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Academy Evenings

The Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, & Letters in partnership with Northland College present an Academy Evening. Academy Evenings are held around the state to bring the public together with our state's leading experts, researchers, scholars, and artists to share cutting-edge knowledge in a wide range of fields, highlight our achievements, and address our common problems. They are intended to encourage interaction with these leaders in an intimate atmosphere designed to build community.

Previous Evenings

2008 - Mike Dombeck, A Tale of Two Lakes: Superior and Baikal

The Hulings Lecture

The A.D. and Mary Elizabeth Andersen Hulings Distinguished Chair in the Humanities was established to promote the humanities at Northland College through activities such as scholarship, public performance, artistic creation, mentoring of colleagues through faculty seminars and workshops, development of public lecture series, and facilitation of curricular development. Holders of the chair may focus their work on any subject matter so long as it promotes the humanities at Northland College.

Sponsored Events

2013 - A New Home: The Poetry of Forty Two Years with Lee Merrill
2012 - Guest Artist: Solange Guillaume-Pianist, Composer and Theatrical Director
2012 - Chief Arvol Looking Horse: 19th Generation Keeper of the Sacred White Buffalo Calf Pipe and International Peacekeeper
2012 - Rewilding the Apostle Islands: Rethinking Human's Place in Nature by Dr. James Feldman
2012 - What's your 12 X 12? By William Powers
2012 - The Mother Earth Water Walker by Josephine Mandamin
2012 - American Indian Dance Performance with Larry Yazzie
2012 - Anishinabe Women and the Value of Water: A Panel with Sharon Day and Local Water Walker
2012 - Teaching About Our Human Made World, Minnesota Science Teachers Convention, Duluth, MN by Clayton T. Russell
2012 - ZUZU African Acrobats
2012 - Past Present and Future of Environmental Education , Panel Presentation at the Wisconsin Association for Environmental Education Winter Conference by Clayton T. Russell
2012 - The Nature of Our Lives: Sustainability and American Culture by James Farrell, Ph.D.
2011 - Can Protest Music Still Make A Difference by Guante and Joshua Clausen
2011 - All Campus Thanksgiving Convocation

Previous Sponsored Lectures

2011 - Getting Back ‘to the Things Themselves': The Phenomenological Reduction, Association and Diversity by Samuel Cocks, Ph.D.
2011 - Travel in Spirals: The Influence of Hip Hop on Immigrant Communities in the Twin Cities by Justin Schell, Tou Saiko Lee and Joshua Clausen
2010 - Dr. Michele Geslin Small
2009 – Dr. Michele Geslin Small, Al-Andalus: The Legacy of Islamic Spain – Córdoba, Toledo, Sevilla, and Granada
2008 – Dr. Michele Geslin Small, The Iconography of Hell, the Devil, and the Seven Deadly Sins in Medieval European Art
2007 – Dr. Leslie D. Alldritt, Suspicious of the True Dragon? Dogen on Zen Practice
2006 – Dr. Leslie D. Alldritt, Pointing to the Moon: Takuan Soho and the Zen Awakening
2005 - Dr. Leslie D. Alldritt, Ideas of the Shipwrecked: A Zen Buddhist Inquiry into the Problem of the Self
2004 – Dr. Judith Scoville, Saying Grace: Sustainable Farming and the Meaning of Food
2003 – Dr. Judith Scoville, The Ethics of Organics
2001 – Dr. Judith Scoville, Will Biotechnology Feed the World?
2000 – Dr. Judith Scoville, Playing God on the Farm: Ethics, Religion and Biotechnology
1999 – Dr. Judith Scoville, Sustainable Agriculture as Restoration: Ecological, Cultural & Spiritual
1996 – Dr. Ernest Partridge, What Good is a Planet?
1995- Dr. Ernest Partridge, If Environmental Education is the Answer, then What is the Question?

William P. Van Evera Lectureship

The William P. Van Evera Endowed Lectureship Fund was created so that Northland College would host an eminent authority for a public lecture and lead a seminar to engage students, citizens, and appropriate faculty each fall. Designed to bring these groups together around a particular environmental issue, the Van Evera Lecture and Seminar was established “to bridge teaching and research with application and action.” The William P. Van Evera lectureship was developed as a lasting honor to the life of its namesake and his deeply felt love of nature, especially as he experienced it on the Brule River in northern Wisconsin. The seminar pays tribute to Bill Van Evera who combined his talents as a lawyer and businessman with his passion for nature to foster practical solutions to environmental issues.

Previous William P. Van Evera Speakers

For more information about any recent or upcoming lectures, please contact the Office of Academic Affairs by phone at (715) 682-1226.