Next series begins Monday,
Ben
PS. What would you add to these thoughts?
One interesting American thing (a technical term, meaning a moment or event, a text, a controversy, an idea, a figure, or whatevertheheckelse I think of) per day, from Ben Railton, a professor of American literature, culture, history, and, natch, Studies.
Saturday, January 5, 2013
January 5-6, 2013: Crowd-Sourcing our Biggest Issues
[As this new year gets underway, America and the world are confronted by
some pretty huge ongoing issues and crises. One reason I want to be a public AmericanStudies scholar is that I believe AmericanStudying can help us understand and engage with
precisely such contemporary questions. So this week, I’ve highlighted four of
the biggest and suggested a few ways AmericanStudies can help us deal with
them. Everybody was apparently still too hung over to add their crowd-sourced
responses and thoughts, but I’m still gonna put this post up, and hope that you’ll
share some of yours in the comments. Thanks in advance, and let’s make this a
truly American, in the best senses, 2013!]
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