#public18c
#asecs18 #public18c - a reminder while @devoneylooser does intro, that those wishing to communicate their ideas to the public can see me about new 18C podcast supported by @18common
December 8, 2024 at 7:32 AM
#asecs18 #public18c - Misty Anderson: thing about apocalypticism is that it’s always true: things are always falling apart, changing, and becoming clearer.
December 8, 2024 at 7:32 AM
#asecs18 #public18c Anderson: writing for @HuffPost after election, realization she was preaching to the choir. New pivots to come. Her 18c model: Henry Fielding of the Little Heymarket (public stewardship, showing not just telling, willing to go bust)
December 8, 2024 at 7:32 AM
#asecs18 #public18c - Anderson: The Busy Body staged in the shadow of election.
December 8, 2024 at 7:32 AM
#asecs18 #public18c - project-based coffee house course, linking the material world around them to their 18c reading. Unresolved tensions of that.
December 8, 2024 at 7:32 AM
#asecs18 #public18c - Anderson: power of live theatre (costly, dangerous, necessary, some formal and some informal) during crisis of campus unrest from outside
December 8, 2024 at 7:32 AM
#asecs18 #public18c - Anderson: commissioning new plays that speak to place and space and people of the location. Moderated by conflict resolution grad student specialist. Being community.
December 8, 2024 at 7:32 AM
#asecs18 #public18c - Anderson - after years of advising avoidance of faculty government, she is now incoming head of Faculty Senate.
December 8, 2024 at 7:27 AM
#asecs18 #public18c - Anderson - a story for us here, we need a better story. Leadership as #UTellourstory - faculty and students in conversation about classes.
December 8, 2024 at 7:27 AM
#asecs18 #public18c - Anderson: also disaster planning.
December 8, 2024 at 7:27 AM
#asecs18 #public18c - Anderson: what brought you to this room? (Or this twitter stream)? Let’s tell our story.
December 8, 2024 at 7:27 AM
#asecs18 #public18c Berglund: two ways that societies are presented to public: silly specialists or backdrops to scandals.
December 8, 2024 at 7:27 AM
#asecs18 #public18c Berglund: often members are public intellectuals, but learned society that is interdisciplinary isn’t often as public-facing (compared to history societies or literary societies)
December 8, 2024 at 7:27 AM
#asecs18 #public18c Berglund: @ASECSOffice is starting to add its voice to these issues. We are in a good place, 50th anniversary coming up next year, what else should we do as a society?
December 8, 2024 at 7:27 AM
#asecs18 #public18c Berglund: how do we get want to position ourselves and our voice as a collective rather than as individuals?
December 8, 2024 at 7:27 AM
#asecs18 #public18c Paula McDowell on Marshall McLuhan as model for thinking about challenges and opportunities for public intellectuals.
December 8, 2024 at 7:27 AM
#asecs18 #public18c McDowell: breaking down boundaries between public and ivory tower.
December 8, 2024 at 7:22 AM
#asecs18 #public18c McDowell: McLuhan in his role as a scholar of 18C literature.
December 8, 2024 at 7:22 AM
#asecs18 #public18c McDowell: McLuhan’s work is steeped in references to 18C writers and thinkers.
December 8, 2024 at 7:22 AM
#asecs18 #public18c McDowell: MM as commonplacer
December 8, 2024 at 7:22 AM
#asecs18 #public18c McDowell: MM as relentless innovator and experimenter
December 8, 2024 at 7:22 AM
#asecs18 #public18c McDowell: MM as contemplative in guise of a jet setter. Celebrity’s influence on his work.
December 8, 2024 at 7:22 AM
#asecs18 #public18c McDowell: his embrace of radio and television (and film) — the undoing of his scholarly life.
December 8, 2024 at 7:22 AM
#asecs18 #public18c McDowell: MM later books as all collaborations, all editing, “all hash” (what do we sacrifice for reach?)
December 8, 2024 at 7:22 AM
#asecs18 #public18c McDowell: our responsibility to students, but also to the 18c subjects we study.
December 8, 2024 at 7:22 AM