
Events
The Institute for Humane Studies (George Mason University) offers a day-long seminar devoted to the political thought of Frederick Douglass for Cornerstone students, Sunday, October 25
Organized by Zachary Goldsmith
Discussion of Douglas moderated by Douglas Casson, Professor of Political Science at St. Olaf College in Minnesota
Teagle Foundation: Faculty Institute for Cornerstone: Learning for Living, Thursday, October 15
Welcome by Andrew Delbanco, President, The Teagle Foundation
“How I Teach This Text”: Dan-El Padilla Peralta, Associate Professor of Classics, Princeton University, Cicero’s Speech in Defense of the Poet Achias
“Transformative Texts for an Emancipatory Education,” Roosevelt Montas, Senior Lecturer in American Studies, Columbia University
Teagle Foundation: Faculty Institute for Cornerstone: Learning for Living, Thursday, October 8
Welcome by Andrew Delbanco, President, The Teagle Foundation
“How I Teach This Text:” Roosevelt Montás, Senior Lecturer in American Studies, Columbia University
on “What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?" is the title now given to a speech by Frederick Douglass delivered on July 5, 1852.
“Giant Leaps for the Liberal Arts at Purdue”, Melinda Zook, Professor of History and Director of Cornerstone Integrated Liberal Arts, Purdue University