All-College Symposium 2019

The entire campus community participated in the inaugural All-College Symposium on Nov. 7.

View the gallery of images from the All-College Symposium.

In front of an auditorium full of students, faculty and staff, Maryum Qasim ’20 laid out her proposal for stricter regulation of armed drone use in U.S. warfare. 

“Drones have proven to be America’s most effective war tool. Drone technology is not going away and it is developing rapidly. To ensure sustainable international security, we need more specific laws and more transparency,” said Qasim, who has been conducting international research on conventional arms issues for the last four years. 

Qasim, an international relations major and scholar in the Toor Cummings Center for International Studies and the Liberal Arts (CISLA), was one of 165 seniors who presented at the inaugural All-College Symposium, a day-long event highlighting students’ integrative learning in Connections, the College’s reinvention of the liberal arts. Through 10-minute talks, poster sessions, performances, screenings and exhibitions, students who participate in the College’s 13 Integrative Pathways and five Centers for Interdisciplinary Scholarship showcased how their coursework and experiences have informed their studies and learning over four years.

President Katherine Bergeron said the inaugural Symposium was a thrilling display of the intellectual and creative energy of the campus.

“The student voice at Connecticut College was never louder, never more creative, never more powerful than I experienced it today,” she said. “It was such a sharing and such an expression of what this community is about.”