17吃瓜在线

• Tuesday, September 3rd: Disagree with a Professor Event in DMTI 111
• Tuesday, September 10th: Social Capitol Introductory Meeting in Kerwin 301
• Tuesday, September 27th: Disagree with the Constitution聽in Kerwin 301
• Friday, September 27th: Speaker Event with Jeremy Young, Director of the Freedom to Learn program at PEN America聽in MacDowell Formal Lounge

2024:

• Disagree with a Policy:聽Responses to 17吃瓜在线's then-newly-instituted policy limiting student expression.聽
• PCD x 17吃瓜在线SG President Santos:聽What does your ideal university as a space for dialogue and disagreement look like? A part of the "A(spirational)U series, allowing students to utilize dialogue to envision what 17吃瓜在线 can be.

2023:

• Can We Talk? Defining, Practicing, and Protecting Dialogue in Higher Education:聽A two-day series of facilitated online conversations explores the challenges of fostering open and inclusive communication in college classrooms and campuses and lays the foundation for future collaboration on pedagogy, research, and programming.
• "Disagree Like Your Life Depended on It":聽A talk on the Judge Duncan Stanford Law Protest with David Muraskin, Food Project Litigation Director, Public Justice, and Ian Millhiser, Senior Correspondent, Vox.聽
• Disagree with a Professor Series:聽
  • Professor Sasha O'Connell and lawful access/"going dark"
  • Professor Steven Taylor and urban politics聽
  • Professor Korneliya Bachiyska and ethical conflict
  • Professor Kevin Boyle and juvenile sentencing/justice
  • Professor Amaarah Decuir and Teach for America
  • Professor Andrew Karron and the Major Questions Doctrine
• Navigating Conflict on Campus in October 2023:聽Devising strategies to address communication roadblacks unique to Israel and Palestine.聽
• 叠补谤产别苍丑别颈尘别谤:听A facilitated dialogue focused on the trials and tribulations of the summer's competing blockbuster hits.聽
• School Curriculum Censorship:聽A group discussion on the rising levels of censorship in K-12 schools.聽
• Disagree with your Boss:聽A PCD and Graduate Leadership Council town hall with Professor Nate Favero.聽
• What Makes A Youth Leader?:聽A drop-in conversation with student Olivia Gauvin.
• The Search for a New President with SPA UGC:聽A cafe dialogue to discuss what students are looking for from the next 17吃瓜在线 president.聽
• Disagree with your Family:聽How can we communicate and have constructive dialogue with our family during the holidays?

2022:

• What's Going on with Covid-19?:聽Join peer facilitators for a discussion on the state of the pandemic and how it affects the 17吃瓜在线 and D.C. communities.聽
• Disagree with Professor Char Mollison:聽The Role of Dissent in Nonprofits: When Staff Openly Disagree with the Boss
• Peer Discussion Series:聽
  • Patriotism, Dissent, and Power:聽What is patriotism? How do you express it? Students will explore the meanings of and nexuses between patriotism, dissent, and power in the U.S.聽
  • Apology 101:聽Students will examine why people apologize, what constitutes a genuine apology, and what people need to do to truly make up for their past mistakes.聽
  • Paradox of Tolerance:聽The paradox of tolerance states that if a society is tolerant without limit, its ability to be tolerant is eventually destroyed by the intolerant. Students will explore the concept of tolerance with PCD peer facilitators.聽
  • Do Your Professor's Politics Matter?: In an age where political division is at an all time high and political debates are increasingly hostile, the roles of educators and academia are unique. Students will explore what the role of their professors is and if they should be apolitical vessels of knowledge.聽
• Thanksgiving鈥擱econciling Tradition and Tragedy:聽For many, Thanksgiving has been taught as a celebrated of unity between settlers and Native Americans. But the bloody history of the period and continued violence against Native peoples has caused many to rethink how and if Thanksgiving is worth celebrating.聽

2021:

• Peer Facilitated Discussions:
  • Mental Illness Discourse:聽Students will discuss if "crazy talk" affects community members with mental health disabilities and if so, how?
  • Marketplace of Ideas:聽Students will discuss how institutions dedicated to expanding knowledge deal with the junk in our marketplace of ideas.聽
  • Anger, Profanity and Forbidden Words:聽Students will discuss broad ideas surrounding moral coercion and delve into narrower areas such as cancel culture.聽

2020:

• Communication and Community in the Time of Social Distancing:
  • Inspired Higher Education Across Distance,聽with Prof. Kevin Gannon
  • Pride During the Covid-19 Era,聽with Charlotte Cloymer
  • Activism and Expression Across Distance,聽with Daniel Alejandro Leon-Davis
  • Parenting, Way Up Close,聽with Katherin Reynolds Lewis
  • Building Faith Remotely,聽with Rabbi Ruti Regan and Rev. Dr. Laura Norvell, Wesley Theological Seminary
• Reflections on Fairness with PCD Student Leaders:聽In this conversation, students will continue to reflect upon how their political, personal, spiritual, or other values and identities inform their perceptions of education and live in the COVID-19 crisis.聽They will engage in perspective taking and brainstorm effective ways to use their voices in support of equity and accessibility in this challenging time.
• Frustration and Fairness in the Covid-19 Era with Professor Lara Schwartz:聽In this conversation, students will continue to reflect upon how their political, personal, spiritual, or other values and identities inform their perceptions of education and live in the COVID-19 crisis.聽They will engage in perspective taking and brainstorm effective ways to use their voices in support of equity and accessibility in this challenging time.
• Free Speech, Student Activism, and Racial Justice鈥擜n ACLU Lawyer's Perspective:聽Join Emerson Sykes, staff聽attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and fellow at the National Center for Free Speech and Civic Engagement, for a discussion about racial justice and student activism. Refreshments will be provided.

2019:

• What's With 17吃瓜在线?:聽Join us in a panel discussion as we break down the mold of the typical 17吃瓜在线 student and the pressures of having constant internships and multiple leadership positions. This panel provides 17吃瓜在线 community members with an opportunity to better understand student life at 17吃瓜在线. Why is the typical 17吃瓜在线 student under these pressures? Who created these pressures? 17吃瓜在线 faculty and staff will be able to offer observations of student behavior and mindset over many generations or at different universities which they have taught at.

The Picture of Dorian Gray Talkback

November 9, 2019 | 3:00PM | Katzen 151

This talkback will take place among the will focus on the legacy of problematic authors and how to properly perform their work. Focusing around the example of Oscar Wilde and the Picture of Dorian Gray, we will explore how to separate, or not separate, authors and their writing. To participate in this event, you must have attended the play.

A Conversation with Louis Michael Seidman: Can Free Speech Be Progressive?

April 3, 2019 | 2:30PM | Hughes Formal Lounge

Louis Michael Seidman is the Carmack Waterhouse Professor of Constitutional Law at Georgetown Law. Seidman spoke about his work, "Can Free Speech Be Progressive?," outlining his arguments and discussing the constitutionalization of free speech and the tension between property and speech.

The Spring 2019 Global Education Forum: "Hate Comes to Campus"

March 28, 2019 | 2:30PM | SVB 6th Floor

Join Shannon Gilreath, Ibram X. Kendi, and Lara Schwartz for a panel discussion on free speech and the future of the campus community.

Conviction and Authenticity in Political Communication: A Conversation with Tyler Lewis

March 6, 2019 | 11:30AM | MGC 200

Tyler Lewis is the Director of Coalition Communications and Research at The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights. Lewis spoke about political communication, the importance of moral clarity and repetition, and the interplay between passion and anger.

Activism, Discourse, and Identity with 鈥淭he Monopoly Man.鈥�

November 1, 2018

Ian Madrigal (formerly Amanda Werner), an attorney and consumer advocate best known as 鈥淭he Monopoly Man,鈥� discussed the interplay of identity and discourse and how they use their voice and platform for activism.

Free Speech Isn't Free: A Conversation with Garrett Epps

October 17, 2018

Garrett Epps is a law professor at the University of Baltimore and a contributing editor for The Atlantic. Epps spoke about the complexity of free speech and the unequal burden it can present.

Project on Civil Discourse Guest Lecturer Examines First Amendment

Diversity of Opinion and Campus Speech: A Conversation with Josh Blackman

September 27, 2018

Josh Blackman is a law professor at the South Texas College of Law and a Cato Institute Adjunct Scholar. Blackman spoke about the role that free speech plays in education and his own experience with being protested.

Understanding the Role of Free Speech on Campus