Patricia Nelson Limerick, nationally acclaimed history professor at the University of Colorado at Boulder, will speak on her new book, "Something in the Soil: Legacies and Reckonings in the New West," on Friday, April 7.
The talk will be at 7:30 p.m. in the Humanities Building, room 1B50, on the CU-Boulder campus. The talk is free and open to the public, and books will be available for sale.
Following the lecture, Limerick will sign books at a reception in the CU Heritage Center in Old Main.
Limerick's talk is part of an interdisciplinary conference for CU graduate students titled "The Changing West" taking place at CU-Boulder on April 7-8.
The public also is invited to participate in three roundtable discussions of controversial themes in the contemporary culture of the American West on Saturday, April 8, from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. in room 158A-B of the University Memorial Center. The three themes are "Hating California: The Relationship Between the Golden State and the Rest of the West," "Managing Nature: Biodiversity, Ecosystems and Community Involvement" and "Dead Wests: Laying Waste to the West."
For more information contact the CU-Boulder Center of the American West at (303) 492-4879 or visit the center's Web site .