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 SICI’s ‘Faculty Mobility Grant’ (2016). While on a Fulbright at Metropolitan State University, Dr. Hulluru, teaches upper-division Literature courses, offers courses on Women’s Writing and […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]