• January

  
  

  A Partnership Model for Sustainable Threatened and Endangered Species Conservatoin 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

Spring/Fall 2009

• January

  A Crash Course in Infrastructure: Expensive but Essential Components for Rural (and Urban) Nebraska's Future

  Sandra Scofield
  Director, University of Nebraska Rural Initiative

• February>

  The Fossil Record and the Fact of Evolution

  George F. Englemann
  Professor of Geology and Biology, Department of Geography and Geology, UNO

• March

  Historic Presence of Trees Along Rivers in the Great Plains

  Greg Ruark
  Director, USDA National Agroforestry Center

• April

  Youth Select Baseball in the Midwest: The Shape of Things to Come

  David Ogden
  Associate Professor, School of Communication, UNO

• September

  Plains Regional Fiction and the National Market: The Case of Bess Streeter Aldrich's A Lantern in Her Hand

  Melissa Homestead
  Associate Professor, Department of English, UNL

• November>

  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

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

• September

  American Colony: Pine Ridge Reservation inthe 20th Century

  Akim Reinhardt
  Associate Professor of History, Towson University, Towson, Maryland; Winner of the 3rd Annual Great Plains Distinguished Book Prize

• 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

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

Grassland Conservation & Sustainable Communities Lecture

• March 2008

  Wildlfe & Sustainable Rural Development in Namibia: Are There Applications to the Northern Great Plains?

  Chris Weaver
  Managing Director of the United States based World Wildlife Fund in Nambia