Join author Lara Hope Schwartz for a facilitated virtual book club featuring her book Try To Love the Questions: From Debate to Dialogue in Classrooms and Life. Schwartz draws upon her professional, academic, and personal expertise to offer a framework for understanding and practicing dialogue across difference in and out of the classroom. Books are available upon registration.

This four part virtual book series explores challenges students face as they prepare to listen, speak, and learn in a college community. In conversation with Schwartz, students, faculty, and staff will consider the practice of open and respectful communication as a skill and not as a limitation on expression.

Virtual book club meeting schedule:
Thursdays 2:00 - 3:00 PM

• February 19: Prologue, Chapter 1 - 2 (56 pages)
• March 5: Chapter 3 (56 pages)
• March 19: Chapter 4 (46 pages)
• April 2: Chapter 5 - 6 (56 pages)

Lara Schwartz is the founding director of the American University Project on Civic Dialogue and teaches at the American University School of Public Affairs. She has served on AU’s working group on freedom of expression and was a fellow with the University of California National Center for Free Speech and Civic Engagement. Schwartz holds a J.D. from Harvard Law School and an AB in English and American Literature from Brown University.

This book club is a program of the the Constructive Dialogue Practice