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<div style="margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px"><font face="Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt">Join Professor Robert Danisch (Communication Arts) this Wednesday for an online discussion based on the new book, </span></font><font face="Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt"><i>Beyond
Civility</i></span></font><font face="Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt">, which he co-authored with William Keith.</span></font></div>
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<div style="margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px"><font face="Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt">WHAT: America's Public Forum: Moving Toward Radical Civility</span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px"><font face="Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt">WHEN: Wednesday, August 12, 2020 8-10pm EDT</span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px"><font face="Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt">WHERE: Online - </span></font><a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/americas-public-forum-moving-toward-radical-civility-tickets-116255361917" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><font face="Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt">please
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<div style="margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px"><font face="Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt">About the book, </span></font><font face="Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt"><i>Beyond Civility:
The Competing Obligations of Citizenship:</i></span></font></div>
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<div style="margin:0px"><font face="Calibri,sans-serif" size="3"><font face="Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt">From the pundits to the polls, nearly everyone seems to agree that US politics have rarely been more fractious,
and calls for a return to “civil discourse” abound. Yet it is also true that the requirements of polite discourse effectively silence those who are not in power, gaming the system against the disenfranchised. What, then, should a democracy do? </span></font></font><font face="Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt">This
book makes a case for understanding civility in a different light. Examining the history of the concept and its basis in communication and political theory, William Keith and Robert Danisch present a clear, robust analysis of civil discourse. […] </span></font><a href="http://www.psupress.org/books/titles/978-0-271-08730-6.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><font face="Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif" size="3" color="#954F72"><span style="font-size:12pt">Read
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<div><font color="#954f72" face="Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">- sent on behalf of Rob Danisch</span></font></div>
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