Join @ArtHistory_UofT for the W. Bernard Herman Distinguished Guest Lecture, “The Colours of the Past: On Historical Imagination in Photography and Film" by Dr. Peter Geimer 📸 See you there!
WHEN: Tues, Oct 1 @ 5-7 PM
WHERE: Northrup Frye Hall
Details: https://t.co/Vkckz7VrjQ
"These days, on and beyond campus, on any number of subjects, keeping the conversation going is the challenge and the goal." - Randy Boyagoda
https://t.co/9n8eyD59dL
Inject it into my veins. God save the King and thank God that we're not another beige, sterile country whose parliament looks like the conference room of a mid market hotel chain branch.
More broadly, protests targeting civilizational monuments like Stonehenge or the Mona Lisa reveal the creeping misanthropy that is infecting a growing element of the climate movement. My research is on human extinction: climate activists often tell me extinction would be good. 7/
Literacy skills seem to fuel literacy enjoyment, rather than vice versa
https://t.co/NuQC4njoq4 "The best-fitting direction-of-causation model showed that skills impacted enjoyment, while the influence in the other direction was zero."
Libertarians debate YIMBYism, historic preservation, and the value of aesthetics:
@tylercowen defends the value of historic architecture vs. @bryan_caplan, author of new book "Build, Baby, Build."
https://t.co/WxOQ29b5u2
I think it’s important not to assume that frustration among academics with the particular (often stupid, paperwork intensive, and reeducation campy) forms that DEI takes in academia is the same as frustration with the goal of achieving diversity/with diversity initiatives as such
It was fascinating to talk with @mactra for this longform interview on @PhantomPod about architecture, acoustic media, and the noisy environments of open-plan offices. https://t.co/usk1B5FLI6
What we really need are universities that support scholars who never publish articles or monographs, but spend their whole lives editing and translating primary sources. The problem is not that we’ve become obsessed by publication, but that we don’t prioritise primary source work
"here’s the truth: nobody cares about your life. They really don’t...They look at your life and immediately think about theirs...Strangers don’t care about you, and that’s a fundamental truth social media platforms depend on us forgetting." https://t.co/W2IbovpYR9