by Liaquat Ahamed | Sep 8, 2012 | Videos
The global economy is racked by its worst crisis since the Great Depression. What are the lessons to be learned from the world economic collapse of the late 1920s and how might the current downturn affect our thinking a generation from now? Drawing on his Pulitzer...
by Tim Donohue | Sep 8, 2012 | Videos
In his “Wisconsin 2050: Pioneering the Future” Academy Evenings talk, professor of bacteriology and head of the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center at UW-Madison Tim Donohue discusses the growing field of bioenergy, the production of energy from such...
by Sara Raab | Sep 8, 2012 | Videos
In Part IV of the Wisconsin Academy’s special “Understanding Immigration” series of Academy Evening talks, Tamar Jacoby of the Manhattan Institute addresses immigration issues and solutions. What are the most vexing issues in immigration policy...
by Michael Gordon | Sep 8, 2012 | Videos
In his Academy Evenings talk at the Northwestern Mutual Art Gallery, entitled Milwaukee Labor History: Struggle, Strikes, and Survival, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee emeritus professor of history Michael Gordon discusses three eras in Milwaukee labor history,...
by Janine Geske, Scott Straus | Sep 8, 2012 | Videos
Can victims, their families, and communities—even countries—heal after unspeakable acts of violence? In this Academy Evenings “Talk to Me” series of discussions, Janine Geske, a Distinguished Professor of Law at Marquette University and former Wisconsin...
