I chose to put up this image because this has been a traumatic week for many of us, and we needed something soothing. I have found the greatest reassurance in looking up to this panel and realizing the network on which humanity is founded. The connection between Adam and the Father in Michelangelo's vision is one of tenderness, of protection, of grace. In the trauma the world faces today, it is good to be reminded of our connectivitiy. love and peace, jeanne

Announcing:

Healing

This week I started a new section for us on healing. Most of us are feeling the effects of September 11. You'll find a link to the Healing section under the Table of Contents. Some of us are still having trouble grasping that a "war" of sorts is happening, and that we are in the thick of it. Some of us are experiencing reactive depression we don't understand. Some of us are tired beyond reason, and failing to care for ourselves on the grounds that we can't "really be that tired." Most of us are finding it harder to be patient and caring, especially when others do something that triggers the fear, anxiety, or exhaustion that is already beyond our normative expectations. We need to talk about healing.

Doing Art for Peace

California State University, Dominguez Hills
University of Wisconsin, Parkside
Soka University Japan, Transcend Art and Peace
Latest Update: October 24, 2001
jeannecurran@habermas.org
takata@uwp.edu
Olivier Urbain, Soka University

Table of Contents

Archives - How to Navigate the Site - Announcements
Teaching and Review Essay Index, by Topic - Lecture Notes - Oft-Used Weblinks
Left/Right Perspectives - PSN - Virtual Faculty - Transcend Art and Peace
The Justice Studies Association - TR Young's Site - ZNet
Who To Take - Syllabi - Art and Poem Gallery - Sociology Sites

CSUDH: Where's jeanne - Who's jeanne? - Where's everyone?
UWP: Susan's classes - Who's Susan?

Merriam-Webster Dictionary Search:

What's New?

For the Week of October 22, 2001

Weekly Readings and Suggested Measures of Learning:

• Modern Social Theories, Undergraduate: WEEK 8 WEEK 9
• Transforming Discourse: WEEK 8 WEEK 9
• Sociology of Law: WEEK 8 WEEK 9
• Graduate Theory Seminar: WEEK 8 WEEK 9

Healing after September 11
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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Healing
The NOW is cracking.

I set aside the Healing Section for us to share our feelings and our knowledge of sources to help with that healing. And in the interest of our collective health, if you are saddened and depressed by even theoretical discussions of what is happening in our lifeworld, don't read those discussions; don't let yourself get more depressed or angry or firightened. All the material on our site is archived. You can go back to it when it is less traumatic. And there is so much material on the site that you have choices. Choose to read and illustrate your understanding with discussions and articles that uplift you, not that make you feel worse.

love and peace, jeanne

Healing Art and Music

Reactions to Art and Music:

• Michelangelo's Creation of Adam

  • "Looking up is what we need to do
    in every since of the word."Journal entry by Karol Lorthridge.

  • "It is so beautiful and creates such an image of love and peace," Journal entry by Lisa J. Stevens.

  • Drawing Disaster The New York Times.

• Reactions to Our Own Art Journal entry by Michelle M. Harley, CSUDH. Michelle brings up some interesting points on how much easier it is to approach painful subjects through art. This, by the way, a good way to help children approach the September 11 events.

• Doing Art for Peace

• bEAR A handmade book by Alicia Cohen. Just in case you thought I was making up all that talk about the recurrence of the hand-made book. Click on the link under the book for an excerpt from the book.

• form of our uncertainty A handmade book in honor of Gil Ott. "His acceptance of uncertainty and his history of stirring things up in status-quo-ville are the defining qualities of Gil Ott's poetics."

Helping Children Over Fear and Anxiety:

• Coping with Children's Reaction to Disaster New York City Mayor's Office of Emergency Management

Reactions to Anger:

• Coincidence or Sophistication? Susan's and jeanne's responses to Nichole Williams' comments on adversarialism. Scroll down about four/fifths of the file.

• Anger Over the War Journal entry by Joseph Pavon, CSUDH.

• On Collaborative Writing and Editing a Submission to Dear Habermas for an A on that piece of work. Journal entry by Tranell Colquitt on coping with the anthrax threat..

Reactions to Fear:

• Affirmative Duty to Inform of Anthrz Threats? Journal entry by Kara Cain. Includes jeann'e comments on conceptual linking.

• Shoudln't We Have Been Informed? Chris Hospedale's concern over information control.

• Overcoming Fear Reactions to Anthrax Threat. Journal entry by Corinne Oshiro, CSUDH.

• What Should We Do? Reactions to Anthrax Threat. Journal entry by Tranell Colquitt, CSUDH. Includes jeanne's comments about what to do when you are perplexed about what to write to show me what you have learned.

Talking Theoretically About Healing

• Coping with Children's Reaction to Disaster New York City Crisis Management.

• Experts: kids need reassurance Kaiser Permanente.

• Attacks' aftermath may increase feelings of stress for many, say medical experts Kaiser Permanente.

• Coping with Trauma Kaiser Permanente. Includes discussion of symptoms and tips for self help.

• A message on bridging our ethnic and religious fault lines Kaiser Permanente.

• Thinking Out Loud On a More Abstract Level by Vance Peavy. Vance Peavy's response to Emily Klug's question "Why did they do this to us?" Good approach to understanding that we need to hear each other in good faith.

• The Signs of Stress How to Recognize Stress. by Clayton Tucker-Ladd. Whole self-help book online.

Teaching Essays

Teaching and Review Essay Index

Discussing Theory:

Edward W. Said:

• Edward Said on The Power of Music beyong the Shutting Off of Sound Journal entry by jeanne on her current reading.
• Edward Said on The Western Canon Journal entry by jeanne on her current entry. Cooments include references to the harmful effect of unstated assumptions.

  Nietzsche:

  • Study Guide for Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Book One by Paul Brians. Washington State University.

  Social Evolution:

  • Larry Miller's PSN Post on social evolution. CyberBrook asked for sources for a friend on "How and when our economic and/or political systems first evolved from tribal hunting and gathering societies through the divine right of kings to the present ruling classes" and "also Was there a time in global history when men and women held equal power positions? How and when did power distribution between men and women occur? These are good questions that we're all beginning to ask more about now. Maybe later in the semester we can put up a teaching essay on this.
  • Barbara Chasin's PSN Post on social evolution

  Chaos Theory:

  • Cyber systems in Relation to Other Disciplines Note particularly the relationship to Chaos theory. Then check out TR Young's site on Chaos Theory

  Habermas:

  • Habermas Online Little more than a third of the way down the file you'll find a link to Martin Beck Matustik's Jurgen Habermas: A Philosophical-Political Profile. I don't have the book yet, but I'm sure I'll get to it by December. Remember to nag me to get some teaching essays up for you. jeanne Advanced level..

  • Excerpt from "Georg Simmel on Philosophy and Culture: Postscript to a Collection of Essays" by Jurgen Habermas and translated by Mathieu Deflem: Critical Inquiry. Intermediate level.

  • Habermas on the Upper West Side This is a good article to give you a sense of the real issue here: control by one group's values over those of another group. Elizabeth Powers gives a well-written description of how the "white liberal" appears to the moral conservative and of how the "white liberal" offends without being aware of it. Teaching essay not up yet, but it will focus on trying to highlight the left-liberal-conservative overview. Introductory level.

Discussing Nation-State Violence, Genocide:

• Rwanda: No Single Truth A Photographic Exhibit by Robert Lyons.

• jeanne's notes on "We wish to inform you that tomorrow we will be killed with our families by Philip Gourevitch.

• Placing Blame For Genocide: Guatemalan massacre survivors seek damages from dam financiers By Karen Levy, San Francisco Chronicle Foreign Service. Thursday, November 16, 2000. backup

Talking About the War:

• Re: Ethics of Terrorism and Revolution by Michael I. Lichter. Post to PSN. 23 October 2001. I like this Michael Lichter's clarification of "terrorism." Like "communism," the word has been bandied about too long as a pejorative label. Because we are presently in the midst of the real thing, we need to stop "labeling" and start looking more closely at our definitions. jeanne

  • Re: Who Terrorizes Whom? by Alan Thomas Harrison. 23 October 2001. Includes the word "fundamentalist" with labels like "terrrorism."

• Symbols Eduardo Galeano's fear of Bush's response to the attack of September 11.

• Responding With Terror President Bush proposes perpetual war. Will justice be the casualty? by Aijaz Ahmad. Frontline, India's National Magazine. Volume 18 - Issue 20, Sep. 29 - Oct. 12, 2001.

  • Commentary on PSN on Responding with Terror Posted by Steve Rosenthal, whom some of our students met with Gordon Fellman at the ASA meetings in Anaheim in August 2001.

    Prof. Rosenthal does a wonderful job of suggesting specific comments for conceptual linking. Good practice available here for those of you wanting to do a little advanced theory writing. jeanne

• Interactive Graphics on Afghanistan New York Times maps and explanations of the area. Well done. Worth a visit.

• Terrorism on the HomeFront An open letter to: George W. Bush, President of the United States of America Posted to PSN by CyberBrook. Transferred because it belongs with the following piece. jeanne

  • An abortion bomber This site has been put up to allow you to see the radical right position of a few anti-abortionists who define murder in contradiction to the law of the land, while condoning the murders they choose. Sometimes, remember, we put the horrible out of our minds (fear studies); we deny that it exists. I guess that's where I'd stash the phrase, "I'm an abortionist-bomber, that's what I do." But in the complicity of my denial that such horror can exist, I fail to demand that this radical position on the right to murder be resolved and that our laws be enforced as they actually exist.

• THIS IS NOT A MOVIE: Same scenes, different story. by Anthony Lane. October 19, 2001. October 19, 2001. The New Yorker. Issue of 2001-09-24. Posted 2001-09-17. The reality of September 11 and the paleness of the movie blockbusters. "What will survive of us is love." backup

• Why the Anthrax Scare Isn't As Bad As You May Think By Jessica Reaves. "So far, the fear factor counts for more than the actual danger. The latest news from the bioterror front." TIME.com.

• Anthrax Anxiety: The truth behind the hype By Michael Fumento. National Review Online. October 15, 2001. backup Right perspective.

• Anthrax Anxiety By Bruce Shapiro. The Nation Online. November 5, 2001. Left perspective.

• Deracination: Historicity, Hiroshima, and the Tragic Imperative Walter A. Davis. State University of New York Press, 2000. Interesting psychoanalytical approach. Teaching essay up soon. jeanne October 19, 2001.

Talking About Poverty and Globalization:

• The Problem of World Blindness link to Blindness Facts in the left-most frame, and then to The Problem of World Blindness. under the picture.

• Back to nature in India? Vandana Shiva's Reith lecture, Poverty and Globalisation.

  • Poverty and Globilisation The Reith Lecture. backup

  • The poverty of a Reith Lecturer's thinking By Matt Ridley. The Daily Telegraph. Tuesday, May 16, 2000.

• The Madness of Prince Charles Reith Lecture. On the complexity of environmental issues, particularly on a global level.

Talking About Freedom, Censorship, and Transforming the Dominant Discourse:

• Constricting Critical Inquiry in Universities By Robert Jensen. Well written commentary on censorship through dominant discourse. Readable.

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In Other Languages

• ZNet en Espanol.

• Patriagrande.net Eduardo Galeano. Spanish.

  • El teatro del Bien y el Mal Eduardo Galeano.

    "En la lucha del Bien contra el Mal, siempre es el pueblo quien pone los muertos."
    In the struggle between Good and Evil, it is always the people

    La página de Eduardo Galeano

    Eduardo Galeano: Biografia

• "Annan advierte contra las nuevas formas de racismo."

• Editoria On Line - Editori Iindipendente - Librerie - Non Profit Italian.

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Art

• Art and the Imaginary:

  • The Visual Social Image and Dominant Discourse

• Art and Healing:

  • 100,000 "Peace Pictures for Muslim Kids." Also listed under Healing.

  • Art You Should Know

    Creation of Adam Michelangelo, The Sistine Chapel.

  • Artists You Should Know:

    • Up soon.

  • Poems We Share

    • Ex-Convict by Kelly Hay, UWP,

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  Collaborative Writing Journal

• Index for Sharing the Site What others are reading and their questions and comments on their reading. Needs updating. jeanne 10/20/01.

  Week 9: Week of October 22, 2001

  • Reaction to Gourevitch's story of the pygmy in Rwanda

  • "Fellman, when speaking of adversarialism says desires for justice, safety, and nonexploitation are sacrificed for victory." Journal entry by Nichole Williams.

  • The Need to Talk Journal entry by Vincent Lek Weisong, SOJ

  • Reactions to Michelangelo's Creation of Adam

  • Censorship Journal entry by jeanne. New file started because fear of the "other" often leads to censorship. Essay up soon.

  • Reactions to Anthrax Threat Journal entry by Corinne Oshiro, CSUDH.

  • Reactions to Nietzsche Journal entry by Heidi Rickman, CSUDH.

  • Reactions to Said Journal entry by Maria Martinez, CSUDH.

  • Writing Guides This file is designed to guide you to better writing, but writing that real people will understand. That means we don't want to write in a language that will lead you to ask: What language is spoken here? More soon . . . .

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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

• Guides to Writing and to Getting A's on Dear Habermas Submissions

• Conceptual Linking for an A Journal entry by Kara Cain

• On Collaborative Writing and Editing a Submission to Dear Habermas for an A on that piece of work. Journal entry by Joseph Pavon on anger over the war.

• On Collaborative Writing and Editing a Submission to Dear Habermas for an A on that piece of work. Journal entry by Tranell Colquitt on coping with the anthrax threat..

• First in a series of guides to writing a thesis project or an advanced term paper.

• Index of Newspapers aroung the world Just started. If your favorite's not there, let me know. The Wall Street Journal isn't there because it's not free.

• Social Issues Research Centre Has online articles and links to commentaries.

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