Past Academic Adventurers Lectures

April 18, 2008
Prof. Caen Thomason-Redus, Flute Faculty, Music Department, Peck School of the Arts
"Flute Music of the African Diaspora"

February 15, 2008
Prof. Diane Kitchen, Film Department, Peck School of the Arts
"The Ashaninka People of Peru, Issues and Updates"

November 16, 2007
Prof. Bettina Arnold, Anthropology Department
"Memory Maps and the European Iron Age: The Landscape of Ancestors"

October 26, 2007
Prof. Joe Austin, History Department
"Youth Culture, Urban Space and Graffiti Art"

September 28, 2007
Prof. Ellen Amster, History Department
"Saints and the Islamic City: Looking for Sacred Space in Fes, Morocco "

March 30, 2007
Prof. Timothy Ehlinger, Biological Sciences Department
and Conservation and Environmental Sciences Program
"Environment, Economics and Culture: Challenges and Opportunities for Sustainable Development in Romania"

February 16, 2007
Prof. Anne Hansen, History Department
"A View from the Top of a Sugar-palm Tree: Buddhist Reflections from Cambodia"

December 8, 2006
Ewa Barczyk, Director, UWM Libraries, and
Prof. Neal Pease, History Department
"Middle Age Couriers:  How Medieval Polish Manuscripts Turned Up in Milwaukee, and How They Got Back Home to Poland"

November 10, 2006
Prof. Dick Blau, Film Department
“The Goat Dance of Skyros” (see poster)

October 6, 2006
Prof. Abbas Ourmazd, Physics Department
“Wanderlust: Source of Wisdom or Cause of Madness?”

April 21, 2006
Steve Miller, UWM Libraries, and lecturer, School of Information Studies
“Trip to Berlin”

February 3, 2006
Prof. Aims McGuinness, History Department
“A Mystery in the Archives: Researching the History of U. S. Imperialism in Panama”

November 4, 2005
Prof. Johannes Britz, Dean, School of Information Studies
“Africa as a Knowledge Society: the Road Ahead”

September 30, 2005
Dr. Carlos Santiago, UWM Chancellor
"Economic Development and the Indigenous Question in Latin America -- A Romp through the Western Amazon."

April 22, 2005
Chris Baruth, Curator, American Geographical Society Library
"A Voyage from Moscow to St. Petersburg on the Czar´s Waterways"

February 25, 2005
Prof. Bruce Fetter, History Department
"The World of International Conferences"

December 10, 2004
Prof. John Isbell, Geosciences Department; Pete Flaig, and Zelenda Koch, Geoscience graduate students
"Two Months on Ice: The Adventures of UWM Geologists in Antarctica"

October 15, 2004
Prof. David Buck, Department of History
"Yunnan: Stories from China's Most Diverse Province"

April 2, 2004
Prof. Mike Utzinger, Architecture
"Pedestrian Cities in Holland & Northern Italy"

February 27, 2004
Prof. Kristin Ruggiero, Department of History
"Cuba in the 21st Century"

November 21, 2003
Prof. Nik Heynen, Department of Geography
"Guatemalan Streets, Guatemalan Lives"

October 10, 2003
Prof. Philip Shashko, Department of History
"St. Petersburg's 300th Anniversary: the City as a Window to the West and the East"

March 14, 2003
Caroline Joyce, Jason Project
"The Jason Project Visits the Channel Islands: a Twisted Plan"

February 14, 2003
Prof. Joyce Kirk, Department of Africology
"South African Update: Past and Present"

October 25, 2002
Prof. Jean Hudson, Department of Anthropology
"Reed Boat Fishermen of Peru: Modern and Ancient"

September 27, 2002
Prof. Marilu Knode, INOVA
"An Art Trek through Korea"

April 12, 2002
Prof. Judith Kenny, Geography / Urban Studies Departments
"Revisiting Milwaukee's Old Polish Neighborhoods: Immigrants, Workers and Home-Builders"

March 15, 2002
Prof. Swarnjit S. Arora, Department of Economics
"Mera Sona Punjab -- Cradle of Civilization"

February 15, 2002
Prof. Patrick Bellegarde-Smith, Department of Africology
"The (Re)Presentation of Deities in the African Diasporic Discourse"

December 7, 2001
Dr. Russell Cuhel, Great Lakes Water Institute
"A Great Lakes Research Expedition"

November 9, 2001
Prof. Wolfgang Laufer, Department of Music
"Around the World with the Fine Arts Quartet"

October 19, 2001
Prof. Emerita Martine Meyer, French, Italian and Comparative Literature
"The Road to Morocco (and Tunisia)"

September 14, 2001
Prof. Michael Wnuk, Civil Engineering and Mechanics
"Cassini's Journey to Saturn"

April 20, 2001
Peter Watson-Boone, Director, Golda Meir Library
"UWM's Slovenian Musical Connection"

March 9, 2001
Profs. John Lane Hall and Lisa Moline, Visual Art
"From Los Angeles to London: Prints in Public Places"

February 9, 2001
Prof. Norm Lasca, Department of Geosciences
"Beijing to Moscow via Ulaanbaatar: the Trans-Siberian Railroad"

December 15, 2000
Prof. Neal Pease, Department of History
"Poland, Land of the White Eagle"

November 10, 2000
Gareth Shellman, Sr. Outreach Spec., Institute of World Affairs
"Historic & Cultural Germany: Exploring the Heart to Discover the Soul"

October 20, 2000
Prof. Jane Waldbaum, Department of Art History
"Down and Dirty: Archaeological Excavations at Ashkelon, Israel"

September 15, 2000
Prof. Andrea Stone, Department of Art History
"Images on the Landscape: Exploring Rock Art in Central America"

April 14, 2000
Prof. Gil S. Snyder, Department of Architecture and Urban Planning
"April in Paris"

March 10, 2000
Prof. Cheryl S. Ajirotutu, Department of Anthropology
"Women, Work and Technology: Cultural Traditions in Western Africa"

February 18, 2000
Prof. Cynthia E. Poulson, Department of Theatre and Dance
"Building Bridges: Milwaukee to Shanghai - Travels with the Professional Theatre Training Program"

December 10, 1999
Prof. Lawrence R. Hoey, Department of Art History
"Culture and Creativity in the Parish Churches of Medieval England"

November 12, 1999
Prof. Michael J. Day, Department of Geography
"Signs of Belize"

October 8, 1999
Prof. Portia E. Cobb, Department of Film
"Places Left Behind: Blue Africa"

September 17, 1999
Prof. Alexandra Dimitroff, School of Library and Information Science
"Living and Teaching in Moscow"

April 23, 1999
Prof. Emeritus Fred Landis, Engineering
"China in the Year of Tiananmen Square”

January 29, 1999
Prof. Anton Treuer, Department of History
"The Wisconsin Indian Story”

March 19, 1999
Prof. John Gleeson, Ethnic Studies
"Landscapes of Ireland”

February 19, 1999
Prof. Emeritus Donn Haglund, Department of Geography
"Anchorage to Nome: the Iditarod Dog Sled Races”

November 13, 1998
Prof. Thomas Hubka, Architecture and Urban Planning
"Eighteenth Century Wooden Synagogues of Eastern Europe”

October 16, 1998
Prof. Abbas Hamdani, Department of History
"Mosques and Minarets, Medieval and Modern: Development of Islamic Architectural Style”

April 17, 1998
Prof. F. Xavier Baron, English and Comparative Literature
"Notting Hill Carnival, London”

March 27, 1998
Prof. Julio Rodriguez-Luis, Spanish and Portuguese
"Chile’s Crazy Geography”

February 13, 1998
Prof. William Washabaugh, Department of Anthropology
"Flamenco Dancing in Spain”

November 14, 1997
Prof. Donald Hanlon, Architecture
"Adventures in Rajasthan”

October 10, 1997
Prof. Richard Blau, Department of Film
"Balkan Ecstasies: Music, Dance and Culture in Northern Greece”