Felicia Londré, Ph.D., Curators’ Distinguished Professor Emerita
UMKC Conservatory
Thursdays, 10:30 a.m. – noon
April 23 and 30 and May 7 and 14
UMKC Administrative Center, Plaza Room
$50 ($70 with parking permit)

Londré will focus on one of Shakespeare’s most intriguing and most performed plays, The Tempest. The course will place the play within the Shakespearean tradition and Elizabethan context and will also include discussion of the Oxfordian view of the authorship question, as both the plays and sonnets make much more sense if they are tied to the biography that fits them. And of course, the course sessions will dig into the text of The Tempest. In addition, will discuss the 400-year production history of The Tempest on stage.

 

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Diane Mutti-Burke, Ph.D, chair and professor
Department of History
Tuesdays, 10:30 – noon
Feb. 18 and 25 and March 3 and 10
UMKC Administrative Center, Plaza Room
$50 ($70 with parking permit)

This course will provide an historical overview of voting rights and issues in the U.S., beginning with movements in the 18th and 19th centuries.  The course will cover the movement toward universal suffrage, including Seneca Falls, various successes and failures post-Civil War, and attaining the vote. We also will look at post-19th Amendment issues in the 20th and 21st century, such as the proposed Equal Rights Amendment and efforts to suppress voting rights and access for those with a legal right to vote.

 

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