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Pepperdine Dialogue Dinners

Pepperdine Dialogue Dinners are a special opportunity for faculty to deepen their engagement with the many high-quality thinkers who come to campus, as well as to increase opportunities to learn from one another through open dialogue

Eligibility and Deadline

All full-time Pepperdine faculty are eligible to apply.

  • Deadline to Apply: Friday, August 30, 2024 at 12:00 PM
  • Notification: Friday, September 13, 2024

Criteria for Selection

Space is limited and, should we receive more applications than we have room to accommodate, we will form groups according to the following criteria:

  • Proportionate distribution by academic divisions 
  • Reason(s) for participating
  • Distribution by field, rank, and/or length of service at Pepperdine

Responsibilities

Please only apply if you are able to: 

  • Attend or watch a recording of all the two public lectures (10/1 AND 2/19)
  • Attend the play in person (4/9, 4/10, 4/11, OR 4/12)
  • Attend all three dialogue dinners for the entire period  (Track A - Tuesday 10/22, Tuesday 3/18, Saturday 4/12 OR Track B - Friday 11/1, Friday 3/14, Saturday 4/12)
  • Do all of the assigned reading

Compensation

Full participation in these dialogues entitles the discussants to:

  • An $1,350 stipend ($450/speaker)
  • On-campus accommodation for the evening of each dialogue dinner for faculty or staff who live off-campus, limited to availability
  • All three assigned books

Schedule

Reading Speaker Event Date | Time Location
book cover of Black Intellectual Tradition Dr. Anika Prather

Seaver College W. David Baird Lecture Series


Dialogue Dinner
The Black Intellectual Tradition

Tuesday, October 1, 2024
5:00 PM


Track A –Tuesday,
October 22, 2024

Track B –Friday, November 1, 2024 

5:30 - 8:30 PM

Elkins Auditorium


Mallman House

Book Cover of Cancelling of the American Mind Greg Lukianoff

Augustus and Patricia Tagliaferri Dean's Distinguished Lecture Series/President’s Speaker Series


Dialogue Dinner
The Canceling of the American Mind

Wednesday, February 19, 2025
6:00 PM


Track B –Friday, March 14, 2025

Track A –Tuesday, March 18, 2025
5:30-8:30 PM

Drescher


TBD

Book cover of A Passage to India

Passage, the Play by Christopher Chen

Directed by Cathy Thomas-Grant

Seaver, Fine Arts


Dialogue Dinner
A Passage to Idia by E.M. Forster

Wednesday, April 9–Friday, April 11, 2025 7:30 PM

Saturday, April 12, 2025
2 PM

(any one of these showings)


Tracks A and B | Saturday, April 12, 2025 5:00 PM

Make-up dinner | Tuesday, April 15, 2025 5:30 PM

Smothers Theatre


TBD

Questions about the initiative can be directed to dialogue.dinners@pepperdine.edu.