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...Buchloh says. “It makes him an absolutely central figure for both artists working in the world now in global contexts. The internationalism that Warhol has brought about is stunning.”In addition to the variety of topics being discussed, the diversity of the academics?? approaches contributes to the conference’s appeal. “There have been several generations of scholarship on Warhol which will be represented on the panel. You have very eminent scholars and you have mid-career scholars and graduate students, so it will be almost three generations...
...wrong.” MOVING ON—TOO FAST? In his article, Ignatieff criticized not only the atmosphere of the Ivory Tower, but the very nature of the academic project. Ignatieff’s article attempted to draw distinctions between the judgment of academics??his past profession—and politicians, what he is today. “In academic life, false ideas are merely false, and useless ones can be fun to play with,” he wrote. “In political life, false ideas can ruin the lives of millions, and useless ones...
...Curricular Review attempts to revamp the entirety of undergraduate academics??from advising to general education—the Government department should take note of its students too, turning its attention toward the academic and intellectual development of its constituency, no matter how big or small...
...proven itself the way other fields have,” said Sophia Lai ’04, a former AAA president who wrote her senior thesis on the institutionalization of Asian American studies. “It didn’t stem from the faculty or academics??it came from student protest—so it wasn’t seen as being as legitimate.” Eric Tang, the visiting professor in Asian American studies from the University of Illinois at Chicago, said the field must have clear administrative support in order to thrive...
...monosyllabic words that conjure images immediately [have] stuck in my memory,” Pinker said. He also explained the importance of clarity in order to break through the “needless obfuscation” found in science and humanities papers, which Pinker blamed on academics?? laziness, insularity, and compulsion to establish their identity in a privileged group. Conciseness was particularly useful for Pinker during his February appearance on Comedy Central’s “The Colbert Report.” When host Stephen Colbert asked him to summarize how the brain worked in five...