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Now Playing: Summer Colloquium Video

In an earlier post, I described the video that I had recorded as part of NYUAD’s Summer Colloquium on Cosmopolitanism. Incoming NYUAD students were invited to read Anthony Appiah’s Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers and to pose questions to one another and to me via online discussion groups. The lecture that I recorded responded to many of these questions. I noted in the earlier post that”just been made available to NYUAD faculty and staff as a Flash video on the NYUAD Intranet.”

I’m pleased now to be able to offer it to readers of this blog. It lasts 35 minutes, and if you do take a look at it, I’d love to read your responses and questions.

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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 about the summer’s projects. Continue Reading →

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