What's New?
For the Week of September 24, 2001

Weekly Readings and Suggested Measures of Learning:
New material up soon.

• Modern Social Theories, Undergraduate
• Transforming Discourse
• Sociology of Law
• Graduate Theory Seminar

Teaching Essays
In Other Languages
Art and the Imaginary
Collaborative Writing Journal
Conflicts Around the World
Scholastic Resources
Lagniappe! You Gotta Read This!
Jobs, Jobs, Jobs
Gallery
Resource Pages:
. . . Criminology and Aging and Peacemaking and Theory
. . . and Women and Social Justice and Social Justice Issues and Writings
. . . and The Writer's Bookshelf and Poverty and Sociology of Law
. . . and September 11, 2001 and Distance Learning
Syllabi Instructions on How to Access Syllabi
Calls for Proposals: Conference and Article Plans
Kids' Site
What people are saying about Dear Habermas
Who To Take

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Teaching Essays

Teaching and Review Essay Index

New This Week:

• Roots of Terrorism Must Be Fully Investigated by by M.V. Naidu, Chairman. Dept. of Political Science. Brandon University. An analysis of the attack on the U.S.

• Iraq? Posted by Lauren Langman. PSN. September 24, 2001. From Foreign Report. Intelligence piece suggesting that Iraq was behind the World Trade Center bombings.

• Bin Laden Buys Child Slaves for His Drug Farms in Africa On iAbolish Website. backup We'll want to speak of King Leopold's Ghost and the Congo with respect to this article.

  Please read carefully. This article was published in March of 1999. iAbolish is a site dedicated to ending world slavery. It is important that we know that such practices exist. It is also important that we remember that we have institutions and laws to remind us of procedures that offer some assurance that we will not blame the innocent unjustly.

• Slavery Today, Across the World On iAbolish Website. Considerable information available on line. Click on any of the countries for articles on conditions there. This piece offers us a good balance to remind us that we are not totally innocent of such practices ourselves. People who look just like you and me engage in such criminal behavior also.

• Whooping It Up In Beirut, even Christians celebrated the atrocity. By Elisabetta Burba. Saturday, September 22, 2001 12:01 a.m. EDT backup Link to this article in Wall Street Journal posted on the Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society List.

• Alfie Kohn's Comments on September 11 "One detail of the tragedy carries a striking pedagogical relevance. It appears that the only people in the World Trade Center’s south tower who survived were those who didn't follow directions, because official announcementsrepeatedly instructed everyone in the building to stay put. Here we have a new reason to raise an old question: Are we teaching kids to think for themselves -- or simply to do what they're told?"

  • More on Alfie Kohn.
    
  • www.AlfieKohn.org

• Institute for the Secularisation of Islamic Society and Statement by Ibn Warraq on the World Trade Center Atrocity. "Ibn Warrq is the autor of Why I Am Not a Muslim". We'll want to look at the Sacred and the Profane and the role of religion in society as we discuss the present crisis which is being called a Jihad, or religious war.

• Conservative Protestant Politics Book review by Michele Dillon. Issue: Fall, 2000. Conservative Protestant Politics, by STEVE BRUCE. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998, 236+ix pp., $55.00.

• Thinking Out Loud On a More Abstract Level by Vance Peavy. On Thursday, when I uploaded Emily Klug's plaint: "Why did they do this to us?" I sent a plea to Vance Peavy to answer her. For some reason his response did not register on my e-mail yesterday, but there it was this morning. We'll discuss this on Tuesday. jeanne

• Re: The Wretched of the Earth by Shane Hopkinson. 21 September 2001. We'll be referring shortly to Frantz Fanon and his significance in these events.

• I received a copy of an essay on the opposing views of religion and what that means to us. It came from PSN, but I don't see it on the index. Sorry, It came from the Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society List. Apologies to PSN, and to all of you who would like me to "vet" everything that's going up. Remember, Dear Habermas is committed to postmodernism and critical theory, meaning, in our case, that we are not censoring perspectives. I am trying to put up teaching essays for each of the pieces, but that will take weeks, bare minimum. Others are welcome to respond with different perspectives.

  The piece on religion to which I referred was by Richard Dawkins, as I recall. I'll check it out as soon as I can and put up a teaching essay on sociology of religion shortly. Meanwhile, check The Drama of the Holy: "Affirmative Postmodern Religious Sensibility TR Young's Book on postmodern religion online. We'll discuss it shortly as part of our foray into the Sociology of Religion for Social Theory and Transforming Discourse. For accompanying srtwork you should know about check out Cimabue on the Cimabue and Giotto: From Medieval to Renaissance Art. And The Crucifix of Santa Croce.

• Pat, Cuban Sociology, as promised. jeanne

  

• "Is this real?" Journal entry by Keith Greene. Keith's journal entry provides an excellent review of much that we discussed this week.

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Art and the Imaginary

ART You should Know:

Edward T. Moran's Statue of Liberty Enlightening the World
Type in Statue of Liberty in the search box of menu along top of screen, then link to Painting the Town, #4 on my search list. jeanne

Don't miss Fig. 21 Robert Hallowell, Lower New York, 1929
Watercolor, gift of Mr. and Mrs. Corliss Lamont, 50.21
©Museum of the City of New York
View of lower Manhattan and Statue of Liberty.
You'll have to scroll down to about an inch from the bottom of the file.

The Painter and the City: The Evolution of the New York Subject
This link will take you to the beginning of The Painter and the City at the website of the Museum of the city of New York.

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Collaborative Writing Journal

Current work in progress on teaching and review essays
by jeanne, Susan, Pat, et alia.

• Lecture Notes Index

• Index for Sharing the Site What others are reading and their questions and comments on their reading.
  Week 5: Week of September 24, 2001.

  • We're All Struggling for Words Susan speaks to Kerry Partika about her letter to Orlando Rodriguez.

  • "Is this real?" Journal entry by Keith Greene.
  • Anti-Arab-American Sentiment Journal entries by Christina Beal, UWP, and Omayra, UWP.
  • "Why did they do this to us?" Journal entry by Emily Klug, UWP.
    • Vance Peavy's response to Emily
      The SocioDynamic Counselling Website: A Constructivist Perspective
  • We're All Struggling for Words Susan speaks to Kerry Partika about her letter to Orlando Rodriguez.
  • Reactions to Alfie Kohn's Article, September 11:

    • September 11, 2001 by Alfie Kohn. backup

    • "Revenge Shouldn't Be the Government way, It Is God's Way." Journal entry by Perry, UWP
    • Some Rules Are Necessary to Function Journal entry by Amy Reilly, UWP
    • "The Article Does Help Put Things into Perspective" Journal entry by Adam Beau, UWP
    • The Need for Rules to Consider Feedback Journal entry by Christina Beals, UWP
    • The Importance of Education Journal entry by Jeni Cuccia, UWP

  • Reactions to Fellman's Rambo and the Dalai Lama

    • Maybe we should send President Bush a copy of Rambo and the Dalai Lama Journal entry by Michelle Marshall, CSUDH

  • Message from Canada Message from Canadian Senator Doug Roche
    re: September 11 Posted by "Robert Stewart" to the PEC List, on Tuesday, September 25, 2001.

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Lagniappe!

You Gotta Read This

Chapel Hill Seeks Best Role for Students' Laptops "Requirement yields savings, but educational gains are evolving and hard to measure." By Florence Olsen. Chronicle of Higher Education.

Making Books Yahoo Groups list. Link to Messages in the left-most frame for the archived messages. Gives many ideas for making books with young children. They would make wonderful gifts for birthday parties, even activities for birthday parties.

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Scholastic Resources:

Scholastic Resources Site under revision, but useable.
Sociology Sites New Scholastic Resources file going up for behavioral sciences.
American Society of Criminology Tutoring for student members of ASC.

Scholarly References

• Chronicle of Higher Education Free Sampling of Articles
• Directory of Human Rights Resources on the Internet American Association for the Advancement of Science. Link from Richard Dawkins' site.
• Human Rights Action Network American Association for the Advancement of Science.
• Association for the Sociology of Religion (ASR) is an international scholarly association that seeks to advance theory and research in the sociology of religion.
• The New Plagiarism From Now On: The Educational Technology Journal. Vol 7. No 8. May 1998.
• WebTools Newsletter Kevin Cox. February 27, 2001.
• Some Basic Material on The Detention of Japanese Americans after Pearl Harbor Essay up shortly. jeanne
  • Years of Infamy: the Untold Story of America's Concentration Camps. By Michi Weglyn. With an Introduction by James A. Michener. Morrow Quill Paperbacks, New York. 1976. 9th edition. This is the"red" book I shared with many of you in classes last week. I'll bring it again next week. jeanne

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Jobs and Job-Training:

• Interview Skills Good tips.

• Academic360.com "Academic360.com is a meta-collection of Internet resources that have been gathered for the academic job hunter. It includes links to faculty, staff, and administrative announcements and is not restricted to teaching positions."

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Kids' Site

Kids' Site Homepage Updated
Kids' Site Index

• Up soon.

• National Constitution Center: KIDS Corner "We've set up Kids Corner so that you can find information and help for your school projects."

• Gideon's Trumpet and the right to an Attorney This is on the Kids' Corner of the National Constitution Center. It explains our sense of justice in a way that we all need to understand it now. jeanne

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What people are saying about Dear Habermas

On Monday, September 24, 2001, Michael Briggs wrote:

"Hi Jeanne! This is Michael Briggs. I'm writing to inform you that I'm still waiting word on what we talked about (website). Please let me know when you hear something on the software. I'm ready to get started."

I'll download the software tomorrow, Michael, I promise. What seemed like Susan's whole class at UWP just sent me reactions to Alfie Kohn's September 11 article! I'm swamped. jeanne

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Who To Take

• Who To Take Site
• Transforming Campus Discourse:The Importance of Sharing the Good Stuff

• There's a first posting up for both CSUDH and UWP!

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