Freire (Paulo)

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The Politics of Disinviting

On education and engagement with ideas

December 2, 2015 • by

The tactic of disinviting controversial speakers has become increasingly common across college campuses. Consider, for example, what happened to the Iranian-born human rights activist Maryam Namazie (a prominent anti-racist activist and a central committee member of the Worker-Communist Party of Iran), who was ...

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The Politics of Disinviting
Education

Reimagining Our Institution

March 5, 2014 • by
This is the prepared text of a presentation to the General Seminar commemorating the 80th Anniversary of the University in Exile. Dr. Wagner-Pacifici draws our attention to two states of event: event as particle, and as wave. Event as particle may feel more conceptually intuitive: an event has a “shape” and ...
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