by Leila Brammer
Dr. Leila Brammer is the Director of Outreach and Instructional Development, Parrhesia Program for Public Discourse at the University of Chicago. She studies and builds frameworks in which community members understand issues from multiple perspectives and work together to develop evidence-based approaches. As the inaugural Director of the University of Chicago’s Parrhesia Program for Public Discourse, she developed curricula, programming, and outreach to advance the Chicago Principles of Freedom of Expression and foster the capacity for vigorous, inclusive, and productive discourse in the classroom, campus, and civic life.
Discourse rests at the nexus of the entangling of academic inquiry, freedom of expression, democratic practices, and civic education. The testing and refining of ideas necessary for academic inquiry depends on the ability to seek and engage multiple perspectives. This presentation provides an understanding of discourse and classroom modes and practices that foster vigorous, inclusive, and productive discussion about, with, and across differences and disagreement.