Signature Event Archive: Audio

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Forgiving and Forgetting: Shakespeare and Power

McMeel Family Shakespeare Series

The University of Notre Dame’s Peter Holland, one of the world’s foremost authorities on Shakespeare, examines the great playwright’s skill at subtly raising questions that resonate to this day. What does it mean, for example, to “forgive and forget?” Why do we (and did King Lear) say it?
 

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The University of Notre Dame’s Peter Holland, one of the world’s foremost authorities on Shakespeare, examines the great playwright’s skill at subtly raising questions that resonate to this day. What does it mean, for example, to “forgive and forget?” Why do we (and did King Lear) say it?
Tuesday, April 24, 2018
Reception: 
6 pm
Program: 
6:30 pm
Plaza Branch
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The Smart Math of Urban Development

Making a Great City
Urban planner Joe Minicozzi looks at the “math” of effective city building – the financial implications of land use decisions in municipalities like Kansas City – in the second installment of the Making a Great City series. Needed: development patterns that create the most valuable and resilient revenue sources.
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Urban planner Joe Minicozzi looks at the “math” of effective city building – the financial implications of land use decisions in municipalities like Kansas City – in the second installment of the Making a Great City series. Needed: development patterns that create the most valuable and resilient revenue sources.
Thursday, March 8, 2018
Program: 
6:30 pm
Plaza Branch
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Freedom, Inc. and Black Political Empowerment

Missouri Valley Sundays

Micah W. Kubic, who heads the American Civil Liberties Union of Kansas, discusses his book about Freedom, Inc., and its more than half-century history of raising the visibility of issues impacting Kansas City’s black community and helping to elect African-Americans to political office.

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Micah W. Kubic, who heads the American Civil Liberties Union of Kansas, discusses his book about Freedom, Inc., and its more than half-century history of raising the visibility of issues impacting Kansas City’s black community and helping to elect African-Americans to political office.
Sunday, March 4, 2018
Program: 
2:00 pm
Central Library
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Headlights on the Prairie

Dodge City, Kansas, native Robert Rebein revisits his hometown and Kansas’ high plains often in a discussion of his third book, Headlights on the Prairie: Essays on Home, an extensive collection of acclaimed narrative essays.

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Dodge City, Kansas, native Robert Rebein revisits his hometown and Kansas’ high plains often in a discussion of his third book, Headlights on the Prairie: Essays on Home, an extensive collection of acclaimed narrative essays.
Wednesday, February 21, 2018
Program: 
6:30 pm
Plaza Branch
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Head 'Em Up and Move 'Em Out

Missouri Valley Sundays

Cowboy historian Jim Gray, executive director of the National Drovers Hall of Fame in Ellsworth, Kansas, recalls the early days of ranching and cattle driving and the challenges involved – from abominable weather to stampedes – involved in getting beef from the trail to your plate.

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Cowboy historian Jim Gray, executive director of the National Drovers Hall of Fame in Ellsworth, Kansas, recalls the early days of ranching and cattle driving and the challenges involved – from abominable weather to stampedes – involved in getting beef from the trail to your plate.
Sunday, February 18, 2018
Program: 
2:00 pm
Central Library
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Lincoln in the Bardo

George Saunders discusses his best-selling Lincoln in the Bardo, winner of the 2017 Man Booker Prize for Fiction for best original novel. The book movingly imagines Abraham Lincoln’s night in a cemetery, tortured by the loss of his son, the Civil War, and a ghostly world shared by Willie and his fellow dead.

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George Saunders discusses his best-selling Lincoln in the Bardo, winner of the 2017 Man Booker Prize for Fiction for best original novel. The book movingly imagines Abraham Lincoln’s night in a cemetery, tortured by the loss of his son, the Civil War, and a ghostly world shared by Willie and his fellow dead.
Thursday, February 15, 2018
Program: 
6:30 pm to 7:30 pm
Plaza Branch
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The British ‘Beef Bonanza’

Michael Grauer of the Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum in Canyon, Texas, discusses the effort by British investors to cash in on American cattle in the late 1800s, setting up syndicates in Kansas City and elsewhere in the U.S. and buying up major ranches.
 
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Michael Grauer of the Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum in Canyon, Texas, discusses the effort by British investors to cash in on American cattle in the late 1800s, setting up syndicates in Kansas City and elsewhere in the U.S. and buying up major ranches.
Wednesday, February 14, 2018
Program: 
6:30 pm
Central Library
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Race and Meaning: The African-American Experience in Missouri

In conjunction with Black History Month, Gary Kremer, director of the State Historical Society of Missouri, examines the journey of Missouri’s African-Americans in a discussion of his book Race and Meaning.
 
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In conjunction with Black History Month, Gary Kremer, director of the State Historical Society of Missouri, examines the journey of Missouri’s African-Americans in a discussion of his book Race and Meaning.
Thursday, February 8, 2018
Reception: 
6 pm
Program: 
6:30 pm
Plaza Branch
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Cybersecurity: The World on Alert

Former Defense Department cyber security chief Katherine Charlet, now with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, assesses the rising threat of cyberattack. What kind of behavior in cyberspace would be globally destabilizing? What can be done to prevent it?
 
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Former Defense Department cyber security chief Katherine Charlet, now with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, assesses the rising threat of cyberattack. What kind of behavior in cyberspace would be globally destabilizing? What can be done to prevent it?
Wednesday, February 7, 2018
Program: 
6:30 pm
Plaza Branch
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Murder and Mayhem: Tales of Two Cities

West Texas A&M University’s Amy Von Lintel, co-creator of the Library exhibit Cattle, Cowboys, and Culture, looks at the seedier side of the historical relationship between Kansas City and Amarillo, Texas: murders, train robberies, bank heists, and other crimes and scandals.

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West Texas A&M University’s Amy Von Lintel, co-creator of the Library exhibit Cattle, Cowboys, and Culture, looks at the seedier side of the historical relationship between Kansas City and Amarillo, Texas: murders, train robberies, bank heists, and other crimes and scandals.
Thursday, February 1, 2018
Program: 
6:30 pm
Central Library
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