#Jadaliyya | #TeachingPalestine Today: Liberal Arts Context

w/ Lara Deeb, Heather Ferguson, Amanda Lagji, Leila Mansouri

Host: Bassam Haddad

"Four faculty members at the Claremont Colleges, a #liberalArts consortium, discuss their approaches to including material on #Palestine and Palestinian perspectives into classes in anthropology, history, postcolonial and decolonial literature, and creative writing."

https://youtu.be/FxouJm7WpXg

#PalestineStudies #decolonialStudies @palestine @histodons

Ed department sends letter to 60 institutions, warning of potential violations and "enforcement actions."

Harvard
Brown
Stanford
Princeton

BUT ALSO

Middlebury
Swarthmore
Pomona
Wellesley
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Liberal arts colleges will not be spared. We teach the habits of mind they deem traitorous.

Don’t panic. Organize.

#academia #liberalarts #democracy

https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/10/us/department-of-education-warning-universities-title-vi-antisemitism

A quotation from Emerson

Art is a jealous mistress, and, if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture, or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) American essayist, lecturer, poet
Essay (1860), “Wealth,” The Conduct of Life, ch. 3

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/emerson-ralph-waldo/…

Why my liberal arts education mattered.

https://brokenhand.substack.com/p/they-gave-me-the-world

Hope some apply to @thatcamplac // RT @BryanAlexander: Undergrads thinking about digital humanities: http://bit.ly/fOAzpE #liberalarts

Undergrads Reimagine the Human...

@Harvard

No shit. The greatest thinkers know & profess such for millenia. Only #dumbasses who cannot think for themselves, or properly, gave up on #LiberalArts long ago.

My MD, PhD,, business & other colleagues worldwide wrote about the mandate of #Humanities#Liberal #Arts for cultivating the greatest problem-solvers. Such is in my eighth book (the only free one I offer) at https://drhermansjr.carrd.co, DrHermanSJr.

See the video on its creation & directions to use it: https://rumble.com/v4ewz9h-holism-for-advancement-collaboratives-articles-various-experts-revamp-world.html.

Science as a Human Endeavor: Is science just a requirement? https://www.byteseu.com/509071/ #EDUCATION #GeneralEducationRequirement #Geology #LiberalArts #oceanography #Science #STEM

Interested in studying for a Liberal Arts degree at Loughborough University, UK?

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/lborossh_top-tips-for-writing-the-perfect-personal-activity-7130583755764719617-Dpkn?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop

Thinking about studying Liberal Arts at Loughborough University?

https://www.instagram.com/p/Cza_vP8LVDe/?igshid=NzU3d2E4dXZneHJo

Read what second-year student Antonia has to say about our fantastic Liberal Arts programme at Loughborough University.

https://www.lboro.ac.uk/subjects/english/our-students/antonia-reynolds/

Giving my alma mater a piece of my mind as I unsubscribe from their fundraising emails.
#Chinese #AsianStudies #Humanities #LiberalArts

#promotion

"Liberal Arts is the perfect way to open your opportunities up with module options being varied from the very beginning." Meet Loughborough University's Liberal Arts student Benji

https://www.lboro.ac.uk/subjects/english/our-students/benji-fackrell/

"One cannot help but wonder if the cuts are driven by a hostility to liberal arts education couched in the sterile ambiguity of financial considerations."

https://slate.com/human-interest/2023/08/west-virginia-university-cuts-programs.html

A quotation from Watterson, Bill:

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Reading those turgid philosophers here in these remote stone buildings may not get you a job, but if those books have forced you to ask yourself questions about what makes life truthful, purposeful, meaningful, and redeeming, you have the Swiss Army Knife of mental tools, and it’s going to come in handy all the time.
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Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/watterson-bill/61104/

A quotation from Griswold, Whitney:

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Liberal learning is both a safeguard against false ideas of freedom and a source of true ones.
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Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/griswold-alfred-whitney/60801/

O Mastodon Hivemind:

This semester I'm teaching a session on the Political Poem for one of our Liberal Arts core modules for first years.

I've got a few ideas of what to include. But which poems would you cover?

Funded PhD studentships in the School of Social Sciences and Humanities at Loughborough University

We are an excellent and friendly team working on textual scholarship, literary archives, book history and modernism (etc. obvs).

Please do get in touch if you want to come and work with us.

https://www.lboro.ac.uk/study/postgraduate/research-degrees/phd-opportunities/ssh/