Welcome to the twenty-fifth installment of the Project on Civil Discourse’s Weekly News Digest, hosted on our Real Talk blog. In Case You Missed It Earlier this semester, the Project on Civil Discourse hosted two events on political discourse, which were recorded, captioned, and just published to our YouTube channel. Make sure to subscribe! In […]
Author: Daniel Ritter
Weekly News Digest, No. 24
Welcome to the twenty-fourth installment of the Project on Civil Discourse’s Weekly News Digest, hosted on our Real Talk blog. Student Discussions Are you interested in the role of political, social, and racial identity in speech? Do you want to talk with your peers about campus speech, civility, or post-truth conversations? The Project on Civil […]
Weekly News Digest, No. 23
Welcome to the twenty-third installment of the Project on Civil Discourse’s Weekly News Digest, hosted on our Real Talk blog. Last week, the regular digest was replaced with a special edition focused on President Trump’s executive order on campus free speech. Last Monday, Kira Pyne wrote about her experiences studying abroad in Copenhagen and the […]
Weekly News Digest, Special Edition on Free Speech Order
Welcome to a special edition of the Project on Civil Discourse’s Weekly News Digest, hosted on our Real Talk blog. On Thursday, President Trump signed an executive order protecting free speech on the campuses of colleges and universities. Director Lara Schwartz spoke with Wisconsin Public Radio on Monday evening about the order and its implications […]
Asking to Understand: Having Productive Conversations Abroad
By Kira Pyne, AU SPA ’20 I have spent the past two months studying abroad in Copenhagen, Denmark at the Danish Institute for Study Abroad (DIS), focusing on terrorism and counterterrorism from a European perspective. Classes at DIS focus on learning outside of the classroom, and my terrorism course took a week-long study tour around […]
Weekly News Digest, No. 22
Welcome to the twenty-second installment of the Project on Civil Discourse’s Weekly News Digest, hosted on our Real Talk blog. Student Discussions Are you interested in the role of political, social, and racial identity in speech? Do you want to talk with your peers about campus speech, civility, or post-truth conversations? The Project on Civil […]
Weekly News Digest, No. 21
Welcome to the twenty-first installment of the Project on Civil Discourse’s Weekly News Digest, hosted on our Real Talk blog. Student Discussions Are you interested in the role of political, social, and racial identity in speech? Do you want to talk with your peers about campus speech, civility, or post-truth conversations? The Project on Civil […]
Weekly News Digest, No. 20
Welcome to the twentieth installment of the Project on Civil Discourse’s Weekly News Digest, hosted on our Real Talk blog. Upcoming Events On Monday, March 4th, Floyd Abrams will participate in a Q&A session about the Supreme Court and free speech at the Washington College of Law. To RSVP, click here. On Wednesday, March 6th, […]
Weekly News Digest, No. 19
Welcome to the nineteenth installment of the Project on Civil Discourse’s Weekly News Digest, hosted on our Real Talk blog. Director Lara Schwartz and Daniel Ritter co-authored an article on civil discourse that appeared in the Winter 2019 issue of Academe. They discussed the importance of cultivating civil discourse in the classroom and outlined best […]
Student Journalism’s Voice in Campus Discourse is Vital
By Samantha McAllister, AU SIS ’21 Due to the current social climate, we are seeing attacks on media and journalism. As the death of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi fades from headlines, the necessary role that dedicated journalists play in how we as a society speak to each other is increasingly highlighted, or dismissed, by […]