Speakers and Topics:
Week 1
September 14.
Lecture: Chad Alan Goldberg (UW-Madison, Sociology), “Education for Democracy: Renewing the Wisconsin Idea”
Week 2
September 21.
Lecture: David Hoeveler (UW-Milwaukee), “John Bascom and the Wisconsin Idea”
Week 3
September 28.
Lecture: Tom Purnell (UW-Madison, English), “Migration of English speakers and the Wisconsin Idea”
Week 4
October 5.
Lecture: Monica Macauley (UW-Madison, Language Sciences), “The Indigenous Languages of Wisconsin and the Wisconsin Idea”
Week 5
October 12.
Lecture: Joseph Salmons (UW-Madison, Language Sciences), “When did immigrants to Wisconsin learn English?”
Week 6
October 19.
Lecture: Michal Engelman (UW-Madison, Sociology), “On Wisconsin: People, Places, Health and Aging.”
Week 7
October 26.
Lecture: Kacie Lucchini Butcher (UW-Madison, Director of the Rebecca M. Blank Center for Campus History), “Reckoning with Our Past: Public History and the Wisconsin Idea”
Week 8
Nov 2.
Lecture: Cecelia Klingele (UW-Madison, Law), “UW-Law, State Criminal Justice Reform, and the Wisconsin Idea“
Week 9
Nov 9:
Lecture: Jillian Slaight (Wisconsin Legislative Reference Bureau) “If a member asks me to draft a bill to put a barrel of dynamite under the Capitol, I would draft it: Charles McCarthy and the Legislative Reference Bureau.”
Week 10
November 16.
Lecture: Steve Cramer (Emeritus UW-Madison, Engineering) “A Curiosity — Answered 100 Years Later“
Week 11
November 23
Lecture: Tim Shiell (UW-Stout, Philosophy) “The Wisconsin Idea: Its Free Speech Legacy”
Week 12
November 30th.
Lecture: Afton Greco (UW-Stout, Philosophy), “Institutional Neutrality at Public Universities: Myth or Obligation?”
Week 13
December 7.
Lecture: Harry Brighouse (UW-Madison, Philosophy): “The Wisconsin Idea as an interpretation of the peculiar concept of a public university.”