As climate change and our understanding of it progresses, it is clear that we will need to reduce our emissions and adapt to new environments and economies. People with disabilities are affected in unique ways by climate change, but are too often left out of plans and actions by stakeholders. Ghenis will contextualize how people […]
R. Dwayne Betts will present an excerpt of the solo show that he is developing based on "Felon." The work engages with the contemporary moment, mass incarceration, and the challenges of having a complicated conversation about crime, punishment, and sorrow in contemporary America. This presentation essentially takes place in three parts. First, there is the […]
Camille Dungy will feature poetry and environmental writing in her discussion and reading that will focus on nature, race, and writing. Her anthology of black writers, Black Nature, was published last year and is a historical look at black writers and writing about the environment. Zoom Link: BLACK NATURE: An evening with Camille T. Dungy
Join the Hennebach Program in the Humanities for a night with award-winning author and poet and professor Camille T. Dungy; her reading and book discussion will feature poetry and environmental writing devoted to questions of nature, race, and writing as a black academic in our current culture. Her anthology of black writers, Black Nature, was […]
Born to a Filipino mother and Malayali-Indian father, Aimee Nezhukumatathil (neh-ZOO / koo-mah / tah-TILL) is the author of four books of poetry: Oceanic; Lucky Fish, winner of the Hoffer Grand Prize for Prose and Independent Books; At the Drive-In Volcano; and Miracle Fruit. With Ross Gay, she co-authored Lace & Pyrite, a chapbook of […]
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, with confrontations and violent clashes happening everywhere we turn. It is a time of intense political division, cultural change, and protests for justice. There is […]
“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 be driven from it; great men have done great things here, and will again, and we can make America what America must become.” But what […]
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 that an important missing element, in his work as well as in that of many others, was critical examination of the relationship between English-speaking engineering […]
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 his research group are actively working towards finding answers to this question. Please join us for a conversation. View PDF Flyer
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 see themselves--in America and beyond. Bio: Jasmin Darznik is the New York Times-bestselling author of The Bohemians (April 2021), a novel that imagines the friendship between photographer […]
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 8 billion souls? We will discuss the ways in which, art, mythology and writing in particular, can possibly serve to pave the way forward into […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 will present some of the poems he has written over the past 60 years. Doctor Arthur Sacks is Professor Emeritus of Environmental Studies, Film Studies, […]
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 […]