“You have emphasized reading and writing, so I am comfortable with the kind of test you want to give, which will involve reading and writing. However, you have not emphasized matching or filling in blanks, so I am concerned I may not actually be learning.” That is a quasi parody, but … the statement was … More Very Interesting
This post is from the wrong country for today, because this is in point of fact the day upon which we say: Long live our Lady of Guadalupe! Death to bad government, and death to the Spaniards! However, I am still on 9/11, and it is now that I am starting to like Víctor Jara. … More El Cigarrito
This is just one of Historiann‘s interesting posts on women and academia. When I was in elementary school the Emeritus Professor’s long and intense work day included preparing manuscripts in longhand to be typed by the departmental secretary. My mother’s day included preparing social events for the Emeritus Professor’s department, and making diplomatic telephone calls … More The Triple Day
In the seventies when I was a child, that is to say an undergraduate, we would sometimes go to the airport in San Francisco to greet and orient prisoners just released from jails located in countries further south. At solidarity meetings I would later translate for these people, which meant I had to say sentences … More Free Song
Victor Jara, presente. Axé.
Axé.
If you are foreign and it is the birthday of your father, who lives several time zones away, you may ceremoniously excuse yourself from a meeting early to call him. Then everyone knows that you are a virtuous son and a person with important calls to make. If you are native or perhaps a foreigner … More Mais, pourquoi?
Haiti’s neglected revolutionary history is one of the issues of which this weblog exists to remind people. Here we have just the first part of one Toussaint L’Ouverture video. If you click on it, you will find the next parts. Axé.
With some effort — not inordinate effort, mind you, but some — I have put together a two year long speaker series for my other department. That is eight outside speakers a year, four per semester, for two years, for a program that has no budget of its own. I have done this for the … More On Getting By
What I wrote several months ago: I really like my research projects but I am chronically impeded in them by my unhappiness as a professor. As a professor I have tended to have jobs and lived in places that were not only professionally unsatisfying but also psychically unsafe for me. Repressing my flight instinct is always … More Labor Day I
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