University of Wisconsin-Madison graduate student Paul Hansen will be featured in Thursday’s Humanities Hackathon, an interactive monthly discussion series run by the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery and the Center of the Humanities, according to a WID statement.
Hansen, a Ph.D. candidate in the English Department, will present Campus Debate, a startup company he founded with the intent of providing a platform for intercollegiate student debate on current issues. The debates will be broadcast and allow viewer participation through social media.
Hansen said he was inspired to create Campus Debate after realizing that college students are often unfairly represented by the media.
“I can’t think of an example on television of college age students having an intelligent conversation with each other,” he said.
The event, which is free and open to the public, will be held at 3 p.m. in the Researchers’ Link on the second floor of the Discovery Building.
