2025 Speaker Recordings
June 24 - Becky Mitchell & Doug Kenney~ Moderated by Julie Nania - “The Upper Colorado River”
July 1 - Leslie T. Chang ~ “Globalization and its Discontents - Stories from the Factory Floors of Egypt and China”
July 8 - Laura Adams ~ “Governing AI in Healthcare: the Hope, the Hype, the Promise and the Peril”
July 15 - Yael Schacher ~ “Immigration Enforcement: The Human Toll of a Second Trump Term - And What to do About it”
July 22 - Paul Kane ~ “Will Today’s Congress Stand Up to the Trump Administration?”
July 29 - Alex Filippenko~ “Exciting Results with NASA’s James Webb Telescope” This was a visually rich lecture and the audio recording is far from the full experience.
August 5 - Nidhi Bouri ~ “Foreign Aid at a Crossroads: Navigating Humanitarian and Global Health Challenges in a New Era”
August 12 - Daniel I. Weiner ~ “American Democracy in Crisis: Big Challenges and the Path Forward”
2024 Speaker Recordings
June 18th - Justin Farrell & Neal Payton, in conversation with Jason Blevins of The Colorado Sun - “Resort Economics: How mountain towns and their communities thrive in the future?”
June 25th - Sandy Magnus - “Satellite Space Jams: Avoiding Collisions in Outer Space”
July 9th - Dr. Lisa Dale - “Adapting to Climate Change”
July 16th - Dr. Paul Spiegel - “ Delivering Humanitarian Assistance in Gaza: Public Health Strategies and Interventions”
July 16th - Sophia Rosenfeld - “What Can We Talk About? The Free Speech Battle in Our Colleges and Universities”
July 30th - Alison Nordt - “From the James Webb Telescope to Habitable Worlds: Technology to Scientific Discovery”
August 6th - Daniel Drezner - “ The Uncertain State of American Grand Strategy”
2023 Speaker Recordings
Sewell Chan, “The Collapse of Local News, the Rise of Disinformation and the Consequences for our Democracy”
June 27, 2023 - This speaker recording is unavailable. We apologize.
Naomi Oreskes, “The Big Myth: How American Business Taught Us to Loathe Government & Love the Free Market”
July 5, 2023
Ed Goeas ~ “The State of Politics Today” ~Interviewed by Steve Scully
July 11, 2023
Dr. Lesley Brooks ~ “Learning & Unlearning: The Opioid Crisis, the Stories We Tell Ourselves and the Way Forward”
July 18, 2023
Dr. Anthony Tingle ~ “The Ukraine War: Origins to Endgame”
July 25, 2023
Dr. Sam Myers ~ “Planetary Health”
August 1, 2023
Hardin Lang ~ “The Geopolitics of Conflict and Crisis: Humanitarian Action in a Complex World”
August 8, 2023
Maggie L. Fox ~ “Kinship: The Role of Culture in Driving Collective Action”
August 15, 2023
2022 Speaker Recordings
Michael Swaine, What Exactly, Is the Threat From China?”
June 28, 2022
Amy Zegart, “Decoding Cyber Threats”
July 12, 2022
Peter Baker & Susan Glasser - Moderated by Bill Scanlan,
“Biden’s Washington: A Report From the Front Lines”
July 19, 2022
Amber McReynolds, “Voters First Future - The Challenge to Improve Our Civic Health, Protect Voting Rights and Secure Our Elections”
July 26, 2022
Dr. Nicki Gonzales, “Si Se Puedo: How Latinos Shaped Colorado History”
August 2,2022
General James L. Jones, “America In Decline? Not so Fast!”
August 9, 2022
Anne Castle, “The Years of Living Dangerously on the Colorado River”.
August 16, 2022
Listen to Past speakers
2021 Speakers
Joe Cirincione, “Biden’s National Security Priorities: Will His New Strategy Work?”
June 29, 2021
Sharon Hom, “Between a Rock & a Hard Place: China Challenges to Human Rights.”
July 6, 2021 - No recording available at this time.
Joni Reynolds, “Reflections on the Pandemic: A Report from the Front Lines”
July 13, 2021
David McCraw, “Lies and Liberty: The Future of Free Speech in a Divided America”
July 20, 2021
Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser, Is Big Tech Too Powerful? The Case against Facebook and Google”
July 27, 2021
Paul Andersen, “The Legacy of the Red Lady Mine Battle and Lessons for the West”
August 3, 202
Governor Bill Ritter, “America’s Energy Economy: Transition or Revolution?”
August 101, 2021
Naomi Oreskes, “Why do we trust Science when our politicians don’t?”
August 17, 2021