Adjustments

So (as per usual) I’m making some adjustments.

Sunday night, please post a paragraph about your experiences in the Wissahickon (Jenna and Shamial--economic/educational/artistic/literary reflections on the environments you occupied this weekend will be most acceptable contributions to the discussion).

Turns out we’re going to have a visitor on Monday afternoon. Michael Morella, a reporter who will be contributing to the US News and World Report's fall edition of "College Road Trip,” has taken an interest in Bryn Mawr’s 360° program, and has asked to sit in on our class. So I think it makes sense to move things around a bit, to create a space in which, in good 360° fashion, the orientations of our different disciplines might be made a bit more "porous" to one another.

In preparation for this discussion….
by class time on Monday, please look through the powerpoint presentation by Elizabeth Callaway, A Space for Justice. I’ll fill in details when we meet—but do pause to ponder the move from slide #12 to #13. Also read two short essays by Sue Ellen Campbell, “Magpie” and “"The Land and Language of Desire” (which will soon appear in our password protected file of readings), and bring to class a few jottings of your reactions to share.

Jody and David will join us in my class, and we’ll reprise the sort of casual "panel" that Jody hosted amongst us in her class on 3/3/14, when each of the three of us read "as" a spokesperson from our discipline—talking about what gets highlighted/foregrounded/backgrounded when we are looking @ the hockey stick graph and @ Callaway’s re-figuration of it--and also (if there’s time) when listening to Campbell’s meditations on language use.

On Wednesday we’ll start discussing Coetzee’s novella; read to p. 69.

Thanks, as always, for flexibility...
and see you momentarily!
A.