Block 1: Opening Convocation (starts at 9 a.m.)

Opening Convocation marks the beginning of Colorado College's academic year and helps to welcome new students, the Class of 2023.

Block 2: Robin Kelley. Professor and Gary B. Nash Endowed Chair in U.S. History, UCLA

Block 3: Kimberly R. Huyser, Associate Professor of Sociology, University of New Mexico

Block 4: Carter Roberts, President and CEO of the World Wildlife Fund

Block 5: Ryan Haygood '97, executive director and chief executive officer of the New Jersey Institute for Social Justice

Block 6: Panel on Diversity and Inclusion in Esports

Block 7: Dez Stone Menendez '00, Director of Innovation at Colorado College

Block 1: Opening Convocation

Opening Convocation marks the beginning of Colorado College's academic year and helps to welcome new students, the Class of 2022.

Block 2: Vincent Hutchings, Professor of Political Science, University of Michigan
"Understanding the 2018 Election"

(Presented by the Department of Political Science, the William Jovanovich Lecture in Public Affairs Fund, and the Fred A. Sondermann Memorial Fund)

Block 3: Dr. Lynn Hunt, Distinguished Research Professor, UCLA
"The Controversial History of Human Rights"

(Presented by the Department of History)

Block 4: Dr. Jean Twenge, Professor of Psychology, San Diego State University
"Cultural Trends Shaping iGen: Individualism, Insecurity, and the Internet"

(Presented by the President's Office and Student Life.)

Block 5: Dr. Reena N. Goldthree, Assistant professor of African American Studies, Princeton University
"Moving Beyond the Valley of Despair: Black Freedom Dreams in the Age of Trump"

(Presented by the Academic Events Committee, Cultural Atractions Fund, and the Butler Center.)

Block 6: Adrianne Chalepah
"The Rise of Indigenous Women's Voices"

(Presented by the Academic Events Committee, Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center at Colorado College Museum, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and NEH Professorship)

Block 7: Alan Townsend, Provost and Professor of Environmental Science, Colorado College
"Which Climate Will We Choose?"

(Presented by the Academic Events Committee)

Block 1: Opening Convocation

Opening Convocation marks the beginning of Colorado College's academic year and helps to welcome new students, the Class of 2021.

Block 2: Anthony Leiserowitz, Ph.D., Director, Yale Program on Climate Change Communication, School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, Yale University

Block 3: Sylvia Chan-Malik, Associate Professor of American and Women's and Gender Studies, Rutgers University, New Brunswick

Block 4: Glenn Gaesser, Ph.D., Professor and Director of Healthy Lifestyles Research Center Education, Arizona State University

Block 5: Nikole Hannah-Jones, award-winning investigative reporter covering racial injustice for the New York Times Magazine.

Block 6: Samantha Blackmon, Ph.D., Associate Professor of English at Purdue and Co-Founder of Not Your Mamma's Gamer

Block 7: First Nation artist/activist Gregg Deal

Block 1: Opening Convocation

Block 2: Marlon James

Block 3: Marc Hetherington

Block 4: Richard Ross

Block 5: Russell Rickford

Block 6: A.O. Scott

Block 1: Opening Convocation Serious Spontaneity Doug Pray '83, Documentary Filmmaker

Block 2: Designed for Change: Ending a Tyranny of Low Expectations
John Cary, Author, Curator, and Architect
Sponsors: The Art Department Design Research Fund, IDEA, and The Cultural Attractions Fund

Block 3: Life Through The Prism of Pop Culture
Chuck Klosterman, Author of Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs
Sponsor: Demarest Lloyd Endowed Lecture in Humanities

Block 4: Canceled
Anthropocene, Capitalocene, Chthulucene: the Lively Arts of Staying with the Trouble
Donna Haraway '66, Distinguished Professor Emeritus in the History of Consciousness Program, UC Santa Cruz
Sponsors: The President's Office and the Department of Philosophy

Block 5: 30 years and Counting: Living the Legacy of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr

Block 6: Claudia Rankine, Chancellor of the American Academy of Poets and Henry G. Lee Professor of English at Pomona College

Block 7: How to Understand the Best, Greatest, Biggest, Classiest Presidential Primary of All Time
John Sides, Associate Professor of Political Science, George Washington University

Block 8: Honors Convocation

Soundtrack for a Revolution

Dylan Nelson, professor of film and new media studies

Heidi Lewis, professor of feminist and gender studies

Suicide, and Hope for our Future Selves

Jennifer Michael Hecht, Philosopher, historian, and poet

Confronting the New Global Reality: Obama's Last Two Years

Ambassador Christopher Hill

(Lopat Lecture)

Honors Convocation

January 19, 2015

February 16, 2015

Opening Convocation: No prospect of a beginning, no vestige of an end

Dr. Woody W. Fisher, '00, Honorary Degree recipient, Assistant Professor of Geobiology, Caltech

America's Energy Future: Cleaner, Better, Brighter

Michael Brune, Executive Director, The Sierra Club

Console Wars: Sega, Nintendo, and the Battle that Defined a Generation

Gail Tilden, Founder of "Nintendo Power" Magazine and Former VP of Brand Management at Nintendo

Blake Harris, Author of "Console Wars: Sega, Nintendo, and the Battle that Defined a Generation"

Entrepreneurship, Connections, and Passion: CC Alums in the World of Craft Beer

David Wright, PJ Hoberman, Tommy Thacer, and Peter Skrbek

September 1, 2014

September 29, 2014

Block 8, 2013-14: NYC's Woman Trapped Inside a Woman's Body
Alison Grillo
Transgender comedian from New York City.

Block 7, 2013-14: Beyond The Chinese Connection: Contemporary Afro-­‐Asian Cultural Production
Crystal Anderson
Author

Block 5, 2013-14: Celebrating MLK Day
Cleo Parker Robinson
CPRDE

Block 4, 2013-14: The Wayfinders: Why Ancient Wisdom Matters in the Modern World
Wade Davis
National Geographic Society Explorer-In-Residence

Block 3, 2013-14: Design Matters: Why?
Garrett Benisch, Jessica Hunter-Larsen, and Carl Reed
Design-minded members of CC community!

Block 2.5, 2013-14: "First Monday on Friday"
The Best Game You Can Name (Is the Good Old Hockey Game)
Dave Bidini
Sportswriter and columnist for The National Postin Canada

Block 2, 2013-14: ON the Wall - The conceptualization and production of Reel Rock Film
Josh Lowell '94 and Pete Mortimer '97
Reel Rock Film producers

Block 1, 2013-14: Opening Convocation
"From a Small College in Colorado to a Small College in Maine"Paul Franco '78
Professor of Government, Bowdoin College

Block 8, 2012-13: Honors Convocation

Block 7, 2012-13: Tapestries of Apocalypse: From Angers to "Nausicaa" and Beyond
Dr. Susan Napier
Professor and Director of Japanese Program, Tufts University

Block 1, 2012-13 (Opening Convocation):
Coloring Outside the Lines - Pursuing an Interdisciplinary Life
Samuel Taylor, director of the Carnegie Museum of Natural History