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Technology as culture, part 1
When the Honors College asked me to teach one of their lower-division arts/humanities classes this fall, I had two thoughts: If I do run for the leadership of the faculty union chapter, it’ll be an interesting semester. (For most faculty, an Honors College class is an overload, not part of the regular load.) I’m in […]
Being thankful for the Supreme Court’s protection of free speech
As FIRE‘s William Creeley notes, not only can we be grateful for Supreme Court decisions protecting speech, such as the 64-year-old West Virginia v. Barnett case on the pledge of allegiance, but we also have an interesting retrospective on the case, including the two children (now much older, of course). I need to finish editing […]
The gender of early social-science clientele(s)
Some of the discussion on the “Social Reform and Social Science in Chicago and Beyond” panel focused on the relationship between social sciences and social reform movements. Neither Jane Addams nor Myles Horton did their work as disinterested social scientists—far from it. Addams may have been a sort-of-elitist social progressive, but she used city residents […]
Needed: a model of peer-reviewing interactive projects
One of the sessions at the Social Science History Association was organized by several members of the H-Net Council about Web 2.0 and the teaching of history. I was the chair and had a marvelous time listening to others and serving as traffic cop an identifier of speakers. (I also got my two cents’ worth […]
Chicago and social movements: blogging a conference
This weekend I am at the Social Science History Association, and the current session on Chicago and social-science research is one of the sessions that combine a national academic conference with a local context. After all, we’re meeting in Chicago this weekend. The first paper by Victoria Brown was about Jane Addams and is part […]