Episode Topic: (In)civilities

Survival for marginalized folks requires communication skills and understanding power dynamics in ways that often result in polite and/or civil discourse. This final session in the Civil Discourse: Becoming a Better Conversation Partner series examines how we survive through politeness, the consequences of such politeness, and how politeness is policed through power structures that relate to privilege, merit, tokenism, whiteness, maleness, straightness, and other forms of power.

Featured Speakers: 

• Amanda G. McKendree, Associate Teaching Professor of Management and Arthur F. and Mary J. O’Neil Director of The Eugene D. Fanning Center for Business Communication, Department of Management & Organization, University of Notre Dame
• Stacey K. Sowards, Professor in the Department of Communication Studies, University of Texas at Austin

Read this episode's recap over on the University of Notre Dame's open online learning community platform, ThinkND: go.nd.edu/c52e07.

This podcast is a part of the Communicating with Impact ThinkND Series titled “Civil Discourse: Becoming a Better Conversation Partner”.

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