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