2019-2020 Conversation Series
Previous Presidential Events:
Previous Academic-Hosted Events:
August 22 — Inclusion & Diversity 101: Building an Inclusive Workplace Community – Authenticity. Awareness. Appreciation.
1-4:30 p.m.
Sponsor: Equity Office
September 5 — Provost’s Faculty Forum – Contextual is Embodied is Transformational Learning: A Risky Business
12:30-1:30 p.m.
Sponsor: Academy for Teaching and Learning
September 12 — Boundary Breaking Women’s Panel
3:30-4:30 p.m.
Sponsor: Women’s and Gender Studies
September 17 — Provost’s Faculty Forum – The Role of Listening in Civil Discourse & Global Engagement: Fostering Effective Listening Practices in the Classroom
12:30-1:30 p.m.
Sponsor: Academy for Teaching & Learning
September 17 — Constitution Day Lecture
3-5 p.m.
Sponsor: Office of the Provost
September 17 — Christianity and LGBTQ+ Persons
Justin Lee, Christian LGBT author
6:30 p.m.
Sponsor: Diana R. Garland School of Social Work
Cashion Academic Center, 5th floor
September 20 — Inclusion & Diversity 101: Building an Inclusive Workplace Community – Authenticity. Awareness. Appreciation.
9 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
Sponsor: Equity Office
September 23 — Provost’s Faculty Forum – Cultivating International Reciprocity in the Classroom
11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
Sponsor: Academy for Teaching and Learning
September 23 — Roads and Mountains: A Conversation with David Brooks
David Brooks, New York Times columnist and bestselling author
7 p.m.
Please join us for an evening with New York Times columnist and bestselling author David Brooks. Alan Jacobs of Baylor’s Honors College and ISR will talk with Mr. Brooks about character formation, life challenges, unexpected journeys and other matters that just might be more important than politics. Copies of Mr. Brooks’s books will be available for sale, and he will be happy to sign them. Free registration is open on our website.
Sponsor: Institute for Studies of Religion
September 25 — If You’re Breathing, You’re Biased
1-3:15 p.m.
Sponsor: Equity Office
October 3 - Provost’s Faculty Forum – Hospitality in Antiquity
12:30-1:30 p.m.
Sponsor: Academy for Teaching and Learning
October 9 — Inclusion & Diversity 101: Building Inclusive Workplace Community – Authenticity. Awareness. Appreciation.
9 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
Sponsor: Equity Office
October 17 — If You’re Breathing, You’re Biased
10 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
Sponsor: Equity Office
November 6 — Inclusion & Diversity 101: Building Inclusive Workplace Community – Authenticity. Awareness. Appreciation
12:30-4 p.m.
Sponsor: Equity Office
November 7 — Provost’s Faculty Forum – The Art of Being a Guest
12:30-1:30 p.m.
Sponsor: Academy for Teaching and Learning
November 13 — Provost’s Faculty Forum – Loving our Neighbor: Global Learning & Intersectionality
11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
Sponsor: Academy for Teaching and Learning
November 13 — If You’re Breathing, You’re Biased
1-3:15 p.m.
Sponsor: Equity Office
Recommended Readings from Baylor Faculty:
David D. Corey, Ph.D., Professor of Political Science and Associate Director of Baylor in Washington program
- Speak Freely: Why Universities Must Defend Free Speech by Prof. Keith Whittington
- Kindly Inquisitors: The New Attacks on Free Thought – by Jonathan Rauch of Brookings Institute (Foreword by George Will)
- HATE: Why We Should Resist It with Free Speech, not Censorship by Nadine Strossen
- Restoring Free Speech and Liberty on Campus by Donald Alexander Downs
- Campus Politics: What Everyone Needs to Know by Jonathan Zimmerman
- Free Speech on Campus by Erwin Chemerinsky and Howard Gillman
Greg Garrett, Ph.D., Professor of English and 2013 Baylor Centennial Professor
- Our country is so polarized – here’s how to still have a meaningful conversation
- Scene & unseen: Facing race through film
Mia Moody-Ramirez, Ph.D., Chair and Professor of Journalism, Public Relations and New Media
- Live Social Media Can Be a Positive - or a Peril - When It Comes to Sharing Tragedies and Hot-button Issues, Baylor Expert Says
- Why You Shouldn’t Be So Quick to Click the Unfriend Button
Gaynor Yancey, D.S.W., Professor, Lake Family Endowed Chair in Congregational and Community Health, Director of the Center for Church and Community Impact
Lacy McNamee, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Communication
Brooke Blevins, Ph.D., Associate Professor and Chair of Curriculum & Instruction, Baylor School of Education
Perry Glanzer, Ph.D., Professor of Educational Leadership, Fellow, Baylor Institute for Studies of Religion
- Restoring the Soul of the University: Unifying Christian Higher Education in a Fragmented Age (Intervarsity, 2017)
- The Idea of a Christian College: A Reexamination for Today’s University (Cascade, 2013)
- Christianity and Moral Identity in Higher Education (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2009)
- Christian Faith and Scholarship: An Exploration of Contemporary Developments: ASHE Higher Education Report, Volume 33, Number 2 (Jossey-Bass, 2007)
Alan Jacobs, Ph.D., Distinguished Professor of the Humanities in the Honors Program
- How to Think: A Survival Guide for a World at Odds (Currency, 2017)