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From panel discussions and guest speakers to workshops and collaborative brainstorming sessions, the Center for Humanities & the Arts (CHA) hosts and supports a wide range of events for the CU Boulder community throughout the year.
Homelessness in Boulder: Balancing Humanity & Community Safety
📅 Wednesday, March 11, 2026 | 6:00–7:30 PM
đź“Ť at Colorado Chautauqua's Community House
Boulder continues to grapple with homelessness—from camping bans the ACLU has criticized as “cruel and unusual,” to financial strain in implementing a “housing first” approach. Join us for a candid conversation about the complexities of homelessness and how we can pursue more humane solutions.
Cox Family Process Speaker
Claire Bond Potter
Professor of History Emeritus, The New School for Social Research
📅 Wednesday, March 25, 2026 | 4:00–5:30 PM
🎟️ Free & open to all
Registration: https://cvent.me/lqOd9N
đź“Ť at Macky Auditorium
Claire Bond Potter will join us to highlight her latest book:
Political Junkies: From Talk Radio to Twitter, How Alternative Media Hooked Us on Politics and Broke Democracy
(Basic Books, 2020)
Claire Bond Potter is a political historian at the New School for Social Research. She is executive editor of Public Seminar and was the author of the popular blog Tenured Radical from 2006 through 2015.
🎙 Don’t miss her insights, plus check out her podcast “WHY NOW?” and her Substack, POLITICAL JUNKIE.
"I'm a political junkie, and if you're reading this, you probably are too. Which means you're going to want to grab Claire Potter's new book and dive in. This vivid, lively narrative shows us how the rise of political populism and the emergence of alternative media have gone hand in hand. Spotlighting the operatives you haven't heard of, the innovations you didn't know about, and the stories you haven't heard, Potter reveals the history that happened when we were looking the other way. The gatekeepers have fallen, the barbarians are inside the city, and Political Junkies -- with insight, fresh detail, and delicious wit -- makes sense of how it all happened."―David Greenberg, author of Republic of Spin: An Inside History of the American Presidency
"Do you follow political news obsessively? Do you tweet about it even more obsessively still, compulsively dismissing and disbelieving all information that doesn't fit your ideological lens? You might be a political junkie! You're not alone. In this incisive, clear-headed book, Claire Potter diagnoses the condition ailing so many of us, and persuasively argues that it's bad for democracy. Political Junkies is wise, open-minded, and bracing."―Liza Featherstone, author of Divining Desire: Focus Groups and the Culture of Consultation
"In her lively new book, Claire Potter tackles a topic too many historians ignore -- the central role media play in shaping our political lives. From the political newsletters of the 1950s to cables news in the 1980s to the social-media revolution of the 2000s, Potter maps the ways alternative media remade our politics, broke our democracy, and gave birth to a new kind of American: the political junkie."―Nicole Hemmer, author of Messengers of the Right: Conservative Media and the Transformation of American Politic
"To understand 21st-century populism, we need to know the media that helped to create it. Claire Potter's Political Junkies tells that story -- sometimes glorious, sometimes dismal, but always fascinating and well worth the read."―Beverly Gage, author of The Day Wall Street Exploded: A Story of America in Its First Age of Terror
Airing of Grievances: What Are You “Mad as Hell” About?
📅 Wednesday, April 8, 2026 | 6:00–7:30 PM
đź“Ť at Colorado Chautauqua's Community House
Join us for an evening of open dialogue focused on the issues that matter most to our community and our nation. Together, we will identify pressing concerns and explore actionable pathways for individual and collective change.CHA Events & Programs
From panel discussions and guest speakers to workshops and collaborative brainstorming sessions, the Center for Humanities & the Arts (CHA) hosts and supports a wide range of events for the CU Boulder community throughout the year.
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