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“When I was thinking about what to do for my sabbatical, I knew I wanted to spend the year with my family in Chengdu, Sichuan, China, and this interdisciplinary project, the Fulbright funding opportunity, and my sabbatical plans all lined up nicely,” says Schmidt. Schmidt will conduct research in China during her sabbatical in the ’19-20 academic year.
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Six faculty members from the College of Arts and Sciences and the Conservatory of Music received Excellence in Teaching Awards for the 2017-2018 academic year.
The Presidential Scholar in Islamic Studies, Mohammad Jafar Mahallati founded the Oberlin Friendship Festival.
What are some pathways for students who are interested in this area of study?
Based on two semesters of teaching friendship courses at Oberlin, and in the Middle East in two different languages, I can see that internationally, students are highly encouraged to continue their friendship studies as an interdisciplinary approach in international relations, psychology, sociology, religious studies, philosophy, literature and law studies. Many are also inspired to implement their friendship studies in practical works, NGO activities, organizational managements, conflict resolutions, and art works. In other words, whatever a student’s major, friendship studies and friendship-making can still be an academic or professional focus in their respective areas of interest.
Songtree features performances by prominent Oberlin alumni and the Contemporary Music Ensemble. “Songtree is a distillation of my most meaningful compositional ideas of the past decade,” says Zohn-Muldoon. “But more significantly, this recording reunites many of my most cherished musical collaborators, dear friends whose artistry I deeply admire and for whom I have written the majority of my music for the past two decades. I owe these wonderful musicians an unmeasurable debt of musical and personal growth."
Q&A with Ann Cooper Albright
Professor of Dance Ann Cooper Albright recently gave a talk at Rutgers University as a part of its annual Dance and Philosophy Lecture series. She also has a new book forthcoming from Oxford University Press, titled How to Land: Finding Ground in an Unstable World.
Q: Could you give a brief explanation of how this book came to be, and what it covers or seeks to address?
This is a book that I’ve been working on and thinking about for the last eight years. I would say that it was precipitated by a lot of my experiences teaching students at Oberlin, as well as teaching workshops professionally. I had developed a series of exercises that were about trying to help people ground themselves in their lives. In some ways, I was teaching a set of skills, but underneath the skills, the real question was: how can you be present in the world with your body? How we move in the world affects the way we think about the world. I started to notice this rise of anxiety, of distractedness, of students having a hard time focusing and feeling present.
In a way, the book is a meeting of somatics and politics. I began with 9/11 and the images of falling bodies, and the sense that, throughout much of the 21st century, we’ve been involved in witnessing things falling apart: governments, economic disasters, mass shootings. There’s a sense of fear that we have in our bodies. Part of that is the fear of falling, and the other part is this increased use of screens, which keeps people in a symbolic, visual, two-dimensional mind frame where you don’t feel the world around you.
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A cultural anthropologist specializing in human rights and indigenous peoples, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Latin American Studies Baron Pineda is one of seven scholars advising Facebook on the challenges of enforcing community standards.
How did you become involved in Facebook’s Data Transparency Advisory Group and Yale Law School’s Justice Collaboratory?
Recently, Facebook has been exploring ways to seek feedback and advice from academics around a variety of new challenges that they are confronting on the platform. Earlier this year, I was invited to meetings at Facebook offices around the country to discuss the possibility of creating one such group that would be dedicated to having a look at the work that Facebook is doing on enforcing what they call their “community standards.” These standards are basically the rules of conduct that Facebook would like to be upheld on the platform. Tracey Meares and Tom Tyler, directors of the Justice Collaboratory at Yale Law School, are coordinating our work. They are experts in institutional reform of the criminal justice system in the United States and abroad, so their expertise is particularly valuable for Facebook as they think about how to best manage the platform. Read More>
A longtime professor of English and now associate dean of the college of arts and sciences at Oberlin, Laura Baudot has long studied how people read, but now she’s asking a different question: why?
What is Sanctuary? Shelley Lee
The concept of sanctuary is often part of today’s discussions about immigration, but the idea of providing sanctuary has ancient roots. This panel discussion, with faculty from various departments, explored different meanings and practices of sanctuary from ancient to modern times.
Shelley Lee, Associate Professor of Comparative American Studies and History, teaches classes in the Comparative American studies, History and Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies departments.
