Nevada Humanities is pleased to welcome journalists Sheri Fink and Eli Saslow to a virtual conversation around COVID-19 and its uneven impact on American communities.
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Conversations about statues and historical commemorations are taking place across the nation, while collective action, in many cases, is seeing the removal of monuments from public places. In the midst of these actions, what is happening in Nevada?
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Sun Valley, Nevada is a small community of nearly 20,000 tucked away in the arid desert hills just north of Reno, Nevada. Populated mainly by trailer homes at its core, with newer modern housing springing up around the peripheries, it was touted in 1938 by the Bureau of Land Management as a land of opportunity where homesteaders could carve out a place of their own. Join Nevada Humanities for The Salon: Valley of the Sun, to learn about the history of the region, the stereotypes associated with trailer park culture, and the creativity that is born out of this place.
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Indigenous histories are often ignored within the United States which has led to the erasure of place-based narratives. A panel of Native scholars and journalists will discuss how the impacts of colonial mapping practices have created complex jurisdictional issues, inspiring a new generation of storytellers.
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Did you know that our community was home to the Reno Gay Rodeo during the 1970s and early 1980s? Joan Rivers was the grand marshal at one point, and the event sparked the National Gay Rodeo movement.
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Print edition sales of the United States Constitution have never been higher, with an average of 19,800 copies sold each month. Public interest in the founding documents are at an all-time high, leading us to ask, “what does the Constitution mean to you?”
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Advocacy matters! Join Nevada Humanities for an engaging and informative discussion about cultural and education advocacy and how the work of public officials and advocates has helped richly shape the cultural and educational life of Nevadans. A panel of experts will join a discussion moderated by Christina Barr, Executive Director of Nevada Humanities.
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If you lose your wallet, including all your identification, how would you go about confirming who you are? What does it mean when “who you are” become so intimately connected to our government-issued identification, online marketing databases, and state surveillance dossiers?
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Lyrics can be poetic, and poetry can be lyrical, but what makes a song a poem? Have you ever considered the mechanics of a song? How it is composed and written? Join us as we grapple with these questions at The Salon: Poetry of a Song, on Friday, July 19, 2019 beginning at 6:00 pm at the Sundance Books and Music in Reno.
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Is it true that the wellness of bees is an indicator of the health of our planet? Join us for a discussion about this consequential topic at The Salon: Bees, the Canary in the Coal Mine? The Salon will be held on Friday, May 17, 2019 beginning at 6:00 pm at Sundance Books and Music in Reno. Moderated by Dr. Ran Duan, visiting assistant professor at the Reynolds School of Journalism at the University of Nevada, Reno, we will welcome experts in the field to talk about the health of the bee population in Nevada.
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How do we make meaning out of the places we inhabit? Join Nevada Humanities for The Salon: Writing About Place where we will explore the history of writing about the West through the work of two authors, Nevada native Frank Bergon and novelist David Means.
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What do an artist, a poet, a curator, and a shaman healer have to say about history, museums, and objects?
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What’s the difference between a norm and a law? What does it mean to circumvent a norm, and is that even a problem? What can we trust in one another to do, and what do we need to codify? Join Nevada Humanities for The Salon: Norms and Why They Matter as we pose these and other questions to a lawyer, a political scientist, and a rhetorician.
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Join Nevada Humanities for The Salon: The Value of History in the Era of Fake News, featuring Allyson Hobbs, author of A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in American Life and the forthcoming, Far From Sanctuary: African American Travel and the Road to Civil Rights.
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What role does a film critic play in critiquing culture and politics today? Join Nevada Humanities and the University of Nevada, Reno for a special talk and presentation by Chicago Tribune's film critic, Michael Phillips, as he discusses the relevancy of art and film during challenging political times.
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What happens when that one article or op-ed you write sends fireworks across the internet? The term “going viral” was unheard of ten years ago. What does it say about the nature of journalism, and the way we consume information? What does it say that think-pieces and confessionals seem to have a longer life online, than news stories from traditional news outlets?
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Join Nevada Humanities for The Salon: The Poetry Movement, moderated by Rosie Trump, assistant professor in the dance department at the University of Nevada, Reno. As an introduction to The Poetry Movement, a site-specific performance taking place at the bookstore immediately following the talk, this Salon will feature poets and choreographers discussing the connection between language and movement. A historian will ground this conversation with the history of the Levy Mansion.
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Join Nevada Humanities and the Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art on Friday, May 4, 2018, for Nevada Humanities Pop-Up Salon: Creativity and Healing after October 1. The evening will bring together diverse thinkers to explore how art and creativity can help us chart a path towards healing after the October 1 shootings.
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Part of the Nevada Humanities Salon series, this Pop-Up Salon features the voices and stories of Julie Buntin and Sam Quinones, the 2018 Nevada Reads authors. Moderated by Heidi Kyser, staff writer at Desert Companion, the authors will discuss the history of opioid use and abuse in the United States
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Join Nevada Humanities at Sundance Books and Music on Friday, March 16, at 6:00 p.m., for The Salon: Pain and Healing. Moderated by Dr. Todd Felts, assistant professor in the Reynolds School at the University of Nevada
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