Paul A. Olson Seminars in Great Plains Studies — Spring 2013
January
• Aritfacts and Illuminations: Critical Essays on Loren Eiseley
Tom Lynch, Associate Professor, Department of English, UNL Susan Maher, Dean, College of Liberal Arts, University of Minnesota Duluth
**Due to technical difficulties, only 30 minutes of the seminar was recorded.
February
• Engaging Lifelong Learners in Natural History: The Land-Grant Mission of the University of Nebraska State Museum
Priscilla Grew, Director, University of Nebraska State Museum; Professor, Department of Earth and Atmospheric Science
March
• Welcome to the Elections from the Inside: Exit Polls and Election Projections for the Great Plains
Allan McCutcheon, Donald O. Clifton Chair of Survey Science; Professor of Statistics, Professor of Survey Research and Methodology, and Principle Investigator for the NSF/Census Research Network, UNL-Gallup Research Center, UNL
Paul A. Olson Seminars in Great Plains Studies — Spring/Fall 2012
Hugh Reilly, Associate Professor, School of Communication, UNO
March
• Nineteenth-Century Fort Peck Assiniboine Cultural Persistence
Dennis J. Smith, Associate Professor of History and Native American Studies, UNO
April
• Reflections on the Morrill Act and the Man for Whom It's Named
F. Edwin Harvey, Director, Justin Smith Morrill Scholars Program; Professor, Hydrologic Sciences ,UNL
September
• Lack of Opportunity on the Plains: How Law and Public Policy Have Shaped Tribal Economic Development
Lance Morgan, (Winnebago), President and CEO of Ho-Chunk, Inc.
Co-sponsored by the Plains Humanities Alliance
October
• Sustainable Farming and Food Systems in the Great Plains
Charles Francis, Professor, Department of Agronomy and Horticulture, UNL
November
• The Northern Cheyenne Exodus in History and Memory
James N. Leiker, Associate Professor, Department of History, Johnson County Community College, Overland Park, KS Ramon Powers, former Executive Director, Kansas State Historical Society
Winner of the 2012 Great Plains Distinguished Book Prize
Paul A. Olson Seminars in Great Plains Studies — Spring/Fall 2011
January
• A Partnership Model for Sustainable Threatened and Endangered Species Conservation in Nebraska: The Tern and Plover Conservation Partnership
Mary Bomberger Brown, Program Coordinator, Tern and Plover Conservation Partnership, School of Natural Resources, UNL
February
• Avians & Indians: Feathered Folk on the Plains
Thomas C. Gannon, Associate Professor, English and Ethnic Studies, UNL
March
• Importance of Elders for Culture Continuity and Sovereignty
Wynne Summers, Assistant Professor of English, Southern Utah University
April
• Railroads, the Making of Modern of Modern American and the Shaping of the Great Plains
William G. Thomas, III, Chair, Department of History, John and Catherine Angle Chair in the Humanities and Professor of History, UNL
September
• Healing a Nation: Native Americans Respond to 9/11
Barbara K. Robins, Associate Professor of English and Native American Studies, UNO
October
• Reclaiming Deficiency: There's a There There
Frances W. Kaye, Professor of English and Great Plains Studies, UNL
November
• Creating the Atlas of the Great Plains
J. Clark Archer, Professor, Department of Geography, UNL and Fred M. Shelley, Professor of Geography, University of Oklahoma
Paul A. Olson Seminars in Great Plains Studies — Spring/Fall 2010
January
• Mud Springs and Rush Creek: Civil War Era Combat in the North Platte Valley
Peter A. Bleed, Professor, and Douglas D. Scott, Adjunct Professor, Department of Anthropology, UNL
February
• Searching for a Climate Change Signal Amidst the Noise of Climate Variability
Kenneth F. Dewey, Professor of Applied Climate Science, School of Natural Resources, UNL
March
• Immigration to the Great Plains, 1865-1914: War, Politics, Technology and Economic Development
• Imperial Layers: How an Indigenous Empire Changed the Course of American History
Pekka Hamalainen, Associate Professor, Department of History, University of California, Santa Barbara Winner of the 4th Annual Great Plains Distinguished Book Prize
Paul A. Olson Seminars in Great Plains Studies — Spring/Fall 2008
January
• Formulating Policies for Future Water Use on the Great Plains
Ann Bleed, Former Director, Nebraska Department of Natural Resources
February
• Permanence and Transmission: Willa Cather's Entropology
Guy Reynolds, Professor of English and Director, Cather Project, UNL
March
• Taking the Court Public
James Hewitt, Attorney and Adjunct Professor of History, Nebraska Wesleyan University
April
• Causes of Drought in the Great Plains
Robert Oglesby, Professor of Climate Modeling, Department of Geosciences and School of Natural Resources, UNL
October
• Plain Speaking & Straight Shooting: Documentary Art in Flyover Country
Michael Farrell, Photographer and TV Production Manager, NET Television; Adjunct Faculty, College of Journalism and Mass Communication, UNL
November
• From Fire to Ice: A Geological Perspective on One Billion Years of Landscape Evolution in Eastern Nebraska
Matt Joeckel, Associate Professor, Conservation and Survey Division, School of Natural Resources and Department of Geosciences, UNL
Paul A. Olson Seminars in Great Plains Studies — Fall 2007
September
• From Cooperation to Conflict: Indian and Emigrant Relations Along the Overland Trails, 1840-1865
Michael Tate, Professor of History and Native American Studies, and the Charles and Mary Martin Chair of Western History, University of Nebraska at Omaha Winner of the 2006 Great Plains Distinguished Book Prize
October
• Global Treasures: The Origins of Plants that Sustain Life
P. Stephen Baenziger, Eugene W. Price Distinguished Professor, Department of Agronomy and Horticulture, UNL
November
• What kinds of farms and ranches can survive in urbanizing areas? Hobby and/or commericial? Temporary and/or lasting?
J. Dixon Esseks, Visiting Scholar, Center for Great Plains Studies, UNL, and Emeritus Professor of Public Administration, Northern Illinois University
2011 Symposium Diverse Faces, Shared Histories: Immigrants on the Great Plains
March 4, 2011
• Welcome & Opening Remarks
Chancellor Harvey Perlman, Amelia Maria de la Luz Montes
A Panel Presentation: Shared Histories - Native, Latino, and African American
• Immigration as Cultural Imperialism: An Indian Boarding School Experience Thomas C. Gannon, Associate Professor, English and Ethnic Studies, UNL
• Corazon y Tierra / Heart and Land: Latinas Writing on the Great Plains Amelia Maria de la Luz Montes, Associate Professor, English and Ethnic Studies, UNL
• Pursuing the Dream: An Immigrant's Story
Sergio Wals, Assistant Professor, Political Science and Ethnic Studies, UNL
• Arizona: A Problematic Road Map for Nebraska and Other States
• The Middle of Everywhere: Fostering Compassion in Challenging Times
Mary Pipher, Author of The Middle of Everywhere: Helping Refugees Enter the American Community (2002)
Plains Humanities Alliance Research and Region Event — Fall 2011
October 5, 2011
• Braided Channels An Interdisciplinary Symposium on Environmental Art, Science, and Humanities in the Australian Outback and the American Great Plains
Featured Speakers: Mandy Martin, Australian Artist Landscape Studies: Environmental Art and the Impulse to Converse
Guy Fitzhardinge, Cattleman, Conservationist Production Lands, Philanthropy, and Biodiversity
Interdisciplinary Panel: Dana Fritz, Jeff Thompson, Robert Brooke, Cheryl Burkhart-Kriesel, Mark Burbach, Martin Massengale, Donna Woudenberg, Teresa Franta, and Larkin Powell
