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DESCRIPTION:Author Thomas Chatterton Williams will present the keynote addr
 ess “How to Engage in Important Debates” on Wednesday\, Sept. 28\, at 10:30
  a.m. at Hope College in the Concert Hall of the Jack H. Miller Center for 
 Musical Arts.\n\nThe public is invited.  Admission is free.\n\nThe presenta
 tion will also be livestreamed at hope.edu/live and via the Hope College Yo
 uTube channel.\n\nWilliams is the author of “Losing My Cool” and “Self-Port
 rait in Black and White.” He is a contributing writer at the New York Times
  Magazine\, a columnist at Harper’s\, a 2019 New America Fellow and a visit
 ing fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. His work has appeared in t
 he New Yorker\, the London Review of Books\, Le Monde and many other places
 \, and has been collected in “The Best American Essays” and “The Best Ameri
 can Travel Writing.” He has received support from Yaddo\, MacDowell and The
  American Academy in Berlin\, where he is a member of the Board of Trustees
 . His next book\, “Nothing Was the Same: The Pandemic Summer of George Floy
 d and the Shift in Western Consciousness\,” will be published by Knopf.  He
  has a Bachelor of Arts degree in philosophy from Georgetown University\, a
 nd a Master of Arts degree in cultural reporting and criticism from New Yor
 k University.\n\nWilliams’s visit is being sponsored by the Hope College St
 udent Congress in collaboration with the college’s Provost’s Office and oth
 er campus partners.  His public address on Sept. 28 is the keynote presenta
 tion for the student-organized 2022 Critical Issues Symposium\, the other a
 ctivities of which are limited to the campus community.  The symposium is d
 esigned to simulate serious\, collaborative thinking about current issues\,
  and the general theme for this year’s event is “Public Discourse\,” with a
  focus on how to have constructive conversations.\n\nAudience members who n
 eed assistance to fully enjoy any event at Hope are encouraged to contact t
 he college’s Events and Conferences Office by emailing events@hope.edu or c
 alling 616-395-7222 on weekdays between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. Updates related t
 o events are posted when available in the individual listings at hope.edu/c
 alendar
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LOCATION:Jack H. Miller Center for Musical Arts\, Concert Hall
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SUMMARY:How to Engage in Important Debates
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