June 13, 2023
1:00PM, 5:00PM
June 14, 2023
1:00PM, 5:00PM
This is a live streamed event on Zoom.
June 13
1pm Welcome, SPA Dean Vicky Wilkins
1:15 pm Session 1
“How do we define the scope and nature of the dialogue we are hoping to foster on campuses?”
Keynote: Ron Elving, Professorial Lecturer, American University School of Public Affairs and Senior Editor and Correspondent, NPR.
Dialogue facilitated by: Vicky Wilkins, AU School of Public Affairs
3pm Session 2
“What do we need to know about the “problem” of dialogue on campuses?”
Keynote: Dr. Elizabeth Niehaus, Associate Professor, University of Nebraska, Lincoln and Senior Fellow, University of California National Center for Free Speech and Civic Engagement
Dialogue facilitated by: Joseph Young, AU School of Public Affairs
June 14
1pm Session 3
“What would it take to make dialogue and shared uncertainty a more palatable default state on campuses?”
Keynote: Dr. Taffye Benson Clayton, Associate Provost and Vice President for Inclusion and Diversity, Auburn University
Dialogue facilitated by: Thomas Merrill, AU School of Public Affairs
2:45pm Session 4
“What role can faculty play in changing the national conversation about the challenge of dialogue on our campuses?”
Keynote: Dr. Carlos E Cortes, Professor Emeritus of History, University of California, Riverside
Dialogue facilitated by: Agatha Caraballo, Florida International University
Suggested Readings:
‘Actually, You Don’t Know That Much’ – Ilana Redstone, Tablet Magazine
‘Here’s what was really going on in the fracas at Stanford Law’ – Ilana Redstone, The Washington Post
‘Strategies for Current Challenges in Dialogue Facilitation’
‘Managing Difficult Classroom Discussions’, Indiana University Bloomington, Center for Innovative Teaching and Learning
‘Difficult Dialogues’, Vanderbilt University, Center for Teaching
‘In the Battle for Tenure, Words Matter’, Deepa Das Acevdeo, Inside Higher Ed
‘Speech vs. Diversity, Diversity vs. Speech’, Carlos E. Cortés, American Diversity Report
Committee of Concerned Journalists: The Principles of Journalism, Leighton Walker Kille
'What Should Free Speech Mean in College?', Jill Patton, Stanford Magazine
'The First Amendment Does Not Give Protestors a Heckler's Veto', Jenny Martinez, Stanford Magazine