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Wars of Reckoning and The Great Reconciliation
Feat. Claire Oberon Garcia & Karen Roybal
Door Time: 6:30 PM
Show Time: 7:00 PM
Beginning in March 2020, Covid-19 lockdowns upended daily life around the world. Then in May, outrage over the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis drove millions of Americans to the streets demanding racial justice.
How did these events shape the century ahead? Join the discussion as Claire Oberon Garcia and Karen Roybal look back at this history in the making. The panel will be moderated by History Colorado’s Jason Hanson.
About the Speakers:
Claire Oberon Garcia
Claire Oberon Garcia is a Professor of English at Colorado College. Her teaching and research interests lie in Black Diasporic literature and culture, with an emphasis on women writers. Her classes are usually cross-listed in English, Comparative Literature, Race Ethnicity and Migration Studies and Feminist and Gender Studies. Her most recent publications include:
“Black Women Writers in Early Twentieth Century Paris,” in the Routledge Companion to Black Women’s Cultural Histories (2021)
“I’ve Got a Story to Tell: Identity and Place in the Academy”, Jackson, Jordan, and Jordan, eds. Peter Lang Publishing, (1999)
“Remapping the Metropolis: Theorizing Black Women’s Subjectivities in Interwar Paris” in Black French Women and the Struggle for Equality 1848-2016 (2019)
She is the lead editor on “From Uncle Tom’s Cabin to The Help: Critical Perspectives on White-Authored Narratives of Black Life” (2014)
Her monograph, “For we have seen the relativity of all things”: Black Women Writers in Paris (1900-1956), is under contract with the University of Georgia Press.
Click here to read Claire Oberon Garcia’s original original article in The Colorado Magazine.
Karen R. Roybal
Karen R. Roybal is an assistant professor of Southwest Studies at Colorado College. Her specializations include Southwest Studies, Archival Studies, Chicanx and Latinx literature and history, and Cultural Studies. She teaches courses in literature, arts and culture, archival studies, Southwest/Borderlands history, and environmental justice. Dr. Roybal is the author of Archives of Dispossession: Recovering the Testimonios of Mexican American Herederas, 1848-1960 (University of North Carolina Press, 2017). Her most recent project is New Transnational Chicanx Perspectives on Ana Castillo, co-edited with Dr. Bernadine Hernández (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2021).
Click here to read Karen Roybal’s original article in The Colorado Magazine.
Presented by Colorado Chautauqua Association and History Colorado.
Supported by the Betsy Hitchcock Program Fund
Culture in a Bubble: What The Hell Happened These Last Two Years?
Feat: G. Brown, Ed Sealover, Adrian Miller
Door Time: 6:30 PM
Show Time: 7:00 PM
If there was one element of 2020 that the entire globe shared it was ISOLATION. Lockdowns, stay-at-home orders, social distancing, and closed businesses meant we spent more time alone than ever. Closed offices meant we had to adapt to working from home.
How will the pandemic reshape our social lives and our work environments? Will we relish the opportunity of being able to work in our pajamas all day? Will we choose social media over social gatherings? Live-streaming over concerts?
Join G. Brown, Ed Sealover, and Adrian Miller to hear their thoughts and join in on the discussion.
About the Speakers:
G. Brown
Respected veteran journalist, broadcaster and historian G. Brown is the author of On Record, an encyclopedic series of books celebrating popular music from 1978-1998. He navigated the world’s musical landscape for 26 years contracting with The Denver Post, and was published in numerous national magazines, including Rolling Stone and National Lampoon. In addition, Brown covered music news and hosted and programmed for a myriad of Denver-based radio stations. He is also the author of the award-winning books Red Rocks: The Concert Years, Colorado Rock Chronicles, and Telluride Bluegrass Festival: The First Forty Years. He was the founding director of the Colorado Music Hall of Fame beginning in 2011; he then launched and now oversees the Colorado Music Experience, a nonprofit cultural and educational organization established to preserve the legacies of Colorado music (colomusic.org).
Click here to read G. Brown’s original essay.
Ed Sealover
Ed Sealover is a reporter at the Denver Business Journal, an author of two books on beer and Colorado tourism, and a volunteer tour guide at History Colorado Center.
Click here to read Ed Sealover’s original essay.
Adrian Miller
Adrian Miller is a James Beard Award-winning author who lives in Denver. He wrote Soul Food: The Surprising Story of an American Cuisine, One Plate at a Time, The President’s Kitchen Cabinet: The Story of the African Americans Who Have Fed Our First Families, from the Washingtons to the Obamas, and the upcoming Black Smoke: African Americans and the United States of Barbecue. He also serves as the executive director of the Colorado Council of Churches.
Click here to read Adrian Miller’s original essay.
Presented by Colorado Chautauqua Association and History Colorado
Supported by the Betsy Hitchcock Program Fund
POSTPONED – Our Strength Is Still Our Union – Or Is It?
Feat: Mark Earnest & Tom Romero
Door Time: 6:30 PM
Show Time: 7:00 PM
Due to circumstances beyond our control, this event has been POSTPONED, and will not be occurring on 4/19. Please check back for more information soon.
The polarization of our country has increased extraordinarily since 2016, culminating in an insurrection that would have seemed unthinkable a few years ago. Our democracy has never appeared to be more at risk than today.
Will these tensions lead to institutional changes that will reshape our country into something more functional? Or will we only become further divided – potentially leading to the end of our American experiment?
Join Mark Earnest and Tom Romero to hear their thoughts and join in on the discussion.
About the Speakers:
Mark Earnest
Mark Earnest is the Mieklejohn Endowed Professor of Medicine at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medicine Campus. Dr. Earnest earned his bachelor’s degree at Wake Forest University, his MD from Vanderbilt and moved to Colorado for his medical residency and has been proud to call Colorado home ever since. He and his wife Julie consider themselves naturalized Coloradans and are the proud parents of two native-born children. In addition to his medical training, he has a PhD in Health and Behavioral Sciences from the University of Colorado Denver and a longstanding interest in health policy and history. He is a practicing internist and the Division Head for General Internal Medicine.
Click here to read Mark Earnest’s original essay.
Tom Romero
Tom I. Romero, II is a nationally renowned legal historian at the University of Denver who uses the complications of Colorado’s past struggles for racial equality to better understand the legal and political challenges of equity and inclusion for today.
Click here to read Tom Romero’s original essay.
Presented by Colorado Chautauqua Association and History Colorado
Supported by the Betsy Hitchcock Program Fund