top of page
  • High Conflict: Screening + Live Discussion
    High Conflict: Screening + Live Discussion
    Thu, Jan 23
    Prairie Sky Breads, Minot, ND
    Jan 23, 2025, 6:30 PM – 9:00 PM CST
    Prairie Sky Breads, Minot, ND, 3 1st St SE Suite 3, Minot, ND 58701, USA
    Jan 23, 2025, 6:30 PM – 9:00 PM CST
    Prairie Sky Breads, Minot, ND, 3 1st St SE Suite 3, Minot, ND 58701, USA
    Join us for a viewing of the recorded interview between Ann Crews Melton and Amanda Ripley, author of "High Conflict: Why We Get Trapped and How We Get Out". Afterwards enjoy an in-person group discussion with Ann Crews Melton.
  • Fargo Think & Drink: The Ethics of AI Death Bots
    Fargo Think & Drink: The Ethics of AI Death Bots
    Sun, Jan 26
    The Troll Lounge, Fargo
    Jan 26, 2025, 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM CST
    The Troll Lounge, Fargo, 722 2nd Ave N, Fargo, ND 58102, USA
    Jan 26, 2025, 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM CST
    The Troll Lounge, Fargo, 722 2nd Ave N, Fargo, ND 58102, USA
    Featuring Dr. Dennis Cooley
  • Rediscovering Turtle Island with Author Taylor Keen
    Rediscovering Turtle Island with Author Taylor Keen
    Sun, Jan 26
    ONLINE event via Zoom
    Jan 26, 2025, 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM CST
    ONLINE event via Zoom
    Jan 26, 2025, 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM CST
    ONLINE event via Zoom
    "[Taylor Keen] interweaves aspects of North America’s history, cosmology, and geography from an Indigenous perspective, which, combined with the sharing of his own life experience, uplifts us and demonstrates how we are all related.” —Lewis Mehl-Madrona, PhD
  • Revision Workshop for Writers with Tayo Basquiat
    Revision Workshop for Writers with Tayo Basquiat
    Tue, Jan 28
    ONLINE class via Zoom
    Jan 28, 2025, 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM CST
    ONLINE class via Zoom
    Jan 28, 2025, 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM CST
    ONLINE class via Zoom
    "The slightly yielding quality of the essayist's thought forces him to greater intensity than discursive thought can offer; for the essay, unlike discursive thought, does not proceed blindly, automatically, but at every moment it must reflect on itself." -Theodore Adorno
  • Bismarck Think & Drink: The Ethics of AI Death Bots
    Bismarck Think & Drink: The Ethics of AI Death Bots
    Sun, Feb 02
    5th Underground (below Peacock Alley)
    Feb 02, 2025, 3:30 PM – 4:30 PM CST
    5th Underground (below Peacock Alley), 420 E Main Ave, Bismarck, ND 58501, USA
    Feb 02, 2025, 3:30 PM – 4:30 PM CST
    5th Underground (below Peacock Alley), 420 E Main Ave, Bismarck, ND 58501, USA
    Featuring Dr. Dennis Cooley
  • The Ethics of Everyday Life: What's the right thing to do? with Tayo Basquiat
    The Ethics of Everyday Life: What's the right thing to do? with Tayo Basquiat
    Tue, Feb 04
    ONLINE class via Zoom
    Feb 04, 2025, 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM CST
    ONLINE class via Zoom
    Feb 04, 2025, 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM CST
    ONLINE class via Zoom
    "Nobody thinks that they're evil or bad, they think they are doing the right thing." -Andrew McCarthy
  • It's Not Your Grandparents' Norway! with Tami Carmichael
    It's Not Your Grandparents' Norway! with Tami Carmichael
    Tue, Feb 04
    ONLINE class via Zoom
    Feb 04, 2025, 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM CST
    ONLINE class via Zoom
    Feb 04, 2025, 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM CST
    ONLINE class via Zoom
    Think Modern-day Norway is all lefse and lutefisk? Think again!
  • Critical Thinking for Violent Times with Ahmed Afzaal
    Critical Thinking for Violent Times with Ahmed Afzaal
    Wed, Feb 05
    ONLINE class via Zoom
    Feb 05, 2025, 6:00 PM – 7:30 PM CST
    ONLINE class via Zoom
    Feb 05, 2025, 6:00 PM – 7:30 PM CST
    ONLINE class via Zoom
    "The irritation of doubt causes a struggle to attain a state of belief." -Charles Sanders Peirce
  • Topics on the American Civil War with Jeffrey A. Hoffer
    Topics on the American Civil War with Jeffrey A. Hoffer
    Thu, Feb 13
    ONLINE class via Zoom
    Feb 13, 2025, 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM CST
    ONLINE class via Zoom
    Feb 13, 2025, 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM CST
    ONLINE class via Zoom
    This is the history class you've always wanted but never had the chance to take!
  • The Many Lives of Mama Love with Author Lara Love Hardin
    The Many Lives of Mama Love with Author Lara Love Hardin
    Sun, Feb 16
    ONLINE event via Zoom
    Feb 16, 2025, 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM CST
    ONLINE event via Zoom
    Feb 16, 2025, 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM CST
    ONLINE event via Zoom
    What If the world knew your deepest, darkest secrets? Could you move past the worst things you've ever done?
  • Political Islam: A Narrative of Ideology, Revivalism, and Conflict with Roby C. Barrett
    Political Islam: A Narrative of Ideology, Revivalism, and Conflict with Roby C. Barrett
    Tue, Feb 18
    ONLINE class via Zoom
    Feb 18, 2025, 5:30 PM – 7:00 PM CST
    ONLINE class via Zoom
    Feb 18, 2025, 5:30 PM – 7:00 PM CST
    ONLINE class via Zoom
  • Fargo Think & Drink. Scalia/Ginsburg Opera: Talking Across the Political Divide
    Fargo Think & Drink. Scalia/Ginsburg Opera: Talking Across the Political Divide
    Sun, Feb 23
    The Troll Lounge, Fargo
    Feb 23, 2025, 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM CST
    The Troll Lounge, Fargo, 722 2nd Ave N, Fargo, ND 58102, USA
    Feb 23, 2025, 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM CST
    The Troll Lounge, Fargo, 722 2nd Ave N, Fargo, ND 58102, USA
    Featuring Bruce Ringstrom and Dane DeKrey
  • Bismarck Think & Drink: History of the Shifting in Power from States to the Federal Government
    Bismarck Think & Drink: History of the Shifting in Power from States to the Federal Government
    Sun, Mar 02
    5th Underground (below Peacock Alley)
    Mar 02, 2025, 3:30 PM – 4:30 PM CST
    5th Underground (below Peacock Alley), 420 E Main Ave, Bismarck, ND 58501, USA
    Mar 02, 2025, 3:30 PM – 4:30 PM CST
    5th Underground (below Peacock Alley), 420 E Main Ave, Bismarck, ND 58501, USA
    Featuring Chris Cavanaugh
  • The Romantic Age with Sarah Faulkner
    The Romantic Age with Sarah Faulkner
    Mon, Mar 03
    ONLINE class via Zoom
    Mar 03, 2025, 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM CST
    ONLINE class via Zoom
    Mar 03, 2025, 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM CST
    ONLINE class via Zoom
  • Transforming High Conflict with Ann Crews Melton
    Transforming High Conflict with Ann Crews Melton
    Thu, Mar 06
    ONLINE class via Zoom
    Mar 06, 2025, 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM CST
    ONLINE class via Zoom
    Mar 06, 2025, 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM CST
    ONLINE class via Zoom
    "If you feel threatened, you cannot feel curious." -Amanda Ripley "Relationships change us, way more readily than facts." -Amanda Ripley
  • Searching For Savanna with Author Mona Gable
    Searching For Savanna with Author Mona Gable
    Sun, Mar 09
    ONLINE event via Zoom
    Mar 09, 2025, 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM CDT
    ONLINE event via Zoom
    Mar 09, 2025, 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM CDT
    ONLINE event via Zoom
    Essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the serious issues surrounding the epidemic of violence against Indigenous women in America.
  • The Art and Practice of Street Photography with W. Scott Olsen
    The Art and Practice of Street Photography with W. Scott Olsen
    Sun, Mar 16
    ONLINE class via Zoom
    Mar 16, 2025, 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM CDT
    ONLINE class via Zoom
    Mar 16, 2025, 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM CDT
    ONLINE class via Zoom
    Street photography is a way to capture and examine the serendipitous public moments that reveal something true about humanity. This class will look at the art form, its history, practices and issues, and will allow an opportunity to give the form a try.
  • An Evening with Dr. Larry Skogen: To Educate American Indians
    An Evening with Dr. Larry Skogen: To Educate American Indians
    Tue, Mar 18
    ONLINE event via Zoom
    Mar 18, 2025, 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM CDT
    ONLINE event via Zoom
    Mar 18, 2025, 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM CDT
    ONLINE event via Zoom
    Going deep into an interesting—and troubling—chapter of history.
Lunch and Learn_posts (3).png

Classes and events are funded in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in these events or classes do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities or Humanities North Dakota.

bottom of page