The Humanities Institute is hosting our Fall 2017 Difficult Dialogues Public Forum on October 30th. This year, we will be screening Ava DuVernay’s award-winning 13TH, a documentary that explores the U.S. prison system and its roots in slavery, at 6PM in the Avaya Auditorium (POB 2.302). Following the screening, we will host a panel of faculty speakers and a criminal justice organizer from Grassroots Action. During the panel session, students will have a chance to practice engaging in dialogue with each other on the topic.

Our public forums are primarily geared toward undergraduates interested in methods of conducting dialogue on difficult topics, and are linked to our Difficult Dialogues courses (although students do not need to be enrolled in a DD course to attend!). A link to RSVP can be found here, and the event information on our website can be found here.