Upcoming Events at the UWM Libraries
All events are free and open to the public unless otherwise noted |
Program |
Where and When |
"New Life for Historical Maps in the Digital Age: To See Is To Believe" Lecture by Dr. David Dickason,
Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo. Sponsored by the Map Society of Wisconsin. |
American Geographical Society Library
Third Floor, East Wing
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
7 p.m.
|
UWM's Academic Adventurers Series Brendan Vierck, M.S. Candidate, Department of Geography, UWM, presents "Exploring the Karst Forests of Puerto Rico: Their Exotic Landforms and Their Regrowth." |
American Geographical Society Library
Third Floor, East Wing
Friday, November 13, 2009
3 p.m.
|
2009 Morris Fromkin Memorial Lecture [Please note new date] U.S. Senator Russ Feingold presents "Wisconsin's Progressive Tradition and a Century of Reform."
|
Conference Center
Fourth Floor
Saturday, November 14, 2009
4 p.m. |
GIS Day |
American Geographical Society Library
Third Floor, East Wing
Wednesday, November 18, 2009 |
Korean Maps in the 19th Century: The Korean National Treasure Daedong Yeojido at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Symposium on the American Geographical Society Library's Daedong Yeojido or The Territorial map of the Great East. Conference sessions 9:30 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. Lecture by Dr. Gari Ledyard, King Sejong Professor Emeritus of Korean Studies at Columbia University from 1:30 to 3 p.m. |
American Geographical Society Library
Third Floor, East Wing
Friday, November 20, 2009
|
Great Books Roundtable Discussion William Shakespeare
A Midsummer Night's Dream.
|
Special Collections
Fourth Floor
Wednesday, December 2, 2009
7-9 p.m.
|
Great Books Roundtable Discussion Selected stories from the Chinese classic Water Margin (14th/15th century).
|
Special Collections
Fourth Floor
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
7-9 p.m.
|
UWM's Academic Adventurers Series Jim Lubner, Education Coordinator, UW Sea Grant Advisory Services, presents "The Denis Sullivan in the Bahamas: Connecting Wisconsin Students to Sea & Sail." |
American Geographical Society Library
Third Floor, East Wing
Friday, February 12, 2010
3 p.m.
|
Great Books Roundtable Discussion Thornton Wilder Our Town (1937)
|
Special Collections
Fourth Floor
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
7-9 p.m.
|
UWM's Academic Adventurers Series Val Klump, Director & Sr. Scientist, Great Lakes Water Institute, presents "Adventures of a Great Lakes Limnologist." |
American Geographical Society Library
Third Floor, East Wing
Friday, March 5, 2010
3 p.m.
|
Great Books Roundtable Discussion Flannery O'Connor Selected short stories.
|
Special Collections
Fourth Floor
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
7-9 p.m.
|
UWM's Academic Adventurers Series Norman Lasca, Professor Emeritus, UWM Dept. of Geosciences, presents "The Back Side of Antarctica: From the Falklands to Australia." |
American Geographical Society Library
Third Floor, East Wing
Friday, April 9, 2010
3 p.m.
|
Maps & America: The Arthur Holzheimer Lecture Series Jim Akerman, Director of the Hermon Dunlap Smith Center for the History of Cartography at the Newberry Library |
American Geographical Society Library
Third Floor, East Wing
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
Reception at 5 p.m.
Lecture at 6 p.m.
|
Great Books Roundtable Discussion Noël Coward Hay Fever (1924)
|
Special Collections
Fourth Floor
Wednesday, April 28, 2010
7-9 p.m.
|
Great Books Roundtable Discussion Émile Zola "J'accuse" (1898) and "The Attack on the Mill" (1880)
|
Special Collections
Fourth Floor
Wednesday, May 26, 2010
7-9 p.m.
|