Each year, University Scholars will showcase their research and scholarship in a symposium to which the entire university community is invited. Symposia feature a keynote speaker invited by the University Scholars and group presentations featuring undergraduate, graduate and professional school scholars working together to present their ideas. Previous symposia include:
- Autonomy & Autonomation: A Dialogue Between Us and Our Tools (2024)
- The Forest for the Trees (2023)
- After the Storm Passes (2022)
- Wicked Problems/Wicked Solutions (2021)
- Reflections (2020)
- “(In)dependence” (2019)
- “Masquerade” (2018)
- “Progress” (2017)
- “Relativity” (2016)
- “Fundamentals” (2015)
- “Reason(s)” (2014)
- “Futures: See What Lies Ahead” (2013)
- “Puzzles” (2012)
- “Taste: Determining, Modifying, Consequences” (2011)
- “Legacies: Commemorating 10 Years of the USP” (2010)
- “Two Cultures: 50 Years Later” (2009)
- “Recycling: Ideas, Materials, & Experiences” (2008)
- “Interdisciplinarity in Practice” (2007)
- “Cities in Evolution: Imagination and Reinvention” (2006)
- “The End of the World (As We Know It)” (2005)
- “Truth Lies Within <-> Within Lies Truth” (2004)
- “We Will Remember It For You” (2003)
- “Exposing Privacy” (2002)
- “Perspectives on Political Change: South Africa and USA” (2001)
- “From Faust to the Future: The Costs & Rewards of [too much?] Knowledge” (2000)