New Approaches

The Symposium on the Undergraduate English Curriculum: New Approaches to English Studies

The Department of English, the President鈥檚 Fund for the Humanities, and the Center for Western Civilization present "The Symposium on the Undergraduate English Curriculum: New Approaches to English Studies" on March 2, 2018 in the Center for British and Irish Studies, Norlin Library.

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The CWCTP partners with the Campus Liberty Tour - NATIONALISM VS. GLOBALISM: A Debate Between Nigel Farage and Vicente Fox

This event is part of a nationwide debate tour with Messrs. Farage and Fox. Other stops on our tour include University of Colorado-Colorado Springs, University of Maryland and Lafayette College (Easton, PA). It is our mission to provide students 鈥 and all who attend 鈥 with the opportunity to learn...

Susan

Raw Virtue and Its Refinements: The Ranking of Divine Goods in Plato鈥檚 Laws

The Philosophy Department presents 鈥淩aw Virtue and Its Refinements: The Ranking of Divine Goods in Plato鈥檚 Laws鈥 on Friday January 26, 2018 at 3:15-5:00 P.M. in Hellems 269.

From Treasury to Collection: The Sumptuous Objects of Royal Iberian Women

From Treasury to Collection: The Sumptuous Objects of Royal Iberian Women from the 14th to the 16th Centuries

The CU Mediterranean Studies Group, the Graduate Committee on the Arts and Humanities & The Center for Western Civilization present Prof. Ana Maria Seabra de Almeida Rodrigues (Faculty of Letters, University of Lisbon), 鈥淔rom Treasury to Collection: The Sumptuous Objects of Royal Iberian Women from the 14th to the 16th Centuries,鈥 on Wednesday, 24 January, 4鈥5:30pm in the Flatirons Room at C4C with Kirk Ambrose (ARTH), Hannah Friedman (ARTH) & N煤ria Silleras-Fernandez (SPAN) responding

Benjamin Kohlmann

鈥淭owards a Literary Prehistory of the Welfare State: Writing in a Reformist Mode, 1880-1910鈥

Kohlmann argues that literature written in the 鈥榬eformist literary mode鈥 imagines the emerging institutional structures of the welfare state as deeply connected to the fabric of social life rather than as an ensemble of bureaucratic processes located outside it or detached from it.

Dostoevsky, George Eliot and the Possibilities of Metaphor听

Dostoevsky, George Eliot and the Possibilities of Metaphor

Guest Lecture by Dr. Melissa Frazier, Prof. and Assoc. Dean, Sarah Lawrence College, Thursday, Dec. 7, 3:30-4:45 p.m. HLMS 211. All are welcome! Light refreshments will be served. Please contact jillian.porter@colorado.edu with any questions.

Military soldiers

Civil-Military Relations in The Trump Era (December 7, 2017)

Dr. Owens is a Senior Fellow of the Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI) in Philadelphia, and editor of Orbis, FPRI's quarterly journal. He recently retired as Professor of National Security Affairs at the US Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island. At the War College he specialized in the planning of US strategy and forces, especially naval and power projection forces; the political economy of national security; national security organization; strategic geography; and American civil-military relations.

Pedicone

How to Build a Humanities Start-Up听

How to Build a Humanities Start-Up Featured Speaker: Jason Pedicone Thursday, December 7th 5:00 PM HUMN 1B80 This talk tells the story of the founding and growth of the Paideia Institute, and provides some lessons and advice Jason Pedicone has gleaned from the experience, which are designed to inform and...

Red and Blue America

Michael Franc: The Demographics of Red and Blue America (November 29, 2017)

Michael Franc, Hoover Institution scholar, will discuss the Demographics of Red and Blue America. Mike Franc is a longtime veteran of Washington, DC policymaking. Prior to joining Hoover, Franc served as policy director and counsel for House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy. He also served as the Vice President of government relations for the Heritage Foundation from 1997-2013.

We the people

Do Law Professors Really Understand American Law? (November 16, 2017)

Stephen Presser is a leading American legal historian and expert on shareholder liability for corporate debts and is a candidate for Visiting Scholar in Conservative Thought & Policy. He is frequently an invited witness before committees of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives on issues of constitutional law. He holds a joint appointment with the J. L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management and also teaches in Northwestern's history department.

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