Christopher Schaefer

History Professor. PhD @Cambridge_Uni, formerly @gmfus @Tocqueville21. Views my own.

[Christopher Schaefer @ChrisSchaef]

@Bohemiangirl Fair. There is some ambiguity there. There is a spectrum of orality from reading to speaking from notes to speaking completely extemporaneously. I'm referring to the part of the spectrum that doesn't involve verbalizing already written text.

[Christopher Schaefer @ChrisSchaef]

This is country/culture specific. At arts/humanities academic conferences in many European countries, they do not read their papers.

This is also because they have been taught from a young age to present their ideas orally and so it is a natural form of academic exchange.

[Alexandra Wilson @amwilson_opera]

In the arts and humanities, we read conference papers aloud because the precise, carefully crafted - often beautiful - prose is integral to the paper. A speaker cannot be expected to memorise 4,000+ words verbatim. There are good and bad ways of reading such papers. /

[Christopher Schaefer @ChrisSchaef]

Very cool article on the growth of zines in Japan https://t.co/pZwa1nkjNX

[Christopher Schaefer @ChrisSchaef]

@SWGoldman 100%

[Christopher Schaefer @ChrisSchaef]

This is absolutely right in my experience.

You show students why they should love learning and give them the tools to actually learn and a lot of problems clear up.

[Zena Hitz @zenahitz]

THE TRUTH ABOUT AI AND ACADEMIA IN FIVE POINTS
1. Yes, it is cheating unless prof gives guidelines for use.
2. Yes, the cheating is at root the fault of university leaders who pack students into dead classrooms and then foment interest in non-intrinsic features of learning.

[John Reeks @wartsandbrawls]

One common refrain is essentially who needs teachers when all the information is online and anyone can be an expert. Only a very small proportion of people are capable of learning in a highly unstructured way like that, and even then it only comes with full intellectual maturity.

[Christopher Schaefer @ChrisSchaef]

@keithdorejel But what you do have to worry about is some admin or bureaucrat making decisions about you, your position, and your pay based on an ignorance of that distinction...

[Sarah Osment @sm_osment]

have I mentioned that I teach first year writing here and that I am being laid off

[alex bronzini-vender @alexbronzini]

One extremely funny thing that happened this semester is that Harvard students cheated using their university-provided ChatGPT subscriptions, and were caught because the university had access to their accounts

[Christopher Schaefer @ChrisSchaef]

"Every time someone designs the conditions for reading, people read."

A great op-ed from the NYPL chief librarian

https://t.co/1mBuwi81w7

["Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @BretDevereaux]

All that said, the Wars of the Diadochi would make an *amazing* HBO's Rome / Game of Thrones style prestige TV show, please please please someone make that.

[Michael Socolow @MichaelSocolow]

The amount of reportorial, managerial, and editorial talent that's departed NPR and CBS News in the last 48 hours is astounding.

Netflix, or a cable channel, could hire just those veteran journalists *alone* and instantly assemble a world-class team competitive w/ anybody.

[Christopher Schaefer @ChrisSchaef]

Ohio had a really good 19th century

[Christopher Schaefer @ChrisSchaef]

@NickBurns I love that you use the Wade-Giles romanization here. Really gives this tweet depth

["Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @BretDevereaux]

Finally, I must note: the very departments that train these skills are now crumbling as a result of the broad defunding of the humanities in the USA and elsewhere.

If we want to still be able to plumb the depths of Greek and Latin, we must support those programs!
/end

[Christopher Schaefer @ChrisSchaef]

This shows why deep engagement with the original languages matters

["Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @BretDevereaux]

So this is going to go over RHG's head, but it's a useful point to make: how does a classicist go about digging deep what a word *means* in a given context, or what it might mean? Even to dispute a dictionary?

It turns out that we have an established method for this! 1/

[Dan Walden @dwaldenwrites]

This conversation between Jen and @DouthatNYT is genuinely quite good. It’s a solid talk on liberal education in general and the need for faculty to become comfortable with not being experts. She’s totally right; ask me if you want to hear more.

[Michael Socolow @MichaelSocolow]

"CBS News Radio, 1927 - 2026: A Selective Remembrance."
After 99 years (1927 - 2026), CBS News radio expires today.
It was an important, historical institution. And there's a lot more to it beyond Murrow - as I wrote up here when its demise was announced.

https://t.co/LhWmfYcRO9

[Christopher Schaefer @ChrisSchaef]

Something inspired about bringing Paul McCartney into the Ed Sullivan Theater to sing Hello Goodbye to end the Late Show.

https://t.co/fvWeZno3Hr

[Christopher Schaefer @ChrisSchaef]

@ArumNatzorkhang Diels and Kranz