Faculty Symposium

Members of the Duke community are invited to a faculty symposium that will explore the modern research university's role in public deliberation and extending the frontiers of human knowledge.

The symposium celebrates the inauguration of Vincent Price as Duke's tenth president.

Faculty Symposium
**Location changed** to Griffith Film Theater, Bryan Center
October 5, 2017
1 - 3:30 p.m.

MC: Peter Feaver
Panel I: The University and Public Deliberation

What is "public deliberation" and how do elite research universities contribute to it?

Panelists:

Philip Bennett, Moderator
D. Sunshine Hillygus
Robert Califf
Megan Mullin
Curtis Bradley
Vincent E. Price, Commentator

Panel II: The University and the Frontiers of Human Knowledge

What is the social good of "extending the frontiers of human knowledge" and what is Duke's role?

Panelists:

Abbas Benmamoun, Moderator
Robert Lefkowitz
Thavolia Glymph
Ingrid Daubechies
Guillermo Sapiro
Xi Lian
Sally Kornbluth, Commentator.

Advanced registration required.