Posts Tagged cosmopolitanism
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June 1, 2010 by Cyrus Patell
NYUAD Summer Colloquium
I know that the summer solstice — the official beginning of summer — is still 20 days away, but as far as I’m concerned, summer began today: not because it’s June 1, but because it’s the first Tuesday after Memorial Day. It’s time to pull out the linen clothing and to start thinking in earnest [...]Archive
March 19, 2010 by Cyrus Patell
Cosmopolitanism Now, Take Three
This morning I gave my sample class on “Cosmopolitanism Now” to a group of prospective candidates for NYU Abu Dhabi. Once again I began with the anecdote that I used to open the lecture on cosmopolitanism and multiculturalism that I gave at the NYU Abu Dhabi Institute last fall. I told the students that, as [...]Archive
February 2, 2010 by Cyrus Patell
Reframing American Literature I
Last year, on the eve of my lecture about Anne Hutchinson and Mary Rowlandson, I wrote a post over at PWHNY speculating about how I might change my American Literature I syllabus when I taught it in the spring of 2010: It might be time to reframe the course. Rather than teaching The Puritan Origins [...]Archive
February 1, 2010 by Cyrus Patell
NaBloPoMo
Fellow blogger MaNNaHaTTaMaMMa has turned me on to NaBloPoMo, which is not a weird new art movement or a sex toy, but rather a site designed to promote blogging by encouraging bloggers to blog on daily basis. Here’s what the site says about itself: National Blog Posting Month is the epicenter of daily blogging! People [...]Archive
January 30, 2010 by Cyrus Patell
New Friends in the Desert
I’m back in Abu Dhabi for another Candidate Weekend. As I did during the November Candidate Weekend, I gave a 75-minute class on “Cosmopolitanism Now,” which resulted in a very lively discussion about the nature of cosmopolitanism and both opportunities and problems that a cosmopolitan perspective presents. The group I had was every bit as [...]Archive
January 28, 2010 by Cyrus Patell
Manic Monday
And not “just another” manic Monday. In fact, I can’t remember another day on which I’ve had to give three big public performances — and on different subjects to boot (though in my mind there are significant areas of overlap among them). 9:30 a.m. — First up, a Writing New York lecture on on E. [...]Archive
November 27, 2009 by Cyrus Patell
NYUAD Candidate Weekend
10:00 AM Eid Mubarak! Back home it’s Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving, the first day of the Christmas shopping season, but here, in Abu Dhabi, it’s the Eid Holiday, which commemorates the willingness of the prophet Ibrahim (PBUH) to sacrifice his son Ismail for God”s sake. Despite the fact that I hate traveling over [...]Archive
November 6, 2009 by Cyrus Patell
Teaching Philosophy circa 2004
Last Wednesday I participated in a panel discussion on the subject of teaching large lecture courses sponsored by NYU’s Center for Teaching Excellence. My co-panelists were Jim Matthews, who teaches psychology, and Daniel Stein, who teaches physics. Jim set forth a series of generally applicable principles of good lecturing; Dan spoke about the special challenges [...]Archive
October 22, 2009 by Cyrus Patell
