Upcoming Ed Portal event: JuryX: Deliberations for Social Change, Interactive Workshop in Active Citizenship Part I

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Faculty Speaker: Charles Nesson Part I

Tuesday, October 18, 2016, 6:30pm

Harvard Ed Portal, 224 Western Ave., Allston

Faculty Speaker: Charles Nesson
JuryX: Deliberations for Social Change, Interactive Workshop in Active Citizenship Part I

What is the citizen's role in deciding guilt? Is the loudest juror in the room more entitled to an opinion than the soft-spoken counterpart? And is a "difficult topic" a good enough excuse for a one-sided discussion?

In the first installment of a two-part workshop series, Charles Nesson, Weld Professor of Law at Harvard and founder of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society (now the Berkman Klein Center), will discuss his research on facilitating meaningful dialogue in the classroom, through the lens of JuryX: Deliberations for Social Change, an open online course that Nesson is teaching this year.

Using a mock criminal case on gun law, workshop participants will experience firsthand Nesson's method for processing and approaching a dilemma.

This workshop is part of a two-part series. We encourage you to sign up and attend JuryX: Deliberations for Social Change, Interactive Workshop in Active Citizenship Part II as well.