Engaged citizens speak up: Café Society is talk of the town
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| April 2, 2009 Vol. 28 No. 13 current issue archive / search contact Chronicle RSS Feed | Engaged citizens speak up: Café Society is talk of the townBy Deva Woodly deva@uchicago.edu News Office | --- | --- | Photos by Beth Rooney | For six years, Chicagoans have been meeting once a week at six coffee shops around town to discuss social and political hot topics through the Illinois Humanities Council's innovative community discussion program called Café Society. In November 2008, the Civic Knowledge Project brought Café Society to campus. The Civic Knowledge Project’s successful adult literacy program Odyssey teamed up with the Illinois Humanities Council to start Odyssey Café Society, a discussion group that meets at the International House on the second Wednesday of every month. Café Society aims to “foster a more robust civil society, more cohesive and interactive communities, greater media literacy, and a more informed and engaged citizenry.” The Odyssey Café Society shares these goals but also seeks to “offer opportunities for Odyssey graduates to remain engaged in the Humanities,” said Erika Dudley, Coordinator for Adult Education for the Civic Knowledge Project. Dudley brought Café Society to campus with the help of Amy Thomas Elder, Director of the Odyssey Project and Lecturer in the Graham School of General Studies. |