The Legend of Colton H. Bryant: Exploring a Sense of Place on the High Plains
Speaker: Alexandra Fuller, Wyoming
Author of Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood (2001), Scribbling the Cat: Travels with an African Soldier (2004), and The Legend of Colton H. Bryant (2008).
April 20, 2009
Youth in Peril: A Conversation with Joan Jacobs Brumberg about History and Advocacy as reflected in Kansas Charley, Fasting Girls, and The Body Project
Fasting Girls: A Historical Perspective on Anorexia Nervosa
Speaker: Joan Jacobs Brumberg, Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow and Professor Emerita; History, Human Development, and Gender Studies; Project Director, "The Immigrant Child," Cornell University
November 5, 2008
Landscape and Identity in Modern Germany
Speaker: David Blackbourn,Coolidge Professor of History at Harvard and Director, The Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University
September 25, 2008
Toxic Civics for the Twenty-First Century
Speaker: Thomas Frank, Washington, D.C.
September 27, 2007
The Portage: How to Read a Landscape
Speaker: William J. Cronon, Frederick Jackson Turner and Vilas Research Professor of History, Geography, and Environmental Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison