1:30 p.m. Civil Communities in an Age of Incivility--Music-Drama Center, Stansbury Theatre
As public discourse has become more fractious and combative in America and around the world, colleges and universities have found it difficult to create campus communities in which important issues that face society can be discussed from different viewpoints. This panel will consider the rise of incivility in public discourse and the roles colleges and universities could play in response.
Tim Spurgin (moderator), Associate Professor of English and Bonnie Glidden
Buchanan Professor of English Literature, Lawrence University
Terry Moran ‘82 (tentative moderator), Chief Foreign Correspondent, ABC News
Chris Abele ’94, Milwaukee County Executive
Christopher Eisgruber, President and Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Public
Affairs in the Woodrow Wilson School and the University Center for
Human Values, Princeton University
William Plapinger, Chair of the Board, Vassar College and Partner, Sullivan &
Cromwell LLP
Claudena Skran, Professor of Government and Edwin and Ruth West Professor of
Economics and Social Science, Lawrence University
3:30 p.m. The Issue of Difference and the Liberal Arts--Music-Drama Center, Stansbury Theatre
Our communities and work places have become significantly more global and diverse. This panel will discuss whether it is the role of a liberal arts education to help prepare students for this aspect of their future lives. If this is an appropriate role, how can colleges and universities approach this challenge from a curricular and extracurricular perspective?
Jill Dolan—(moderator), Annan Professor in English, Professor of Theater
in the Lewis Center for the Arts and Program Director in Gender and
Sexuality Studies, Princeton University
Dominica Chang, Associate Professor of French, Lawrence University
Peter Glick, Professor of Psychology and Henry Merritt Wriston Professor of
the Social Sciences, Lawrence University
Harold Jordan ’72, Former Chair of the Board and Emeritus Trustee, Lawrence
University
Terri Harris Reed, Vice Provost for Diversity and Inclusion, George Washington
University
To reserve a ticket for one or both of the panel discussions, please either RSVP following the directions provided in your invitation or contact the Lawrence University Box Office at 920-832-6749 or by going online at http://www.lawrence.edu/conservatory/box_office/tickets.
