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The Audacious Ascetic: What the Bin Laden Tapes Reveal about Al-Qa’ida - Flagg Miller

Wednesday, March 23, 2016 6:30pm

Central Library

In Person

Among the things Osama bin Laden and his lieutenants left behind when they fled Kandahar after the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in 2001 was a cache...

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The Nuremberg Trials - Mark M. Hull

Tuesday, April 5, 2016 6:30pm

Central Library

In Person

Seventy years ago, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Robert Jackson called the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg “the greatest tribute power ha...

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Measured Space

March 16, 2016 - May 22, 2016

Central Library

This new exhibition, featuring the ambitious sculptural works of three teaching artists, employs a range of materials and fabrication processes in exp...

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5th District Voyage of Artistic Discovery

Saturday, April 9, 2016 2:00pm

Central Library

In Person

The Kansas City Public Library plays host to the annual Missouri 5th Congressional District student art exhibit and celebration, a...

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First Folio: A 400-year Celebration

Wednesday, May 18, 2016 6:30pm

Central Library

In Person

While Shakespeare wasn’t a composer, he made his love of music apparent. “How sweet sour music is,” he wrote for instance in Richard II, “(w)hen ti...

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Winston Churchill and the Iron Curtain: Cold Warrior or Peacemaker? - Klaus Larres

Monday, April 11, 2016 6:30pm

Central Library

In Person

Winston Churchill’s “Iron Curtain” speech – delivered 70 years ago at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri – still resounds today. Most contemporar...

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The Renaissance in Italy - Guido Ruggiero

Tuesday, April 12, 2016 6:30pm

Central Library

In Person

Guido Ruggiero underscored his position as one of the world’s leading authorities on the Italian Renaissance with his most recent...

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Music from the Middle - Ramsey Mohsen, John Kreicbergs

Thursday, April 14, 2016 6:30pm

Central Library

In Person

Participating in the conversation are several notable local music personalities: Katy Guillen (of the band Katy Guillen and the Gi...

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A Life in Literature

Wednesday, April 20, 2016 6:30pm

Central Library

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Award-winning writer, critic, and editor John Freeman launched the year’s most anticipated literary magazine, the biannual Freeman’s, in S...

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Implicit Bias

Monday, April 25, 2016 6:30pm

Central Library

In Person

Everyone is susceptible to implicit bias – unconscious attitudes or stereotypes that affect judgments about others based on their race, ethnicity,...

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