Visiting Writer Joanna Howard

March 29 | 6 p.m.

Valentine Ballroom

100 S. Arthur, Pocatello

Howard will read from her recent memoir, Rerun Era, followed by a Q&A session. The reading is free and the public is encouraged to attend. Book sales and signing will follow.

Play Mario Kart 8 with live music from the ISU Video Game Music Ensemble!

March 29 | 7 p.m.

ISU Student Union Ballroom

ISU Video Game Music Ensemble will be hosting a Mario Kart Tournament and will perform live music for each track while the gamers compete. KISU will broadcast the tournament live with ESports commentators.

5pm, Final Registration

6pm, Time Trials and Rankings

7pm, Final Tournament with Live Music

Competition open for students and non-students

$10 Registration fee for competitors

Free Admission for spectators

Humanities Cafe

April 3rd 

6:30-8:30 p.m.

Union Tap Room

Free food | Community is welcome

Jessica Winston: "The First Complete Works of Shakespeare, 1623: The Peculiar History of One of the World's Most Important Books" and Ananda Keator: "Page to Stage; Costuming Lauren Gunderson's Book of Will"

Visiting Artist Emily Tipps

April 6 | 3-4 p.m.

Artist's talk

Zoom Link

Free and open to students, faculty, and the community

Bookland: exploring reading through books’ physicality

Discussion of the work and guiding concepts in her 2022 Bookland exhibition at Finch Lane Gallery, Salt Lake City, UT.

April 8 | 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Workshop

Letterpress Printing: Text & Image

Space for the workshop is limited: please email art@isu.edu to register.

In this workshop, participants learn the basics of setting metal type by hand and letterpress printing on a flatbed cylinder press. The instructor leads participants through a writing exercise to generate original creative content for typesetting and printing. (Alternatively, students may print a favorite quotation or phrase). After a brief conversation about different ways images and text can work together, students select imagery from the collection of printing matrices in Pinyon Jay Press’s collection and/or create simple plates for pressure printing abstract imagery on a proof press. Each participant leaves with a small edition of their own prints, and has the option to participate in a class exchange.

City Creek Record Label Launch Party

April 7 | 7-10 p.m.

Station Square, old town Pocatello

Free event!

City Creek Records is an extension of ISU's commercial music program, which releases innovative new music by ISU students, faculty, and associated artists

Idaho Humanities Council Presents A Distinguished Humanities Lecture

April 14 | 7 p.m.

Shoshone-Bannock Hotel & Event Center, Fort Hall

For tickets and more info please visit www.idahohumanities.org

Angeline Boulley, #1 NYT Best Selling Author of Firekeeper's Daughter

Shelly C. Lower, Chair, National Endowment for the Humanities

After School at the Museum

April 28 | 3-5 p.m.

Museum of Natural History

ISU Department of Anthropology is hosting an interactive event for elementary and middle school age community members. Join ISU graduate students at the Museum of Natural History for activities like making clay/cave art, diagraming Shoshone bones, and more. The event is free and open to the public.

The The Book of Will

Final theatre production of the season

April 14-15, 20-22 | 7:30 p.m.

Bistline Theatre in the Stephens Performing Arts Center

Book Publication of Dr. Justin Dolan Stover, History

Dr. Justin Dolan Stover, Associate Professor in the Department of History, recently published his first book, Enduring Ruin: Environmental Destruction during the Irish Revolution. In it, Stover reveals the story of the nature, scope and embodiment of destruction in Ireland during the revolutionary period. It shows how Irish environments – rural, urban, natural and built-up – were understood, altered and damaged throughout this formative time.

Sarah Ebel Fulbright

Assistant Professor of Anthropology Dr. Sarah Ebel has received a Fulbright U.S. Scholar Award to teach and conduct research at the Universidad Austral de Chile in Valdivia, Chile in 2023-2024.

Ebel will examine how women respond to environmental and economic change in southern Chile, with a focus on how women reclaim the cultural and physical commons from the large-scale salmon aquaculture industry by drawing upon their social relations and collective practices.

Katrina Running Grant Work

Dr. Katrina Running, Associate Professor of Sociology with a focus on the environment, has been working with the Northwest Climate Resilience Collaborative and the larger NOAA Climate Adaptation Partnerships Program (CAP/RISA) to develop solutions for long-term sustainability using a Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR) approach which centers the needs of local residents' ideas and preferences in the plans for resilience-building in different rural communities in the Pacific Northwest.

Running says her primary six-month goal is to work on further building relationships between herself, other NCRC team members, and residents of the Umatilla, Oregon community. "Our current focus now is the area called the Lower Umatilla Basin Groundwater Management Area (LUBGWMA) due to its history of nitrate contamination in the groundwater table. We will focus on better understanding this community's needs, past and planned activities, and the range of options feasibly available for addressing environmental pollution and water politics in the region."

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