During the Great Conversations 2018 Season Kickoff, three College of Liberal Arts faculty had a conversation with community members about how rigor and imagination can be used as robust tools for uniting a polarized society and shaping the future of our world.
With a 2017-2018 Great Conversations membership, donors receive membership to the 1870 Club for the 2018 calendar year.
How has the nation gotten so polarized, and what are some of the ways we can address that divisiveness?
"The stories we tell, about people and about history, are necessarily about place. By attending to the interactions between place and people and to the multiple stories these interactions tell—we discover a more complex understanding of London’s cathedral"
Communication studies professors examine how rhetoric influences perceptions of U.S., using Buffalo Bill as an example.
For firefighters, communication is a matter of life and death. This is a fact that Timothy Amidon understands better than most.
The changing nature of wildfire was the topic of the night at Great Conversations, a College of Liberal Arts speaker series featuring outstanding faculty who facilitate conversations about some of the most engaging topics in the arts, humanities and social sciences.