The Paul A. Olson Seminars in Great Plains Studies offer an opportunity for interested scholars, students, and members of the community to come together to examine various topics related to the Great Plains. The seminars, offered monthly during the academic year, are free and open to the public.
FALL 2009
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September 23
Plains Regional Fiction and the National Market:
The Case of Bess Streeter Aldrich's A Lantern in Her HandSpeaker: Melissa Homestead, Associate Professor, Department of English, UNL
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October 21
Ancient Roman Religion and Nebraska Football
Speaker: Michael Hoff, Professor, Department of Art and Art History, UNL
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November 18
Imperial Layers: How an Indigenous Empire Changed the Course of American History
Speaker: Pekka Hämäläinen, Associate Professor, Department of History, University of
California, Santa Barbara
Winner of the 2008 Great Plains Book Prize
