Tag: humanities
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June 30, 2023 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post. Back in the 90s, I spent a lot of time watching ESPN. Back then, I thought that Dan Patrick and Stuart Scott were untouchable. Fast forward a few decades, and although I no longer watch much television, I still occasionally enjoy listening to …
April 28, 2023 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post. Our recent Quarterly Discussion spanned thousands of years, jumping from a play by Aeschylus to a short story by Jhumpa Lahiri. We began with Aeschylus’s “Suppliant Maidens” and then transitioned to the short story “When Mr. Pirzada Came to Dine” by Lahiri. In …
October 9, 2020 Thanks to Taiwo Olanrewaju-Lasisi, a 2020 HMU Fellow in Ideas, for today’s post. Ancient philosophies and concepts in humanities, especially regarding ethical values and moral principles, have served as a primitive herald and landmark on which many ethics in the field are built upon. Justice, fairness, integrity, honesty, individual freedom and liberty, …
October 4, 2019 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post. In a 2014 interview with David Letterman, Jerry Seinfeld says that he was inspired to create Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee to play with a new format, something that could be viewed on a phone. This occurred to him at a time when …
September 16, 2016 Thanks to Gary Schoepfel, HMU Tutor, for today’s post. I have spent the greater part of my life swimming in the humanities. With the arrival of the “new school year” comes two perennial and troubling questions I ask myself each September. What good do I get from reading, writing, discussing, and thinking …
May 29, 2015 Thanks to Marcus Conley, HMU Tutor and Dean of Undergraduate Studies, for today’s post. In January, I attended the 130th annual convention of the Modern Language Association. The event was held at the Vancouver Convention Centre, two enormous, hive-like complexes of meeting rooms with a view across Vancouver Harbour to the firs …
