Panel discussions featuring ILS faculty, staff, students, and graduates will focus on the student experience and its history, the ILS curriculum and its history, innovations in ILS instruction, and the history of the ILS program and the Experimental College from which it developed. In addition, there will be a lunchtime keynote address by Joy Connolly (President, American Council of Learned Societies) and a panel commemorating R. Booth Fowler, an Emeritus Professor of ILS and Political Science, who recently passed away. There will be refreshments throughout the day, starting at 9:00 am. Lunch will be served through RSVP: please email Beth Shipman (eshipman@wisc.edu).
Program:
8:30 – 9:30 am: Coffee and bagels served for attendees and participants.
9:30 am – 9:40 am: Introductory remarks by Dan Kapust (Director, Integrated Liberal Studies, Political Science)
9:40 am – 10:30 am: “75 Years of ILS: The Student Experience” Moderator: Laura Bradley, ILS Academic Advisor (Class of 2011) Participants: Lauren Hafeman (Class of 2024); Claire Hoppe (Class of 2027); Trevor Owens (Class of 2006); Justin Peikin (Class of 2025); David Stanley (Class of 1955); Noah Stengl (Class of 2017); Louise Trubek (Class of 1957)
10:30 am – 10:45 am: Break and refreshments.
10:45 am – 11:45 am: “The ILS Curriculum, 1948 – 2024” Moderator: Dan Kapust (Director, Integrated Liberal Studies, Political Science) Panelists: Richard Avramenko (Integrated Liberal Studies and Political Science); Florence Hsia (History and Integrated Liberal Studies); Laura McClure (Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies and Integrated Liberal Studies); Craig Werner (Emeritus, African American Studies and Integrated Liberal Studies)
11:45 am – 1:15 pm: Lunch and keynote address by Professor Joy Connolly, President of the American Council of Learned Societies, “Global Crisis and the Interdisciplinary Imagination” Moderator: Grant Nelsestuen (Associate Dean of Arts & Humanities, Department of Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies)
1:30 pm – 2:30 pm: “Remembering Professor R. Booth Fowler” Moderator: Dan Kapust (Director, Integrated Liberal Studies, Political Science) Participants: Joe Blackbourne (Class of 1983); Donald Downs (Emeritus, Political Science); John C. Evans (Class of 1989, 2006); David Redlick (Class of 1972)
2:30 pm – 2:45 pm: Break and refreshments.
2:45 pm – 3:15 pm: “Innovation and the Future of ILS” Moderator: Dan Kapust, Director, Integrated Liberal Studies Panelists: Beatriz Botero (Integrated Liberal Studies); Kristin Phillips-Court (Art History, French and Italian, and Integrated Liberal Studies)
3:15 pm – 3:30 pm: Break and refreshments.
3:30 pm – 4:00 pm: Adam Nelson (Educational Policy Studies, History, and Integrated Liberal Studies), “ILS and the Experimental College”
4:00 pm – 4:05 pm: Concluding remarks, by Dan Kapust , Director, Integrated Liberal Studies, Political Science)
The ILS Program wishes to thank our co-sponsors for their generous support: the University Lectures Committee, the Department of Political Science, the Institute for Research in the Humanities, the Department of Education Policy Studies, the Department of History, the Religious Studies Program, the Department of Philosophy, the Department of Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies, the Department of Sociology, the Department of French and Italian, the English Department, the Art History Department, and the Nelson Center for Environmental Studies.
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