Events

Upcoming

Keeping Our Enemies Closer: Political Dialogue on College Campuses

Educating Character Initiative Book Series · February 2027 · Virtual

Events for Keeping Our Enemies Closer (October 2026) will be announced here. For speaking inquiries, please see the contact page.

Selected past talks

Navigating Difficult Conversations

School of Medicine, University of Virginia · 2026

What Counts as Success? Assessing the Impact of Civics in Higher Ed

Hoover Institution, Stanford University · 2026

Keeping Our Enemies Closer

Philosophy of Education Program, Teachers College, Columbia University · 2025

The Moral Life of Colleges

Making Caring Common, Harvard Graduate School of Education · 2025

Plenary: Educating Character Across Difference

Wake Forest University · 2024

Keeping Our Enemies Closer

Bowdoin College · 2024

Teaching Political Dialogue

Alliance for Civics in the Academy, Stanford Civics Initiative · 2024

Can Education Save Democracy?

COMPAS, The Ohio State University · 2023

Teaching the Art of Productive Engagement Across Difference

Democracy 360, Karsh Institute of Democracy, University of Virginia · 2023

Building Democratic Citizenship Roundtable

American Academy of Arts and Sciences · 2022

No Bloodless Tool: Political Dialogue and the Search for Meaning

National Academy of Education · 2021

Plenary Address

Philosophy of Education Society Annual Meeting · 2021

The Trouble with Facts

American Political Science Association Annual Meeting · 2024

Controversial Conversations on College Campuses

Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam · 2023

Rachel Wahl has given more than 150 research talks to date. A selection appears here; a full list is available on request.