Rod Garnett

Each Saturday U term features lectures from three outstanding University of Wyoming professors. The spring ‘term’ will begin with Jean Garrison, associate professor of political science and director of the International Studies Program, who will discuss how President Obama has faced multiple challenges in “Obama Review: Pondering the President.” Rod Garnett, professor of music, will then present “Playing the Nai: A Window into Moldova,” which will include a live nai performance. In the afternoon, Peter Parolin, associate professor and chair of the English Department, will explore the links between effective leadership and theatrical skills in “The Role of a King: Leadership and Theatrics in Shakespeare’s Henry IV.”

Following the lectures, all three professors will participate in a final roundtable discussion moderated by Wyoming Humanities Council board member Paul Flesher, director of the university’s Religious Studies Program.

Participants may attend one, two, three, or all four session. No registration is required, and the program is free to the public. Descriptions of the lectures are available online. For more details on Saturday U, please contact the Wyoming Humanities Council, wych@uwyo.edu, (307) 721-9243.

Independent Film Series

Book Discussion Group
Tuesday, February 16, 6:30- 8:30 pm
Book discussion group
Uinta County Library, Evanston

Reading Wyoming: Canine Companions, Laramie
Tuesday, February 16, 6:30 pm
Winterdance: The Fine Madness of Running the Iditarod, by Gary Paulsen
Albany County Library, Laramie

Reading Wyoming: Minority Experience in America, Sheridan
Tuesday, February 16, 7:00 p.m.
Katie Curtiss leads the discussions.
Sheridan County Fulmer Public Library, Sheridan

Reading Wyoming: Rural in America, Cheyenne
Wednesday, February 17, 6:30 p.m.
All of the books in this discussion series offer both romantic and realistic views of rural life.  Rose Wagner leads the discussions.
Wyoming State Museum, Cheyenne

Reading Wyoming: Living Between Fences, Basin
Wednesday, February 17, 6:30 p.m.
The books in this reaading and discussion series consider fences and divisions both in their visible form on the landscape and as metaphors for the barriers that separate us.  Claire Dunne leads the discussions.
Big Horn County Library, Basin

Reading Wyoming: Community and the Western Landscape, Casper
Thursday, February 18, 6:30 p.m.
A reading and discussion series that explores the West’s diverse areas and history, facilitated by Nicole Bryant.
Fort Caspar Museum, Casper

What’s News: Jackson
Thursday, February 18, 12:00-1:30 p.m.
Bring a lunch and join us from noon to 1:30 at the Teton County Library, tracking print and online news with local editors and occasional visiting editors, journalists, and scholars.
Teton County Library, Jackson

Humanities Forum: Pronghorn Passage
Thursday, February 18, noon
Emilene Ostlind tells the story of walking the 150-mile migration corridor of the pronghorn antelope to document one of hte world’s greatest long-distance animal migrations.
Craig Thomas Discovery and Visitor Center, Grand Teton National Park

Edward P. Jones Reading
Thursday, February 18, 5:00-7:00 p.m.
Join us for a reading and conversation with Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Edward P. Jones.  The reading is free and open to the public, and will be followed by a book signing sponsored by the University of Wyoming Bookstore.  A variety of his books are now available at the UW Bookstore for 25% off. Don’t delay, get your copy today!
Wyoming Union, Yellowstone Ballroom, Laramie

Yak!
Thursday, February 18, 4:00-5:00 p.m.
Featured film will be Weird Science.
Albany County Library, Laramie

Frankenstein Film Series
Thursday, February 18, 7:00-9:00 p.m.
The featured film will be Young Frankenstein.
Albany County Library, Laramie

Popular Fantasy Author Talks ‘Imagination’
Thursday, February 18, 6:30-8 p.m.
Teton County Library presents award-winning young adult and children’s author Brandon Mull, writer of the best-selling Fablehaven series, for a talk and book-signing.  Mull will talk about the writing process and how he engages his imagination to create fantastical characters in his stories. He encourages students to strengthen their imagination through reading and writing during his “Imagination Can Take You Places” tour, which has reached more than 215,000 elementary school students to date.
Colter School Cafeteria, 1855 High School Road

Humanities Forum: Aama’s Journey, Big Piney
Friday, February 19, 7:00 p.m.
In 1992, an 84-year-old village woman from the Himalayas with no exposure to a Western civilization made a pilgrimage to the United States. Broughton Coburn tells her story, based upon his books.
Big Piney Branch Library, Big Piney

Saturday University: Jackson
Saturday, February 20, 9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
One-day seminar with UW faculty members.  Free and open to the public.
National Museum of Wildlife Art, Jackson

Author Book Signings- Alyson Hagy
Sunday, February 21, Ghosts of Wyoming- Short stories
Albany County Library, Laramie

Retrieving the Past: Photos from the Archives
Now on View
These 68 images are highlights from the digital collections of Jack Richard, Charles Belden and the Buffalo Bill Online Archives. The photographers Richard and Belden each captured moments of energy and action in their respective genres. Richard, a photographer from Cody, worked in the Yellowstone area from the 1940s to the 1980s, where his crisp, superbly composed images captured the Western way of life. Belden’s images were taken in the 1920s and 1930s on the legendary Pitchfork Ranch at the base of the spectacular Absaroka Mountains near Meeteetse, Wyoming. By photographing cowboys and cattle against this spectacular backdrop, he created some of the classic images of the American West.
The historic photographs taken from the Buffalo Bill Online Archive show the changing face of William F. “Buffalo Bill” Cody (1846-1917) from young man living and working on the frontier to Wild West entrepreneur to aging businessman. Cody has been call one of the most photographed figures of the 19th and early 20th century – and the Buffalo Bill Archive is indeed proof to that claim.
Buffalo Bill Cody Historical Center, Cody

Paul Dyck Plains Indian Buffalo Culture Collection Preview
Now on View
Eighteen beautiful objects from the Paul Dyck Plains Indian Buffalo Culture Collection are now on view in the Plains Indian Museum Land of Many Gifts Gallery. This is the second round of objects from the collection, totaling over 2,000 artifacts, to be displayed.
Buffalo Bill Historical Center, Cody

Peter Sarkisian: Video Works, 1996-2008
January 30- May 8
Peter Sarkisian: Video Works, 1996 2008 is a small retrospective that features signature works and conveys how the artist has considered and resolved various approaches to integrating video into temporal and spatial experiences.
UW Art Museum, Laramie

Humanities Forum: My Horse, My Gun, My Library
Monday, September 28, 6:30 PM
This Humanities Forum program is presented by Lynne Swanson.
Goshen County Library, Torrington

Read Out Loud
Tuesday, September 29, 6:00 PM
Join other members of the community in celebrating the freedom to read- by reading out of your favorite banned book and discussing the freedom to read.
Carbon County Library, Rawlins

Don Delillo Reading
Tuesday, September 29, 7:30-9:00 PM
Teton County Library in the Center for the Arts, Dancers Workshop Studio 1, Jackson
Don Delillo is widely regarded as one of America’s most important novelists.  Delillo will give a traditional reading from his new book Falling Man.  Author of 15 critically acclaimed novels, including White Noise, the winner of the National Book Award in 1985, and the Underworld, which was runner-up on the New York Times survey of the best American fiction of the last 25 years.  Salman Rushdie has called him an “American master.”  Do not miss this tremendous opportunity.

Banned Book Story Time
Wednesday, September 30, 5:00 PM
Carbon County Library, Rawlins

NIC at Noon: Richard Cohen and Friends
October, 2, 12:00-1:00
This event is the museum’s informal, monthly concert series where visitors are invited to bring in their lunch and hear performances by local musicians.
Nicolaysen Art Museum and Discovery Center, Casper

Opening Reception: I Want Candy: The Sweet Stuff In American Art
Friday, October 2, 6:00 PM
Nicolaysen Art Museum and Discovery Center, Casper

Movie: Fahrenheit 451
Saturday, October 3, begins at 1:00 PM
Carbon County Library, Rawlins

Book Sale
Saturday, October 3, 9 AM-4 PM
Park County Library, Cody

Saturday University
Saturday, October 3
This series is designed to both encourage consideration of important public policy issues and to provide an opportunity to just plain have fun participating in college level discussions of interesting topics. Presented by the Wyoming Humanities Council and the University of Wyoming, with the Teton County Library and the National Museum of Wildlife Art. The schedule is as follows:
9-10:30 AM -  Jeff Lockwood, author of Six Legged Soldiers: Using Insects as Weapons of War, will be discussing the ways insects have been used as weapons of war.
11:30-1:00 PM- Ingrid Burke, an ecosystem scientist, teaches about environmental change and what we need to know in order to avoid irreversibility.
1:30-3:00 PM – Susanna Goodin, Associate Professor of Philosophy, discusses how alchemy was once studied to unlock the secrets of nature in hopes of coming to understand the mind of God.  She will be questioning how theology, economics, culture, social trends and philosophy shape science.
3:30-4:30 PM- Roundtable Discussion  with all three presenters in an informal wrap-up discussion tying together the topics.