Faculty Programming
Ripon hosts a variety of professional symposia throughout the academic year for faculty to share their research and learn from each other. Visit the Faculty Events calendar for information on times and room locations.
Brown Bag Lunches
Spring Semester
Feb. 15: Randall Salm, Visiting, Sociology – “Ethnic Identity and Ethnic Group Relations in Syria”
Feb. 22: Jason Carbaugh, Visiting, Biology – research
Mar. 1: Tom Hamami, Business Management -“A Dynamic Theory of Political Slant in News Media”
Mar. 8: Matt Knoester, Educational Studies – “Why do young adults vote at low rates? Implications for Education”
Mar. 15 Spring Break
Mar. 22 no BBL
Mar. 29 no BBL
Apr. 5: Nicholas Eastman, Educational Studies – research
Apr. 12: Fan Zhang, Business Management – “Conditional Fama-French Five Factor Model: A Semiparametric Approach”
Apr. 19: Kurt Dietrich, Music: “A New Book: New Writing Challenges” (book on Wisconsin jazz musicians)
Apr. 26: Skip Wittler, Biology – research
Faculty Scholarship Series
Spring Semester
Tuesday, February 27
Herve Some: “The Construction of Africa in American High School Social Studies Textbooks”
11:15-12:15 p.m., East Hall Little Theatre
Wednesday, April 4
Travis Nygard, Associate Professor of Art
4:15-5:15 p.m., Rodman 147
Ceresco Research Workshop
The Ceresco Research Workshop in the Humanities and Human Sciences is a faculty forum for sharing and discussing written work-in-progress — typically pre-circulated but unpublished research articles, book chapters, and other essays of about 15 to 50 double-spaced manuscript pages — in a roundtable session lasting 1 1/4 hours. It is open to all faculty members who are willing to read the paper ahead of time and participate in the conversation. The purpose is to help Ripon’s outstanding teacher-scholars bring research projects to completion and to provide a seminar-like setting for the interdisciplinary exchange of ideas.
Each paper will be available approximately 10 days before the related session. Email Brian Bockelman for a copy.
Wednesday, September 18 @ 4:15-5:30 in Bartlett 205
Ursula Dalinghaus (Anthropology), “When Cash is the Tie That Binds: Denominating Affective Monetary Attachments in Germany and the Euro Zone”
Tuesday, October 8 @ 4:15-5:30 in Bartlett 205
Steve Martin (Communication) and Henrik Schatzinger (Politics and Government), “Game Changers: How Super PACs and Dark Money are Transforming U.S. Campaigns”
Wednesday, November 13 @ 4:15-5:30 in Bartlett 205
Ann Pleiss Morris (English), “Cleopatra’s Company: Mary Sidney Herbert, Shakespeare, and Staging Women in the Early Modern Theatre”
Visiting Writer Series
Spring Semester
Wednesday, February 28: Maggie Smith, author of Good Bones and The Well Speaks of its Own Poison
North Reading Room, Lane Library
Monday, April 23: Danez Smith, author of Don’t Call Us Dead
North Reading Room, Lane Library