Humanities Center
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Katie Karnehm-Esh, PhD (she/her)
Humanities Center Coordinator
Community Outreach Center
Great Basin College
1025 Chilton Circle
Elko, NV 89801
(775) 327-2147
katie.karnehmesh@gbcnv.edu
Humanities Center at GBC
The Humanities Center at Great Basin College (HC@gbc) seeks to collect, curate, and cultivate the humanities for rural Nevada. At the heart of the HC@gbc are the core skills and habits of mind which the humanities encourage and promote: critical and creative thinking, communication, technological understanding, and personal and cultural awareness. The HC@gbc has been made possible with significant support of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Humanities at GBC
Join us for humanities-based events, presentations, discussions, and performances both on campus and online! See more information about what humanities activities are going on at GBC!
Dr. Joxe Mallea-Olaetxe to Appear In-person at GBC
Dr. Joxe Mallea-Olaetxe, the author of More Than Sheepherders: The American Basques of Elko County, Nevada, recently let me know he will be joining us in person at the Elko campus for our book club this Friday. He's a talented researcher and a wonderful storyteller, so his visit is sure to be a delight. Whether you've read his book or not, we would love for you to join us from 1-2 p.m. in McMullen 102 or on Zoom (included at the end of this email).Copies of his book are available in the GBC Elko library and at each GBC site. This event is free and open to all.
Author Bio: Joxe K. Mallea-Olaetxe arrived in the United States from the Basque Country in the mid-1960s. He earned his PhD from the University of Nevada, Reno, in 1988. Mallea-Olaetxe is the author of Speaking Through the Aspens: Basque Tree Carvings in California and Nevada. He taught history and language classes at both UNR and Truckee Meadows Community College.
Zoom link: Join Zoom Meeting https://gbcnv-edu.zoom.us/j/81212866086?pwd=NwbIqRmADnQIQbvH284jMBb47Zzauw.1
Meeting ID: 812 1286 6086 Passcode: 377895
An online portal to showcase the rich history and cultural diversity of our region through creation and archiving of original and multimedia content. Visit our OMEKA Archive for content!
An annual initiative organized to provide the entire GBC community with opportunities to engage in civic conversation around significant issues of culture, place, and society.
An interdisciplinary space for GBC faculty to explore the use of the humanities content in their classrooms. View more information!
The Humanities Center at Great Basin College seeks to collect, curate, and cultivate the humanities for rural Nevada.
In August 2013, Great Basin College (GBC) was awarded a $500,000 Challenge Grant by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), one of the few colleges of its size to win such an award. The Grant provides the foundation of the Humanities Center at Great Basin College (HC@gbc) and its mission.
At the heart of the HC@gbc are the core skills and habits of mind which the humanities encourage and promote: critical and creative thinking, communication, technological understanding, and personal and cultural awareness.
Through the humanities, we seek greater cultural and historical understanding to demystify human difference, celebrate diversity, and build an engaged citizenry to enhance the well-being of rural Nevada.
By leveraging GBC's distance education experience and technology, the HC@gbc is providing humanities programming throughout our service area.
The HC@gbc uses an endowment-financing model for sustainable funding.
In addition to the National Endowment for the Humanities grant, the HC@gbc has reached out to corporate and community partners to initiate an endowment fund for stable, long-term financing of operations.
As well as maintaining the technology infrastructure, archives, and a coordinator position, the endowment will support future humanities events and faculty- and student-generated content development.
