Designed to stimulate student reflection on the nature of liberal arts and a liberal arts approach to learning, this year’s annual Argument and Inquiry Seminar Convocation will be presented by Carleton College professor of economics, Stephen Strand. Entitled “Either Appear As You Are, Or Be As You Appear,” Strand’s presentation will highlight the ways which scholars ask questions, discover and evaluation information, and effectively and ethically construct arguments.
This event takes places Friday, Sept. 26 from 10:50 to 11:50 a.m. in the Skinner Memorial Chapel and is free and open to the public. His presentation will also be recorded and archived for listening online atgo.carleton.edu/convo/.
Strand is the Carleton College Raymond Plank Professor of Incentive Economics. Professor Strand, who earned his Ph.D. at Vanderbilt University, came to economics after a stint in the Peace Corps in Turkey and regularly teaches a course on the economics of the European Union. He also teaches courses in managerial economics and other applied microeconomics topics including regulatory economics, a topic on which he has published several articles and done consulting and research. He has directed the Carleton Economics Department's Cambridge Program, co-directed Carleton off campus studies programs in France, and Egypt, Turkey, and Morocco, and in the fall term of 2013 was an Affiliate Visiting Professor at Georgetown University's McGhee Center for Eastern Mediterranean Studies in Alanya, Turkey.
This event is sponsored by the Carleton College Convocations Committee. For more information, including disability accommodations, call (507) 222-4308. The Skinner Memorial Chapel is located at the corner of College and First Streets in Northfield.
