Past Events

If You Go Date: April 26, 2007 Time: 7:00 PM Professor William Travis's New Release The changing patterns of land use in the American West and problems of land use planning and growth management are the subject of a talk by University of Colorado at Boulder geographer William Travis on...

If You Go Date: April 27, 2007 Time: 7:00 PM 2007 Wallace Stegner Award Recipient The Center was proud to present internationally-acclaimed author Ivan Doig with the 2007 Wallace Stegner Award. Mr. Doig spent the evening in conversation with Center of the American West founders Patty Limerick and Charles Wilkinson...

If You Go Date: October 25, 2007 Time: 7:00PM Where: ATLAS Center, Room 100 Modern Indian Identity My Father’s Stories: Remembering Oklahoma The Center presents Dr. Eva Marie Garroutte in this fall’s Modern Indian Identity lecture. Professor Garroutte is the author of Real Indians: Identity, Community, and the Survival of...

If You Go Date: November 17, 2007 Time: 7:00 PM Where: Old Main Public Servants, hosted by Mayor John Hickenlooper This year, the Center honored the tireless, and oftentimes thankless, exertions of Colorado’s public servants. With Mayor John Hickenlooper as our host, we celebrated the dedicated spirit that drew these...

If You Go Date: February 7, 2008 Time: 7:00 PM Where: Eaton Humanities, Room 150 Rethinking George Catlin's Vanishing America, featuring Professor John Hausdoerffer George Catlin was a self-taught artist who dedicated himself to painting Indians and their culture. Professor John Hausdoerffer discussed the impact these paintings have had on...

If You Go Date: February 28, 2008 Time: 7:30 PM Where: ATLAS Center, Room 100 Film Screening and Conversation This film screening was followed by a panel discussion moderated by Patty Limerick. The respectful and positive exchange reflected on the current opportunities and challenges surrounding energy development in the West...

If You Go Date: March 19, 2008 Time: 7:00 PM Where: First United Methodist Church, Boulder, CO Modern Indian Identity An Evening with Robert Mirabal This was a very special evening with Grammy Award-winner Robert Mirabal. As a composer, songwriter, and musician, Mirabal has won many honors, including two-time Native...

If You Go Date: April 17, 2008 Time: 7:00 PM Where: Macky Auditorium 2008 Wallace Stegner Award Recipient The Center of the American West, in conjunction with the University of Colorado Law School, was proud to present one of the most influential, and interesting, Westerners of our time, Justice Sandra...

If You Go Date: July 16, 2008 Time: 7:00 PM Where: Ricketson Auditorium, Denver Museum of Nature & Science Patty Limerick Interviews J. Robert Oppenheimer Patty Limerick, Ph.D., award-winning historian and Chair of the Board at the Center of the American West, University of Colorado, interviewed J. Robert Oppenheimer as...

If You Go Date: September 17, 2008 Time: 7:00 PM Where: Eaton Humanities, Room 150 Modern Indian Identity “Why I did what I did”: Sharing the American Indian Story in our National Parks The Center welcomed Superintendent Gerard Baker, the highest-ranking Native American in the National Park Service, to both...