University Seminar - A Conversation with Provost Karen Hanson and Naomi Scheman March 26, 2012

230 Science Teaching & Student Services - Organized by the Institute for Advanced Study

Join us for a conversation between Provost Karen Hanson and Professor Naomi Scheman on what a twenty-first-century university might be. What exactly do we mean by excellence in higher education? How might we reweave the relationship between the public research university and the public in ways that are specifically responsive to the distinctive challenges of the twenty-first century?

Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs Karen Hanson is the University of Minnesota’s chief academic officer, with responsibility for managing the colleges and academic units, and the policies and practices that affect the academic life of the university. These include faculty affairs, including promotion and tenure; undergraduate and graduate education and student well-being; interdisciplinary collaboration among the sciences, social sciences, humanities, and professional schools; and the collegiate compact and budgeting process, which determine academic investments. Provost Hanson’s research interests are in the philosophy of mind, ethics and aesthetics, and American philosophy. She has published many articles and essays in these areas and is the author of The Self Imagined: Philosophical Reflections on the Social Character of Psyche and a co-editor of Romantic Revolutions: Criticism and Theory.

Naomi Scheman is a professor of Philosophy and of Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Minnesota and President of the University's chapter of the American Association of University Professors. Her many works include Engenderings: Constructions of Knowledge, Authority, and Privilege (1993) and Shifting Ground: Knowledge & Reality, Transgression & Trustworthiness (2011).

Official Website: http://www.ias.umn.edu/collabs11-12/UniversitySeminar.php