Dial-a-Speaker
For the first time ever, HK is offering our popular Speakers Bureau presentations as a virtual service! Our new Dial-a-Speaker program allows you to receive mini-presentations about Kansas history with one of HK's highly-qualified Speakers Bureau presenters from the comfort of your home free of charge.
How do I Dial-a-Speaker?
Send us an email to abigail@humanitieskansas.org to set up a phone, Skype, FaceTime, or Zoom presentation about the topic of your choosing at a time that works for you. Presentations are approximately 15 minutes long.
How Do I Set Up An Online Presentation?
Download this guide with step-by-step instructions for setting up an online presentation.
Choose from a Variety of Topics
Select from one of the following Kansas and world History topics. Then contact abigail@humanitieskansas.org to set up the presentation:
- Marco Alcocer, Sensationalism and the Flaw of Journalism/Sensacionalismo y El Defecto del Periodismo
- Jay Antle, Irrigation in Kansas
- Prisca Barnes, The Dockum Drugstore Sit-in
- Angela Bates, Children of the Promised Land
- Sarah Bell, Politics on the Platform: Woman Suffrage at the Chautauqua
- Rex Buchanan, Petroglyphs of the Kansas Smoky Hills
- Beverley Olson Buller, William Allen White and the KKK of Kansas: "A Real American Goes Hunting"
- John K. Burchill, Four Horseman and a Sage
- Gene T. Chávez, The Vaqueros/Los Vaqueros
- Gene T. Chávez, Flour Power/El Poder de la Harina (The History of the Tortilla)
- Audrey Coleman, Out of the Darkness: Records of the Vietnam War
- Stacy Davidson, In Their Own Words: The Ancient Egyptians
- Phil S. Dixon, The Kansas City Monarchs in Your Hometown
- José Faus, Cambrion Mi Nombre/They Changed My Name
- Laura Hartley, The Kansas Whirlwind: Peter Mehringer and Sports of the Great Depression Era
- Cindy Higgins, Fresh Produce: Kansas's Orchardists, Market Growers, and Truck Farmers
- Priscilla Howe, Grimm for Grownups
- Jim Hoy, Kansas Legends and Folktales
- Daniel Hoyt, Free Speech in Kansas: Community Writing Workshop
- Neill Gabrielle Kennedy, Testimonio and Communal Memory
- David Loewenstein, If These Walls Could Talk: Kansas Murals
- Aaron Margolis, Shifting Waters: International Conflict & Cooperation
- Heidi Mehl, Land Ethics and Water Resources
- Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg, Kansas Weather in Life, Literature, and Photography
- Erika Nelson, Transforming the Commonplace: Seed Portraits, Hair Wreaths, and Butter Sculptures
- Erika Nelson, Women Wonderworkers: The Self-Made Worlds of Visionary Female Artists
- Leo E. Oliva, Railroaded: The Industry that Shaped Kansas
- Al Ortolani, Veterans Memoir Writing Workshop
- Jordan Poland, The Common and Quirky Mascots of Kansas
- Paula Ripple, Free Speech in Kansas: Community Writing Workshop
- Kim Stanley, Moment by Moment: Family History Writing Workshop
- Kim Stanley, Free Speech in Kansas: Community Writing Workshop
- Diana Staresinic-Deane, Researching Your Home and the People Who Lived There
- Dave Tell, The Murder of Emmett Till
- Matthew Thompson, Red State Socialism and the Free Press in Kansas
- John Edgar Tidwell, When Freedom Changed America
- Carmaletta Williams, Free Did Not Mean Welcome
- Ron Wilson, Ruralpreneurs: Tumbleweed and Talents in Kansas Communities
Contact abigail@humanitieskansas.org to schedule your Dial-a-Speaker call today.