2024 Conference Resources

Key takeaways from this year’s plenary sessions

2024 Conference Media Coverage

How Should Harvard Teach Disagreement?

Read the full article by Harvard Magazine

Photograph by Max J. Krupnick/ Harvard Magazine

Materials shared in concurrent breakout sessions

Creating Effective Social Contracts

Leveraging Technologies to Give Everyone a Voice

Open Dialogue Within and Across Disciplines

Small Moves for Big Topics: Transforming Hard Conversations into Learning Opportunities

Key takeaways

Student Perspectives: From Lived Experience to Critical Engagement

Key takeaways

2024 HILT Conference Recordings

Looking to revisit or catch up on what you missed? Click on the cards to watch recordings from HILT’s 2024 Conference, "Open Minds in Dialogue", below.

Full YouTube playlist here

Morning Plenary 1: “How Did We Get Here?”

Featuring Jill Lepore, Amanda Claybaugh, Bernard Chang, Matthew Weinzierl, and moderated by Rakesh Khurana.

Morning Plenary 2: “What Would You Do?”

Featuring Ned Hall, Meira Levinson, Jeannie Suk Gersen, and moderated by Bharat Anand.

Creating Effective Social Contracts

Breakout session featuring Harry Harding, Zoe Marks, Adrienne Phelps-Coco, and Sejal Vashi.

Open Dialogue Within and Across Disciplines

Breakout session featuring Salma Abu Ayyash, Kristin Mugford, Dan Rothstein, Luz Santana, Karen Thornber, Odile Harter, and Alexandra Sedlovskaya.

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Leveraging Technologies to Give Everyone a Voice

Breakout session featuring Kelly Miller, Charles Nesson, Rebecca Nesson, Teddy Svoronos, Christine D’Auria, and Esther Brandon.

A panel of educators speaking into the table microphones

Small Moves for Big Topics: Transforming Hard Conversations into Learning Opportunities

Breakout session featuring Eram Alam, Aimee Hollander, Matthew Weinzierl, Karina Lin-Murphy, and Robert Haussman.

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Student Perspectives: From Lived Experience to Critical Engagement

Breakout session featuring Tega Ajise, Chukwudi “Chudy” Michael Ilozue, Cassandra Montenegro, Pratyush Rawal, Maria Flanagan, and Ashlie Sandoval-Lee.