Author: Raymond Ro Disclosure: it is difficult to teach politics without getting political. In the classroom, I facilitate discussion and debate by playing devil’s advocate. Any political leanings herein…
Published May 18, 2018 by gb994
Published May 4, 2018 by gb994
Author: Scott Palmer The most important factor in the appreciation of any art is the practice of it. (35) Henry Miller, The Books of My Life One the central…
Read More Political Objects: Blending Cultural Analysis and Artistic Production
Published April 4, 2018 by gb994
Author: Peter Diamond In the week following the 2016 American presidential election, Oxford Dictionaries selected “post-truth” as its word of the year, a term signifying an environment in which “facts…
Read More Politics in the Classroom: Academic Freedom in a Post-Truth Era
Published March 22, 2018 by gb994
Author: Lisa Cesarani Most often, cinematic images of Florence are connected to the glorious art and architecture of its Renaissance past. The river Arno, its bridges, the narrow streets, and…
Read More Looking Beyond the Facade: Introducing Students to the Socio-Political Layers of Florence
Published March 7, 2018 by gb994
Author: Brendan Hogan This being the first iteration of a course co-taught by an economist (Dr. Johann Jaeckel) and a philosopher, that it was a paired course between London and NYC,…
Read More Critiques of capitalism: politics in the classroom.
Published February 21, 2018 by gb994
Author: Elisa Biagini How did we become such voracious consumers? Our overconsumption is destroying a world infinitely more fascinating than the stuff we produce. Do we really need so much…
Read More How greed became good: from Cosimo I Medici to Gordon Gecko
Published February 7, 2018 by gb994
Author: Ifeona Fulani Over the last ten years the G/LS curriculum has become more ‘global,’ seemingly in two important currents: firstly, the increasing wide circulation of discourses on globalization and…
Published January 24, 2018 by gb994
Author: Rochelle Almeida Introduction: A few years ago, I taught a GLS Sophomore seminar entitled ‘International Migration: Globalization’s Last Frontier’. Being an immigrant to the United States myself, I am, needless…
Published December 18, 2017 by gb994
Author: Kevin Bonney The politicization of science is an important contemporary issue with local and global ramifications. In my Life Science course, I use climate change, evolution, and vaccines…
Read More Trust Me I’m A Scientist: The Politicization of Science and the Classroom
Published November 29, 2017 by gb994
Author: Bob Squillace Recent years have seen an alarming global rise in nativism as a political force. Nativism is, in essence, the politics of normalization – it seeks to privilege as…