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Monthly Archives: July 2009

Wyoming Humanities Council Announces Humanities Matter! Conference

The Wyoming Humanities Council is pleased to announce the Humanities Matter! conference, which will take place October 23-24 at Central Wyoming College in Riverton.
The Wyoming Humanities Council’s Humanities Matter! conference will bring together representatives of community organizations, museum and library personnel, interested community members, and humanities faculty from across Wyoming to explore how to work [...]

Wyoming Humanities Calendar, July 27-August 2

Check out the variety of humanities events in Wyoming this week!

Tie Hack Tour, Dubois
Monday, July 27: 7:00 PM
Dubois Museum, 909 W. Ramshorn St., Dubois
Museum Education director leads a driving/hiking tour to tie hack ruins on Union Pass.
Meet at the museum at 7 p.m. and be prepared to carpool.
Summer Film Series: The Good, the Bad, and [...]

Past, Present

Today’s entry comes to us courtesy of Dr. Mary Keller, a historian of religions who teaches for the Religious Studies program at the University of Wyoming. Dr. Keller also writes a weekly column for the Cody Enterprise on the importance of knowing our history as we address contemporary issues. The following is an excerpt from [...]

Wyoming Humanities Calendar, July 20-26

This week brings the council’s summer board meeting! So if you’re in or near Lander, please stop by and say hello. The meeting starts at 1:30 p.m. on Friday, July 24, at the Lander Best Western Inn.
Another interesting humanities opportunity comes from  Dr. Mary Keller, who teaches for the Religious Studies Program at the University [...]

I Like Maps

As someone who spends most of her time wading around in words, I’m always intrigued by creative visual representations of research. In word form, for instance, statistics can lose me pretty quickly. But I could look at the Telegraph’s selection of maps from The Atlas of the Real World for hours.  Countries shrink or swell [...]

Chronicles of the Everyday

I was all set to post about something international and expansive, and I will, but today I found myself looking instead at the work of a few photographers whose work is very circumscribed: a town, a daughter, a life. And despite these seeming limitations, I found them to be just as expansive as anything else [...]

Wyoming Humanities Calendar, July 6-12

Our summer Reading Wyoming book discussion groups continue this week!
Reading Wyoming: Saratoga
Wednesday, July 08, 2:00-3:00 PM
Saratoga Public Library
Reading Wyoming Canine Companions: Cheyenne
Thursday, July 09, 6:30-7:30 PM
Laramie County Library