BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 METHOD:PUBLISH PRODID:-//Missouri State University/Calendar of Events//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Chicago BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Chicago BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 DTSTART:20070311T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU TZNAME:CDT END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 DTSTART:20071104T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU TZNAME:CST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:979641db-920f-4b65-b269-2bdb2fab9e46.216979@calendar.missouristate.edu CREATED:20210903T145505Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210903T145505Z LOCATION:Hammons Hall for the Performing Arts\, Juanita K. Theater SUMMARY:Public Affairs Conference - How Can You Hate Me When You Don’t Eve n Know Me? DESCRIPTION:Moderator: Missouri State University President Clif Smart\n\n\ nIt’s simply amazing what empathy and civil conversation can accomplish. Daryl Davis should know. For nearly 40 years\, the noted Black musician h as gained acclaim for confronting extreme bias with civility. He’s engage d\, face-to-face\, those who hate him because of the color of his skin: m embers and leaders of the Ku Klux Klan and other white supremacist groups . Disbelief is most people’s first reaction: How could he possibly be civ il to “those people?” But Davis reached out in an effort to understand – not to change minds.\n\n\nThose conversations forged unlikely but genuine friendships and over time\, many of his new friends changed their own mi nds and renounced their old beliefs. Some even gave Davis their robes\, h oods\, Nazi flags and other symbols of their past. Davis is a brilliant s toryteller with jaw-dropping experiences about building bridges of unders tanding using practical tools we can all employ to ignite positive change in our workplace\, our community and at the family dinner table. As Davi s says\, “A missed opportunity for dialogue is a missed opportunity for c onflict resolution.”  X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<html><head><title></title></head><body><p><s trong>Moderator: Missouri State University President Clif Smart</strong>< /p>\n<p>It’s simply amazing what empathy and civil conversation can accom plish. Daryl Davis should know. For nearly 40 years\, the noted Black mus ician has gained acclaim for confronting extreme bias with civility. He’s engaged\, face-to-face\, those who hate him because of the color of his skin: members and leaders of the Ku Klux Klan and other white supremacist groups. Disbelief is most people’s first reaction: How could he possibly be civil to “those people?” But&nbsp\;Davis reached out in an effort to understand – not to change minds.</p>\n<p>Those conversations forged unli kely but genuine friendships and over time\, many of his new friends chan ged their&nbsp\;<em>own</em>&nbsp\;minds and renounced their old beliefs. Some even gave Davis their robes\, hoods\, Nazi flags and other symbols of their past.&nbsp\;Davis is a brilliant storyteller with jaw-dropping e xperiences about building bridges of understanding using practical tools we can all employ to ignite positive change in our workplace\, our commun ity and at the family dinner table. As&nbsp\;Davis says\, “A missed oppor tunity for dialogue is a missed opportunity for conflict resolution.”&nbs p\;</p></body></html> DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20210930T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20210930T203000 SEQUENCE:0 URL:https://publicaffairs.missouristate.edu/conference/schedule CATEGORIES:Public,Alumni,Current Students,Faculty,Future Students,Staff END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR