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The 23rd Annual Humanities Festival & Demorest Lecture
March 5, 6, 7, 2008
Major funding provided by:
Casper College - Wyoming Humanities Council - ARTCORE Casper College Foundation - UW/CC Center - Casper College Division of Language and Literature - Individual & Corporate Donors
TENTATIVE AGENDA:
McMurry Main Stage in the Krampert Theatre on the Casper College campus.
March 5, 2008
7:30 p.m.
CC Theater production of Brecht’s Galileo
Directed by Tom Empey, with Rich Burk in the lead role!
March 6, 2008
9:00
Bernd Estabrook, Ph.D.
Bertold Brecht and the Institution
10:00
Valerie Innella, Ph.D.
How the Institution of Patronage has Shaped Art
11:00
Michael Quinn, Ph.D.
Freedom of Academic Expression
12:00
Lunch
1:30
William Missouri Downs, Hollywood’s Institutions
M.F.A.
2:30
Scott Seville, Ph. D.
How churches have inhibited and perhaps stimulated biological theories by scientists such as George Buffon, Linnaeus, Jean Baptiste de Lamark and Charles Darwin
3:30
Sandra Yannone, Ph.D.
Evergreen’s Institutional Programming in Support of Creative Thinking
7:00
Rainer Schwarzkopf
Music: Classical Guitar
7:30
Sir Ken Robinson
Out of Our Minds: Creativity
Demorest Lecturer
March 7, 2008
8:00
Everett Akam, Ph.D.
Orwell’s Smelly Little Orthodoxies: Nurturing Creative Thought in a Time of Crisis
9:00
Tom Riis, Ph.D.
American Musical Institutions
10:00
Kathryn Whitcomb, D.O.M.
Roots: Medicine, Agriculture, and Health
Reese Baker
11:00
Bruce Richardson, Ph.D
PANEL OF PRESENTERS - Moderator
The Humanities Festival
All events will be held on the McMurry Main Stage in the Krampert Theatre on the Casper College campus.
