Panel Discussion: Bridging the Rural-Urban Divide

Our panel will discuss how city-dwellers, suburbanites, and rural residents can better understand each other and current ideas about what divides Americans living across the country.

The event features the following contributors:

Panelists:

Samar Ali, Co-Chair of the Project on Unity & American Democracy and a Research Professor of Law and Political Science at Vanderbilt University

Chris Arnade, photographer and writer covering addiction in America

Elizabeth Corey, Honors Program Director and Associate Professor of Political Science in the Honors Program at Baylor University

Moderator: Marc Hetherington, Raymond H. Dawson Distinguished Bicentennial Professor of Political Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

This event is sponsored by the Arete Initiative at the Kenan Institute for Ethics and will be co-sponsored by the UNC Program for Public Discourse as part of the Abbey Speaker Series.