Boulder Library Alexander the Power freak
Oct 12th
The Alexander the Great and the Problems of Power event is scheduled for Wednesday 10/26/2011 at 7:00 PM. The description for the event is: This lecture, “Alexander the Great, The Alexander Sarcophagus and the Problems of Power” by CU professor Elspeth Dusinberre, is the first in the series “ATTIC NIGHTS” – general interest public lectures on Greek and Roman art, literature and religion presented by the University of Colorado Department of Classics and the Boulder Public Library with the generous support of Mary E.V. McClanahan.
Center for ReSource Conservation’s 7th Annual ReWards Dinner Boulder
Oct 12th
Each year, the CRC and its friends gather with leaders in the business and environmental communities to celebrate our shared commitment to conserving natural resources. We also gather to honor groups and individuals in our community who have take exemplary action and shown leadership in ways that promotes the wise use of resources and a healthier earth! We hope you will join us at this celebration!
Event: 7th Annual ReWards Dinner & Auction-Emceed by Etown Host Nick Forster with special address by Fearless Cottage co-founder, Alex Bogusky.
What: This is the Center for ReSource Conservation’s most important community celebration and fundraiser. This is your opportunity gather with friends, enjoy an extraordinary meal and take home some extraordinary auction items raging from trips, to wine, to so much more. All proceeds from this event go to support CRC’s mission to empower our community to conserve natural resources.
Date: Saturday, November 5, 2011
Time: 6pm – 10pm
Location: St Julien Hotel & Spa
300 Walnut Street
Boulder CO, 80302
Ticket Cost: $100 per person, $175 per couple, or $700 for a full table of 10. Buy Now!
Attire: “Boulder business casual”
ReWards to be presented for: Youth Conservation, Community Conservation Leader, Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Conservation, CRC Conservationist of the Year. Nominate Your Choice Here
CU names McPhee for Stegner award
Oct 12th
AUTHOR JOHN MCPHEE TO RECEIVE STEGNER AWARD
FROM CU’S CENTER OF THE AMERICAN WEST ON OCT. 27
FROM CU’S CENTER OF THE AMERICAN WEST ON OCT. 27
John McPhee, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of “Encounters With the Archdruid” and “Coming Into the Country,” will receive the Wallace Stegner Award from the University of Colorado Boulder’s Center of the American West on Oct. 27.
The center’s highest award will be presented at a 7 p.m. event in the Old Main Chapel on the CU-Boulder campus. The evening will feature a discussion with Mc
arch typical Druid
Phee conducted by Patty Limerick, professor of history and chair and faculty director of the Center of the American West, and Charles Wilkinson, d
The event is free and open to the public. Seating is limited and people are encouraged to arrive early.istinguished professor and Moses Lasky Professor of Law at CU-Boulder.
This year marks the 40th anniversary of McPhee’s “Encounters With the Archdruid,” a book Limerick has long heralded as the Center of the American West’s “founding text” because of its inspiring demonstration of civil dialogue on contentious issues. McPhee also is the author of “Basin and Range” (1981), “In Suspect Terrain” (1983), “Rising from the Plains” (1986), “The Control of Nature” (1989) and “Assembling California” (1993).
“Each time I have assigned to a class, I take great pleasure in reading it again,” said Limerick. “Since I assign it in nearly every course I teach, that means I may be coming up on my 50th reading of it. If there is anyone who cares about the West but who has not read this book, it’s time to take action.”
Each year, the Center of the American West presents the Wallace Stegner Award to an individual who has made a sustained contribution to the cultural identity of the West through literature, art, history, or lore of the West. Past recipients include Tom McGuane, Sandra Day O’Connor, Ivan Doig, John Echohawk, Billy Frank, Terry Tempest Williams, John Nichols, Vine Deloria Jr., Ted Turner and many more. This year’s award was made possible by Alan and Carol Ann Olson.
CU-Boulder’s Center of the American West addresses a variety of regional issues, including water management, relationships between federal agencies and communities and economies, land planning, Native American identity, recent art and literature, and the balance of power between tradition and innovation in Western life. The center takes as its mission the creation of forums for the respectful exchange of ideas in pursuit of solutions to the region’s difficulties.
For more information visit the Center of the American West’s website at http://www.centerwest.org or call 303-492-4879.
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