Bismarck State College
Conversations at BSC
Join Bismarck State College President Larry Skogen as he opens conversations with humanities scholar and author, Clay Jenkinson. These are conversations they both believe North Dakotans need to have. Their goal is to help people of the state reconnect with key events in their history within a broader social context and to spotlight BSC as an important player in promoting humanities within the community. These programs were funded in part by the North Dakota Humanities Council.
View Conversations at BSC on:
Community Access, cable channel 12:
Tuesday: 8:00 pm
Conversations at BSC Available through Video On Demand:
Great Conversations in History (5/5/13)
North Dakota Legislature: An Historical Retrospective (3/24/13)
Separation of Church & State: A Conversation with Thomas Jefferson (1/27/13)
Charles Dickens and America (12/16/12)
JFK: The Man, The Myth & The Assassination (11/4/12)
Lewis & Clark: Reassessing the Partnership (10/7/12)
International Human Trafficking: An Historical Perspective & Relevancy to the Heartland (4/22/12)
Sacred Places on the Great Plains (3/25/12)
Changing Interpretations of Western History (2/26/12)
Thoreau’s Walden: One Man’s Effort to “live deep and suck out all the marrow of life” (1/22/12)
Sitting Bull: The Man, the Myth, the Continuing Controversy (12/18/11)
Sacagawea (10/9/11)
The Ten Greatest Places in North Dakota (5/15/11)
Third Largest Nuclear Power: North Dakota & the Cold War (3/13/11)
The Little Big Horn Reconsidered: Custer’s Footprint on the Great Plains (1/9/11)
John Steinbeck’s America (and North Dakota) (12/12/10)
Putting Otto von Back in Bismarck: The Iron Chancellor and the Great Plains (11/14/10)
The Death of Meriwether Lewis: Murder or Suicide on the Natchez Trace? (9/12/10)
The Day Neil Armstrong Walked on the Moon (4/25/10)
Wounded Knee (1/24/10)
Abraham Lincoln’s ‘Footprint’ in North Dakota (12/6/09)
The Damming of the Missouri River at Garrison (11/15/09)
The Poetry of John Donne (10/11/09)
Eric Sevareid, William L. Shirer, & the Invention of Broadcast News (2/20/09)
An Educational Curriculum for the 21st Century (1/22/09)
Sir Richard Francis Burton & the Source of the Nile (3/11/09)
Oppenheimer, the Atomic Bomb & the Cold War (12/7/08)
Visit Bismarck State College at: www.bsc.nodak.edu
Visit Conversations at Bismarck State College at: http://www.bismarckstate.edu/community/conversations/
Visit the MystiCast Channel, student video productions, on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/user/BSCMystiCast
Eric Sevareid Symposium
The ND Humanities Council, the Dakota Institute, and Bismarck State College hosted Not So Wild a Dream: The Legacy of Eric Sevareid, a public humanities symposium that explored the life and legacy of one of the greatest journalists in American history. More information on the symposium can be found here: Eric Sevareid Legacy. View footage from this historical event through our Video On Demand library listed below.
Eric Sevareid Symposium available through Video On Demand:
The Philosopher for the Common Citizen (9/30/10)
Eric Sevareid and the Golden Age of Correspondence Memoirs (9/30/10)
Little Folded Paws: Sevareid as Memoirist (9/30/10)
The Legacy of Eric Sevareid (9/30/10)
A Conversation about Life at CBS with Eric Sevareid (9/30/10)
World War II on the Air (10/1/10)
Sevareid’s Washington Legacy: Enduring, or Obscured (10/1/10)
The Role of the Press in a Democratic Society (10/1/10)
Eric Sevareid and the Search for an American Identity (10/1/10)
An Exploration of Eric Sevareid’s Commentaries on War (10/1/10)
Knowing Eric (10/2/10)
Retracing Canoeing with the Cree (10/2/10)
Clay Jenkinson – The Ordeal of William Shirer (10/2/10)
Sevareid and Civil Discourse in a Noisy Democracy (10/2/10)
Reflections on Sevareid’s European Reporting
Working Vignettes of Documentary Film
The Day Broadcast News was Born Revisited
Eric Sevareid Pictures
Eric Sevareid Quotes
September 11 Ten Years Later: Impact on the Heartland Symposium
Bismarck State College and The Dakota Institute of Lewis and Clark Fort Mandan Foundation hosted a two-day symposium that observed and examined the effect of the September 11, 2001 attacks on the Heartland of America. More information on the symposium can be found here: September 11 Ten Years Later – Impact on the Heartland. View footage from this historical event through our Video On Demand library listed below.
View September 11 Ten Years Later: Impact on the Heartland Symposium on:
Community Access, cable channel 12:
Wednesday: 7:00 pm
September 11 Ten Years Later: Impact on the Heartland Symposium available through Video On Demand:
9/11 Ten Years Later – “100 Stories: Perspectives from the Heartland” (9/9/11)
9/11 Ten Years Later Keynote Speaker General Charles Wald, USAF, retired (9/9/11)
Flight Over Pentagon – Lt. Col. Dean Eckmann, North Dakota Air National Guard (9/9/11)
Personal Experiences – Jenette Nelson, Mother of Ann who died in WTC and Marcel Sim, Ground Zero Paramedic (9/9/11)
Biggest News Story of My Career – Chuck Roberts, Journalist (9/9/11)
The Insularity of the Heartland – Thomas Frank, Author (9/9/11) (No audio at approx. 00:31:34 to 00:31:45; 00:31:58 to 00:32:20)
Panel Discussion with Sen. Kent Conrad, Sen. John Hoeven, Gov. Jack Dalrymple, Lt. Gov. Drew Wrigley, Former Congressman Earl Pomeroy and Major General David Sprynczynatyk, the Adjutant General of the ND National Guard (on video) (9/9/11)
The 9/11 Commission Report – Lorry Fenner, 9/11 Commission Staff Member (9/9/11)
The Longest War: The Enduring Conflict Between America and Al-Qaeda – Peter Bergen, Author (9/9/11)
Live Reports from 3 Sites & the Bismarck-Mandan Symphony (9/9/11)
The U.S. Constitution, The Rule of Law, and the Age of Terrorism – Julia Ernst, J.D., University of North Dakota School of Law (9/10/11)
Intelligence and Ethics – Chris Bailey, faculty at National Intelligence University (9/10/11)
The Psychological Impact – Gerard Jacobs, Ph.D., faculty at University of South Dakota (9/10/11)
America’s Troops’ Morale: Coping with PTSD in Post-9/11 – MSGT Mike Carswell, USAF (9/10/11)
The War on Terror – Progress and Pitfalls – Geoffrey Wawro, Author of Quicksand and faculty at University of North Texas (9/10/11)
ND National Guard Transformation: Ten Years Supporting the Global War on Terror – Major General David Sprynczynatyk, Adjutant General of the N.D. National Guard (9/10/11)
US-Muslim Relations Abroad and at Home Since 9/11 – Manochehr Dorraj, Ph.D., Professor at Texas Christian University (9/10/11)
American Muslim Relations – Martin Loken, Consul General, Canada and Simon Cordery, Ph.D., Monmouth College (9/10/11)
Partnering with Communities to Prevent Violent Extremism: North Dakota Perspectives – Tim Purdon, United States Attorney for the State of North Dakota (9/10/11)
Homeland Security/TSA – John Hursey, North Dakota Director, TSA (9/10/11)
Commemoration of the Tenth Anniversary of 9/11 (9/11/11)
BSC Wind Music Program Concerts
The BSC Music Program allows students to enjoy music and develop their skills by participating in lessons, classes and performing groups. Students may participate in Wind Ensemble, Concert Choir, Jazz Ensemble, Chamber Choir, String Ensemble, Piano Ensemble, Guitar Ensemble, Percussion Ensemble, Brass Ensemble and Woodwind Ensemble.
BSC Wind Music Program Concerts available through Video On Demand:
2013 Wind Ensemble Spring Concert (4/19/13)
2012 Holiday Concert (12/11/12)
2012 Jazz Ensemble Fall Concert (11/27/12)
2012 Fall Concert (11/14/12)
2012 Spring Concert (4/16/12)
Celebrate America! (11/14/11)
2010 Fall Concert (11/15/10)
Other BSC Music Concerts:
2013 Sing Appeal (4/13/13)
2013 Spring Choral Concert (4/11/13)
2013 Collage Concert (4/9/13)
2012 ChoirFest Concert (11/17/12)
2012 Collage Concert (4/3/12)
2011 ChoirFest Concert (11/19/11)
Special Programs
Where You Live Can Make You Sick: Environmental Influences on Health & Disease by Dr. Loren Wold (3/8/12)
