Spring 2025 Events

2025 Winter Salon Series

Thursday, February 13 * 7pm

Josh Vandiver
Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science

What is Masculinism?

Optional Reading: https://heller.uccs.edu/salons

Josh Vandiver

Indigenous Fellowship

Thursday, February 20 * 7pm

Roxanne Swentzell
Artist / Conservationist

A Walk in my World: Perspectives from a Native Woman on Culture, Environment, and Art

More information at: https://heller.uccs.edu/indigenous-fellowship

Roxanne Swentzell

Humanities Solertia lecture

Wednesday, February 26 * 7pm

Kevin Anderson
Author

Why Humanities Matter: Dune and Star Wars as the Gateway to Your Purpose

*co-sponsored with Dept of Humanities
* Location of event will be at the Ent Center for the Arts

KJ Anderson

2025 Spring Fellowship Series

Thursday, March 13 * 5:30pm

Ayako Kato
Choreographer / Dancer

ETHOS V: Ways of the Wind (work-in-progress)

*co-sponsored with VAPA – Dance & Music 

Please register at: https://forms.office.com/r/Y7Ua9s7ARn

Ayoko Kato

Visiting Author Series

Tuesday, March 18 * 7pm

Natanya Ann Pulley
Author 

Join for a reading, book signing, and Q&A with the Diné writer & editor, author of With Teeth, National Endowment for the Arts Fellow

*This event is Co-sponsored with the UCCS English Dept.

Natanya Ann Pulley

2025 Spring Salon Series

Thursday, April 3 * 7pm

Nina Monet Reynoso
Assistant Professor, Department of Women’s & Ethnic Studies

Death & Diploma Mills: Liberatory Suicide Prevention for Veterans in Contemporary America 

For Optional Reading: https://heller.uccs.edu/salons

Nina Monet Reynoso

Visiting Author Series

Tuesday, April 8 * 7pm

Lee Horikoshi Roripaugh 
Author 
 
Lee Horikoshi Roripaugh will visit UCCS as part of the ongoing Visiting Author Series.
She will offer a public reading, engage in a Q&A session, and sign books at the Heller Center.
 
*Light refreshments will be served.
 
Online access to the event is available via Teams: https://bit.ly/4kpe6IB

*This event is Co-sponsored with the UCCS English Dept.
Lee Horikoshi Roripaugh

2025 Heller Faculty Residency

Thursday, April 10 * 7pm

Karin Larkin 
Associate Professor and Curator of Anthropology

Cragmor Health Hogan: Treating Navajo Patients at Cragmor Tuberculosis Sanatorium

*co-sponsored with Office of Research

 

Karin Larkin

All programs are free and open to the public

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