Join the Morgridge Center for Public Service and the Center for Community and Nonprofit Studies on Tuesday, Oct. 15 from 5:30 to 8 p.m. for a thought-provoking panel focusing on the role of higher education in supporting democracy and how our institutions can prepare students to be informed and engaged citizens.
The disciplinarily diverse panel will feature a range of scholars sharing about their research and teaching while reflecting on the role of higher education in a democratic society. This panel will take place in the On Wisconsin AB room in the Red Gym at 716 Langdon Street.
Following the panel from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m., we’ll host a brief dialogue workshop from 6:45 to 7:45 p.m. to provide participants with the opportunity to reflect upon the panel and practice civil discourse skills. Executive Director of the Center for Community and Nonprofit Studies Mary Beth Collins will be moderating the panel.
Panelists:
Hernando Rojas is professor of journalism and mass communication, Helen Firstbrook Franklin Chair in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. His scholarship focuses on political communication, in particular examining: (a) the deployment of new communication technologies for social mobilization in a variety of contexts; (b) the influence of audience perceptions of media (and audience perceptions of media effects) on both public opinion and the structure of the public sphere; and (c) the conditions under which media support democratic governance.
Franciska Coleman is an assistant professor of constitutional law at the University of Wisconsin Law School and the associate director of the East Asian Legal Studies Center. She is an interdisciplinary scholar, whose work draws upon political theory, critical discourse analysis and constitutional law.
Jeremy Stoddard is professor of curriculum & instruction and a researcher in the Wisconsin Center for Education Research. His research includes the teaching of civics and history in partisan contexts, the integration of media education into democratic education, and a particular focus on engagement with so called “difficult” or marginalized histories and contemporary controversial issues.
Robert Asen is professor of communication arts and conducts research and teaches in the areas of public policy debate, public sphere studies and rhetoric and critical theory. Asen focuses on the ways that political, economic and cultural inequalities interact with relations of power to shape public discourse.