No humanities events this holiday week, and the Wyoming Humanities Network will be taking this Friday off, too!
Happy Fourth of July, everyone!
I found so much marvelous stuff on Russia last week, that it just had to spill over into another post! So, without further ado, here are two photographers who have documented Russia’s past in interesting ways.
Sergey Larenkov intermingles historical photographs of World War II’s Seige of Leningrad with contemporary photographs of the same locations. Bombed-out [...]
This summer, the Wyoming Humanities Council introduces a new reading series, Canine Companions, which explores the relationship between humans and dogs. Come join the discussion in Cody!
Wednesday, June 24, 7 p.m.
Reading Wyoming: Canine Companions
Park County Library, Cody
Today’s post is all about Russia. Why? Because I adore the blog English Russia, whose tag line is “Because something cool happens daily on 1/6 of the Earth’s surface.” And what’s not to love? The blog has a quirky sensibility. Awkward English. Images of long lines and emerging punk fashion in Soviet and post-Soviet days. [...]
Here are this week’s humanities events! Come learn about the economies of the Great Plains in the mid-nineteenth century in Lander, or discuss books about the relationships between humans and dogs in Cheyenne!
June 16, 7 p.m.
Lander, Sinks Canyon Visitors Center
Humanities Forum: Buying, Selling and Trading in Indian Country, by William Bauer
June 18, 6:30 p.m.
Cheyenne, Laramie [...]
1. Critique them. Failing that, criticize.
The Cynical-C Blog regularly posts selections of one-star Amazon reviews of classic literature, film, and music. I’m all for questioning the canon. But most of these reviews are dedicated to the fine art of missing the point. I couldn’t help pulling out a few of my favorite assertions about books [...]
Our Summer Classics Institute Public Lecture Series continues until Thursday! This year’s lectures center on 5th century Athens. All lectures begin at 7 p.m., at the University of Wyoming College of Law, Room 142. See you there!
Here are the lecture topics:
Monday, June 8
“Staging Intellectualism: Euripides and Athens,” Dr. Lorenzo Garcia, University of New Mexico
Tuesday, June [...]
Here are this week’s humanities happenings around Wyoming! If you’re in or around Laramie, please come to the opening lecture for our Summer Classics Institute, Phil Holt’s “Intellectuals in Context: Athens in the late 5th Century B.C.” The lecture is free and open to the public. Lucky you!
June 3, 7 p.m.
Cody, Park County Library
Reading Wyoming: [...]
It is with great sadness that we report the death of poet and University of Wyoming professor Craig Arnold. Craig has been missing since April 26 on the Japanese island of Kuchino-erabu-shima and presumed dead since May 8, when an international nonprofit search and rescue team, 1SRG, determined that he fell from a steep cliff [...]
Here are this week’s humanities events! As always, if there are any humanities-related events you’d like to advertise, please let me know, and I’ll add them!
May 1-30
Cheyenne, Civic Center
Grant Program: Sugar Beet Fields to Fields of Dreams
May 29, 7:30 p.m.
Sundance, Crook County Library
Humanities Forum: Rails and Shutters, by Chavawn Kelly