Events
2024 Winter Salon Series
Thursday, February 15 * 7pm
Fernando Feliu-Moggi
Chair of the Department of Languages and Cultures
Professor of Spanish
The Chief and the Governor: Material Culture and Comanche/Spanish Diplomacy in Late 18thCentury New Mexico
Influenced by changing geopolitical dynamics in the region, the peace treaty accorded in Santa Fe by the Spanish and Eastern Comanche in 1786 culminated more than two decades of violent confrontation between the two groups. Objects from this period associated with both cultures illustrate how these transformations affected the way the two populations reimagined their social and political relationship.
2024 Fellowship Series
Thursday, March 7 * 6pm
Dr. Paul Josephson
Professor
Colby College -Waterville, Maine
A Journey Through Nuclear Landscapes of the US West
This talk will explore the shaping of the Nuclear West by the Cold War and the impact of national security desiderata on the environment.
Visit for additional reading: https://heller.uccs.edu/fellowships
*Co-sponsored with Geography and Environmental Studies and the History Department
Distinguished Professor Lecture with Dr. Dorothea Olkowski
Thursday, March 14 * 7pm
Distinguished Professor
Dept. of Philosophy
What is Continental Philosophy? A Series of (Un)fortunate Events
Recently named University of Colorado Distinguished Professor, Professor Olkowski has been at UCCS since 1990. Her scholarship highlights twentieth century continental philosophy, Kant, the philosophy of language, cognition and emotion, and artificial intelligence. She is the author of fourteen books and over 100 articles including Deleuze, Bergson, Merleau-Ponty: The Logic and Pragmatics of Creation, Affective Life, and Perception (Indiana University Press, 2021).
2024 Spring Salon Series
Thursday, April 4 * 7pm
Evan Taparata
Assistant Professor, Dept. of History
“Refuge of Oppression:” Abolitionist Perspectives on the United States as a Place of Refuge
An exploration of what it meant for the 19th century United States to be a place of refuge in an era of legal slavery, drawing on the abolitionist newspaper The Liberator.
More information visit: https://heller.uccs.edu/salons
2024 Spring Residency
Friday, April 5 * 7pm
Andrea Herrera
Professor, Dept. of Women's & Ethnic Studies
the Heller Center will be presenting a staged reading of Andrea Herrera’s play
La Presencia de la Ausencia/ The Presence of Absence (a Cuban nocturne)
The Presence of Absence is a memory play that chronicles the lives of several generations of Cuban women. The action of the play is set in both pre- and post-revolutionary Cuba; and the plot pivots on Margarita, an exile residing in the United States, who attempts to come to terms with her divided identity, a traumatic past she has suppressed, and her fear of sharing her heritage with her daughter, Lily.
* Location of the play will be at the UCCS Ent Center for the Arts, Chapman Recital Hall.
Please visit link to register for the event: https://web.cvent.com/event/4bb939cf-cc87-48c3-8e89-cb6d6ff8a1cc/summary
Please visit link for online showing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZyYsB8247ME
Special Thanks to those who sponsored this event: Heller Center for Arts and Humanities, TheatreWorks, Mickey Burdick, Scott Levy, Caitlyn Lowans & Kevin Landis, Beth Cecere & the Ent Center Staff, Judith Piazza & the Mountain Soul Drummers, Ilaheva Tua’one, Nikki Pike and the Kramer Family Library, Panelists Benek Altayli, Sara Qualls, Jane Rigler & Renee Moorefield, UCCS, CU & the Boston Conservatory at Berklee, David Baay, Maura Rainey & Carmen Abeyta, Deborah Thornton & Imagination Celebration, Lynn Vidler & the LAS Dean’s Office, The Faculty Equity & Inclusion Committee, The Faculty Assembly Women’s Committee, Visual and Performing Arts Department (VAPA), Women’s & Ethnic Studies Department (WEST), The Matrix Center for the Advancement of Social Equity and Inclusion,Jessi Smith and the Office of Research.
Heller Grounds Event
Monday, April 8 * 10:30am
Come join us at the Heller Center and witness a partial Solar eclipse!
*Location at the Heller Center Studio
Solertia Humanities Speaker Series
Tuesday, April 9 * 7pm
Chapman Foundations Recital Hall, Ent Center for the Arts
Alberto Manguel presents: Homer Today
Alberto Manguel is an Argentinian-Canadian writer, translator, editor and critic, born in Buenos Aires in 1948.
*The UCCS Humanities program is proud to inaugurate the Solertia Humanities Speaker Series, which presents an annual talk by an internationally recognized leader in the humanities.
For more information please visit: https://humanities.uccs.edu/events/solertia
Please visit link to register for the event: https://forms.office.com/r/Bgj2wQgRgX
Upcoming 2023 events
Heller Visiting Creative Writer's Residency
Dates for the Residency are slated for November 5-12
Contact Dr. Catherine Grandorff at cgrandor@uccs.edu with any
questions regarding the Visiting Creative Writer's Residency
The Inaugural Heller Visiting Creative Writer's Residency in Colorado Springs is open for application! Complete the application here.
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