Initiatives
List of recent programs that promote dialogues and debates, presenting different points of view on timely topics
The Hop Talks series invites the Hopkins Community to engage in meaningful dialogue on critical issues, facilitated by expert scholars, faculty, and industry leaders.
This grant fund will support faculty endeavors to develop inspiring new ways to incorporate dialogue across difference into the classroom and campus life.
Open to Debate, the nation’s only nonpartisan, debate-driven media organization dedicated to bringing multiple viewpoints together for a constructive exchange of ideas, will be bringing their marquee debates to the Hopkins Bloomberg Center and the Homewood campus.
This series offers an opportunity for individuals of all viewpoints, opinions, and beliefs on the conflicts in the Middle East to hear from a variety of experts, express their own views, listen to others’ views, and ask questions.
At Democracy Day, our incoming students engaged in an interactive session on the art of civil discourse.
SNF Agora Institute hosts university debate initiative that aims to model the habits and virtues of reasoned debate across different perspectives.
SNF Agora’s new minor in civic life helps students gain skills to become engaged global citizens.
The Office of Diversity and Inclusion hosts an annual Longest Table event, a unique dining and dialogue experience.
The Bridge is a series of conversations bringing together bipartisan lawmakers at the Hopkins Bloomberg Center to discuss their areas of agreement.
Members of the JHU community are invited to develop skills in appreciative inquiry, creating a framework for listening across difference, perspective-taking, and community development.