Regional History Department

English as a Second Language for Adults

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CLASE DE INGLÉS PARA ADULTOS ¡Gratis!

Cada martes, septiembre 3 – noviembre 19, 6:00 to 8:00 p.m.

Abierto a todos los idiomas que quieren aprender ingles o mejorar sus habilidades.

Las instructoras Janet Ross-Heiner, M.A. Ed-ESL & Karen Little, MAT, asistirán y ayudarán a enseñar inglés.

Para mas informacion, llama en la biblioteca @ 208.726.3493 x 1

Las dos primeras clases (3 de septiembre y 10 de septiembre) se reunirán en el Centro de Historia Regional.

 

ENGLISH CLASS FOR ADULTS Free!

Every Tuesday, September 3 – November 19, 6:00 to 8:00 p.m.

Open to adults of all languages who wants to learn English or improve skills.

Teachers Janet Ross-Heiner, M.A. Ed-ESL, and Karen Little, MAT, will assist non-native speakers in their effort to improve their English language skills. 

The first two classes (September 3 and September 10) will meet in the Center for Regional History.

NEA Big Read Spanish Book Discussion

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Join Sara Pettit, M.A. and Spanish Instructor for the College of Idaho, for a discussion of the NEA Big Read selection, Into the Beautiful North.  (The class will be held in the Regional History library underneath the Children’s Library.)

ERC Book Discussion: Tim Egan’s “The Big Burn”

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On Wednesday, June 21 at 6pm at The Community Library, the ERC will facilitate a book discussion on Tim Egan’s The Big Burn.  Egan’s book examines the largest-ever fire in American history in the summer of 1910 in the national forests of Washington, Idaho, and Montana. Egan follows the struggles of the overmatched rangers against the unstoppable fire as well as the larger story of president Teddy Roosevelt and chief forester Gifford Pinchot and their quest for conservation and the creation of public lands.  

A Reading by Iranian Author Shahrnush Parsipur

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Born and raised in Tehran, Parsipur received her B.A. in sociology from Tehran University in 1973 and studied Chinese language and civilization at the Sorbonne from 1976 to 1980. Her first book was Tupak-e Qermez (The Little Red Ball, 1969). As of the late 1980s, Parsipur received considerable attention in Tehran literary circles, with the publication of several of her stories and a lengthy interview in “Donya-ye Sokhanmagazine”. Her second novel was Touba va ma’na-ye Shab (Touba and the Meaning of Night, 1989), which she wrote after spending four years and seven months in prison. In 1990, she published a short novel, again consisting of connected stories, called Zanan Bedun-e Mardan (Women without Men), which she had finished in the late 1970s. The Iranian government banned Women without Men in the mid-1990s and put pressure on the author to desist from such writing. Early in 1990, Parsipur finished her fourth novel, a 450-page story of a female Don Quixote called Aql-e abi’rang (Blue-colored Reason), which remained unavailable as of early 1992. In 1994, she came to the United States and wrote Prison Memoir, her story of her time in prison. In 1996 she wrote her fifth novel Shiva, a science fiction novel. In 1999 she published her sixth novel, Maajerahaaye Saadeh Va Kuchake Ruhe Deraxat (The Plain and Small Adventures of the Spirit of the Tree). In 2002, she published her seventh novel, Bar Baale Baad Neshastan (On the wings of Wind).

Shahrnush Parsipur currently resides in the United States. She is the recipient of the first International Writers Project Fellowship from the Program in Creative Writing and the Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University.

Oral History Workshop Presented by the Idaho Humanities Council

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University of Wisconsin Oral History Program Director Troy Reeves (Madison) will discuss the do’s-and-don’ts of gathering useful testimony for historical research, library archives, and family records. The workshops are free and open to the public.

The introductory workshops will focus specifically on how to properly conduct oral history interviews, including project planning, technology, good questions and follow-up questions, and the importance of signed release forms. Reeves will allow time for Q & A and, if time allows, include at least one interactive exercise.

Reeves has led the oral history program at University of Wisconsin-Madison since 2007. From 1999-2006, he directed the Idaho State Historical Society Oral History Center in Boise. In both states Reeves has overseen collecting and curating oral history recordings, as well as communicating and collaborating with interested individuals about the art and science of oral history.

He has managed oral history projects on many topics, including cultural, political, and environmental history, and has written for a number of historical journals, including Western Historical Quarterly, Public Historian, and the Oral History Review. He has held leadership roles in the national Oral History Association, and is the managing editor of the Oral History Review, the journal of oral history for the U.S. Reeves also is a member of the Wisconsin Humanities Council.

The workshops are sponsored by the Idaho Humanities Council, the state-based partner of the National Endowment for the Humanities. The IHC’s mission is to deepen understanding of human experience by connecting people with ideas through educational programs for teachers and the general public. More about the IHC at www.idahohumanities.org.

“Great Decisions”: Current Events Seminar with Don Liebich

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The “Great Decisions” seminar tackles current events and political topics with materials produced by the Foreign Policy Association. Topics include: Shifting Alliances in the Middle East, The Rise of ISIS, International Migration, Climate Geopolitics, Cuba and the U.S., and more. Registration is now full for the course.

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