Practicing Democracy: Civility vs. Outrage (All 4 Dates)

The Professor of Practice Series at Pacific School of Religion is a cross-disciplinary series that brings global leaders on Artificial Intelligence, Business & Social Responsibility, and Arts and Race into transformative conversation and features a wide variety of events, including lectures, exhibitions, performances, and panel discussions.

Is there a dearth of civility in our political sphere? Does outrage have a place in democratic conversations? This course will grapple with these seeming opposites by discussing the increasing polarization of contemporary society and explore the impacts of civility and outrage as alternative ways to address these problems.

Each session will allow the audience to debate present day issues, challenges, and conflicts affecting the way people have a say in their own future such as political representation, labor conditions, environment, privacy and security etc. within modern democracies from a variety of theoretical perspectives.

March 11: Civility and Its Discontents: Which Way from Here?

March 21: Role of Business in Social Responsibility

April 1: Civil Rights and Black Dignity

April 8: Gun Control

This ticket is for all 4 dates at a discounted package price. If you would like to purchase a ticket for a single date, click here to go to the single date ticket. If you want to purchase a package for the entire series of 12 events, click here to go to the full series ticket.

About Kenneth "Hap" Klopp: Kenneth “Hap” Klopp co‐founded The North Face, turning it into a global apparel business and a leading business in Corporate Social Responsibility. He also became the executive chairman of Cocona, a nanoparticle company that makes fibers, fabrics, and laminates for active apparel companies, and Obscura Digital, a digital communications business. He describes himself as a serial entrepreneur, and has done teaching and writing on leadership, entrepreneurship, and social responsibility — including teaching as part of Ignite’s Certificate. A graduate of Stanford Graduate School of Business, his passion is mentoring aspiring entrepreneurs. “It’s very inspiring to be around young people,” he says. “Older people don’t have the optimistic curiosity of younger people. I get enthused by the can‐do attitude.”