FALL 2017
Visit this website to confirm speakers as they may change without notice.
Link to downloadable schedule here: 496 Schedule 2017
Locations:
Most public lectures take place in “the Auditorium”,
1111 Genetics/Biotechnology Center
except where noted on this schedule.
Three public lectures are in partnership with “Crossroads of Ideas” in the
Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery.
This year we will be LIVESTREAMING each lecture – Tuesday evenings at 7 p.m. at https://www.biotech.wisc.edu/events.
Further, video recordings of each public lecture will be posted to the webpage of that specific speaker within a week of the lecture. Links to all archived videos and the livestream will be found at the speaker’s page on this website. Please check for updates.
For those enrolled in the Lecture-Discussion Section:
Class Syllabus: 496 2017 Syllabus
Assigned Readings for Thursday afternoon, Sept. 7th Classroom Discussion:
‘Only Connect’ The Goals of a Liberal Education by William Cronon
List of Speakers and Topics:
(click here for one page PDF printable version) 496 Schedule 2017 short
September 12th, 7pm, 1111 Genetics/Biotechnology Center, 425 Henry Mall
Gwen Drury – “The Wisconsin Idea: How do we Define the Concept that Defines Us?”
September 19th, 7pm, 1111 Genetics/Biotechnology Center, 425 Henry Mall
Kevin Walters – “Think Local, Act Global: The Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation and the Soil of the Wisconsin Idea”
September 26th, 7pm, Town Center, Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery, 330 N. Orchard St.
Pam Herd – “The Wisconsin Longitudinal Study: What Tracking the Lives of the Wisconsin High School Class of 1957 has Taught us about Leading Happy and Healthy Lives”
October 3rd, 7pm, 1111 Genetics/Biotechnology Center, 425 Henry Mall
Caitlin Cieslik-Miskimen – “Journalism and the Wisconsin Idea”
October 10th, 7pm, 1111 Genetics/Biotechnology Center, 425 Henry Mall
Maryo Gard-Ewell – “No Mute Inglorious Milton: The Arts & the Wisconsin Idea”
October 17th, 7pm, 1111 Genetics/Biotechnology Center, 425 Henry Mall
Adam Nelson – “Land Grand Universities and the Wisconsin Idea, 1862-1912”
October 24th, 7pm, 1111 Genetics/Biotechnology Center, 425 Henry Mall
Emily Auerbach – “The Power to Change Lives: The UW Odyssey Project”
October 31st, 7pm, 1111 Genetics/Biotechnology Center, 425 Henry Mall
Bill Casper – “Sturgeon”
November 7th, 7pm, 1111 Genetics/Biotechnology Center, 425 Henry Mall
Nigel Cook – “Giving Cows the Spa Treatment: How do we Balance Animal Welfare with Economic Realities on the Dairy”
November 14th, 7pm, Town Center, Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery, 330 N. Orchard
Meg Gaines – “The Center for Patient Partnerships: Wandering the Back Roads for the Wisconsin Idea”
November 21st, 7pm, 1111 Genetics/Biotechnology Center, 425 Henry Mall
Myra Marx Ferree – “Wisconsin Women’s Studies: A History of Progressive Innovation”
November 28th, 7pm, 1111 Genetics/Biotechnology Center, 425 Henry Mall
Paul Williams – “Agriculture and the Wisconsin Idea”
December 5th, 7pm, Town Center, Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery, 330 N. Orchard
Paula Niedenthal – “The Path from Basic to Applied Research, Or: What the Hell are you Doing with My Tax Dollars?”
December 11th, 7pm, 1111 Genetics/Biotechnology Center, 425 Henry Mall
Garry Golden – “Back to the Future?”