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 | Overland Park | To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee TALK |
| May 28, 2013 | Topeka | When the Elephants Dance by Tess Uriza Holthe TALK |
| June 3, 2013 | Atchison | Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel TALK |
| June 15, 2013 | Ashland | Nathan Coulter by Wendell Berry TALK |
| July 8, 2013 | Atchison | The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende TALK |
| July 20, 2013 | Ashland | Winter Wheat by Mildred Walker TALK |
| August 27, 2013 | Independence | The Englishman in Kansas by T. H. Gladstone TALK |
| August 28, 2013 | Newton | The Cloud Atlas by Liam Callanan TALK |
| September 7, 2013 | Augusta | The Worst Hard Time by Timothy Egan TALK |
| September 9, 2013 | Parsons | Talking God by Tony Hillerman TALK |
| September 11, 2013 | Topeka | The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck TALK |
| September 12, 2013 | Baldwin City | The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane TALK |
| 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 | 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 |
| October 2, 2013 | Topeka | Spartina by John Casey TALK |
| October 3, 2013 | Hutchinson | Walking Across Egypt by Clyde Edgerton TALK |
| 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 | Chanute | The Romance Reader by Pearl Abraham TALK |
| October 10, 2013 | Baldwin City | A Diary from Dixie by Mary Boykin Chesnut TALK |
| 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 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 | Hutchinson | Quite a Year for Plums by Bailey White TALK |
| October 28, 2013 | Haysville | Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden TALK |
| October 29, 2013 | Chanute | Harp of Burma by Michio Takeyama TALK |
| 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 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 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 25, 2013 | Haysville | Waiting by Ha Jin TALK |
| December 2, 2013 | Parsons | Bootlegger’s Daughter by Margaret Maron TALK |
| December 17, 2013 | Wamego | Tender at the Bone by Ruth Reichl TALK |






