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.