{"id":10792,"date":"2018-05-08T15:12:00","date_gmt":"2018-05-08T19:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/?p=10792"},"modified":"2022-04-04T10:50:44","modified_gmt":"2022-04-04T14:50:44","slug":"hilberry-symposium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/hilberry-symposium\/","title":{"rendered":"Journalist to Deliver Hilberry Symposium Keynote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Kalamazoo College English Department will conduct its annual Hilberry Symposium, which honors English majors and their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/k-plan\/sip\/\">Senior Individualized Projects<\/a>, this Friday and Saturday.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_10795\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10795\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10795\" src=\"\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2018\/05\/Hilberry-Symposium-Keynote-Speaker-Lauren-Trager-300x411.jpg\" alt=\"Hilberry Symposium Keynote Speaker Lauren Trager\" width=\"300\" height=\"411\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2018\/05\/Hilberry-Symposium-Keynote-Speaker-Lauren-Trager-300x411.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2018\/05\/Hilberry-Symposium-Keynote-Speaker-Lauren-Trager-110x150.jpg 110w, https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2018\/05\/Hilberry-Symposium-Keynote-Speaker-Lauren-Trager-219x300.jpg 219w, https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2018\/05\/Hilberry-Symposium-Keynote-Speaker-Lauren-Trager.jpg 460w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10795\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lauren Trager &#8217;07, an investigative journalist for KMOV-TV in St. Louis, will kick off the annual Hilberry Symposium with a keynote at 6:30 p.m. Friday in the Olmsted Room.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Lauren Trager \u201907, an investigative journalist for KMOV-TV in St. Louis, will kick off the event with a keynote at 6:30 p.m. Friday in the Olmsted Room. Trager has spent most of her career as a reporter and anchor through the newspaper, radio and television industries, and has also worked in government. She worked as an anchor and reporter at KARK-TV in Little Rock, Arkansas, before arriving in St. Louis in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>SIP presentation panels will run concurrently from 1:30 to 5:30 p.m. Saturday after an opening session at 1 p.m. at 103 <a href=\"https:\/\/map.concept3d.com\/?id=198#!m\/182204\">Dewing Hall<\/a>. A reception at the <a href=\"https:\/\/map.concept3d.com\/?id=198#!m\/184606\">Arcus Center<\/a> will follow.<\/p>\n<p>The Hilberry Symposium was named for late Professor Emeritus Conrad Hilberry, who was the founder of the creative writing program at K. The event resembles a professional conference, where scholars and writers share their work and acknowledge each other&#8217;s achievements. Alumni, nominated through English Department faculty, have served as keynote speakers for the event since 2001.<\/p>\n<p>Since the first Hilberry Symposium in 2000, the event has been an important collective experience for the graduating class as a ritual of remembrance and celebration. With English Department faculty members, family and friends also attending, English majors have developed a community through the symposium that has evolved over time, with the love of language as its enduring center.<\/p>\n<p>Visit its website for more information on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/programs\/english\/\">English Department<\/a> and the Hilberry Symposium.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Kalamazoo College English Department will conduct its annual Hilberry Symposium, which honors English majors and their Senior Individualized Projects, this Friday and Saturday. 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id=\"caption-attachment-10795\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lauren Trager &#8217;07, an investigative journalist for KMOV-TV in St. Louis, will kick off the annual Hilberry Symposium with a keynote at 6:30 p.m. Friday in the Olmsted Room.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Lauren Trager \u201907, an investigative journalist for KMOV-TV in St. Louis, will kick off the event with a keynote at 6:30 p.m. Friday in the Olmsted Room. Trager has spent most of her career as a reporter and anchor through the newspaper, radio and television industries, and has also worked in government. She worked as an anchor and reporter at KARK-TV in Little Rock, Arkansas, before arriving in St. Louis in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>SIP presentation panels will run concurrently from 1:30 to 5:30 p.m. Saturday after an opening session at 1 p.m. at 103 <a href=\"https:\/\/map.concept3d.com\/?id=198#!m\/182204\">Dewing Hall<\/a>. A reception at the <a href=\"https:\/\/map.concept3d.com\/?id=198#!m\/184606\">Arcus Center<\/a> will follow.<\/p>\n<p>The Hilberry Symposium was named for late Professor Emeritus Conrad Hilberry, who was the founder of the creative writing program at K. The event resembles a professional conference, where scholars and writers share their work and acknowledge each other&#8217;s achievements. Alumni, nominated through English Department faculty, have served as keynote speakers for the event since 2001.<\/p>\n<p>Since the first Hilberry Symposium in 2000, the event has been an important collective experience for the graduating class as a ritual of remembrance and celebration. With English Department faculty members, family and friends also attending, English majors have developed a community through the symposium that has evolved over time, with the love of language as its enduring center.<\/p>\n<p>Visit its website for more information on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/programs\/english\/\">English Department<\/a> and the Hilberry Symposium.<\/p>\n","comment_info":"No Comments","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/147"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10792"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16478,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10792\/revisions\/16478"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10792"},{"taxonomy":"post_format","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_formats?post=10792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}