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Sleep in the Ring: How and Why Wagner Uses the Image of Sleep with Jeffrey Buller

March 14, 2021 - 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm

This webinar is anything but sleep inducing. Professor Jeffrey Buller. Jeffrey L. Buller has held academic or administrative positions at Loras College in Dubuque, Iowa, Georgia Southern University in Statesboro, Georgia, Mary Baldwin College in Staunton, Virginia, and Florida Atlantic University in Palm Beach County, Florida. Known as a classicist, scholar of Wagnerian music drama, and expert in academic administration, Buller has lectured and performed consultancies all over the world. From 2003-2005, he served as the English language lecturer at the International Wagner Festival in Bayreuth, Germany.

Retired from academics, Jeffrey L. Buller is currently a senior partner in ATLAS Leadership Training, an international partnership that trains administrators and leaders in every aspect of their complex assignments. He holds a doctorate from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and has published twenty other books on educational leadership as well as numerous articles, including nearly two hundred on higher education administration.

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Date:
March 14, 2021
Time:
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm

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The Wagner Society of Northern California

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