Associate Professor Miguel de Baca discusses his new book, Memory Work: Anne Truitt and Sculpture (University of California Press, 2015). The book explores the evolution of the minimalist sculptor Anne Truitt and her ideas on perception and mnemonic reference in contemporary art.

Associate Professor Miguel de Baca teaches Art History and is the Chair of American Studies.

Co-sponsored by Lake Forest College and the Tenth Congressional District Democrats, this forum will allow community members to engage with this candidate for the 10th Congressional District seat before the March 15, 2016 primary.

A forum with candidate Nancy Rotering will be held on February 10.

Eboo Patel, Founder and President of Interfaith Youth Core, believes that diverse faith and philosophical identities can serve as bridges of cooperation rather than barriers of division.

Interfaith leaders have the knowledge base and skill set to voice their values, engage diversity, and act to advance the common good.

Poetry reading held as part of the Collage magazine holiday party. Readers are Victoria Karker, Yvette Rodriguez, Catherine Auger-Morin, and Dasha Polyarskaya.

Recorded December 10, 2015.

Structured interview by Kathy Dohrmann's Environmental Psychology class (ES 216) with author Nancy Nichols. Nancy Nichols' book Lake Effect is an environmental memoir recounting a childhood in Waukegan, Illinois, an industrial town on Lake Michigan once known for good factory jobs and great fishing. Now Waukegan is famous for its Superfund sites: as one resident put it, asbestos to the north, PCBs to the south.

Recorded December 4th, 2015.

A Debate in Honor of Constitution Day featuring Alberto R. Coll (DePaul University School of Law) and James W. Ceaser (University of Virginia)

Coll and Ceaser will debate to what extent the United States is an exceptional nation. The question of whether the United States is special, unique, and/or morally superior is a hotly contested one that has appeared prominently in recent presidential campaigns. More than just a theoretical issue, how we answer this question has significant implications for both foreign and domestic policy. The debate, in celebration of Constitution Day, is being co-sponsored with the Jack Miller Center for Teaching America’s Founding Principles and History, DePaul University College of Law, and with the generous support of the Brinson Foundation.

Recorded November 19, 2015 at Lake Forest College.

Dan DeFranco, ’08, shares his experiences about the application process and life as a Ph.D. student in philosophy--and offers advice for those considering graduate study in philosophy.

Wizner will discuss how surveillance technologies have outpaced democratic controls, and how Edward Snowden’s revelations have begun to revitalize democratic oversight of the intelligence community. The talk is co-sponsored by the American Civil Liberties Union.

Ben Wizner is the director of ACLU’s Speech, Privacy and Technology Project, which is dedicated to protecting and expanding the First Amendment freedoms of expression, association, and inquiry; expanding the right to privacy and increasing the control that individuals have over their personal information; and ensuring that civil liberties are enhanced rather than compromised by new advances in science and technology.

He has litigated numerous cases involving post-9/11 civil liberties abuses, including challenges to airport security policies, government watchlists, extraordinary rendition, and torture. He has appeared regularly in the media, testified before Congress, and traveled several times to Guantanamo Bay to monitor military commission proceedings.

Wizner is a graduate of Harvard College and New York University School of Law and was a law clerk to the Hon. Stephen Reinhardt of the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

Recorded Nov. 2, 2015 at Lake Forest College