Extra Credit Opportunities, Spring Term, 2008
Ground Rules for Gaining Extra Credit Points:
1. Attend the program and pay close attention to the main points. At some events, you will be asked to sign a sheet specifically for this class.
2. Write a paragraph, noting the specific name of the program, the presenter's name, and what his/her main points were.
3. Submit the paragraph to your grader within one (1) week of the event. Later papers will not be accepted. Graders have the option to award fewer than five points if the requisite elements are missing such as the name of presenter, title of program, main points of the presentation, etc.
4. Up to five points may be awarded for each program attended for up to an additional 25 total points for the semester. Thus, a student may gain 25 additional points for attending five programs and successfully completing the paragraphs in a timely fashion. No credit will be given for programs in excess of the five although students are encouraged to attend all programs for his/her own enrichment. An established 12-15 presentation extra-credit opportunities will be made available during the course of the semester.
Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2 p.m., Steve Guidry,"Delivering America’s Energy Security," Place: Student Union Yellowstone Ballroom.
Guidry is regional vice president, U. S. Production Operations, Marathon Oil Corporation. Part of his presentation will include reference to Marathon's early history in Wyoming.
Tuesday, Feb. 19, 7:30 p.m., Ginny Kilander, archivist/historian, "Your Loving Wife Frank": the Personal Letters of Jack and Frances Casement," . Albany County Historical Society monthly meeting. Place: Alice Hardie Stevens Center, Laramie Plains Museum (6th and University)
Thursday, Feb. 28, 2:30 p.m., John Bruton, "Strengthening U. S.-European Union Relations: National and Local Approaches," Student Union Yellowstone Ballroom. Mr. Bruton is European Union Ambassador to the United States.
Monday, March 3, 5 p.m., Michael Ondaatje, "Public Reading and Conversation," Student Union Ballroom. English Department L. L. Smith Lectureship and International Studies Scholar Lecture Series. Michael Ondaatje is one of the world’s foremost writers, best known for The English Patient (1992). The novel won the coveted Man Booker Prize, and the 1996 movie version won the Academy Award for Best Picture. His other books include Anil’s Ghost, Coming through Slaughter, the Collected Works of Billy the Kid, and Divisadero. Michael Ondaatje was born in Sri Lanka and now lives in Canada.
Monday, March 10, all day. Public History Conference, American Heritage Center, Centennial Complex,
You may attend any one of the three sessions for five points of extra credit. Same rules apply otherwise. (See below)..
“Break-out Panel Discussions”
10:30-11:45am
A. “Public History in Action” -- Alfred Jacob Miller Classroom
• John Dorst--American Studies, Chair
• Fred Chapman--American Studies
• Mary Humstone--American Studies
• Bob Patrick--Veterans History Project
B. “Career Paths in Public History” -- Sheep Industry Room
• William Bauer--History Department, Chair
• Jim Bailey--Bureau of Reclamation, Denver
• Sara Needles--State Parks and Cultural Resources
• Todd Guenther--Central Wyoming College
Plenary Roundtable: “Local Initiative in Public History”
1:30-2:45pm -- Alfred Jacob Miller Classroom
• Carol Bowers--UW American Heritage Center, Chair
• Michael Kassel--Old West Museum, Cheyenne
• Theresa Beyer Sherwood--Territorial Prison, Laramie
• Mary Mountain--Laramie Plains Museum
Keynote Address
3:00-4:30pm -- Wyoming Stock Growers’ Room
Bill Bryans--President, National Council on Public History
Thursday, March 13, 7 p.m., Phil Roberts, "Wyoming in the 1930s," Wyoming State Museum Speaker Series, Cheyenne.
Friday, March 28, 7 p.m., "The Meanings of Marriage: Judges, Defendants, and Legal Change in Territorial Utah," lecture by Prof. Sarah Gordon, University of Pennsylvania Law School, and Dr. Kathryn Daynes, BYU. Place: Education Auditorium.
Monday, March 31, 4:10 p.m., "Endless Forms Most Beautiful: Creation in an Evolutionary World," lecture by Alejandro Garcia-Rivera, National Phi Beta Kappa speaker. Place: Classroom Bldg., Room 314
Tuesday, April 1, 6 p.m. "Just Play the Blues: African-Americans, Afro-Germans, White Germans and the Politics of Primitivism," lecture by Dr. Ulrich Adelt, visiting professor, UW African-American Studies. Place: Classroom Bldg., Room 142.
Wednesday, April 9, 7 p.m., "Lifetimes of Experience with Collaborative Public Process: A Conversation with Bill Ruckelshaus and John Turner. Place: Classroom Bldg., 129. Ruckelshaus was the first administrator for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Later, he served as Attorney General of the United States. Turner, a native of Jackson, served as director of the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service. He also was Assistant Secretary of State for Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs in the U. S. Department of State.
Tuesday, April 15, 7:30 p.m., "History of Wyoming Women in the Field of Medicine," Carol Bowers, AHC archivist/historian, Albany County Historical Society meeting, Alice Hardie Stevens Center, Laramie Plains Museum.
Thursday, April 17, 3:10 p.m., "Studying the Dawn of Civilization in Mesopotamia," lecture by Dr. Henry T. Wright, one of the foremost experts on the topic. Place: Agriculture Auditorium.
Tuesday, April 22, 2 p.m., "A Conversation on Current Events and Public Policy," with James S. Baker III, former U. S. Secretary of State, and Al Simpson, former U. S. Senator, Arts and Sciences Auditorium.
Thursday, April 24, 2 p.m., "The Mormon Trail Revisited," by Gregory M. Franzwa, American Heritage Center, Wyoming Stockgrowers Room. Franzwa, founder of the Oregon-California Trails Association, lives in Tooele, Utah. He and his wife, Kathy, spent three years researching the trail, including several field trips totaling some 10,000 miles along the historic road.
Friday, April 25, 1 p.m., "Conjuring Place: Pragmatic Ethnography and the Fate of Locality," lecture by Prof. Mary Hufford, Director of the Center for Folklore and Ethnography, University of Pennsylvania. Place: Cooper House (American Studies)
Tuesday, April 29, 4 p.m., "What Immigration Raids Tell Us About Latino Families and the State," lecture by Dr. Mary Romero. Place: College of Education.