Plains Humanities Alliance Research & Region Seminar Is Feb. 23

WHEN: Monday, Feb. 23, 3:30 p.m.
WHERE: Nebraska Union, 1400 R Street

Lincoln, Neb., Feb. 16, 2004 -- The Plains Humanities Alliance's Feb. 23 seminar on Research and Region will feature three graduate students presenting dissertation topics relating to Great Plains history and literature.

Students and their topics are: Joshua Dolezal, English, "Scientific Medicine in Nebraska: Claude Bernard, Willa Cather and Red Cloud"; John Husmann, history, "Transplantations: A Comparative History of Afforestation in Nebraska and South Australia, 1870-1930s"; and Wynne Summers, English, "Omaha Indian Place Names."

The seminar will begin at 3:30 p.m. in the Nebraska Union, 1400 R St.

Future Research and Region seminars will feature a reading by Jonis Agee, novelist and UNL professor of English, on March 9 in Room 228 Andrews Hall; and a talk by visiting anthropologist Timothy Rowse, Australian chair at Harvard University, on April 13 at the Great Plains Art Collection gallery. Both events will begin at 3:30 p.m.

Seminar presenters' abstracts are available for review before the Feb. 23 seminar. Call Deborah Eisloeffel, Plains Humanities Alliance, (402) 472-9478, for copies, or find them on the alliance's Web site.

The Research and Region seminar series is an outlet for local and visiting scholars to present their research about the Great Plains and other plains regions to faculty, graduate students, and the interested public. The seminar meets several times a semester. Seminar organizers are happy to include presentations of scholars' research-in-progress, including graduate students' dissertation proposals. Forward proposals to John Wunder, Plains Humanities Alliance, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 1221 Seaton Hall, Lincoln, NE, 68588-0692.

CONTACT: Deborah Eisloeffel, Plains Humanities Alliance, (402) 472-9478