Name: Philosophers' Café: Tolerance, Acceptance, and the First Amendment
Start: 2026-02-23T17:00:00-06:00
Location: 2418 Leon Bond Drive, Green Bay, WI, United States, Wisconsin 54311

$Philosophers' Caf\u00e9: Tolerance, Acceptance, and the First Amendment$

This spring, UW-Green Bay’s Philosophy Program is hosting the Philosophers' Café at the Mauthe Center, focusing on the First Amendment and the limits of tolerance. Each evening will consist of a moderated discussion featuring a faculty member with expertise on the topic, open to both UW-Green Bay students and community members. The goal is to bring together people with diverse opinions in respectful dialogue, exploring questions of tolerance and civil liberties. This program is supported by a grant from the Wisconsin Institute for Citizenship and Civil Dialogue (WICCD), and it is hosted by UWGB Philosophy professor Robert Riordan.
The topic for this evening's discussion is "Tolerance, Acceptance, and the First Amendment." It will be led by Dr. David Coury, Professor of Humanistic Studies (German) and Global Studies at the University of Wisconsin Green Bay. As an undergraduate, Prof. Coury studied in Salzburg, Austria and then later, studied for almost two years at the University of Hamburg, Germany. He has published widely on contemporary German cinema as well as the contemporary novel. More recently he has been studying the intersection of Eastern and Western cultures as expressed in European literature and film. Of particularly interest in the role globalization has played in shaping conceptions of identity as well as the so-called clash of cultures and civilizations in Europe. An avid cinephile, he is also the director of the Green Bay Film Society and serves on the board of Film Green Bay.