The Andrew Norman Guest Lecturer Series
An endowment from the Andrew Norman Foundation in 1988 established an annual guest lectureship which brings distinguished men and women in the forefront of regional politics, environmental issues, education, culture and arts to enhance the understanding of the communities of Colorado College and Colorado Springs about the Southwest.
2008 Lecture
Elliott West, 2008 Norman Lecturer
Dr. Elliott West, PhD, award winning American West Historian delivered the 2008 Andrew Normal Lecture on Thursday, December 4, 2008. The title of his talk was “The View from Pikes Peak: Colorado’s Gold Rush and the American West.” This lecture was co-sponsored by the Hulbert Center for Southwest Studies and the Colorado Springs Pioneers Museum as a part of the museum’s exhibit “Going for Gold: Pikes Peak or Bust!”
Dr. West recently published The Contested Plains, Indians, Goldseekers, and the Rush to Colorado (University Press of Kansas) and The Way to the West: Essays on the Central Plains (University of New Mexico Press). Both books won the Western Heritage Award Outstanding Nonfiction Book on the American West.
Previous Lectures
2007 |
Gary Nabhan |
” Renewing the Food Traditions of Chile Pepper Nation,” |
2005 |
James Brooks |
“Mesa of Sorrows: Archaeology, Purity, and Prophetic Violence in the American Southwest” |
2004
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Demetria Martínez |
"Writing in the Margins: Poetry and Other Explorations" |
2003 |
Ana Alonso |
"The Discourse of Mestizaje and Gender on Both Sides of the Border: Vasconcelos and Anzaldúa" |
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Martha Sandweiss |
"Print the Legend: Photography and the Nineteenth Century West" |
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Brent Michael Davids |
"The Last of James Fenimore Cooper" |
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Euchee Indians |
"A Celebration of Euchee Indian Culture and Tradition" |
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Linda Hogan |
"Writing from the Land: A Reading and Conversation |
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John Mack Faragher |
"The Frontier and West in our Time" |
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James Welch |
"Looking for Buffalo Bill" |
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George J. Sánchez |
"Race, Immigration and the Rise of Nativism in Late Twentieth Century America" |
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Charles Wilkinson |
"Honoring the Work and Worldviews of the Continent's First Peoples: The Case of the Anasazi Sites of the Colorado Plateau" |
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David Weber |
"The Transformation of North America: Hispanic Legacies" |
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David Carrasco |
"From Excavation to Exhibition: The Making of 'Axtec: The World of Moctezuma"' |
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Patricia Nelson-Limerick |
"The Re-envisioning of the Am. West" |
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Rudolfo Anaya |
"Saving our Culture: Kookooee Story" |
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Paula Gunn Allen |
"Women's Spiritual Tradition: A Native American Example" |
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Frank Waters |
"Changes in the Southwest" |