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February 25, 2021
A free virtual reading of “The Wasps,” a Greek comedy by playwright Aristophanes, will be presented Thursday, March 4, as part of a University of Wyoming Department of Modern and Classical Languages course.
UW Senior Lecturer Laura De Lozier, who teaches “Athenian Democracy,” is producing “The Wasps.” The event will be presented in conjunction with Laramie’s Relative Theatrics. The production will be at 7 p.m., followed by a community discussion facilitated by De Lozier and her students.
To receive the Zoom link, register at www.relativetheatrics.com/virtual-programming.html.
“Although all members of the public are welcome, the content contains sexually explicit language and some violence,” De Lozier says.
February 8, 2021
Jean Garrison
Jean Garrison, a University of Wyoming professor of political science and international studies, is the recipient of the Seibold Professorship for 2021-22.
The Seibold award given annually to UW College of Arts and Sciences faculty members who are focused on teaching will enable Garrison to spend the year curating elements of the Malcolm Wallop Civic Engagement Program, which she directs. The program creates greater depth and access in virtual civic engagement programming for K-12 social studies teachers.
“This project is a valuable UW partnership with Wyoming educators to address an immediate need due to the pandemic, but also develops a sustainable model that addresses UW’s statewide land-grant mission virtually,” Garrison says. “By working with talented partners here at UW and around the state, we plan to expand the content of this curriculum catalog by taking feedback from teachers about what content their students need most and to e
February 1, 2021
Several virtual events are planned this month as part of the University of Wyoming’s Black History Month celebration.
“The Death of Black Wall Street and the Myth of the American Dream” is the theme of Black History Month, sponsored by UW’s African American and Diaspora Studies (AADS) and the Black Studies Center. Events are free and open to the public.
“This year’s theme reckons with the 100th anniversary of one of America’s most catastrophic events,” says Fredrick Douglass Dixon, the Black Studies Center’s director and an assistant professor in the UW School of Culture, Gender and Social Justice. “Each event examines the layered nuances of the economic, political and social impacts of Black Wall Street’s death.”
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