What is the Honors Institute?

The Honors Institute is a multi-track learning experience that includes a provocative community event. Its purpose is to prepare Honors students to think beyond their academic training and to make it a habit of incorporating this training into larger, humanistic considerations of the common good. Focusing each year on a different contemporary intellectual issue of ethical importance, the Institute consists of:

• two interdisciplinary Honors seminars.
• a civic engagement project for Honors seminar students.
• a community keynote address, free and open to the public, delivered by a figure of national or international prominence.
• a community day-long symposium, free and open to the public, consisting of small, intensive discussion sessions run by regional experts and humanities scholars.
  

What is this year's topic?

The 2009 Honors Institute will explore various interdisciplinary approaches to free speech.

What will happen at the Institute Symposium?

The 2009 Institute Symposium on Free Speech in the Global Community will consist of a combination of inquiry and action sessions:

• Morning sessions will be facilitated by regional academic experts on a variety of topics related to free speech.
• Afternoon sessions will feature interactive workshops facilitated by representatives from community organizations.
  

In addition, community organizations will present their organizations' work and conduct outreach at informational tables and displays.

What is the location and date of Kristof's keynote address?

Kristof's keynote address will be held on Monday, January 26, 2009, at 7:00 p.m. in the Student Union Apollo Room on Wright State University's Main Campus in Dayton, Ohio. The keynote address is free and open to the public, and tickets are not required.

What is the location and date of the Honors Institute Symposium?

The 2009 Honors Institute Symposium will be held on Tuesday, January 27, 2009, from 8:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. in the WSU Student Union. Lunch will be provided and will feature Eleanor Clift as the luncheon speaker. The Symposium is free and open to the public, but space is limited and advance registration is required. Online registration will be available in December.