Osher membership entitles you to a seat at all the lectures in the current lecture series during the season. If seating is available, you may bring a friend. Members are welcome to bring a different guest free of charge to each lecture in the series, but please, non-member guests are limited to one visit per season.
Please phone Extended Studies (208-426-1709) a week ahead of the lecture to determine if guests can be seated.
Register early to secure your seat!
Lewis and Clark Lectures are held in conjunction with the Idaho Botanical Garden.
All will be presented at the Garden at 2355 Old Penitentiary Road and will begin at 7:00 pm.
This series is free to members of the Osher Institute and members of the Idaho Botanical Gardens.
June 9: Richard Baker will give his first-person, entertaining educational presentation, “An Evening with Pierre Cruzatte’s Ghost.” His performance will draw attendees into the experiences of the Lewis and Clark expedition, making them feel like they are sitting at camp, listening to Pierre Cruzatte in person.
June 30: Susan Swetnam will discuss food and identity in early Idaho. Focusing on the northern Idaho Coeur d’Alene and Nez Perce Native Americans, miners, and agricultural pioneers, she will explain how diet reflected these three groups’ cultural differences.
July 28: Diane Josephy Peavey's lecture about “Fences in the West” will describe the people, history and the landscape of the American West. Not only will she discuss the history of fences in the West, but also the current uses and implications for those living off the land in the “New West.”
August 11: William Clark’s slave, York, contributed to the success of the Lewis and Clark expedition, particularly when Native Americans were encountered along the way. Betti Vanepps-Taylor will share her knowledge of York’s activities during the expedition, and place his experiences within the larger context of the time and culture in which he lived.
August 18: Professors Sheila Roberts and Robert Thomas will speak about their research of the geology of the Lewis and Clark trail through Idaho and Montana. In their journals, Lewis and Clark describe many places where they were overwhelmed, fascinated, inconvenienced, and even helped by the landscape. Roberts and Thomas will provide the geological background information for understanding these interactions with the environment. They will share their insights, rock samples and maps with lecture attendees.
Interested in learning more about long range transportation plans for southwest Idaho? The Community Planning Association of Southwest Idaho (COMPASS) produces a regional long-range plan that profiles transportation solutions for the next twenty years. That plan is to be updated in 2010 and you may want to have a voice in that update. This lecture will provide details of the plan and you will learn how land use affects transportation, how investments in transportation influence growth, how projects are selected and who they serve and how the projects are planned and financed. COMPASS, the entity that develops the plan, is interested in hearing your ideas and reactions.
Visit www.communitiesinmotion.org/data.html to view the current plan.
Presenter: Charles Trainor, Community Planning Association of Southwest Idaho (COMPASS)
Date: Thursday, September 24
Time: 10 a.m. - Noon
Location: TownePlace Suites (Marriott), 1455 South Capital Blvd.
Parking: Turn West from Capitol Boulevard at the light on Capitol and University Drive onto Ann Morrison Drive. Turn left at the next corner onto Lois. The hotel is directly ahead.
Capacity: 90
Because Judge Schwartzman has served in the Idaho Judiciary for the past 37 years, he has seen and experienced first-hand just about everything in the criminal justice system. He will share his insights, war stories, humor, observations and predictions in this “valedictory” session. The lecture will include, but is not limited to, such topics as O.J. #1 to O. J. #2, Trouble in Minneapolis, A Tale of Two DUIs, and O Death Penalty Where Art Thou?, and favorite ‘chutzpah’ cases. Questions, both pertinent and impertinent, will be entertained from the floor.
Presenter: Honorable Judge Alan Schwartzman, Senior Appellate Court Judge
Date: Wednesday, October 21
Time: 10 a.m. - Noon
Location: The Flicks Theater, 646 Fulton Street.
Parking: Parking is available adjacent to and in front of the building.
Brazilian music is inextricably linked to the social history of the country from the music of her African slaves to modern samba incarnations like bossa nova and tropicalia. Learn about the native (Amerindian) and colonial (European) musical interactions as you travel via musical performance and PowerPoint slides, through various historical periods. Elisabeth will perform several Brazilian guitar pieces relevant to specific historical periods during the presentation.
Presenter: Elizabeth Blin, musician
Date: Monday, November 30
Time: 10 a.m.-Noon
Location: Esther Simplot Performing Arts Academy, 516 S. Ninth St.
Parking: Parking is available across 9th St. from the Academy, in the lot with a black iron fence.
Capacity: 90