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 […]
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 […]
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 pouring liquid metal to make the first bronze-castings for a new instrument originally inspired by the Balinese gamelan gong and transformed through the Mines extended […]
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 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 […]
Join us for an evening of strings with performances by our Guitar Ensemble and String Quartet! Friday, April 29th, 7pm: Ford Performance Space, Ford Building
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 […]
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.
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.
Join us for an afternoon of music performance on Sunday 5/1 @ 2pm. Performance will be held at the Bunker Auditorium in the Green Center
Join us for an evening of music performance on Sunday 5/1 @ 7pm. Performance will be held at the Ford Performance Space at the Ford Building
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
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 […]
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 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 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
September 18, 2023 at 11am, McNeil Room (SRC) Constitution Day at Mines Every day across the Mines' campus, our STEM-centric students and faculty discuss harnessing, generating, storing and directing power. Within HASS, our social science students and scholars do so as well, equally, with nuance. For example, the Declaration of Independence asserts: "Governments are instituted among […]
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 […]
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 industry. He currently serves on the Appropriations Committee, the Joint Technology Committee and the Legislative Council. Hansen also serves as the Co-Founder and Director of […]
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 […]
Join Masakazu Ito in Solo Guitar Concert.
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 […]
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 […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
Artist and poet Brian Barker will read from his poetry and discuss the different ways artistic creativity can enlarge and enrich our inner lives. Topics discussed will include mindfulness in making, the necessity of failure, the power of contradictions, and the importance of being able to say, “I don’t know.” Brian Barker is a poet […]
Award-Winning Author, Environmentalist & Activist Terry Tempest Williams An evening talk hosted by the Young Environmental issues Symposium on engaging the climate crisis, including a reading from Wild Mercy
