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Wednesday, April 23, 2025
Annual Harper Lecture: "Soldiers and Kings: Survival and Hope in the World of Human Smuggling"
This year's Harper Lecturer is Jason De León , the Lloyd E. Cotsen Endowed Chair of Archaeology, Professor of Anthropology and Chicana/o Studies, and Director of the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is also the Executive Director of the Undocumented Migration Project, a non-profit research, arts, and education collective that seeks to raise awareness about migration issues globally. He is a 2017 MacArthur Foundation Fellow and author of the award-winning book, "The Land of Open Graves: Living and Dying on the Migrant Trail." De Leon's latest book, “Soldiers and Kings: Survival and Hope in the World of Human Smuggling,” won the 2024 National Book Award for Nonfiction. This talk will grapple with the complexities of human immigration.
- Reception: 5–6 p.m. | Lecture: 6–7 p.m. MT
- Craig Hall, Room 120 (2148 S High St.)
Tuesday, May 6, 2025
Annual Kirk Lecture: "Defiance and Power: Gendered Resistance in First-Century Judaea"
This year's Kirk Lecturer is Shayna Sheinfield, an Assistant Professor of Religion at Augsburg University. She is broadly trained in Biblical Studies and the afterlives of the Bible, with a focus on Second Temple (including New Testament/Early Christianity) and early Rabbinic periods. Her work emphasizes the vast diversity of Judaism in the ancient world, including ancient constructions of gender, and she wrote the book, "Jewish and Christian Women in the Ancient Mediterranean." This talk will examine some women in first-century Judaea and the Jewish rebellion against Rome as a way to explore gendered ways of resistance.
- Reception: 6–7 p.m. | Lecture: 7–8 p.m. MT
- Community Commons, Rm 1700
Friday, May 16, 2025
J. F. Foster Award & Guest Lecture
J. F. Foster was a beloved economics professor at the University of Denver from 1946 to 1976 where he not only taught hundreds of students but contributed to institutional economic theory. This lecture was established to honor his legacy via an award ceremony and guest lecture from a leading economist in the field. Attendance is by private invite only.
- 5:00 - 7:00 p.m. MT
- Anderson Academic Commons, Gregg Kvistad Special Events Room 290
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