Speaking topics

Speakers are available on a wide variety of topics. Browse through our list to find ones of interest to you. After you have made a choice, contact the Speakers Bureau to book a speaker. If you don't find what you are looking for, contact us — we can help you.

Topic categories

Business and industry

  • Energy Use in Transportation: Choices, Trade-Offs, Decisions
  • Genetically Engineered Food: Why it can be scary
  • No-Cost Ways Businesses Can Help Their Poorest Employees Gain Greater Income
  • Office of Corporate Relations: UW-Madison's Front Door for Business
  • Technology Transfer and Higher Education
  • The Impact of the Arts: Exploring the True Benefit of Culture to Communities
  • The Role of the Biotech Industry in Wisconsin's Economy
  • University Research Park and the Role of the University in the State's Economy
  • Urban Growth and Land Use Regulation
  • UW-Madison's Statewide Economic Impact
  • Wisconsin TechSearch

Health and medicine

  • Advances in the Treatment of Alzheimer's Disease
  • Chronic Wasting Disease
  • Emerging Infectious Diseases
  • One Medicine: How Treating Cancer in Our Pets Helps Us
  • Shortages in the Health Care Professions: What They Will Mean To You
  • The Furor Over Fat: Who's Changing the Scales
  • The Promise of Stem Cell Research

Science and technology

  • Digital Libraries/Collections/Resources
  • Extinction: The Causes and Consequences of Losing Species
  • Geology By Lightplane
  • Glacial Landscapes and History of Wisconsin
  • Global Warming: Fact, Fiction or Future?
  • Great Lakes Water Issues
  • Library Technologies
  • The Big Bang
  • UW's Eyes in Space
  • UW-Madison's Dinosaur Expeditions

Cultural, historical and social issues

  • African Storytelling
  • Amish and Mennonite
  • Antievolutionism in America: From Scientific Creationism to Intelligent Design
  • German Heritage
  • Languages of Wisconsin
  • Profiles in American History
  • The Irony of the Information Age: How Much Do We Really Know (or Care)?
  • The Problem of Power in Russia: A Historical Perspective
  • Yiddish in America