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| Broughton Coburn |
This event will delve into humanity’s urge to travel, in both sacred and secular voyages, across civilizations.
Humanities Festival and Demorest Lecture Agenda
February 23 - 25, 2011
Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday lectures are free and open to all. *
Wednesday, February 23
Wednesday presentations will be at the National Historic Trails Interpretive Center
6:00 p.m. William Rossiter, Stories, Songs and Sodbusters:
The Little Old Shanty on the Plain
7:00 p.m. Reed Miller, Trails Through Wyoming: The Pilgrimage West
Thursday, February 24
Thursday and Friday presentations will be at the Casper College Krampert Theatre
8:15 a.m. Rainer Schwarzkopf, music performed between each session
8:45 a.m. Walter Nolte, Ph.D., Casper College President, welcome and introduction
9:00 a.m. William Conte, Ph.D., The Performative Nature of Pilgrimage: Egeria
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| Nina McConigley |
11:00 a.m. Tom Empey, Chaucer and the Canterbury Tales
2:00 p.m. Elizabeth Moore Hunt, Ph.D., Rocks of Faith: The Appearance of Islamic
Rock Crystals in Medieval European Reliquaries
3:00 p.m. Bruce Richardson, Ph.D., Yellowstone and the American Pilgrimage
into the Wilderness
4:00 p.m. George Vlastos, The Pilgrimage vs. The Pilgrim
7:00 p.m. Broughton Coburn, Author, Keynote Demorest Lecturer,
Aama’s Journey: A Pilgrimage Between Continents and Cultures
Friday, February 25
9:00 a.m. Georgia Wheatley, Women’s Travel as Pilgrimage
10:00 a.m. Victor Scherb, Ph.D., Pilgrimage in English Medieval Drama
11:00 a.m. Nina McConigley, Cowboys and East Indians
2:00 p.m. Matteo Pistono, In the Shadow of the Buddha: Secret Journeys,
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| George Vlastos |
3:00 p.m. Bruce Richardson, Ph.D., Moderator, Panel Session Discussion
7:30 p.m. Casper College Theater Production, Twelfth Night
Krampert Theatre, McMurry Mainstage
* Purchased tickets are needed for the Twelfth Night theatre production.
