Comments on: Dialing for dignitaries

By: Roger's new voice | CU-Boulder Alumni Association

Roger's new voice | CU-Boulder Alumni Association — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 21:43:40 +0000

[...] we hope to see you next year! Here’s more of our photos from the CWA. Here’s the Coloradan alumni magazine story about Howard Higman, the conference founder. This entry was posted in Buff Photo, E-News, Forums, [...]

By: Response to ‘Dialing for Dignitaries’ | CU-Boulder Alumni Association

Response to ‘Dialing for Dignitaries’ | CU-Boulder Alumni Association — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 21:25:25 +0000

[...] letter to the editor responding to the article in the March 2010 Coloradan about Howard Higman (Art’31, [...]

By: Alumni Association of the University of Colorado at Boulder - Blog Archive » Response to ‘Dialing for Dignitaries’

Wed, 02 Jun 2010 18:48:52 +0000

[...] to ‘Dialing for Dignitaries’ A letter to the editor responding to the article in the March 2010 Coloradan about Howard Higman (Art’31, [...]

By: Letters – June 2010 | Coloradan

Letters – June 2010 | Coloradan — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 17:35:50 +0000

[...] student. I was self supporting for those last two years. Howard Higman (Art’31, MSoc’42) [“Dialing for dignitaries”] was one of my professors. I live in Los Angeles, but Boulder still seems to call me as if [...]

By: Tori Peglar

Tori Peglar — Mon, 10 May 2010 05:35:04 +0000

Thanks, Susan, for contributing this great information about Sven, which did not appear in the March article!

By: Susan Barney Jones

Susan Barney Jones — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 20:25:29 +0000

Nice story on Higman and the Conference on World Affairs. I wanted to add to this history of CWA, by noting that Sven Steinmo of UCB political science was appointed CWA director in 1995. Steinmo was the person who helped establish the “revamped” conference in 1996, as stated above, afer Higman’s death in 1995. Steinmo made efforts to include more students in the conference and to invite new participants. He resigned in June 1998, after three years as director. His successor, Jim Palmer of film studies, took over in fall 1998 and promised to expand the CWA to include year-round visits from guests who would meet with faculty and students, teach classes, conduct student seminars and give public lectures. That effort, the CWA Atheneum, has become a key part of bringing more students into the process of conference planning. In April 1999, Palmer called the CWA the “ultimate oxymoron — a time of rational madness, realistic idealism and serious fun.”

By: Alumni Association of the University of Colorado at Boulder - Blog Archive » Roger’s new voice

Fri, 16 Apr 2010 16:09:24 +0000

[...] we hope to see you next year! Here’s more of our photos from the CWA. Here’s the Coloradan alumni magazine story about Howard HIgman, the conference [...]

By: Dr. Karen Saucier Lundy

Dr. Karen Saucier Lundy — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 22:08:04 +0000

Howard Higman was all that and more. Great article on a wonderful, mad professor. I was a graduate student in sociology and TA’d with Howard Higman in the mid 1980s. He taught me more than any single one mentor about teaching and life though a sociological lens. He also terrified me as much as any professor has ever done. CU should be shamed about snatching the WA conference away from him. I agree, he died of a broken heart. RIP Higman.
Karen Saucier Lundy, PhD (Soc 87)