Symposium

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)