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AUBURN — Senior College in the Community’s next presentation will be “Dignity in Public Discourse,” presented by Tora Johnson, at 1 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 11, at Auburn Public Library, 49 Spring St.
It is free and open to the public.
Johnson will talk about dignity theory, explore the role it plays in public debates over controversial issues, and best practices for supporting dignity and moving forward together. Contentious local and national issues will be analyzed through a dignity lens, and new approaches will be discussed.
Johnson is chair of environmental and biological sciences the University of Maine at Machias. She earned a Ph.D. in Human Dimensions of Natural Resources from the University of Maine. Her current social and spatial science research focuses on supporting sustainable and prosperous rural communities in a changing world. She has collaborated with installation artists and sculptors on community place-based installation art projects. Her book “Entanglements: The Intertwined Fates of Whales and Fisherman,” was released in 2005.
