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 fall Academic Adventurer speaker will be Hilary Snow from UWM Honors College on Wednesday, November 5th, at 3 p.m., presenting ‘Kyushu in World History, or What I Did on My Summer Vacation.’
- Situated at the southwestern edge of the main Japanese archipelago, Kyushu has a rich history shaped by the environment, proximity to the Asian mainland, and distance from the capitals of Kyoto and Tokyo. Join this academic adventure to see how much of Kyushu’s history can be experienced over two and a half weeks. From hiking among 2000-year-old cedar trees along a seventeenth-century logging highway on the off-shore island of Yakushima to visiting a World War Two museum on the edge of a former kamikaze training ground, traveling on Kyushu offers unexpected experiences with Japan’s culture.
- 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.
- Our fall Academic Adventurer speaker will be Hilary Snow from UWM Honors College on Wednesday, November 5th, at 3 p.m., presenting ‘Kyushu in World History, or What I Did on My Summer Vacation.’
Maps & America: The Arthur Holzheimer Lecture Series
- The Maps & America: The Arthur Holzheimer Lecture Series will continue in Spring 2026.
- 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.