Thursday, September 23, 2010
If you happen to be in Casper this Friday and Saturday, check out the Equality State Book Festival at Casper College (and around town)! The Wyoming Humanities Council is proud to be a supporter of this year’s book festival, which features a number of interesting authors from around the state and nation (I, for one, [...]
Friday, September 10, 2010
NOTE: The following program has been cancelled due to a family emergency in the speaker’s family. The International Studies Program will be working to reschedule the event.
Join us on September 14, for “An Evening With Valentino Achak Deng: A Story of Civil War and the Lost Boys of Sudan.” Deng is a Sudanese refugee and [...]
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Thursday, September 2, 2010
The Wyoming Humanities Council’s popular film discussion series, Faces of Addiction, returns this fall in a new set of Wyoming communities! The series is co-sponsored with the Wyoming Department of Health.
Join us for light supper or refreshments and a four-part film discussion series in Cheyenne, Gillette, and Lusk. The films Enron (unrated, 2005), Blow (R, [...]
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On September 18, the public is invited to participate in events honoring Jim Leach, chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities, who will visit Wyoming as part of his fifty-state civility tour. Wyoming welcomes Leach to Heart Mountain Relocation Center at 10:30 a.m. for a public ceremony and tour, followed [...]
If you’re in Laramie this week, be sure to take advantage of our Summer Classics Institute Public Lecture Series, which runs nightly through Thursday, June 17! Here are the details:
Women and Wealth in Republican Rome
Monday, June 14, 7:00 p.m.
UW College of Law, room 186, Laramie
Marilyn Skinner from the University of Arizona.
Celebrating a Trojan Ancestry
Tuesday, June [...]
Please join the Wyoming Humanities Council for humanities “in the open air”! Northwest Wyoming has a rich history of significant contributions to the conservation movement in America. This series of four outdoor lectures will cover different issues related to America’s conservation movement and the preservation of historic cultural resources in the Jackson Hole area. Bring [...]
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On June 12, the Wyoming Humanities Council, the University of Wyoming, and the Teton County Library present the summer ‘term’ of Saturday University, the free one-day college education! Classes will be held from 9:00 a.m. to 3:15 p.m., in Cook Auditorium at the National Museum of Wildlife Art.
Each Saturday U term features lectures from three [...]
Sara Domek at the Wyoming Wilderness Association asked me to pass this along to y’all!
The Wyoming Wilderness Association (WWA) is hosting Gretel Ehrlich for a Wilderness Writer’s Retreat in the Rock Creek recommended wilderness area in the Bighorn National Forest for adventure, reflection and writing August 6-9, 2010. This is the first year that WWA [...]
Join us for a two-day tour of Yellowstone National Park! Retired National Park Service Historic Architect Rodd Wheaton will lead a tour focused on the history and preservation of important structures and buildings in Yellowstone National Park. During the two-day bus tour, participants will learn about the park’s earliest period as an army fort and [...]
Today and tomorrow, the University of Wyoming is hosting two public events with eminent anthropologist Shirley Brice Heath! Here are the details:
Inside the Ethnographers Studio: A Dialogue with Shirley Brice Heath
Monday, March 29
5:00 p.m.
Art Museum
University of Wyoming Centennial Complex
2111 Willett Drive Laramie, WY
Signifying on Bravo’s popular craft seminar, Inside the Actors Studio, the literacy education [...]