Door County’s Bjorklunden Announce Summer Seminars

ABC News co-anchor Terry Moran and Grammy-winning lyric baritone Dale Duesing will headline the list of featured instructors for the 2011 Björklunden summer seminar series sponsored by Lawrence University.

Registrations are currently being accepted for this year’s array of 36, week-long, non-credit seminars that will begin June 12 and run through October 21. The seminars are conducted on Lawrence University’s Björklunden estate, located just south of Baileys Harbor.

Moran, a 1982 Lawrence graduate, will explore the ways in which the nation’s capitol has been portrayed through the years in the seminar “Capitol Fictions: Portrayals of Washington DC in Movies and Literature.” Moran has spent most of the past 30 years in Washington D.C. covering all three branches of the government for ABC News.

Duesing, a 1967 Lawrence graduate and 1993 Grammy Award winner for his recording of Samuel Barber’s The Lovers with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, will return to Björklunden for the seminar “If Music Be the Food of Love: Music & Shakespeare.”

Other seminar instructors and lectures include Richard Campagna, a 2004 U.S. vice president candidate on the Libertarian Party ticket, who will examine Cuban society in “Contemporary Cuban Society: What Can the U.S. Learn from the Cuban Experience?” Award-winning composer and pianist Allen Bonde will lead the seminar “Music in the American Musical: The Golden Age.” Other 2011 Björklunden summer seminar topics will include the spies of WWII, French cinema, and digital photography.

Well-known Door County naturalists Roy and Charlotte Lukes will lead a fall seminar. Other fall seminars will explore the romance of the American passenger train, poetry, and new insights into the Trojan War.

For more information call 920.839.2216 or visit http://www.lawrence.edu/dept/bjork/bjorkseminars. Questions may also be directed via email to [email protected].