MURA Sponsored Programs – Spring 2021 and March Picks

MURA Sponsored Programs – March 2021

Date  and Time Program Presenter Host Notes to connect
March 2, Tuesday, 8:30-9:30 am CST Virtual Breakfast: 200 Years of Music in Missouri Elisabeth Roberts, Book Co-author with Michael J Budds and Staff Res Ast, MU Budds Center for American Music Studies MU Retirees Association Link will be given in MURA email and posted on website
March 16, Tuesday, 8:30-9:30 am CDT Annual Meeting/Bonus Breakfast:  Winning It Right in 2021 Jim Sterk, MU Athletic Director MU Retirees Association Link will be given in MURA email and posted on website
April 6, Tuesday, 8:30-9:30 am CDT Virtual Breakfast – to be determined 8:30- 9:30 am MU Retirees Association Link will be given in MURA email and posted on website
May 4, Tuesday, 8:30-9:30 am CDT  Overview of MU Master Planning Heiddi Davis, Director- Campus Facilities Planning, Design, & Construction MU Retirees Association Link will be given in MURA email and posted on website
Notes:  Zoom links will be sent in an email.  I you do not have Internet, use your telephone to listen to the speaker.  No pre-registration required.
In addition to MURA sponsored programs, consider additional online events available to you for free. These are open to the public, but most require pre-registration. Barbara Schneider is a member of our MURA Program Committee and MURA’s Liaison to the Osher Life Long Learning Institute.
Barbara’s Picks
March 2, Tuesday, 11:00 am CST Legends, Lore, and Stories of the Show Me State – Missouri 2021: Celebrating the 200th anniversary of Missouri statehood Panel of five representatives of Missouri cultural organizations State Historical Society of Missouri https://shsmo.org/events/2021/mo2021-presents-mar
March 3, Wednesday, 11:00 am CST Gardening in Small Spaces: How to Grow Vegetables in Your Backyard Melissa K. Norris, author and 5th generation homesteader Mizzou Alumni Association – Open to all Mizzou Alumni and Friends https://alumlc.org/missouri/5400
March 3, Wednesday, 6:00 pm CST A Virtual Visit to The Elephant Sanctuary in Tennessee A member of The Sanctuary’s education team using photos, lives-streaming video and storytelling Daniel Boone Regional Library in Columbia, MO https://events.dbrl.org/event/4860139
March 4, Thursday, 4:30 pm CST Presidential Love Letters of Ulysses S. Grant, James A. Garfield, Woodrow Wilson, and Warren G. Harding Michelle Krowl, Historian White House Historical Association – History Happy Hour https://www.whitehousehistory.org/events/history-happy-hour-presidential-love-letters-at-the-library-of-congress
March 4, Thursday, 4:30 pm CST TEAM SCIENCE: a value proposition Dr. Fungai Chanetsa, Associate Director for Research Administration, Ellis Fischel Cancer Center, University of Missouri NextGen Precision Health & Ellis Fischel Cancer Center Science Seminar –  (click on “Website” to register) https://calendar.missouri.edu/event/nextgen_precision_health_ellis_fischel_cancer_center_science_seminar#.YC7jD3lMHIU
March 4, Thursday, 7:00 pm CST 2021 Futures Forum: The Future of Information Panel, including Sir Tim Berners-Lee who invented the World Wide Web in 1989 and professors from Drexel and Carnegie Mellon Universities Linda Hall Library: Science, Engineering and Technology – KC https://www.lindahall.org/event/2021-futures-forum-the-future-of-information-technologies/
March 5, Friday, 3:30-5:00 pm CST The 2020 Election Crisis in Global Perspective A panel of scholars from around the globe Kinder Institute on Constitutional Democracy – University of Missouri https://democracy.missouri.edu/events/2020-election-crisis-panel/
March 9, Tuesday, 11:00 am CST The Girl Explorers: The Untold Story of the Globetrotting Women Who Trekked, Flew, and Fought Their Way Around the World Jayne Zanglein, author National Archives Foundation https://archivesfoundation.org/event/girl-explorers/
March 9, Tuesday, 4:00 CST Women Artists in the White House Collection Sarah Fling, American University graduate fellow White House Historical Association – History https://www.whitehousehistory.org/events/women-in-the-white-house-collection
March 10, Wednesday, 4:00 CST Presidential Library Series: Harry S Truman Kurt Graham, Harry S. Truman Presidential Library Director National Archives Foundation https://archivesfoundation.org/event/presidential-library-series-harry-s-truman/
March 10, Wednesday, 6:00 pm CST Our Supreme Task: Churchill, Truman and the Opening Shot in the Cold War David Von Drehle, R. Crosby Kemper III and Candice Millard Truman Library Institute https://www.trumanlibraryinstitute.org/tli-events/
March 16, Tuesday, 10:00-11:30 am CDT Zoom Sketching Group Museum docent highlights art works and all sketch a selected piece Museum of Art & Archaeology – University of Missouri https://maa.missouri.edu/events/family-events/zoom-sketching-group
March 16, Tuesday, 1:00 pm CDT Missouri Trailblazers: Lewis and Clark in Missouri Presented by the Missouri State Museum in celebration of the Missouri Bicentennial Daniel Boone Regional Library in Columbia, MO https://events.dbrl.org/event/4868255
March 17, Wednesday, 7:00-8:30 pm CDT Intro to Birdwatching and Spring Bird Identification Sarah Kendrick, State Ornithologist, Missouri Department of Conservation Daniel Boone Regional Library in Columbia, MO https://events.dbrl.org/event/4868292
March 18, Thursday, 1:00 pm CDT Basic Genealogy: Land Records Part I – Researching First Title Bill Eddleman, Associate Director of the Cape Girardeau Research Center State Historical Society of Missouri https://shsmo.org/events/2021/genealogy-land-records1
March 23 and 30, Tuesdays, 1:00-2:00 pm CDT Intro to Mah Jongg, American Style – Parts 1 and 2 Hanna Klachko Daniel Boone Regional Library in Columbia, MO https://events.dbrl.org/event/4869997
March 25, Thursday, 6:00-7:15 pm CDT Miep Gies Remembers: The Woman Who Saved Anne Frank’s Diary Conversation with Miep Gies as portrayed by national award-winning actress and storyteller Megan Wells Daniel Boone Regional Library in Columbia, MO https://events.dbrl.org/event/4871130
March 30, Tuesday, 11:00 am CDT The Agitators: Three Friends Who Fought for Abolition and Women’s Rights Dorothy Wickenden tells the story of Harriet Tubman and her friends, Martha Wright and Frances Seward National Archives Foundation https://archivesfoundation.org/event/the-agitators/
Podcast The 1600 Sessions (Over 50 episodes) Including: WH History with Michael Beschloss; St.John’s-Church of the Presidents White House Historical Association https://www.whitehousehistory.org/1600-sessions
Ongoing – Sept 2020 to April 2021 – Second Thursday (March 11, 10-11:30 am CST) with past program videos available on website Explore Missouri’s German Heritage March: Remember Missouri’s German Heritage: What do historic sites and local groups do to preserve their German heritage? Missouri Humanities Council https://mohumanities.org/programs/explore-missouris-german-heritage/
Ongoing Uniting a Polarized Nation “The Upswing” Author Talk; A Nation Divided: How One Decade Can Change Everything; #CIVILITYCHALLENGE Missouri Humanities Council https://mohumanities.org/uniting/
Ongoing: March 5-May 28, Fridays, 10:00-12:30 Living a Healthy Life with Chronic Conditions Participants gain self-confidence in their ability to control their symptoms and learn how their health problems affect their lives MU Extension in partnership with St. Luke’s Hospital https://extension.missouri.edu/events/living-a-healthy-life-with-chronic-conditions-st.-luke-s-hospital-1611764536
On Demand Fact, Opinion or Misinformation – Strategies for becoming a savvy user of digital media Seth Smith, Public Services Librarian – Project supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services Daniel Boone Regional Library in Columbia, MO and the Boone County League of Women Voters https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIuu0PQJ7EQ&t=522s
On Demand Standing Up For Change: African American Women and the Civil Rights Movement National Women’s History Museum https://www.womenshistory.org/exhibits/standing-up-for-change
On Demand Votes for Missouri Women! Part 1:  Silent protest for Women’s Suffrage in St. Louis at the 1916 Democratic Convention, and Part 2: Missouri Women: Suffrage to Statecraft SHS Exhibit Part 1: Margot McMillen, Author of  The Golden Lane, and Part 2: SHSMO Curator Joan Stack and Missouri Historic Costume and Textile Collection Curator Jean Parsons, and Collection Manager Nicole Johnston State Historical Society of Missouri https://shsmo.org/events/on-demand/votes-for-mo-women
On Demand White House History Live Various videos:  First Ladies and the National Portrait Gallery; The Cabinet; and more! The White House Historical Association https://www.whitehousehistory.org/rubenstein-center/white-house-history-live
On Demand Beginning Genealogy, Part 1: Getting Started Bill Eddleman, Associate Director of the SHS Cape Girardeau Research Center State Historical Society of Missouri https://shsmo.org/events/on-demand/basic-genealogy-pt1?mc_cid=ce47445d01&mc_eid=376db1f8f8
On Demand Beginning Genealogy, Part 2: Online Resources Bill Eddleman, Associate Director of the SHS Cape Girardeau Research Center State Historical Society of Missouri https://shsmo.org/events/on-demand/basic-genealogy-pt2
On Demand Beginning Genealogy, Part 3: Censuses Bill Eddleman, Associate Director of the SHS Cape Girardeau Research Center State Historical Society of Missouri https://shsmo.org/events/on-demand/basic-genealogy-pt3
On Demand The African American Experience in Missouri – 2019-2020 Series 20 programs such as: A Conversation with Columbians Sehon Williams and Bill Thompson; Nearby Nature in North City St. Louis: Black Residents, Nature, and Contested Green Space State Historical Society of Missouri and the University of Missouri https://shsmo.org/lecture-series/african-american-experience?page=0
On Demand 1918 Flu Epidemic in Missouri: Parts 1 and 2 Kathleen Seale State Historical Society of Missouri https://shsmo.org/events/on-demand/1918-flu
On Demand All About Art: A Virtual Architectural Tour Video Joan Stack State Historical Society of Missouri https://shsmo.org/events/on-demand/all-about-art
On Demand Online Exhibitions Current and past exhibits, including:  Variable Atmospheres: Weather in Art; Pre-Columbian Pottery of Ancient Peru; Missouri Nostalgia – from the Scruggs-Vandervoort-Barney Collection Museum of Art & Archaeology – University of Missouri https://maa.missouri.edu/exhibits
On Demand Webinars and Online Events – Future Live Events as well as Past Recordings Past Examples I recommend:  #MizzouMade Talk with J’den Cox, Olympic Wrestler;Should the Rosa Parks House Remain in Europe? Mizzou Alumni Association – Open to all Mizzou Alumni and Friends https://alumlc.org/missouri/archive
On Demand Growing Up with the River: Nine Generations on the Missouri by Dan and Connie Burkhardt (Program is a 10-part series based on this very beautiful book) Professional storytellers and special guests Missouri Humanities Council https://mohumanities.org/programs/growing-up-with-the-river/


Program Archive

Date:
March 1, 2021
JOIN MURA