Speakers Bureau

Sharing the diversity of stories in settings across the state sheds light on where we've come from and starts conversations about who we are. The insights and ideas we generate as people in conversation are lighting the road ahead — for each of us and for the state we all proudly call home.

Humanities Kansas Speakers Bureau presentations and discussions are available free to Kansas nonprofits, as funding allows. These are intended for adult, out-of-school audiences.

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Speakers Bureau Catalog

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How to Bring a Humanities Kansas Speaker to Your Event

1. Review the Movement of Ideas catalog and select a speaker and topic.

2. Contact the speaker and confirm time, date, location, and equipment needs. It is up to the host organization to provide the equipment necessary for the presentation or to confirm with the speaker that they can bring their own. Presentations can now be conducted online. Contact the speaker to discuss setting up a presentation online. Download this guide with step-by-step instructions for setting up an online presentation.

3. Apply for funding to bring this speaker to your community. Find out how. (Please note: Completed applications, including the DUNS number, must be submitted six weeks before the event date to be considered for funding.) Presentations are intended for out-of-school adult audiences and must be free and open to the public. Humanities Kansas is not able to fund applications that do not meet these requirements.

4. Publicize your event. Download press releases and photos. Download a Humanities Kansas logo poster.

5. Tell us how it went. After the event, download and fill out a Speakers Bureau Evaulation and Cost Share Form and email them to Abigail Kaup: abigail@humanitieskansas.org.

Speakers Bureau is made possible with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities, HK Friends of the Humanities, and Lewis H. Humphreys Charitable Trust, Bank of America, N.A., Trustee.

Photo Credit: Tom Parker.

The opinions expressed by the speakers do not necessarily reflect those of Humanities Kansas.

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Rex Buchanan presents at the Prairie Museum of Art and History in Colby, KS.

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Erika Nelson presents topic at Speakers Bureau event. Photo credit: Hutchinson Community College.

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Priscilla Howe how presents at a Speakers Bureau event.

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Leo Oliva presents at the Independence Historical Museum.

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Phil Dixon presents at the 2021 Manhattan Juneteenth event.