The humanities events listed here are free and open to the public. Please note that times and venues may change. Contact the sponsoring organization to confirm event details.

Upcoming Events – 2013

May 23, 2013 Independence The Kansas Work Ethic of Dwight D. Eisenhower
Speakers Bureau
May 23, 2013 Overland Park To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
TALK
May 25, 2013 Greensburg Kansas Women, Work, and the Civil War
Speakers Bureau
May 28, 2013 Topeka When the Elephants Dance by Tess Uriza Holthe
TALK
May 30, 2013 Halstead Hard Working Entertainers on the Kansas Frontier
Speakers Bureau
June 1, 2013 Harper Products of the First Kansans
Speakers Bureau
June 1, 2013
–June 30, 2013		 Kansas City 100 Years of Agriculture: Past, Present, and Future - Exhibit
Humanities Grant
June 2, 2013 Franklin Bucket Lists & Looking Back: What Was Worth the Work?
Speakers Bureau
June 3, 2013 Hays The Kansas Work Ethic of Dwight D. Eisenhower
Speakers Bureau
June 3, 2013 Atchison Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel
TALK
June 4, 2013 Russell The Kansas Work Ethic of Dwight D. Eisenhower
Speakers Bureau
June 5, 2013 Melvern Singing the Cattle North
Speakers Bureau
June 6, 2013 Concordia The Work of Rural Kansas Children
Speakers Bureau
June 8, 2013 Franklin Kansas Takes the Checkered Flag in American Racing
Speakers Bureau
June 8, 2013 Abilene Images of Depression-Era Work in Kansas Post Office Murals
Speakers Bureau
June 9, 2013 Marysville Kansas Brewers and Breweries
Speakers Bureau
June 10, 2013 Wamego The Sternberg Family: Pioneers of Modern Paleontology
Speakers Bureau
June 10, 2013 Newton Black Newspapers and African-American Communities in Kansas
Speakers Bureau
June 10, 2013 Junction City The Race to Work and the Work of Race: Marcet Haldeman-Julius's 1927 Kansas Anti-Racism Campaign
Speakers Bureau
June 11, 2013 Harper Now, That's Rural: Entrepreneurs and Innovators Who Shaped Kansas Communities
Speakers Bureau
June 11, 2013 Shawnee Ethnic Labor and Small Towns on the Rock Island Rail Line
Speakers Bureau
June 13, 2013 Winfield The Tall-Tale Postcards of Dad Martin and Pop Conard
Speakers Bureau
June 14, 2013 Mcpherson All Schools Day: Celebrating 100 Years - Short Film Premiere
Humanities Grant
June 15, 2013 Ashland Nathan Coulter by Wendell Berry
TALK
June 15, 2013 Abilene Products of the First Kansans
Speakers Bureau
June 17, 2013 Hutchinson Frontier Kansas Cattle Towns
Speakers Bureau
June 19, 2013 Harper Hucksters, Barkers, and Sideshows
Speakers Bureau
June 22, 2013 Abilene From Fatherland to Farmland: German POWs in the Great Plains
Speakers Bureau
June 22, 2013 Shawnee Editorial Cartoons in the Black Press
Speakers Bureau
June 23, 2013 Independence The Way We Worked in Montgomery County - Presentation
Mini Grant
June 24, 2013 Kansas City Living Squarely on the Land: Agriculture in Kansas Literature
Humanities Grant
June 27, 2013 Abilene Nerd Nite - Abilene
Mini Grant
June 27, 2013 Atchison Kansas Brewers and Breweries
Speakers Bureau
June 28, 2013 Wichita Boeing Oral History Project - Culminating Event
Special Project
June 29, 2013 Abilene Ethnic Labor and Small Towns on the Rock Island Rail Line
Speakers Bureau
June 30, 2013 Fort Scott "A Day in the Life of Fort Scott's Working World" Panel Discussion
Mini Grant
July 1, 2013 Junction City The Harvey Girls' Service with Style
Speakers Bureau
July 1, 2013
–July 28, 2013		 Baxter Springs Treece
Heritage Grant
July 2, 2013 Lawrence Cold War Internationalism
Humanities Grant
July 2, 2013 Baxter Springs Treece - Exhibition Opening Reception
Heritage Grant
July 6, 2013 Pittsburg Treece, Kansas: Ghost Town in the Making - Listening Event
Humanities Grant
July 6, 2013 Wichita Point Counterpoint: Was the Civil War Inevitable?
Mini Grant
July 6, 2013 Lawrence Kansas Riverkings
Mini Grant
July 8, 2013 Atchison The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
TALK
July 9, 2013 Shawnee Images of Depression-Era Work in Kansas Post Office Murals
Speakers Bureau
July 9, 2013 Lawrence Civil Rights Protest
Humanities Grant
July 12, 2013 Lawrence Pop Culture of the 1960s - Film Discussion
Humanities Grant
July 13, 2013 Atchison Mt. St. Scholastica's Sesquicentennial Celebration, Panel Discussion
Humanities Grant
July 13, 2013 Augusta The Harvey Girls' Service with Style
Speakers Bureau
July 13, 2013 Abilene Now, That's Rural: Entrepreneurs and Innovators Who Shaped Kansas Communities
Speakers Bureau
July 16, 2013 Atchison Hucksters, Barkers, and Sideshows
Speakers Bureau
July 16, 2013 Lawrence 1960s Popular Culture
Humanities Grant
July 18, 2013 Goessel A Bullwhacker's Life Freighting Supplies over the Plains
Speakers Bureau
July 20, 2013 Ashland Winter Wheat by Mildred Walker
TALK
August 1, 2013 Salina The Tall-Tale Postcards of Dad Martin and Pop Conard
Speakers Bureau
August 1, 2013 Mcpherson History of Local Businesses: Main Street McPherson - Public Debut
Heritage Grant
August 1, 2013
–August 31, 2013		 Mcpherson History of Local Businesses: Main Street McPherson - Display
Heritage Grant
August 1, 2013
–August 31, 2014		 Salina 100 Years of Agriculture: Past, Present, and Future - Exhibit
Humanities Grant
August 16, 2013 Hiawatha Images of Depression-Era Work in Kansas Post Office Murals
Speakers Bureau
August 17, 2013 Montezuma Ethnic Labor and Small Towns on the Rock Island Rail Line
Speakers Bureau
August 22, 2013 Augusta Stories Told by Kansans Who Knew Barack Obama's Maternal Grandparents - Public Event
Heritage Grant
August 25, 2013 Wabaunsee Townsite Genesis of a College - A Legacy of Kansas Idealism, Short Film
Humanities Grant
August 27, 2013 Independence The Englishman in Kansas by T. H. Gladstone
TALK
August 28, 2013 Newton The Cloud Atlas by Liam Callanan
TALK
August 29, 2013 Salina Living Squarely on the Land: Agriculture in Kansas Literature
Humanities Grant
August 29, 2013 Abilene Nerd Nite - Abilene
Mini Grant
August 31, 2013 De Soto Kansas Riverkings
Mini Grant
September 7, 2013 Wichita Lost Nation: The Ioway 2&3
Humanities Grant
September 7, 2013 Augusta The Worst Hard Time by Timothy Egan
TALK
September 7, 2013
–September 16, 2013		 Hutchinson 100 Years of Agriculture: Past, Present, and Future - Exhibit
Humanities Grant
September 9, 2013 Parsons Talking God by Tony Hillerman
TALK
September 10, 2013 Shawnee Converting Pasture Paths to Public Roads
Speakers Bureau
September 10, 2013 Goodland African American Women Domestics: The Story of Two Kansans
Speakers Bureau
September 11, 2013 Topeka The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
TALK
September 12, 2013 Lecompton Kansas Riverkings
Mini Grant
September 12, 2013 Baldwin City The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
TALK
September 14, 2013 Waterville The Harvey Girls' Service with Style
Speakers Bureau
September 17, 2013 Concordia The Brown Grand Story - Short Film Premiere
Mini Grant
September 17, 2013 Olathe Kansas Women, Work, and the Civil War
Speakers Bureau
September 17, 2013 Hutchinson Standing in the Rainbow by Fannie Flagg
TALK
September 17, 2013 Chanute Nectar in a Sieve by Kamala Markandaya
TALK
September 17, 2013 Hiawatha The Kansas Work Ethic of Dwight D. Eisenhower
Speakers Bureau
September 17, 2013 Kinsley DreadfulWater Shows Up by Hartley Goodweather
TALK
September 17, 2013 Wamego The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger
TALK
September 17, 2013 Independence The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton by Jane Smiley
TALK
September 18, 2013 Newton The Gardens of Kyoto by Kate Walbert
TALK
September 19, 2013 Independence Kansas Brewers and Breweries
Speakers Bureau
September 19, 2013 Eudora Kansas Riverkings
Mini Grant
September 21, 2013 Concordia The Brown Grand Story - Short Film Premiere
Mini Grant
September 22, 2013 Newton 19th-Century Rural Kansas Women at Work
Speakers Bureau
September 23, 2013 Perry Kansas Riverkings
Mini Grant
September 25, 2013 Liberal A Photographer's Work and the Work of Western Kansas
Speakers Bureau
September 26, 2013 Lenexa A Bullwhacker's Life Freighting Supplies over the Plains
Speakers Bureau
September 26, 2013 Topeka Sunflower Journeys 2013 - Green Energy
September 27, 2013
–September 28, 2013		 Iola Keaton, Chaplin, and the Fabulous Fifties
Humanities Grant
October 1, 2013
–October 31, 2013		 Emporia A Welsh Farmstead: The Story of the Howe Family from 1858 - Exhibition
Humanities Grant
October 2, 2013 Topeka Spartina by John Casey
TALK
October 3, 2013 Hill City Converting Pasture Paths to Public Roads
Speakers Bureau
October 3, 2013 Hutchinson Walking Across Egypt by Clyde Edgerton
TALK
October 3, 2013 Topeka Sunflower Journeys 2013 - Music & Films
October 4, 2013 Emporia A Welsh Farmstead: The Story of the Howe Family from 1858 - Film Premeire & Exhibit Opening
Humanities Grant
October 5, 2013 Lawrence Heart of the Drum: The Story of the Delaware Tribe of Indians in Kansas - Film Premiere
Humanities Grant
October 5, 2013 Prairie Village Kansas Brewers and Breweries
Speakers Bureau
October 5, 2013 Augusta All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren
TALK
October 7, 2013 Parsons Reflex by Dick Francis
TALK
October 8, 2013 Shawnee The March of the Amazon Army
Speakers Bureau
October 8, 2013 Chanute The Romance Reader by Pearl Abraham
TALK
October 10, 2013 Baldwin City A Diary from Dixie by Mary Boykin Chesnut
TALK
October 10, 2013 Topeka Sunflower Journeys 2013 - Depression Art
October 12, 2013 Wellington Prairie Letters: Written in Rural Kansas in the Late 19th Century - Open House
Heritage Grant
October 14, 2013 Haysville An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro
TALK
October 15, 2013 Kinsley Dance for the Dead by Thomas Perry
TALK
October 15, 2013 Wamego The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
TALK
October 17, 2013 Topeka Sunflower Journeys 2013 - Water Woes
October 22, 2013 Hiawatha From Fatherland to Farmland: German POWs in the Great Plains
Speakers Bureau
October 23, 2013 Topeka Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen
TALK
October 23, 2013 Newton When the Elephants Dance by Tess Uriza Holthe
TALK
October 24, 2013 Troy Bushwhackin' the Jayhawks along a Civil War Border
Speakers Bureau
October 24, 2013 Hutchinson Quite a Year for Plums by Bailey White
TALK
October 24, 2013 Topeka Sunflower Journeys 2013 - Music Venues
October 28, 2013 Haysville Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
TALK
October 29, 2013 Chanute Harp of Burma by Michio Takeyama
TALK
October 31, 2013 Topeka Sunflower Journeys 2013 - Nature of the Flint Hills
November 2, 2013 Augusta Mules and Men by Zora Neale Hurston
TALK
November 4, 2013 Parsons Shroud for a Nightingale by P. D. James
TALK
November 7, 2013 Topeka Sunflower Journeys 2013 - Photographers
November 11, 2013 Haysville The Chinese Gold Murders by Robert Van Gulik
TALK
November 12, 2013 Chanute Distant View of a Minaret and Other Stories by Alifa Rifaat
TALK
November 13, 2013 Topeka Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver
TALK
November 14, 2013 Hutchinson How Elizabeth Barrett Browning Saved My Life by Mameve Medwed
TALK
November 14, 2013 Baldwin City March by Geraldine Brooks
TALK
November 14, 2013 Topeka Sunflower Journeys 2013 - Mined Lands
November 19, 2013 Kinsley The Ghost Walker by Margaret Coel
TALK
November 19, 2013 Wamego Sag Harbor by Colson Whitehead
TALK
November 20, 2013 Newton Once Upon a Town by Bob Greene
TALK
November 21, 2013 Topeka Sunflower Journeys 2013 - Minority Views
November 25, 2013 Haysville Waiting by Ha Jin
TALK
November 28, 2013 Topeka Sunflower Journeys 2013 - Civics Lessons
December 2, 2013 Parsons Bootlegger’s Daughter by Margaret Maron
TALK
December 5, 2013 Topeka Sunflower Journeys 2013 - Music & Artifacts
December 12, 2013 Topeka Sunflower Journeys 2013 - Back to Nature
December 17, 2013 Wamego Tender at the Bone by Ruth Reichl
TALK
December 19, 2013 Topeka Sunflower Journeys 2013 - Local Fare
– 2014
March 16, 2014 Halstead Edwin Buller Photograph Preservation Project
Heritage Grant
May 26, 2014 Cimarron Gray County Korean War Veterans Oral History Project - Public Reception
Heritage Grant

Ongoing Events – 2012

September 1, 2012
–June 30, 2013		 Wakeeney "The Way We Work in Trego County" Exhibition
Mini Grant
September 8, 2012
–September 22, 2013		 Newton The Way We Worked: Serving Harvey County - Exhibition
Mini Grant
December 1, 2012
–June 30, 2013		 Burlingame "Workin' in a Coal Mine" Exhibit
Mini Grant
– 2013
January 1, 2013
–May 31, 2013		 Glasco "The Way We Work in Glasco" Exhibition
Mini Grant
April 18, 2013
–June 30, 2013		 Colby High and Dry: Farming in Western Kansas!
Mini Grant
May 1, 2013
–June 30, 2013		 Topeka Formerly Known as Treece - Exhibition
Humanities Grant
May 11, 2013
–June 23, 2013		 Franklin The Way We Worked Smithonian Exhibition
MoMS
May 11, 2013
–June 23, 2013		 Fort Scott "A Day in the Life of Fort Scott's Working World" Exhibition
Mini Grant
May 14, 2013
–June 23, 2013		 Independence Hay Town to Agribusiness - Exhibition
Mini Grant