Kramer to Appear on Conversations from St. Norbert College TV Show

Robert Kramer, professor of history at St. Norbert College, will be the guest on the October "Conversations from St. Norbert College" television show hosted by founding dean of the Donald J. Schneider School of Business and Economics, Kevin Quinn. They will discuss the crisis in the Middle East.

Kramer is a specialist on Islamic movements in the Middle East and Africa, and teaches a variety of courses on the history of the Middle East.

He is the author of numerous books and articles on the Sudan, including "Holy City on the Nile." Kramer has lived and traveled in the Middle East and north Africa for many years and was recently the keynote speaker at an international conference on the study of history in Doha, Qatar. He is also a former consultant to the U.S. State Department.

New "Conversations" shows appear the first Friday of each month. The series airs on TWCT Time Warner Cable Television Channel 4 in Green Bay, Howard/Suamico and Seymour; Channel 4 in the Fox Cities; Channel 2 in Neenah/Menasha; and on NET cable Channel 46 in Pulaski.

The show also airs on St. Norbert College Channel 5 in De Pere, Ashwaubenon and Bellevue on Sundays at 9:30 a.m., Tuesdays at 6:30 p.m. and Thursdays at 6:30 p.m.

The show can also be seen on Wisconsin on Demand (WIoD), Time Warner Cable's local video-on-demand channel (411). It is available free to Time Warner Cable's digital customers in 70 communities in northeast Wisconsin.

"Conversations from St. Norbert College" also airs in Algoma, Clintonville, Columbus, Delavan, Elkhorn, Fitchburg and surrounding areas, Hortonville, Jefferson County, Lake Mills, Marshfield, Milwaukee, New London, Oconomowoc, Sevastopol, Sturgeon Bay, Waukesha, Waupaca, Whitewater, Wisconsin Rapids, the Upper Peninsula of Michigan and Temple University Television, TUTV, Philadelphia, Pa.

PEG (Public, Education and Government) community television stations can download "Conversations from St. Norbert College" for their own stations by going to the PEGMedia website.

For more information or to watch the program online, visit the website, http://www.snc.edu/communications/conversations.