Zoom Link: Panel Discussion with Camille T. Dungy and Aimee Nezhukumatathil: Join Aimee Nezhukumatathil and Camille T. Dungy for a performance and panel oriented on their recent readings and lectures. These two internationally renowned poets and powerhouse environmental writers will join forces for a panel discussion focused on nature writing, the environment, and race. Aimee Nezhukumatathil […]
Empathy and Forgiveness: Seeing the heart of the enemy as a Servant Leader with Marleen Ramsey Zoom link: https://mines.zoom.us/j/96941462001
Empathy and forgiveness: Seeing the heart of the enemy as a Servant Leader, with Marleen Ramsey. Details: Our world, our country, is facing a time of incredible uncertainty and strife, […]
“This Is Your Home”: Leadership, Race, and the Self with Norman Coultier Details: Author James Baldwin once wrote to his nephew, “For this is your home, my friend, do not […]
Details: In a time of personal and political upheaval, what brings peace, what secures greater justice, and what draws us into greater individual and communal beauty? Dr. Ferch considers the essence of ultimate forgiveness, the consciousness to live well with others, and the prophetic vision of Coretta Scott King and Martin Luther King Jr.’s beloved […]
November 11, 2020 5pm: The REPARATION, EMPATHY & FORGIVENESS Panel with Norman Coultier, Shann Ray Ferch, and Marleen Ramsey: experiential event on leadership, forgiveness, charity, and race. Details: Panel discussion on Forgiveness, Leadership, Equity with three experts in Forgiveness Scholarship Norman Coultier is a native of Inglewood and South (Central) Los Angeles, California and grew […]
Water is a symbol of life, wisdom, fertility, purity, and death. Water also sustains and nourishes, irrigates our crops, keeps us clean and healthy, and contributes to our energy needs. But a strain has been put on our water resources as increased energy demands combine with the effects of climate change to create a treacherous […]
Last year in Steps toward a Philosophy of Engineering, Professor Carl Mitcham reviewed some 30 years of an effort to reflect critically on engineering. In the process it became apparent […]
Patricia Engel will lead a reading of her work along with a discussion focused on the difficulties and existential dilemmas that Latinx writers and scholars specifically face in defining themselves […]
As issues related to diversity, equity, and inclusion continue to surface, it’s clearly evident that something isn’t working. So, what about engineering should change? Dr. Walter Lee and members of […]
Novelist and literary scholar Jasmin Darznik discusses how Forugh Farrokhzad, Iran's rebel poet, has been transformed and re-imagined outside of Iran, offering new possibilities for how Iranian women are seen--and […]
The world is changing faster, and more intensely, than ever. How are we to reconcile the realities of identity, cultural integrity and humility and compassion as we tick closer to […]
Join prominent novelists and film-makers Jasmin Darznik, Patricia Engel, Laleh Khadivi for a discussion on issues facing women scholars and artists. Jasmin Darznik is the New York Times-bestselling author of […]
Please join fellow students, staff, faculty, for this informal and lively reading by Mines students to celebrate NPM! The department of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences, along with University Honors and Scholars Program and the Hennebach Program in the Humanities are proud to continue our yearly reading series featuring student readers from across campus. Please […]
Join the Hennebach Program in the Humanities for a celebration of poetry with the Kingsley Tufts Winner John Murillo! “Murillo is a true poet, a wordsmith, and a song-maker, intelligent, […]
HB Lecture Series presents Education in Afghanistan: Promoting Local Solutions to Address Complex Realities Education in Afghanistan, particularly girls’ education, is making headlines again as education policies and structures are rearranged under the new government of Taliban. While discourse on education in Afghanistan is embedded with assumptions about the Afghan culture and Islam, a closer […]
Join Author Elisa Gabbert for a discussion of the mysterious locus of control, exploring bias and competing interests, failings of memory and perceptions, the unconscious, parasitic mind control, the problem of free will and other ideas with troubling implications for how we view, interpret and respond to reality.
Free Iron Mold Experience 2:30 - 4:30 pm - Show us your artistic skills with sand scratch molds-these will be filled with liquid iron and you can keep the art for free! The Iron Pour Experience 5:30 pm - Watch your art come to life in a striking spectacle of fire and sound!
Join award-winning poet and translator Wayne Miller for an evening of poetry and an investigation of translation as art form Please join the Hennebach Program as we launch our Spring 2022 season of events with award-winning poet and translator Wayne Miller as he reads from his new poetry collection, We the Jury, and talks about […]
Join us in welcoming Dr. Heidi Hausermann, an Associate Professor of Geography at Colorado State University. Her expertise is in landscape change, disease dynamics, politics of extraction and mixed methods. Artisanal and small-scale gold mining activities hugely expanded in the wake of the 2008 economic recession and, most recently, the global pandemic. Based on […]
Join us in the MME Hot Shop, Hill Hall 125 on the Mines Campus (920 15th St, Golden, CO 80401), Saturday, March 5th anytime from 5-7pm, where we will be […]
Professor Sacks will discuss the artistic and social roles of the poet and poetry, the development of American ecopoetics, integrative and other poetic approaches that have influenced his writing, and […]
Join us in the MME Hot Shop, Hill Hall 125 on the Mines Campus (920 15th St, Golden, CO 80401), Saturday, April 2nd, anytime from 5-7pm, where we will be creating "part two" of our Ekphrastic experience, where we will be fine-tuning the instruments and forging them into the final form and will expand the features […]
This event is April 7 from 5:30-6:30pm, Location CTLM 102, and by Zoom National Poetry Month with the poet Roger Reeves! Join us in celebrating award-winning poet Roger Reeves’ new book, “Best Barbarian”—a mesmerizing second collection from Reeves (King Me) reflects intergenerational racial trauma and personal tragedy with a remarkable balance of acute feeling and […]
Join the Hennebach Program in the Humanities alongside MME and local and regional award-winning writers, poets, and artists for an Ekphrastic evening of lights, art, and sound! Ekphrastic art is […]
The poet David Kirby once said that “only shallow people and charlatans begin with perfect knowledge of what it is they mean to say. An honest writer begins in ignorance and writes his way to the truth.” The word “truth” is a bit controversial when it comes to historical fiction. Some authors of historical novels claim they only […]
The poet Amit Majmudar says this, “You’ve come of age in the age of migrations./ The board tilts, and the bodies roll west./ Fanaticism’s come back into fashion,/ come back with a vengeance./ In this new country, there’s no gravitas,/ no grace…” This lecture will be about the literature of migration and exile. From the […]
Since the 19th century, when American magazines for women began to offer expert advice on how to arrange the household correctly, the “kitchen hack” - a tiny unit of advice meant to be used in a unique cooking situation - has been a staple of food media. As the 20th century wore on, the “kitchen […]
When you write about real people, sometimes they get mad at you. Erika Krouse’s memoir, Tell Me Everything: The Story of a Private Investigation, is about Erika’s experience as a private investigator working on the first-ever Title IX sexual assault case in history. But the controversy didn’t end on the page; as Erika was writing her […]
BIO: Dr. Kalpana Hulluru is a Professor in the Department of English, Pondicherry University (PU), Puducherry, India. She has been awarded the USA’s ‘Study of Institutions Award’ (2007) and the […]
Can Ethical Argument Save the World? How to Write and Reason As If It Mattered (Because It Does!) Most people who pay attention to the subject will tell you that public discourse is in a sorry state. We inhabit a rhetorical climate in which there is no widely shared agreement as to […]
Description: The International Rescue Committee Deputy Director, Wisler Jacquecin, will visit the Mines campus to give a brief history of the IRC and that of the IRC in Denver. He will discuss resettlement process es(from the first interaction with UNHCR to PRM assurances and reception/placement in Denver) as well as the plethora of services that the IRC […]
Artist Lecture – Scott Braun: An Empathetic Confrontationalist Tuesday, April 18th at 4:00, Alderson Hall 368 A talk with Scott Braun on The Decency Project. The Decency Project finds connection and community through craft and labor. While carving spoons together, Braun and participants engage in difficult conversation: What does it mean to be human? […]
How To Engage The “Enemy”…Civilly, and Gain Something from the Experience: A Panel Thursday, April 20th at 4:00, Green Center 224 In perhaps the most collectively disconnected era since the birth of the steam engine, how do we find engagement? In the struggle to coexist, we seek just and meaningful action, moments of […]
The artist and poet Nicky Beer will discuss Queerness, Illusion, and Art: When is illusion an effective way of revealing truth? How can artifice interrogate and undermine gender expectations? Poet Nicky Beer will read from Real Phonies and Genuine Fakes, a poetry collection that explores camouflage, fraud, forgery, and deception, and discuss the ways that queerness informs this […]
Retired CIA deputy director, JR Seeger, will lead a discussion of his career in the CIA and specifically his service in Afghanistan in the Fall of 2001.This event will focus on the historical context and the real-world challenges faced by the collaborative effort of CIA officers, SF operational detachments, and a USSOCOM command team, and […]
John Cotter started losing his hearing at age 30. Five years later, in the grip of vertigo and with sound too distorted to understand, he could no longer work at the job he loved or hike or hear music. He’d lost the life he’d planned, and was forced to start over, as a new person with an […]
BIO: Vitus "V" Spehar is an accomplished creator, political advocate and citizen journalist. Within just a few years of starting their account, they’ve built a loyal following of over 3 million subscribers who tune in daily for content that informs and educates while centering the emotional safety of viewers. Their core brand, Under The Desk […]
Praised by BBC Music Magazine for their "beguiling" sound and by The Strad for their "wit and imagination," the Patterson/Sutton Duo bring the rich cello and guitar repertoire to audiences around the world. The Patterson/Sutton are returning to the Guitar Foundation of America Convention in 2024 as featured artists and have an ongoing relationship with […]
Davis’s documentary about Robert Putnam called Join or Die, which proposes that intermediary clubs serve an essential role in democracy. Join or Die is a feature film about why you should join a club — and why the fate of America depends on it. Follow the half-century story of America's civic unraveling through the journey of legendary social scientist […]