Previous Colloquiums and Reports

Colloquium Reports for Fall 2021:

Report on Is the existence of privileged groups essential to the functioning of societies? October 21, 2021 Chair: Daphne Maurer

Colloquium Reports for Winter 2019:

January 17 at 2 PM: The Future of Retirement
Chair and organizer: Peter Russell

Colloquium Reports for Fall 2018:

Report on the Senior College Colloquium on China: The Giant in the Room – September 20, 2018

October 18 at 2 PM: Should there be limits to free speech in universities?
Chair and organizer: Phil Sullivan

November 15 at 2 PM: Is depression a malady or an evolutionary adaptation?
Chair and organizer: Charles Maurer

Colloquium Reports for Spring 2018:

Report on the Senior College Colloquium on Fundamentalism: Why was there a resurgence of fundamentalism in the second half of the 20th century? – May 10, 2018

Report on the Senior College Colloquium The Slow Professor: Challenging the Culture of Change – June 14, 2018

Colloquium Reports for Winter 2018:

Report on the Alternatives to Reconciliation: Indigenous Peoples in Canada – January 18, 2018

Report on the Senior College Colloquium on The Populist Challenge to the Universities – February 15, 2018

Report on the Senior College Colloquium on The Opioid Epidemic, Senior College colloquium – March 22, 2018

Colloquium Reports for Fall 2017:

Report on the Senior College Colloquium on State Punishment and Private Prisons – September 28, 2017

Report on the Senior College Colloquium on East Meets Modern Secular West: Two Examples from India – 26 October 2017

What are the Roots of Discrimination against Women? – November 30, 2017
Chair: Margrit Eichler

Colloquium Reports for Winter 2017:

Report on the Senior College Colloquium on Race – January 19, 2017

Report on the Senior College Colloquium on Post-Truth – February 23, 2017

Report on the Senior College Colloquium on Ageism March 23, 2017

Colloquium Reports for Fall 2016:

Report on the Senior College Colloquium on the Military Use of Drones – October 13, 2016

Report on the Senior College Colloquium on Working Class Alienation and the Rise of Right-Wing Populism – November 10, 2016

Report on the Senior College Colloquium on the Modern Graphic Novel – December 1, 2016