A Sampling of Lectures
Senior College provides a new line-up of lectures with scholars from across the state each season. Here is a list of some past lectures offered by Senior College:
- Of Gods and the City: Sacred Architecture, Space, and Processions in Ancient Athens
- Where Are We All Going to Live: Towers of Babel or Pastoral Paradises?
- Surviving Minnesota Winters: Why is Being Cold So Damaging to Life?
- Insurgent Democracy: New Visions of the Non-Partisan League
- Presidential Campaign Economics: Rhetoric vs. Reality
- If the 2016 Elections Were Held Today...
- A World Disrupted: Five Global Challenges that will Shape our Future
- "Chinese Dream": Chinese Foreign Policy Under President Xi
- Putin's Counter-Revolution At Home and Abroad
- Nuclear Weapons and Energy: The Where, Why and How
- The Innovation and Diffusion of Rock ‘n' Roll Music
- The Surprising Truth About Coral Bleaching
- What's So Great About Shakespeare?
- Robin Hood and the Appeal of the Outlaw
- The Real Women of Downton Abbey
- A Complete and True History of the English Language in Twelve Words
- The Liberal Arts and the Wealth of Nations
- Early Childhood in Context: Effects of Early Experience on the Brain, Body, and Behavior
- Living clocks (Circadian Rhythms)
- Let's Get to the Bottom of This: Learning from Life at the Bottom of Our Lakes
- Walking through American History (or the American Revolution from the Bottom Up
- The Police as Crime Fighters: Myth or Reality?
- Brazil and the New Latin America: Challenges for US Policy
- India Today: Traditions, Politics and Geopolitics
- Disparate Missions in the 1862 US-Dakota War
- Is ISIS Islamic?
- The Internet of Things
- Annual State of the Economy
- Politainment and the Context of the 2016 Presidential Elections
- The Economics of Climate Change
- United States-Cuban Relations: Can Old Adversaries Reconcile?
- Obama v. Putin: The New Cold War?
- The Plight of the Hmong to America
- The New Geopolitics of Asia: Tensions on the Rise
- Ethnographic Museums: From the Past into the Future
- Renewable Energy Meets the Electricity Grid and Sparks Fly: How Carbon-Free Generation Technologies Both Promise and Threaten Almost Everything
- Every Story is a Brain Story: How Neuroscience is Revolutionizing Law and Public Policy
- How Did We Get Here and Where Are We Going Next: A Geographer's View of the Dynamics of Population at the Global and Regional Levels
- Roads and Tracks: Transforming Minnesota's Economy
- Photography: An Ever-Changing Identity
- Writing REZ LIFE: American Indians in the 21st Century
- "It's All Greek to Me"
- On Fantasy, Imagination and the Challenges of a Global World
- Mozart's Requiem: A Conductor's Perspective