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  • Making Peace with Change with Christine Ellsworth
    Making Peace with Change with Christine Ellsworth
    Sun, Jan 12
    ONLINE class via Zoom
    Jan 12, 2025, 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM CST
    ONLINE class via Zoom
    Jan 12, 2025, 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM CST
    ONLINE class via Zoom
    Let poetry help you master transition with grace!
  • A Conversation About Poetry and Place with Premiere Native American Poet Laureates
    A Conversation About Poetry and Place with Premiere Native American Poet Laureates
    Tue, Jan 14
    ONLINE event via Zoom
    Jan 14, 2025, 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM CST
    ONLINE event via Zoom
    Jan 14, 2025, 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM CST
    ONLINE event via Zoom
    Three distinguished Native American Poet Laureates—Denise Lajimodiere, Gwen Westerman, and Heid E. Erdrich—share their poetic insights and cultural perspectives in this online Game Changer event.
  • History, Culture, and Customs of the Nueta and Hidatsa: A Case Study into Native America with Mike Barthelemy
    History, Culture, and Customs of the Nueta and Hidatsa: A Case Study into Native America with Mike Barthelemy
    Wed, Jan 15
    ONLINE class via Zoom
    Jan 15, 2025, 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM CST
    ONLINE class via Zoom
    Jan 15, 2025, 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM CST
    ONLINE class via Zoom
    Come learn about the history and culture of Nueta (Mandan) and Hidatsa people from our perspective. Learn how and why we engage with the natural world from this positionality. Hear our oral histories and come to understand how they are embedded with our values and worldview.
  • 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
  • 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, 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM CST
    ONLINE class via Zoom
    Feb 05, 2025, 1:00 PM – 2:30 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!
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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.
  • A History of Horror in Five Films with Sean Burt
    A History of Horror in Five Films with Sean Burt
    Wed, Mar 19
    ONLINE class via Zoom
    Mar 19, 2025, 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM CDT
    ONLINE class via Zoom
    Mar 19, 2025, 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM CDT
    ONLINE class via Zoom
  • Writing and the Art of Description with David Bjerklie
    Writing and the Art of Description with David Bjerklie
    Sun, Mar 23
    ONLINE class via Zoom
    Mar 23, 2025, 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM CDT
    ONLINE class via Zoom
    Mar 23, 2025, 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM CDT
    ONLINE class via Zoom
  • 50 Years Later: America and the Vietnam War, 1945-1975 with Rick Collin
    50 Years Later: America and the Vietnam War, 1945-1975 with Rick Collin
    Thu, Mar 27
    ONLINE class via Zoom
    Mar 27, 2025, 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM CDT
    ONLINE class via Zoom
    Mar 27, 2025, 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM CDT
    ONLINE class via Zoom
    50 years after its end, the Vietnam War continues to impact how we view ourselves as Americans.
  • Gatsby at 100 with Adam Kitzes
    Gatsby at 100 with Adam Kitzes
    Thu, Apr 03
    ONLINE class via Zoom
    Apr 03, 2025, 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM CDT
    ONLINE class via Zoom
    Apr 03, 2025, 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM CDT
    ONLINE class via Zoom
    “Can’t repeat the past?” he cried incredulously. “Why of course you can!”
  • How Much Is Enough? with Khe Hy
    How Much Is Enough? with Khe Hy
    Thu, May 01
    IN-PERSON at NECE Bavendick Stateroom
    May 01, 2025, 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM CDT
    IN-PERSON at NECE Bavendick Stateroom, 1200 Schafer St, Bismarck, ND 58501, USA
    May 01, 2025, 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM CDT
    IN-PERSON at NECE Bavendick Stateroom, 1200 Schafer St, Bismarck, ND 58501, USA
    A Brave Conversation about questioning the assumptions and beliefs we have about ourselves.
  • Theory of Enchantment Professional Course with Chloé Valdary
    Theory of Enchantment Professional Course with Chloé Valdary
    Date and time is TBD
    ONLINE class via Zoom
    Date and time is TBD
    ONLINE class via Zoom
    Date and time is TBD
    ONLINE class via Zoom
    It's time to level up your relationships.
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