Reflections on an historic time... we still, remarkably, have the ability to transgress the limits of our
past, to reshape the future to the image of our wills, and to cross
divides once thought unbridgeable... the high-point: Rev. Dr. Joseph Lowery... made my wife's list of the five most significant moments in her life so far...we have transcended race and yet we are still bound by race; the look of your face and the color of your skin still determine who you are even if they no longer determine who you can be... did Joe Biden ever stop smiling (was there any reason to)... may my daughters one day see someone like them in more than color take the oath in front of the Capitol... the low-point: the other guy who prayed first... the most amazing thing for me is not the first black President, but the first from an amazingly multi-racial entended family (there is a party tonight unlike any other in the White House)... oh, and do we keep calling it the "White" House?
Transdisciplinary Resources
Books I'm Reading
Paul Krugman: The Return of Depression Economics and the Crisis of 2008
A key analysis of our global economic conditionKaryn Ball: Disciplining the Holocaust (Suny Series, Insinuations: Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, Literature)
The uses and abuses of Holocaust memorials with traces of Foucault in an historical meditation
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January 20, 2009
Institute of Transdisciplinary Studies -- News
- Fall 2009First off, we mark the arrival of two new faculty -- Brian Burkhart (PhD, Indiana) in philosophy and Emerald Archer (PhD, UCSB) in politics and history -- and one new child, Gemma Lee Pederson -- Dr. Christine Carmichael has returned from sabbatical leave in Australia -- Eleven new junior fellows begin their transdisciplinary research seminar (see the Aug. 31 blog) -- We welcome them all -- Additionally, three senior fellows: Dr. Elisabeth Sandberg, Dr. Amy Pederson, and Dr. Rich Matzen, begin their projects in the Institute. Good luck to everyone this year.
- Spring 2009Many of us are away this semester, but many are still around. - Dr. Christine Carmichael is on sabbatical in Australia. - Dr. Amy Pederson is on maternity leave. - Dr. Nageswar Chekuri returns from another research trip to India. Dr. Elisabeth Sandberg returns from teaching in Rome. - And there are other comings and goings as well. - Dr. Leo O'Hara is retiring at the end of the semester. - Two new faculty members will be joining us in the fall, one in politics, the other in philosophy. - And we are all in new offices in the Isaacs Faculty Center where the Institute finally has a secure home. Hooray!!
- Fall 2008Welcome to a new academic year as may of our faculty return from studying and teaching abroad. - The peripatetic Dr. Nageswar Chekuri arrives fresh from a research trip to India as a national leadership fellow in the SENCER
- Spring 2008-Dr. Elisabeth Sandberg joins us, bringing her gifts in literary and interdisciplinary studies to our labors. - More transdisciplinary lunches on trans-history and study abroad lie ahead. -Dr. Rao Chekuri recently traveled to Morocco to present a paper on student reasoning in physics. -Dr. Amy Pederson went to Mexico to study Spanish and contemporary Mexican art. -Courses in urban studies, outsider art, and globalization are launched.
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