Community Conversations
Exploring Issues of Civic Responsibility
Facing History and Ourselves and The Allstate Foundation present a series of community-wide dialogues across the US. Prominent scholars, authors, filmmakers, and policy leaders will speak and participate in discussions about civic engagement, individual and collective responsibility and tolerance.
Facing History and Ourselves recently completed our spring 2010 series of Community Conversations that included seven great events featuring Congressman John Lewis, Daniel Goldhagen, Artemis Joukowsky, Nicholas Kristof, Judy Shepard, and Sheryl WuDunn. The events were attended by over 2,400 students, educators, and community members, and Facing History partnered with over 25 other local community organizations to help share these events with new audiences.
Planning for our fall series of underway. Stay tuned for upcoming events to be announced soon!
Highlights from Past Community Conversations | |
Nicholas Kristof, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and co-author of Half the Sky Dr. Paul Farmer, founder of Partners in Health Lisa See, author of Shanghai Girls Authors Alex Kotlowitz and Sonia Nazario, in conversation about immigration Marian Wright Edelman, president of the Children's Defense Fund and author of The Sea Is So Wide and My Boat Is So Small Marco Williams, director of the documentary film Banished Mona Golabek, author of Children of Willesden Lane and concert pianist Film as a Catalyst for Social Change Don Cheadle & John Prendergast | Azar Nafisi, of Reading "Lolita" in Tehran: A Memoir in Books San Francisco, November 9, 2006 Taking an Active Role in African Affairs, with Romeo Dallaire Lessons of the Civil Rights Movement and Today, featuring Terrence Roberts, Judith Vecchione, & Sandra Robbie in Los Angeles, October 26, 2006 Marco Williams and Whitney Dow, documentary film directors of I Sit Where I Want: The Legacy of Brown v. Board of Education Courage and Rescue During the Rwandan Genocide, featuring Paul Rusesabagina Transformation in a Time of Democratic Fever, featuring Justice Albie Sachs and Vanessa September James Fallows, national correspondent for the Atlantic Monthly The Role of Media in a Democracy, featuring Jerry Mitchell Responsibility and Choice in our Global Community, featuring Carl Wilkens Escape from Slavery, featuring Francis Bok |
For information about Community Conversations, email info@facing.org.
