Past Events

If You Go Date: April 17, 2012 Time: 7:00 PM Where: Atlas 100 - CU Boulder Campus Book Release Coming Out of Hibernation: Bears, Their Stories, and You Are you coming out of hibernation? Ready for spring? So, too, are the bears in our environs. And really, how much do...

If You Go Date: April 25, 2012 Time: 7:00 PM Where: Wittemyer Courtoom, Wolf Law School 2012 Wallace Stegner Award Recipient The Center of the American West is proud to present Kent Haruf with its highest honor, the Stegner Award, on April 25 at 7:00 p.m. in the Wittemyer Courtroom...

If You Go Date: September 5, 2012 Time: 6:30 PM Where: Old Main The Center of the American West is proud to announce the release of A Ditch in Time: The City, the West, and Water, written by the Center’s very own, Patty Limerick with Jason Hanson. Water holds an...

If You Go Date: September 13, 2012 Time: 12:30PM Where: Glenn Miller Ballroom 12:30 pm – 12:45 pm Welcome (Free & open to the public) Bruce Benson University of Colorado President 12:45 pm – 1:30 pm Presentation of Awards for the Statewide Art Contest and Showing of Student-Made Films (...

If You Go Date: September 12, 2012 Time: 7:30PM - 9:00PM Where: Glenn Miller Ballroom "Reflections of a Former BLM Director" Bob Abbey Former Director of BLM Tim Egan Author & Writer for The New York Times

If You Go Date: September 12, 2012 Time: 4:15PM - 5:30PM Where: Glenn Miller Ballroom Burning Man Meets Managing Man: The BLM and the Energy of American Art “Multiple use” has carried a wide range of meanings, but the example of the Burning Man Festival takes that wide range and...

If You Go Date: September 12, 2012 Time: 2:45PM - 4:00PM Where: Glenn Miller Ballroom Clerks and Cowboys: The General Land Office and the Shaping of the United States When the public thinks of the history of the American West, images of trappers, prospectors, and cowboys rush to mind, but...

If You Go Date: September 13, 2012 Time: 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM Where: Glenn Miller Ballroom The Public Domain and the Public Lands: 1812, 1912, 2112 Reenactment/Preenactment Event with Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and a Visitor from the Future Clay Jenkinson Humanities Scholar and Performer Bryce Townsend Actor

If You Go Date: September 13, 2012 Time: 2:45PM - 4:00PM Where: Stadium Club at Folsom Field Orchestrating Tradition and Change: Emphasizing Conservation in the BLM Conservation asks the people of the present to respect the interests of the people of the future. Asking citizens of a society that seems...

If You Go Date: September 13, 2012 Time: 1:00PM - 2:15PM Where: Stadium Club at Folsom Field Respecting Posterity’s Property In the course of the last century, there have been several movements to privatize public lands or to return them to the states. What would be the costs and benefits...