Lectures and Performances

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

Aleks Petrovic, ’14 and 2L at Tulane, talks about law school and philosophy as preparation for the study of law.

Professor Miles Kimball is an eminent research economist. He speaks at central banks internationally on the conduct of monetary and macroeconomic policy, and is a prolific writer and researcher in the fields of monetary and financial theory, business cycle theory and stabilization policy. He is a professor of Economics and Survey Research at the Department of Economics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

Recorded Sept. 1, 2015 at Lake Forest College

The Lake Forest College Class of 2015 will graduate on May 9, 2015 at Ravinia Festival Park, a covered, open-air facility 11 miles south of campus in Highland Park, Illinois. The parking lot opens at 9 a.m. Tickets are required to attend, but we’ll broadcast the ceremony live online. Commencement begins at 10:15 a.m. and ends at approximately 12:30 p.m.

10:15am - 12:30pm CDT May 9

With its Spring publishing party, Tusitala celebrated its annual publication in the fullest sense of the word! This release party was even bigger than before, featuring everything from open mic performances, art exhibitions, and literary readings, to free food, prize giveaways, and excessive bonhomie! The publishing party was April 23, 2015, from 7:30 – 9:30 p.m. in the Center for Chicago Programs, and celebrated the boundless creativity of Lake Forest College and its students!