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
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May 28, 2013 Topeka When the Elephants Dance by Tess Uriza Holthe
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June 3, 2013 Atchison Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel
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June 15, 2013 Ashland Nathan Coulter by Wendell Berry
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July 8, 2013 Atchison The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
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July 20, 2013 Ashland Winter Wheat by Mildred Walker
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August 27, 2013 Independence The Englishman in Kansas by T. H. Gladstone
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August 28, 2013 Newton The Cloud Atlas by Liam Callanan
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September 7, 2013 Augusta The Worst Hard Time by Timothy Egan
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September 9, 2013 Parsons Talking God by Tony Hillerman
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September 11, 2013 Topeka The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
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September 12, 2013 Baldwin City The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
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September 17, 2013 Hutchinson Standing in the Rainbow by Fannie Flagg
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September 17, 2013 Chanute Nectar in a Sieve by Kamala Markandaya
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September 17, 2013 Kinsley DreadfulWater Shows Up by Hartley Goodweather
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September 17, 2013 Wamego The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger
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September 17, 2013 Independence The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton by Jane Smiley
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September 18, 2013 Newton The Gardens of Kyoto by Kate Walbert
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October 2, 2013 Topeka Spartina by John Casey
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October 3, 2013 Hutchinson Walking Across Egypt by Clyde Edgerton
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October 5, 2013 Augusta All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren
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October 7, 2013 Parsons Reflex by Dick Francis
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October 8, 2013 Chanute The Romance Reader by Pearl Abraham
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October 10, 2013 Baldwin City A Diary from Dixie by Mary Boykin Chesnut
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October 14, 2013 Haysville An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro
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October 15, 2013 Kinsley Dance for the Dead by Thomas Perry
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October 15, 2013 Wamego The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
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October 23, 2013 Topeka Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen
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October 23, 2013 Newton When the Elephants Dance by Tess Uriza Holthe
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October 24, 2013 Hutchinson Quite a Year for Plums by Bailey White
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October 28, 2013 Haysville Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
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October 29, 2013 Chanute Harp of Burma by Michio Takeyama
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November 2, 2013 Augusta Mules and Men by Zora Neale Hurston
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November 4, 2013 Parsons Shroud for a Nightingale by P. D. James
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November 11, 2013 Haysville The Chinese Gold Murders by Robert Van Gulik
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November 12, 2013 Chanute Distant View of a Minaret and Other Stories by Alifa Rifaat
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November 13, 2013 Topeka Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver
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November 14, 2013 Hutchinson How Elizabeth Barrett Browning Saved My Life by Mameve Medwed
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November 14, 2013 Baldwin City March by Geraldine Brooks
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November 19, 2013 Kinsley The Ghost Walker by Margaret Coel
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November 19, 2013 Wamego Sag Harbor by Colson Whitehead
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November 20, 2013 Newton Once Upon a Town by Bob Greene
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November 25, 2013 Haysville Waiting by Ha Jin
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December 2, 2013 Parsons Bootlegger’s Daughter by Margaret Maron
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December 17, 2013 Wamego Tender at the Bone by Ruth Reichl
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Ongoing Events