Fall 2026 Calendar
Lecture: Chad Alan Goldberg (UW–Madison, Sociology), “Education for Democracy: Renewing the Wisconsin Idea”
Lecture: David Hoeveler (UW-Milwaukee), “John Bascom and the Wisconsin Idea”
Lecture: Tom Purnell (UW–Madison, English), “Migration of English speakers and the Wisconsin Idea”
Lecture: Monica Macauley (UW–Madison, Language Sciences), “The Indigenous Languages of Wisconsin and the Wisconsin Idea”
Lecture: Joseph Salmons (UW–Madison, Language Sciences), “When did immigrants to Wisconsin learn English?”
Lecture: Michal Engelman (UW–Madison, Sociology), “On Wisconsin: People, Places, Health and Aging.”
Lecture: Kacie Lucchini Butcher (UW–Madison, Director of the Rebecca M. Blank Center for Campus History), “Reckoning with Our Past: Public History and the Wisconsin Idea”
Lecture: Cecelia Klingele (UW–Madison, Law), “UW-Law, State Criminal Justice Reform, and the Wisconsin Idea“
Lecture: Jillian Slaight (Wisconsin Legislative Reference Bureau) “If a member asks me to draft a bill to put a barrel of dynamite under the Capitol, I would draft it: Charles McCarthy and the Legislative Reference Bureau.”
Lecture: Steve Cramer (Emeritus UW–Madison, Engineering) “A Curiosity — Answered 100 Years Later“
Lecture: Tim Shiell (UW-Stout, Philosophy) “The Wisconsin Idea: Its Free Speech Legacy”
ecture: Afton Greco (UW-Stout, Philosophy), “Institutional Neutrality at Public Universities: Myth or Obligation?”
Lecture: Harry Brighouse (UW–Madison, Philosophy): “The Wisconsin Idea as an interpretation of the peculiar concept of a public university.”