REMINDER–Dean Peter Loewen RED Talk on Tuesday 9/29
Our next RED Talk features Peter Loewen, Dean of the College of Arts & Sciences and professor of Government. Peter is a world class social scientist who has studied the politics of polarization. Last Fall Peter gave a riveting, insightful and timely talk titled “Reducing Political Polarization“. As he observed, polarization is at an all time high, and this polarization increasingly creeps into daily life, with people choosing what to buy, where to live and whom to date, on political grounds.
On Tuesday, September 29th at 8:00 pm ET Peter will be talking about this topic from a different angle—are there ways to foster dialogue in order to reduce polarization? Peter has some answers to this derived from a course he started last Fall called “Disagreement”. This course is intended to teach undergrads how to engage and disagree (and even agree) constructively. There are certainly some lessons in here for us Baby Boomers.
Fun Fact: The word “empathy” (an antidote to polarization) was first coined in the U.S. in 1909 by Edward Titchener, a professor at Cornell. Who knew?!?
Hope you will tune in on the 29th for what should be a very interesting and insightful Zoom talk!
