Contact information
Name:
Professor Chawne Kimber
Phone:
610.330.5269
Email:
kimberc@lafayette.edu
Categories:
When:
Monday, October 31, 2016 - 12:00pm - 1:00pm
Where:
the Marlo Room (Farinon)
Price:
Free
Kaleidoscope is a student organization whose mission is "to foster greater social justice awareness and facilitate intercultural conversation within our communities." One way that they pursue this mission is through workshops for students in various courses or groups and often the workshops are required activities for the audience. The Kaleidoscope students have questions for faculty about how to manage conversations with resistant audiences, a problem many of us have in common with them in our classrooms--no matter our division or discipline.
The Kaleidoscope students invite you to participate in small group conversations with them over lunch. Sample discussion questions include: How do you protect your self, values, and identity in the face of the resistance in an audience? And how do you (re)calibrate your relationships with the resistors based on revelations in the conversation? How do you facilitate a rigorous conversation with integrity? Is it necessary to make space for "balance" and "fairness" for all perspectives?
Sponsored by:
Co-sponsored by CITLS and Kaleidoscope