frontier showman William F. Cody in “Tonight! Buffalo Bill!” Aug. 14 at Chautauqua Auditorium. The show was...

If You Go Date: September 5, 2006 Time: 7:00 PM Where: Old Main Readings from the American West The CU-Boulder Center of the American West celebrated the rich literary heritage of the region Sept. 5 with its 10th annual “Words to Stir the Soul: Readings from the American West” at...

If You Go Date: October 9, 2006 Time: 7:00 PM Where: Wittemyber Courtoom, Wolf Law School Former Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt celebrated the centennial of the Antiquities Act – used by U.S. Presidents to declare national monuments and thereby protect millions of acres of land – in a talk at...

If You Go Date: November 2, 2006 Time: 7:00 PM Where: Glenn Miller Ballroom, UMC 2006 Wallace Stegner Award Recipients Native American activists John Echohawk and Billy Frank, Jr., were honored by the University of Colorado at Boulder’s Center of the American West on Nov. 2 at 7:00 p.m. at...

If You Go Date: November 29, 2006 Time: 7:00 PM Where: Glenn Miller Ballroom, UMC 2006 Distinguished Lecturer Pulitzer Prize-winning author Annie Proulx presented the Center of the American West’s Distinguished Lecture at 7:00 p.m. on Nov. 29 in the Glenn Miller Ballroom at the University of Colorado at Boulder...

If You Go Date: March 12, 2007 Time: 4:00 PM Where: Wolf Law School, Room 207 Past Perfect? Historic Preservation in the National Park System Richard Sellars of Santa Fe, N.M., will speak on “Past Perfect? Historic Preservation in the National Park System” at 4:00 p.m. in the Wolf Law...

If You Go Date: April 16, 2007 Time: 7:00 PM Where: Eaton Humanities, Room 250 Modern Indian Identity University of Michigan Professor Phil Deloria will lecture at the University of Colorado at Boulder April 16 as part of a Center of the American West series aimed at improving understanding between...