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Sugden Institute Oration with Dr Leila Brammer
The Master/Head of College, Dr Stewart Gill OAM warmly invites you and your partner/guest to the next event in our Sugden Institute series. We are delighted to have Dr Leila Brammer who is our Sugden Fellow delivering the 2024 Sugden Oration.
Reclaiming Public Discourse: Freedom of Expression on Campus and in Communities
Dr Leila Brammer
Tuesday 26 March 2024
5:30pm arrival for 6pm oration followed by
drinks and canapés
Business attire
RSVP to Michele Mulder at rsvp@queens.unimelb.edu.au
Onsite parking is not available; Uber, taxi, trams recommended.
ORATION SYNOPSIS
Discourse rests at the nexus of open inquiry, freedom of expression, and democracy. The rigorous testing and refining of ideas necessary for pursuing knowledge and advancing democracy depend on the ability to seek out and engage multiple perspectives, differences, and disagreements. In the current climate of increasing tensions among groups and individuals, campuses and communities face numerous challenges in responding to, facilitating, navigating, and mediating public discourse. Placing the history and principles of freedom of expression in conversation with theory and practices reveals limitations of common modes of discourse and provides a framework for building the conditions and the capacities for vigorous, inclusive, and productive engagement about, with, and across differences and disagreements.
Dr 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 organizations and community members understand issues from multiple perspectives and work together to implement evidence-based approaches. She established a nationally recognized civic learning and engagement curriculum and a community-based public deliberation and dialogue program. At the University of Chicago, she works with individuals and institutions to develop curricula and programs to foster vigorous, inclusive, and productive discourse in classrooms, campuses, and civic life.