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Who’s Laughing Now?
Comedy has arguably been one of the most protected forms of democratic free speech, but in recent years there has been an emergent chorus of voices seeking to limit the freedom of comedic speech. While some have argued that there are jokes a comedian must never tell, or topics that must be placed beyond the…
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Team Innovate Global
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National Screening of This Land
Join individuals across the country as we close the weekend of National Week of Conversation 2023 with the screening of This Land. About the Film: The lives of a diverse array of everyday Americans – including a Native American man grappling with his past, a bi-racial same-sex couple on opposite sides of the aisle, a Trump…
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What does it take to “listen first”?
Short video about Meetings of Opposites
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An Introduction to Meetings of Opposites
Meetings of Opposites is a curriculum of inquiries into the mechanism that produces perceptual blindness, readings in philosophy and hermeneutics, and activities adapted from Outward Bound. It provides the actual experience of common ground among people with irreconcilable opinions, replacing the mechanism of perception and the Us-Against-Them which perception inevitably produces.
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Dialogue, Difference, and Democracy: An NDOD Seminar
The National Day of Dialogue is a nationwide movement that stands up to division and polarization. Founded by Ideos Institute, the National Day of Dialogue (NDOD) is supported by national and international organizations working to build trust, connection, and a more empathic future through the transformative power of dialogue. Building upon the success of NDOD…
