What kind
of world have we inherited? What kind of world are we making?
What kind
of world are we leaving to the future?
Who will
speak? Who will listen?
Who’s
Responsible for the Future?
A
Roundtable Forum on Collaborative Futures across Generations
Monday, October 15,
2012, 5:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.
Frangipani Room, Indiana
Memorial Union (and satellite venues tba)
ARC–IU: Attention,
Reflection, Connection: Steps toward an Inclusive Campus
(A
coalition of students, staff, and faculty working together to build an
inclusive community on campus and beyond.)
In
response to our question, we invite you to
Propose a specific topic
and lead discussion at a table.
Register to participate in
discussion at a table.
Host a roundtable at your
center.
TIME LINE
Proposals will be accepted until September 21, 2012 at the
following website:
Not sure what to propose? Here are a few
sample topics:
“Co-producing a healthy community: focus
on (e.g., mental health)”
“War and peace in our local-global
Village”
“Leadership and making a difference”
“The future of food”
Registration to join a roundtable discussion will run from
September 14 to October 5, 2012
Sign up and also encourage your colleagues to sign up for a
conversation
The Roundtable Conversations will take place on October
15, 5:30 - 7:30 p.m.
REFRESHMENTS PROVIDED
Goals of the Roundtable Forum
To promote civil and productive
conversation in addressing shared concerns across generational, cultural, and
disciplinary perspectives. To raise awareness about issues and come up with
appropriate lines of inquiry and/or creative action to address them.
To promote a culture of inclusion on the Bloomington campus and in
the Bloomington community: on campus, to support the quality of teaching and
learning in the classroom; beyond the campus, to help prepare new generations
of students, staff, faculty, in working with their community partners to
address social and global issues
Bloomington campus–community: the little
engine that can!
“I met
with several kinds of associations in America of which I confess I had no
previous notion; and I have often admired the extreme skill with which the
inhabitants of the United States succeed in proposing a common object for the
exertions of a great many men and in inducing them voluntarily to pursue it.” Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America
“Yet I worry that the need for continuous civic
engagement, intellectual struggle, and vigilance is not well understood in some
of our mature democracies and is not transmitted to citizens and officials in
new democracies….We have to avoid slipping into a naïve sense that democracy –
once established – will continue on its own momentum." Elinor Ostrom http://blogs.worldbank.org/publicsphere/node/5293
