Schedule
Location
2014-2015
Community Lecture Series
Free
Lecture
Series
All lectures are held from 6:30-7:30 p.m. at the
Portage County Library in the Pinery Room
September 9, 2014 6:30 p.m.
Compromised Origins: The Slave Trade and the Constitution
Lee Willis (History)
October 14, 2014 6:30 p.m.
Inventing an Ancient Past: The Brothers Grimm and Romantic Philology
Thomas Leek (Foreign Languages)
November 11, 2014 6:30 p.m.
Blue Revolution: Farming Water to Grow Food
All lectures take place at:
Portage County Library
Pinery Room
1001 Main Street
Stevens Point, WI 54481
715-346-1548
Chris Hartleb (Biology)
December 9, 2014 6:30 p.m.
Inventing Santa Claus
Shanny Luft (Philosophy)
February 10, 2015 6:30 p.m.
Aspen, Elk, and Wolves on Yellowstone’s Northern Range
Eric Larsen (Geography and Geology) and Susan Talarico (Mathematics)
March 10, 2015 6:30 p.m.
Skeletons in the Closet, Mammoths in the Freezer
For more information on the
Community Lecture Series
or to view past lectures, please visit:
College of Letters
and Science
Community
Lecture Series
2014-2015
www.uwsp.edu/cols/lectureseries
The University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point is an Equal Opportunity/
Affirmative Action Institution
Ray Reser (Museum)
April 14, 2015 6:30 p.m.
Documenting Life Stories for Generations to Come
Lynn Ludwig (English)
May 5, 2015 6:30 p.m.
Meet Our Students! Letters and Science Scholars Share Their Research Findings With the Community
College of Letters and Science Students
Sponsored by the
College of Letters and Science
The College-at-the-Core
www.uwsp.edu/cols/lectureseries
College of Letters and Science
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The College-at-the-Core
elcome to the Community Lecture Series,
which the College of Letters and Science at
the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point is proud to
sponsor.
When the college inaugurated the series in 2008,
we did so with the express goal of sharing select
examples of our faculty members’ teaching and
research with the
community we are
so fortunate to call
home.
The College of
Letters and Science
is proud of all its
faculty and staff
members who serve
the university and
community. The
faculty and students
presenting this year
are a small sample
of the wide array of
expertise and talent
embodied in our
college.
We cordially invite you to attend one or more of the
lectures this year. Through these lectures, the college
demonstrates its firm commitment to promoting
dialogue and learning in our community.
2014-2015 Community Lecture Series
Compromised Origins: The Slave Trade and the Constitution
All lectures held at the
Portage County Library in the
Pinery Room from 6:30-7:30 p.m.
Aspen, Elk, and Wolves on Yellowstone’s Northern Range
February 10, 2015 6:30 p.m. at the Portage County Library
Lee Willis (History)
Eric Larsen (Geography and Geology) and Susan Talarico (Mathematics)
Inventing an Ancient Past: The Brothers Grimm and Romantic Philology
Skeletons in the Closet, Mammoths in the Freezer
Thomas Leek (Foreign Languages)
Ray Reser (Museum)
September 9, 2014 6:30 p.m. at the Portage County Library
After a 70-year absence, the Gray
wolf (Canis lupus) was
reintroduced into Yellowstone
National Park in 1995. This talk will
focus on the ecological changes
occurring due to the
reintroduction of the wolf to the
Yellowstone area.
How did Americans, black and white, confront
the evils of the international slave trade in the
eighteenth and nineteenth centuries? This talk will
investigate early America’s contradiction of
slavery and freedom from the Constitution to the
Civil War.
October 14, 2014 6:30 p.m. at the Portage County Library
Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm studied folk culture for
the sake of reconstructing German culture. This
talk will discuss to what degree the Grimms were
discovering history and what was a product of
the romantic imagination.
Blue Revolution: Farming Water to Grow Food
November 11, 2014 6:30 p.m. at the Portage County Library
Chris Hartleb (Biology)
Commercial aquaculture and aquaponics has
the potential to supply low-cost, high-protein
food to feed the growing human population. This
presentation will discuss modern advances and
integrations of production systems to meet the
global demand for safe and sustainable seafood.
March 10, 2015 6:30 p.m. at the Portage County Library
The UWSP Museum of Natural History currently
houses more than 400,000 specimens in 11 natural
science disciplines. One day each year the
museum and its faculty and student curators open
up these collections to the public. This presentation
offers a rare preview.
Documenting Life Stories for Generations to Come
April 14, 2015 6:30 p.m. at the Portage County Library
Lynn Ludwig (English)
Through one-on-one interviews between UW-Stevens
Point students and community members, everlasting
memories are documented in permanent
keepsakes of lives that will always be remembered.
This talk will focus on the writing process, the
personal bonding that occurs throughout the
project, and sample excerpts from finished works.
Sincerely,
Inventing Santa Claus
December 9, 2014 6:30 p.m. at the Portage County Library
Christopher P. Cirmo, Ph.D.
Dean, College of Letters and Science
University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point
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Shanny Luft (Philosophy)
This lecture (for grown-ups) will explore how an
ominous European folk figure morphed into a
plump and cheerful grandpa —
­ and will consider
what the invention of Santa Claus suggests about
the state of American religion today.
Meet Our Students! Letters and Science Scholars Share Their Research Findings With the Community
May 5, 2015 6:30 p.m. at the Portage County Library
Letters and Science Students
Side-by-side with UW-Stevens Point
faculty and staff, Letters and Science
students explore the humanities, social
sciences and natural sciences through
directed study and research. Meet the
next generation of leaders as they share
research findings with peers, mentors
and Stevens Point community members.