AGSL Lectures
The AGSL hosts a number of lecture series, events, and exhibits throughout the year. To receive email updates about any of our lectures, send an email to agsl@uwm.edu with the subject: lectures & exhibits updates.
- Academic Adventurers Series
- Our spring Academic Adventurer speaker will be Jennifer Jordan from UWM’s Department of Sociology on Wednesday, February 11th, at 3 p.m., presenting her lecture, A Long Strange Trip: Budapest, Berlin, Baraboo, and Points in Between.
- If you would like to help support the AGSL’s preservation efforts, you can donate here. Just choose “other funds” under designations and search or scroll to find the AGSL.
Maps & America: The Arthur Holzheimer Lecture Series
- The 2026 Maps & America: The Arthur Holzheimer Lecture Series will continue on Thursday, April 30, 2026, with speaker Dr. Julio Pedrassoli. The reception will begin at 5:30 pm, and the lecture will begin at 6 pm. More information to come.
- If you would like to help support the AGSL’s preservation efforts, you can donate here. Just choose “other funds” under designations and search or scroll to find the AGSL.
UWM Department of Geography Lectures
Colloquy
Each academic year the AGSL hosts the UWM Geography Department’s colloquium from 3:00-4:00pm (fall) or 2:30-3:30 (spring) on Friday afternoons. For more information see the Department of Geography’s calendar of events.
Harold and Florence Mayer Lecture Series
This lecture series is sponsored by the Department of Geography and held in the AGSL in the fall and spring. It is made possible by an endowment from Harold and Florence Mayer. Harold Mayer (1916 – 1994) was a professor of geography at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and one of the leading scholars in the field of urban geography in the twentieth century. He specialized in Urban and Transport Geography of North America with a focus on New York, Chicago, Milwaukee, and British Columbia. For more information see the Department of Geography’s web site.