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Signature Event
Friday, September 8, 2017
8:00pm
In Person
Doors open: 8 pm • Program: 8:45 pm...
Signature Event
Thursday, September 7, 2017
6:30pm
In Person
Patrick Henry is a largely forgotten founding father today, his accomplishments overshadowed by his oratory. Historian Jon Kukla, former director of t...
Signature Event
Wednesday, September 6, 2017
6:30pm
In Person
In a discussion of his new book The Color of Law, Richard Rothstein makes the case that the racial divide i...
Signature Event
Thursday, August 31, 2017
6:30pm
In Person
Sonny Ramaswamy, director of the National Institute of Food and Agriculture, examines the exquisite paradox of the Monarch butterfly...
Signature Event
Wednesday, August 23, 2017
6:30pm
In Person
In a discussion of her book Marriage Markets, the University of Minnesota’s June Carbone – a former law pro...
Signature Event
Monday, August 21, 2017
10:00am
In Person
Kansas City gets a prime view of the celestial event of a lifetime – the first total solar eclipse visible in the contiguous United States since 1979...
Signature Event
Sunday, August 20, 2017
2:00pm
In Person
Art historian Joan Stack explores how two 1845 paintings by Missouri artist and politician George Caleb Bingham may have reflected anxiety about Pr...
Signature Event
Saturday, August 19, 2017
2:00pm
In Person
Humanity has explored far beyond the reaches of Earth, nearly to the edge of interstellar space (and we’re getting closer every day). We have visit...
Signature Event
Thursday, August 17, 2017
6:30pm
In Person
Kansas City-area artist Jessica Kincaid, who works from a palette of colorful beads rather than paint, discusses her work in an illus...
Signature Event
Friday, August 11, 2017
8:00pm
In Person
Doors open: 8 pm • Program: 8:45 pm...