Jonathan Alger, Kourtney Bradshaw-Clay, Ronald A. Crutcher, Riley Davis, Rebecca Russo, Rachel L. Wahl
What is the impact on college students when they participate in structured dialogue across political differences? The featured speakers lead campus and national initiatives to make “bridge building,” “deliberative dialogue,” and “engagement with viewpoint diversity” a higher-education priority.
Jacqueline Arthur-Montagne, Emily Burrill, Christopher Carter, Oludamini Ogunnaike, Kristina Richardson, Jhanisse Vaca-Daza
How are practices and concepts related to democracy articulated in different cultural contexts? Faculty members gather to discuss three specific examples: the classical ancient world, indigenous Latin America, and Islamic societies.
Prudence Layne, Roosevelt Montás, Josiah Ober, Carol Geary Schneider, Trygve Throntveit
Scholar-teachers discuss promising national initiatives to revitalize democracy learning, help students explore alternative conceptions of the democratic promise, and give precollegiate learners from underserved communities meaningful access to studies that foster humanity, expression, civic inquiry, and social power.
Democracy Day: Art and Democracy in American History,” hosted by the National Museum of American History, the University of Virginia's Karsh Institute of Democracy, and the U.S. Department of State’s Office of Art in Embassies.
UVA history professors Caroline Janney and Elizabeth Varon discuss Janney's book "Ends of War: The Unfinished Fight of Lee's Army After Appomattox."