Tag: Discussion
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August 18, 2023 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post. Harrison Middleton University hosts regularly scheduled discussions for the public as well as students. Open to anyone interested in intellectual discussion, short, easily digestible readings are provided electronically. If you’re interested in more information, reach me at as****@hm*.edu. Our most recent Quarterly Discussion …
July 28, 2023 Thanks to Dave Seng, HMU alumnus, for today’s post. To read the previous post in this series, visit hmu.edu In our last post we looked at the importance of questions and why self-reflection as individuals and a society is important. It seems part of the human situation to ask questions in order to …
July 21, 2023 Thanks to HMU Alumnus, Dave Seng, for today’s blog post. I recently participated in the fall discussion series, What the Greeks can Teach us About AI. The series focused on four Greek plays — Prometheus Bound by Aeschylus; and Herakles, The Bacchae, and Medea by Euripides. The discussions were insightful and explored …
July 14, 2023 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post. Following our discussion series “What the Greeks Can Teach Us About AI,” I have become increasingly interested in understanding the uses and reasons for using artificial intelligence (AI). Throughout the series, participants repeated the notion that AI was simply a tool. While I …
This year I presented unfinished work on purpose at a recent conference. I have seen people do this. It always seemed so brave and intimidating that I continually shied away…until this year. I have to be honest, rather than terrifying, it was extremely liberating. I began my presentation with the caveat that I was looking …
March 31, 2023 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post. This year I presented unfinished work on purpose at a recent conference. I have seen people do this. It always seemed so brave and intimidating that I continually shied away…until this year. I have to be honest, rather than terrifying, it was extremely …
March 17, 2023 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post. “[P]erhaps art is not, we might speculate, in the product itself, nor necessarily in the process, but in the impulse.” – Brian Christian from The Most Human Human HMU recently wrapped up the Winter Film Series, which focused on the great idea of …
October 21, 2022 Thanks to Peter Ponzio, HMU Tutor, for today’s post. The Great Books Council of San Francisco held their annual Long Novel Weekend over October 1st and 2nd, with A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens as the chosen novel for 2022. The Council recommended the Penguin Classics edition of the novel, …
October 14, 2022 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post. What does it mean to be “literate”? Does literate imply any act of understanding or, even more, of critical thinking, or does it simply mean that one can read physical text? In How to Read a Book, Mortimer Adler differentiates between elementary, intermediate …
September 16, 2022 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post. Recently, I attended a pop-up conference hosted by Classical Pursuits. Moderator Melanie Blake walked us through a short story by Guy de Maupassant. I jumped on this opportunity since I had never read any of his short stories. And discussion is an excellent …
