2025-26 Event List

In the 2025 - 2026 academic year, the Center for Humanities and the Arts (CHA) continues to offer and collaborate on a series of events that foster meaningful dialogue and engagement around timely and thought-provoking topics. 

The CHA remains committed to facilitating conversations that challenge, inspire, and unite the Boulder community. We invite you to join us for these events, as we connect, learn, and grow together.

CHA Events List 2025-26

Spring 2026 Book Club

The CHA will host a series of meetings (in person and on zoom) to discuss Where the Water Goes: Life and Death Along the Colorado River by David Owen. Water issues seem simple—ban golf, stop selling hay to China—but Owen’s story reveals a complex, man-made ecosystem shaped by engineering, law, and cooperation. This book explores how life thrives in the desert and what happens when the system breaks down.

Difficult Dialogue: The First Amendment

Tuesday, January 20, 11:15-12:30pm -CBIS Room, Norlin Library

A conversation on threats to and protections of First Amendment freedoms.