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Center for Great Plains Studies

Paul A. Olson Seminars in Great Plains Studies

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. If you need an accommodation, please call 402/472-3964.


SPRING 2012

  • January 18


    Buffalo Bill's Great Plains, 1846-1879
        Speaker: Douglas Seefeldt, Assistant Professor of History, Faculty Fellow, Center for 
        Digital Research in the Humanities, UNL

  • February 15


    The Great Sioux Uprising — 1862
        Speaker: Hugh Reilly, Associate Professor, School of Communication, UNO

  • March 14


    Nineteenth-century Fort Peck Assiniboine Cultural Persistence
        Speakers: Dennis J. Smith, Associate Professor of History and
        Native American Studies, UNO

  • April 11


    Reflections on the Morrill Act & the Man For Whom It's Named
        Speaker: F. Edwin Harvey, Professor of Hydrologic Sciences/
        Research Hydrogeologist, School of Natural Resources, UNL



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