In an earlier post, I described the video that I had recorded as part of NYUAD’s Summer Colloquium on Cosmopolitanism. Incoming NYUAD students were invited to read Anthony Appiah’s Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers and to pose questions to one...
I know that the summer solstice — the official beginning of summer — is still 20 days away, but as far as I’m concerned, summer began today: not because it’s June 1, but because it’s the first Tuesday after Memorial Day. It’s time...
This morning I gave my sample class on “Cosmopolitanism Now” to a group of prospective candidates for NYU Abu Dhabi. Once again I began with the anecdote that I used to open the lecture on cosmopolitanism and multiculturalism that I gave at the NYU Abu...
Last year, on the eve of my lecture about Anne Hutchinson and Mary Rowlandson, I wrote a post over at PWHNY speculating about how I might change my American Literature I syllabus when I taught it in the spring of 2010: It might be time to reframe the course. Rather...
Fellow blogger MaNNaHaTTaMaMMa has turned me on to NaBloPoMo, which is not a weird new art movement or a sex toy, but rather a site designed to promote blogging by encouraging bloggers to blog on daily basis. Here’s what the site says about itself: National Blog...
