TLISI 2024

Panel on Georgetown’s Race, Power & Justice course pilot

CNDLS Executive Director Edward Maloney welcomes participants to TLISI 2024 then hands it off to a moderated panel with faculty and students who piloted Georgetown’s new Race, Power & Justice seminar, part of the new Pathways to Social Justice curriculum. This panel featured faculty who piloted Georgetown’s new Race, Power & Justice seminar, part of the new Pathways to Social Justice curriculum. They, along with one student who took the class, shared their experiences and lessons learned from this innovative 1-credit course that all entering Georgetown students will take starting fall 2024.

Promoting intentional dialogue at Georgetown in a post-audience world

Digital devices, hybrid working and learning environments in response to the pandemic, and communication platforms have provided great flexibility and have reshaped the way we interact. In many ways, the pandemic has accelerated digital demands on our time and created a focus on efficiency rather than reflection and dialogue. This virtual session described a framework that recognizes the outside pressures that we face to help us to be more intentional in the way we are present with one another and work towards co-creating the types of environments that promote dialogue and understanding. 

Turner’ book on this topic, Being Present: Commanding Attention at Work and at Home by Managing Your Social Presence (Georgetown University Press 2022) provides strategies for addressing the challenges of engaging attention in a world of digital devices, earning a 2022 Gold Medal Axiom Publishing Award given to promising business titles.

This workshop was not recorded.

Dare to speak: Defending free speech on college campuses

​​Suzanne Nossel joined us for a conversation with Georgetown Provost Robert Groves, who contextualized our campus for a discussion around free expression issues. Following the back and forth conversation with Provost Groves, the conversation opened up to include TLISI participant questions.

Nossel is the Chief Executive Officer of PEN America, the leading human rights and free expression organization and is a leading voice on free expression issues in the United States and globally. She is author of Dare to Speak: Defending Free Speech for All.

Teaching and learning with AI: A conversation with Cal Newport and Eddie Maloney

Building on the many conversations at Georgetown about generative AI and how it is transforming teaching and learning, Georgetown Professor Cal Newport, Provost’s Distinguished Associate Professor of Computer Science, and CNDLS Executive Director Edward Maloney discuss AI on Georgetown’s campus and in higher ed more broadly. This keynote follows mainly a Q&A style conversation, responding to audience questions submitted in advance and posed during the session. Cal Newport is the author of eight books, including Slow Productivity, A World Without Email, Digital Minimalism, and Deep Work.