Society

Our Society Reimagined 2024 – Free Speech

Event information
Date
Wed Oct 30, 2024
6:00pm - 8:00pm MDT
Location
Aspen Meadows
1000 N 3rd St
Aspen, CO
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Our Society Reimagined is a four-week discussion series that brings community members together to explore timely domestic issues that shape our modern society. Participants are given reading materials that will be used as background for lively, moderated discussions each week. Using the practice of civil dialogue, moderators will facilitate conversations that will help participants gain perspective on the underlying values and ideas that we hold as individuals and as a society and will explore how these tenets shape our lives.

The 2024 series will take place in person on our Aspen Meadows campus from 6:00-8:00 pm MT on four consecutive Wednesdays, October 16-November 6. Tom Morrison and Clint Kinney will return to moderate the series.

Fee: $195, includes all sessions, refreshments, and reading materials. You can register here.

Wednesday, October 30
Free Speech
Has free speech become too much of a good thing? The First Amendment allows individuals to express almost anything, as long as it’s truthful or based on honest opinion. Has society gone too far in this freedom, or is it what makes us great? Are we regulating open dialogue effectively, or allowing harmful propaganda? How are college campuses managing free speech? And is big money in politics amplifying messages or stifling genuine communication? Has free speech gone too far, or not far enough?