Issue for Week of August 20, 2001
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Dear Habermas
A Journal of Postmodern and Critical Thought
Devoted to Academic Discourse on Peace and Justice
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for the Week of August 20, 2001?
Who To Take? - Archives - Sitemap - Navigating the Site
Navigating the Internet - Topical Index for Teaching Essays
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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 Crime and Race and Social Justice
Syllabi
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:
- Robin Hood and Brown Buffalo Teaching essay on children's feeling of responsibility for injustices they are exposed to. Includes story of Brown Buffalo and links to Robin Hood.
- Answering questions on social justice for essay exams First in a series of teaching essays on how to prepare for essay exams. Put up late last week.
- Injustice: A film on accountability for police killings in custody: UK Essay not yet up. But there is a Website on the film. Explore.
- Responsibility and Biotechnology: Habermas What would Habermas say about cloning and stem cell research? The first part of this essay deals with Zizek's analysis of his interpretation of what Habermas thinks. More soon. Links provided for you to move forward on your own.
- Patent Laws May Determine Shape of Stem Cell ResearchBy Sheryl Gay Stolberg. New York Times, p. A1, August 17, 2001. We will discuss this in terms of privatization in connection with health care and in connection with faith-based charity efforts. Essay not up yet.
- Cell Biologist Traded Religious Fervor for Scientific Zeal By Sheryl Gay Stolberg. New York Times, August 15, 2001. Meet the people involved in the stem cell research controversy. Essay not up yet.
- Researchers Discount a Caution in Debate Over Cloned Humans By Sheryl Gay Stolberg. New York Times, August 15, 2001.
- Race in the 'Post Third World' by Makani Themba-Nixon. "The UN becomes the flash point as groups vie for racism’s new meanings.">
- An Introduction to Ancient World Cultures on the Web Why study World Cultures? An Essay by Bill Hemminger that brings together the importance of art in expanding our imaginary to understand the major social problems of the day.
- Student Panel Preliminary Program Listing Marlene and Gale will be putting up their presentation report shortly.
- The Once and Future Nanomachine "Biology outmatches futurists' most elaborate fantasies for molecular robots" By George M. Whitesides on the Scientific American Website. Essay not up yet, but this will link you to article. Soon, jeanne.
- What is antimatter? R. Michael Barnett of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Helen Quinn of the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center offer this answer, portions of which are paraphrased from their forthcoming book The Charm of Strange Quarks. On the Scientific American Website. Essay not up yet, but this will link you to article. Soon, jeanne.
- Habermas: The Theologian of Talk by Mitchell Stephens. Los Angeles Times Magazine. Teaching essay.
- Environmental Justice Good summaries of texts on this topic, from a Swedish university. Essay up soon. jeanne, August 23, 2001.
- Centre for Social Justice Good resource for poverty studies.
- The Human Poverty Index from the Centre for Social Justice Site. The United States has the worst index. One of our weekly discussions will involve tracing this report to its origin. Disciplined discourse requires that we be able to report our sources, so they can be verified. The Center for Social Justice Site doesn't pamper us by giving us all the information, but they do identify their sources well enough that we can trace them. See if you can figure out how. jeanne, August 23, 2001.
In Other Languages
Art and the Imaginary
- Art as Expanding the Imaginary
- Doing and Making Art
- AccessArt "Making art more accessible." This is an extraordinary site. Offers free workshops on drawing for all ages. Strongly recommended for all of you who would like to increase your art skills.
- Interactive Project: The Farmer and the Snake Teaching essay on doing art as part of expanding the imaginary.
Collaborative Writing Journal
New additions this week:
Conflicts Around the World:
- Present Danger
- Long-Term Effects
- History
Scholastic Resources:
New Additions:
- AccessArt "Making art more accessible." This is an extraordinary site. Offers free workshops on drawing. Strongly recommended for all of you who would like to increase your art skills.
Lagniappe!
You Gotta Read This
New Additions:
- Up soon.
Jobs and Job-Training:
New Additions:
- Up soon.
Gallery
New Additions:
- Up soon.
Kids' Site
New Additions:
- Up soon.
What people are saying about Dear Habermas
- Up soon.
Who To Take?
