Event Calendar

Scholar: Ruth Page Jones

Sponsored By: DWU, McGovern Center, Mitchell

For more information, contact: Joel S. Allen <joel.allen@dwu.edu>

Topic: John Lewis and Civil Rights in America Lawrence Diggs interviews 2020 Festival presenter Ann Bausum about her friendship with John Lewis and writing about the Civil Rights Movement

This link to the brainstorming sessions stays the same every week - http://bit.ly/SDBrainstorm

Scholar: Lawrence Diggs

Sponsored By: South Dakota Humanities Council

For more information, contact: Ryan Woodard <ryan@sdhumanities.org>

General session details:  The South Dakota Humanities Council, in cooperation with longtime SDHC scholar Lawrence Diggs, hosts a weekly discussion series, "Brainstorming: the Human Connection," to foster people peace and unity during these trying and divisive times. Diggs will use his humanities expertise to introduce and connect people with one another to help avoid tragic misunderstandings like the one that occurred in Minneapolis on May 25, 2020, when George Floyd, an African-American man, died after police knelt on his back and neck for 8 minutes and 46 seconds in Minneapolis, Minn.

Scholar: Ruth Page Jones

Venue Address: Rapid City

Sponsored By: Rapid City Public Library

For more information, contact: Aly Albert <aalbert@rcplib.org>

Scholar: Megan Phelps-Roper, James Sullivan

Sponsored By: Yankton Community Library

For more information, contact: Linda Dobrovolny <ldobrovolny@cityofyankton.org>

Scholar: Megan Phelps-Roper

Sponsored By: Lennox Community Library

For more information, contact: Laurel Shaffer <lshaffer@iw.net>

Scholar: Nigel McBain

Venue Address: 3801 E 26th St, Sioux Falls

Sponsored By: Sioux Falls Arts Council

For more information, contact: Brett Cooper <whitesprucechamberplayers@gmail.com>

Scholar: Marilyn Carlson Aronson

Venue Address: 421 Florida St, Centerville

Sponsored By: Centerville Community Library

For more information, contact: Mary Ferwerda <mollie_library@yahoo.com>

Scholar: Molly Barari

Venue Address: Hot Springs

Sponsored By: Hot Springs Public Library

For more information, contact: Dawn Johnson <hsplib@hs-sd.org>

Venue Address: 33 Deadwood St, Deadwood

The conference will be offered as both a live in-person event as well as a live teleconference event. We will follow CDC guidelines for safety, and will monitor the number of people per day attending the conference in person, as well as having a no-touch thermometer on site, providing masks, and sanitizer.

Sponsored By: West River History Conference, Inc.

For more information, contact: Laura Hovey Neubert <lhnrcservices@gmail.com>

West River History Conference (WRHC), based out of Rapid City, received $1,500 for fund its West River History Conference, which will be held in Deadwood on Oct. 8-10, 2020, at the Historic 1898 Martin and Mason Hotel. The WRHC), founded in 1993, is the largest leadership and education conference in the region; it encourages amateur and professional historical research while offering an academic presentation environment and promoting historic preservation. Visit www.westriverhistoryconference.org for more information.

Venue Address: 414 E Clark St, Vermillion

Sponsored By: USD, English Dept

For more information, contact: Duncan Barlow <duncan.barlow@usd.edu>

USD English Department in Vermillion received $5,000 for its 2020 John R. Milton Conference, "Prospecting: Uncovering New Veins and Voices in Identity, Genre, and Place," Oct. 8-10, 2020 at the USD campus. The Milton Conference is a biennial conference that celebrates diverse literature that engages civil conversations in a humanistic tradition. The conference brings regional and national authors, scholars, students, and the public together for panels, readings, and discussions.

The script for this reading will be "Silent Sky" by Lauren Gunderson - the story of real life female "computers" that charted the stars for the Harvard Observatory in the early twentieth century.

The reading will be available online from 7pm Friday, October 9th, to 7pm Saturday, October 10th, on a pay what you will basis.

Sponsored By: Black Hills Community Theatre

For more information, contact: Merlyn Sell <merlynq.sell@gmail.com>

The 2020 Play Reading & Discussion Series consists of three separate evenings of play readings followed by a discussion period. The discussions will be led by scholars experienced in literary analysis or in the humanitarian issues encompassed by the plays. All of the plays selected have earned critical acclaim, and/or awards, including one Pulitzer Prize winning play. The discussions will be interactive civil conversations of the issues brought to light by each of the plays. Family relationships, sexuality, work, community, grief and violence are potential subjects likely to be discussed.

The script for this reading will be "Silent Sky" by Lauren Gunderson - the story of real life female "computers" that charted the stars for the Harvard Observatory in the early twentieth century.

The reading will be available online from 7pm Friday, October 9th, to 7pm Saturday, October 10th, on a pay what you will basis.

Sponsored By: Black Hills Community Theatre

For more information, contact: Merlyn Sell <merlynq.sell@gmail.com>

The 2020 Play Reading & Discussion Series consists of three separate evenings of play readings followed by a discussion period. The discussions will be led by scholars experienced in literary analysis or in the humanitarian issues encompassed by the plays. All of the plays selected have earned critical acclaim, and/or awards, including one Pulitzer Prize winning play. The discussions will be interactive civil conversations of the issues brought to light by each of the plays. Family relationships, sexuality, work, community, grief and violence are potential subjects likely to be discussed.

Scholar: Jace DeCory

Venue Address: 505 N 5th St, Rapid City

Sponsored By: AAUW-Rapid City

For more information, contact: Pat Lebrun <plebrun3@gmail.com>

UNLADYLIKE2020 executive producers Charlotte Mangin and Sandy Rattley will screen and discuss their documentary shorts about Zitkála-Šá and Susan La Flesche Picotte in a virtual screening hosted by South Dakota Public Broadcasting, in partnership with the 2020 South Dakota Festival of Books.

Sponsored By: South Dakota Public Broadcasting

For more information, contact: Charlotte Mangin <charlotte@futuromediagroup.org>

The Futuro Media Group was awarded $7,000 to research, create a short video about, and engage South Dakota and U.S. audiences in, the life of Zitkála-Šá (1876–1938), Native American musician, educator, and civil rights activist born on the Yankton Sioux Reservation. She will be featured in UNLADYLIKE, a multimedia series profiling unsung American women from a century ago, launching in 2020 to honor the centennial of women's suffrage. Spanning humanities fields of U.S and women's history, and gender and ethnic studies, this project studies how Progressive Era (1890s-1920s) factors and sensibilities spurred women to action, and how they challenged traditional gender roles during this period.

Scholar: Lawrence Diggs

Venue Address: 94 Main St, Waubay

Sponsored By: Waubay Public Library

For more information, contact: Charles Bunk <bcbunk@itctel.com>

Venue Address: Madison

Sponsored By: DSU, Karl E Mundt Library

For more information, contact: Jan Brue Enright <jan.enright@dsu.edu>

Scholar: Molly Barari

Venue Address: Piedmont

Sponsored By: Piedmont Valley Library

For more information, contact: Megan Eggers <piedmont.library@hotmail.com>

Scholar: Christine Stewart-Nunez

As South Dakota Poet Laureate, Christine Stewart will edit South Dakota in Poems: An Anthology, which features poems by South Dakotans about the people, landscapes, and cultural life of our state. The South Dakota State Poetry Society (SDSPS) will publish this book, and Dr. Stewart will use this anthology to promote the reading and writing of poetry across the state in her four-year tenure as poet laureate.

Sponsored By: SDSU, English Dept

For more information, contact: Christine Stewart-Nunez <christine.poetscholar@gmail.com>

Scholar: Kathryn E. Meadows

Venue Address: 713 7th St, Rapid City

Sponsored By: Dahl Arts Center

For more information, contact: Katie Wolff <katie.wolff@thedahl.org>