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National Poetry Month Student Reading

Virtual Event CO, United States

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 […]

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National Poetry Month Reading with John Murillo!

Virtual Event CO, United States

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, principled, compassionate, and fearless... Leave the idea that ‘poetry makes nothing happen’ to the poets whose poetry makes nothing happen. John Murillo will provide salvation […]

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Constitutional Day: The Intersection of Public Health Mandates and Individual Freedom

Ben H. Parker Student Center 1200 16th St., Golden, CO, United States

Come celebrate the 234th anniversary of the signing of the US Constitution with snacks and an important discussion about the Constitution and Public Health Mandates. Professor Levine will be discussing how the Constitution shapes the political decision-making process, and how it frames the "General Welfare" and "Public Safety" aspects of governmental powers. He will examine […]

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Hennebach Event: Mines Iron Pour

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 […]

Hennebach: Translating the Lyric with poet Wayne Miller

Marquez Hall 1600 Arapahoe St., Golden, CO, United States

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 […]

Hennebach Lecture: Using Mixed Methods to Understand the Political Economy of Small-Scale Gold Mining in Ghana

Hill Hall 920 15th St., Golden, CO, United States

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 […]

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Hennebach Event: Become! Art! EKPHRASTIC SOUND EXPERIENCE

Hill Hall 920 15th St., Golden, CO, United States

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 […]

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Hennebach Event: an evening of ecopoetics with Professor Arthur Sacks

Hill Hall 920 15th St., Golden, CO, United States

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 […]

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Hennebach Event: Become! Art! EKPHRASTIC SOUND EXPERIENCE

Hill Hall 920 15th St., Golden, CO, United States

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 […]

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National Poetry Month with award-winning poet Roger Reeves!

Center for Technology and Learning Media (CTLM) 1650 Arapahoe St., Golden, CO, United States

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 […]

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Ekphrastic SOUND! Musical Performance by Itchy-O!

Green Center 924 16th Street, Golden, CO, United States

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 simply this: it is when one art form (such as poetry) is used to inspire or inquire or impress on another (such as music). So […]

Music at Mines: Concert Band, Drumline, and Theatre Program Performance

Bunker Auditorium 924 16th St., Golden

Please Join the Mines Concert Band, Drumline and Theatre Program on Friday April 29th as they present a night of fanfares, ragtime, movie soundtracks and a spooky reawakening of Erik Whitacre’s, “Ghost Train.” In addition, there will be soliloquy presentations by HASS’s Music and the Performing Arts theatre students, as well as a house rocking […]

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Music at Mines: Jazz Combos

Join us for an afternoon of Jazz performance on Saturday 4/30 @ 2pm. Performance will be held at the Ford performance Space in the Ford Building.

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Music at Mines: Jazz Combos

Join us for a night of Jazz performance on Saturday 4/30 @ 6pm. Performance will be held at the Ford performance Space in the Ford Building.

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Music at Mines: Jazz Combos

Join us for an evening of music performance on Monday 5/2 @ 7pm. Performance will be held at the Ford Performance Space at the Ford Building

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Constitutional Day 2022 – When Are You a Person?

Ben H. Parker Student Center 1200 16th St., Golden, CO, United States

 The US Supreme Court Confronts Biology, Philosophy, Religion, History and Politics and the Limits (or Limitlessness) of State Regulation of Pregnancy   When? When did your rights come into being, and when will they cease to be? The premise of natural rights is that they spring into existence upon what event? The becoming of a […]

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“The Constellation of Possibilities: Writing Historical Fiction & The Moral & Ethical Obligations of a Novelist” with Best-selling author Matt Bondurant

Center for Technology and Learning Media (CTLM) 1650 Arapahoe St., Golden, CO, United States

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 […]

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New Territories: Migration and Exile

Center for Technology and Learning Media (CTLM) 1650 Arapahoe St., Golden, CO, United States

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 […]

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“Who Owns Your Story?” with Bestselling Author Erika Krouse

Marquez Hall 1600 Arapahoe St., Golden, CO, United States

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 […]

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Hennebach Program Lecture: The International Rescue Committee at Mines

Marquez Hall 1600 Arapahoe St., Golden, CO, United States

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 […]

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Join the Mines Veteran Alliance for our annual fundraiser and Heroes Dinner!

Green Center 924 16th Street, Golden, CO, United States

Calling all veterans and veteran allies at Mines--this is our featured fundraising and networking event for the school year--and students may enjoy a FREE event tailored for our active duty and student veterans on campus. This year, we have an incredible speaker from Space Resources--Dr. Angel Abbud-Madrid! Heroes Dinner Details: Date and time: September 10th […]

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Hennebach Series – Queerness, Illusion, and Art

Marquez Hall 1600 Arapahoe St., Golden, CO, United States

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 […]

Join Hennebach for a lecture on Resistance: the CIA, Iraq, Afghanistan 2001. A history and discussion of intelligence missions Post-9/11.

Marquez Hall 1600 Arapahoe St., Golden, CO, United States

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 […]

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Energy Politics – Opportunities and Challenges in Colorado

Student Recreation Center 1651 Elm St, Golden, CO, United States

Chris Hansen is the current State Senator for Colorado Senate District 31. He specializes in energy sector economics and data analytics, with 20 years of experience in the global energy […]

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Guitar Concert

Green Center 924 16th Street, Golden, CO, United States

Join Masakazu Ito in Solo Guitar Concert.

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Hennebach Event – Nick Arvin, novelist engineer and “Storytelling Is an Engineering Discipline.”

Marquez Hall 1600 Arapahoe St., Golden, CO, United States

The parallels between writing a novel and engineering a car or power plant are striking and provide powerful insights, argues author Nick Arvin. He’s uniquely positioned to make the argument as an award-winning author of novels and short stories who is also a professional engineer with twenty years of experience. Join us for a discussion […]

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Hennebach Event – Patterson/Suttion Short Performance and Q&A

Marquez Hall 1600 Arapahoe St., Golden, CO, United States

International acclaimed cello and guitar duo, Patterson/Sutton, arrive for an evening of chamber music on Friday 2/2. Join us before-hand for a Q and A with these artists!   Praised […]

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Patterson/Sutton cello and guitar duo performance

Green Center 924 16th Street, Golden, CO, United States

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 […]

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Hennebach Event – Rebecca Davis, Director Q and A and film presentation of Join or Die

Hill Hall 920 15th St., Golden, CO, United States

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 […]

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