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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. & Mary Elizabeth Andersen Hulings Chair in the Humanities was established in September 1990 to support a senior scholar in the humanities. The endowment funds travel and research to enhance the holder’s undergraduate teaching and provides for an annual lecture by the holder of the chair, which is open to the public without charge.

Upcoming Lecture

The 2010 Hulings Lecture date: TBA.

Previous Lectures

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?

Van Evera Lectureship

The 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 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.