CLAS Events

2:30 – 4:00 pm North Classroom, Room 1207 Mara Buchbinder, ‘Making Death’ in the Era of Medical Aid-in-Dying Recent social scientific studies of life and death have used the framework of biopolitics to explore the role of the state and its associated regimes of knowledge, expertise, and power in governing...

6:30 pm Tivoli 640 Catherine Pierce is the author of three books of poems: The Tornado Is the World (Saturnalia 2016), The Girls of Peculiar (Saturnalia 2012), and Famous Last Words (Saturnalia 2008), winner of the Saturnalia Books Poetry Prize. Both The Tornado Is the World and The Girls of...

3:00 pm Tivoli room 440 Dr. Nick Estes is a citizen of the Lower Brule Sioux Tribe, Assistant Professor at the University of New Mexico, co-founder of The Red Nation, and author of Our History Is The Future: Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline , and Long Tradition of...

A training opportunity from University of Colorado Denver Undocumented Student Services. October 23, 2019 (Noon- 1:30pm) December 4, 2019 (Noon- 1:30pm) February 12, 2020 (2:00pm - 3:30pm) April 8, 2020 (2:00pm - 3:30pm) Register now.

Program at 6:00 p.m. | Reception at 7:30 pm 2600 Student Commons This all-star panel of Denver journalists and media producers will explore the ethical dilemmas of using social media to reach audiences and discuss how to use social media responsibly. Featuring: Kyle Clark | Anchor/Reporter, 9News Gabrielle Bryant |...

8:00 AM - 2:30 PM SCB 2500 Why is student well-being (and faculty and staff well-being, too) important to learning, degree completion, and other missions of our university? What might we consider doing, individually and collectively, to improve student well-being and better achieve our goals for them, for us, and...

1:00 - 3:00 pm Lawrence Street Center, Suite 320 (CFD Conference Room) Tara Westover was seventeen the first time she set foot in a classroom. Born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, her parents eschewed a formal education for their children. Tara began to educate herself. She taught herself...

2:30 – 4:00 PM North Classroom, Room 1207 Beyond Risk: Exploring the Relationship Between Maternal Perceptions of Social Support and Child Body Mass Index Using the Fragile Families Study Emily Melnick, MPH Mental Health and Housing Affordability Disparities: Dual Burdens in Colorado Ivan Ramirez, PhD Navigating the Risk of Displacement:...

2:30 – 4:00 PM North Classroom, Room 1207 Beyond Risk: Exploring the Relationship Between Maternal Perceptions of Social Support and Child Body Mass Index Using the Fragile Families Study Emily Melnick, MPH Mental Health and Housing Affordability Disparities: Dual Burdens in Colorado Ivan Ramirez, PhD Navigating the Risk of Displacement:...

Wildness Restored:The Wolf’s Return to Colorado Mike Phillips, Director of the Turner Endangered Species Fund, Author The Wolves of Yellowstone 6:00pm Student Commons 2600 The Chancellor’s Distinguished Lectures focus on subjects that help narrow the widening gap between fast moving advances in knowledge acquisition and their understanding and appreciation by...