We had a prof in the department who helped us to develop radical teaching strategies for the course. He was denied tenure, and then went on to have an extremely successful career elsewhere.
Sorry you had that experience. I was one of those grad students who taught the course against the grain, starting from the premise that there is no such thing as an objective "masterpiece" or music or anything else.
It’s a core course taught by a cohort of profs, grad students, and adjuncts in order to keep the classes small. It’s framed in a very conservative way as “masterpieces of western music” tho many instructors teach it with a critical approach to the canon.
I'm truly fascinated by how bad those Rebel Moon films are
Stainless steel is only a century old. Got to give some leeway for the genius innovators to work with those brand new technologies.
We (Jews, esp. in academia) should shout this from the rooftops. Rep. Stefanik et al. are not our friends. They don't care about antisemitism, they don't care about the Constitution, and they don't care about us. They use Jewish pain for cheap and tawdry political ends, which is itself antisemitic.
As any historian can tell you, the lasting lesson of McCarthyism was that when bad faith partisans haul you before Congress with demands for punishment of wrongthink, if you just give in to them completely well, that’ll be the end of it.
"It’s hard to think of a time since the anti-Communist House Un-American Activities Committee when Congress has made such an effort to investigate disfavored ideologies in academe." Republicans Wanted a Crackdown on Israel’s Critics. Columbia Obliged. www.nytimes.com/2024/04/18/o...
The latest campus antisemitism hearing was a travesty.
I enjoyed the precedented weather today in Abu Dhabi
I don't even have the time or energy to read about being part of a polycule
