Antennas Up! Laura Nader’s Undergraduate Lecture Courses as Public Anthropology

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 210-231
Author(s):  
Erik Harms
Keyword(s):  
Public Discourse ◽  
University Of California ◽  
Nineteen Nineties ◽  
Public Anthropology ◽  
Vertical Slice ◽  
Lecture Courses ◽  
The Right ◽  
Controlling Processes ◽  
The University ◽  
The Way

Abstract While teaching lecture courses at the University of California, Berkeley, Laura Nader taught generations of students to raise their anthropological antennae. This article uses an autoethnographic approach to describe the author’s exposure to anthropology at Berkeley in the nineteen-nineties, gesturing towards the way undergraduate lecture courses play an important but largely underrecognized role in fostering public anthropology. Nader’s lecture courses were particularly effective at this because their focus on pushing students to question dogma and analyze controlling processes offered students a sense of how anthropology could foster critical public discourse. Nader stressed the importance of asking good questions designed to challenge assumptions, finding the right methods to answer those questions, and paying attention to pathways of power. While always questioning received wisdom, ideological assumptions, and Western categories of knowledge, Nader continued to stress the importance of developing straightforward, highly-accessible concepts that captured the attention of students—like Harmony Ideology, trustanoia, controlling processes, and the vertical slice.

Introduction

2018 ◽  
pp. 1-27
Author(s):  
Anushka Singh
Keyword(s):  
Free Speech ◽  
Hate Speech ◽  
Freedom Of Expression ◽  
University Of California ◽  
American Democracy ◽  
Mob Violence ◽  
A Chain ◽  
The Right ◽  
The University ◽  
Public Lecture

On 1 February 2017 at the University of California, Berkeley, USA, mob violence erupted on campus with 1,500 protesters demanding the cancellation of a public lecture by Milo Yiannopoulos, a British author notorious for his alleged racist and anti-Islamic views.1 Consequently, the event was cancelled triggering a chain of reactions on the desirability and limits of freedom of expression within American democracy. The Left-leaning intellectuals and politicians were accused of allowing the mob violence to become a riot on campus defending it in the name of protest against racism, fascism, and social injustice. In defending the rights of the protesters to not allow ‘illiberal’ or hate speech on campus, however, many claimed that the message conveyed was that only liberals had the right to free speech....

Is Race-Based Medicine Good for Us?: African American Approaches to Race, Biomedicine, and Equality

2008 ◽  
Vol 36 (3) ◽  
pp. 537-545 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dorothy E. Roberts
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Social Identity ◽  
Racial Differences ◽  
San Francisco ◽  
Public Discourse ◽  
Associate Professor ◽  
University Of California ◽  
The University ◽  
Based Medicine ◽  
Biological Category

Public discourse on race-specific medicine typically erects a wall between the scientific use of race as a biological category and the ideological battle over race as a social identity. Scientists often address the potential for these therapeutics to reinforce a damaging understanding of “race” with precautions for using them rather than questioning their very development. For example, Esteban Gonzalez Burchard, an associate professor of medicine and biopharmaceutical sciences at the University of California, San Francisco, states, “We do see racial differences between populations and shouldn’t just close our eyes. Unfortunately, race is a politically charged topic, and there will be evildoers. But the fear should not outweigh the benefit of looking.” Although it is recognized that ideology influences the social meaning of race, it is usually assumed that there is a separate, prior scientific understanding of race that is not contaminated by politics.

Consent to sexual interactions

2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 107-127 ◽  
Author(s):  
Japa Pallikkathayil
Keyword(s):  
Nonverbal Behavior ◽  
Alternative Policy ◽  
Turn On ◽  
The Us ◽  
The Law ◽  
The Right ◽  
The University ◽  
University Setting ◽  
Affirmative Consent ◽  
The Way

The way in which consent to sexual interactions is understood in the US is undergoing a transformation. Many universities, sometimes at the behest of lawmakers, are moving to adopt ‘affirmative consent’ policies, which define consent in terms of affirmative behavior that goes beyond mere silence or lack of resistance. Although these policies are a move in the right direction, I argue that their content has not been properly understood. In particular, the circumstances in which nonverbal behavior may communicate consent are more limited than might be apparent. And even though these circumstances can be abstractly identified, it is difficult to give people adequate guidance about when some of them obtain. Moreover, I argue that no matter how the allowance for nonverbal behavior is construed, affirmative consent policies unnecessarily prohibit interactions that people may have reason to engage in. I propose an alternative policy that remedies these problems with the affirmative consent policies that are currently being implemented. And I note that the justification for this alternative policy does not turn on any special features of the university setting. Instead, the account I give suggests grounds for reforming the law as well.

Introduction

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jack R. Baker ◽  
Jeffrey Bilbro ◽  
Wendell Berry
Keyword(s):  
Educational System ◽  
Upward Mobility ◽  
Healthy Communities ◽  
The Right ◽  
The Cost ◽  
The University ◽  
Title Character ◽  
The Way

An education for health begins by forming the imaginations and affections of students so that rather than desiring upward mobility, they can imagine healthy, placed lives. The introduction starts with a reading of Hannah Coulter, whose title character describes her fear that she has failed to tell the right stories to her children, thus inadvertently contributing to their desire for upward mobility at the cost of healthy communities. Because our affections have such far-reaching influence—shaping the questions we ask and the ways we arrange knowledge—Berry focuses on the conflicting internal desires termed “boomer” and “sticker” and how we should work to rightly order these desires. The contrast between boomers and stickers—the different desires they have, the different stories they tell, the different questions they ask, the different economies they participate in, and the contrasting models of the university they propose—elucidates the contrast between the educational system we have now and an education for health: the boomer wants to isolate knowledge from its origins in order to maximize its utility and profitability, whereas the sticker values a medieval, rooted kind of learning whose branches connect as much as possible. Thus, the way we organize and order knowledge stems from the kinds of questions we ask, which in turn arise from the orientation of our desires.

scholarly journals Interview with Paul Kay

2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 30
Author(s):  
Tiago Torrent
Keyword(s):  
Construction Grammar ◽  
Linguistic Theory ◽  
University Of California ◽  
Emeritus Professor ◽  
Key Aspects ◽  
The University ◽  
The Way

<p>Paul Kay was one of the founders of the Construction Grammar. Together with the late Charles Fillmore, Paul Kay was responsible for shaping distinguishing aspects of constructionist approaches to grammar. In this interview, this history is revisited, and key aspects of linguistic theory - such as generativism and formalism - are discussed. The Emeritus Professor of Linguistics at the University of California also discusses the turn of Berkeley Construction Grammar towards Sign-Based Construction Grammar. Paul Kay’s answers to the following questions couldn’t be more in tune with the theory he helped create: beyond simplistic distinctions, he sheds light on both the more general features of Construction Grammar and on the equally relevant peripheral anecdotes that paved the way for the development of the field in the last three decades.</p><p>-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</p><p>ENTREVISTA COM PAUL KAY</p><p>Paul Kay foi um dos fundadores da Gramática da Construção. Juntamente com Charles Fillmore, Paul Kay foi responsável por moldar os aspectos distintivos das abordagens construcionistas da gramática. Nesta entrevista, essa história é revisitada, e aspectos-chave da teoria linguística - como o gerativismo e o formalismo - são discutidos. O professor emérito de linguística da Universidade da Califórnia também discute a virada da Gramática de Construção de Berkeley para a Gramática da Construção Baseada em Sinais. As respostas de Paul Kay para as seguintes perguntas não poderiam estar mais em sintonia com a teoria que ele ajudou a criar: além das distinções simplistas, ele esclarece as características mais gerais da Gramática da Construção e as anedotas periféricas igualmente relevantes que abriram o caminho para a desenvolvimento do campo nas últimas três décadas.</p><p>---</p><p>Orignal em inglês.</p>

A Science Like Any Other? Classical Legal Formalism in theHalakhicJurisprudence of Rabbis Isaac Jacob Reines and Moses Avigdor Amiel

2013 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 179-224 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yosef Lindell
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Jewish Law ◽  
Legal Formalism ◽  
The Law ◽  
Internal Coherence ◽  
The Right ◽  
The University ◽  
The Way

Nineteenth century jurists sought to make law a science like any other. They believed that the law was not an unprincipled mass of archaic and contradictory rules, nor an extinct body of Latin words that should be venerated in a church reliquary and seldom studied. Rather, they said that it was time for law to take its place in the university and to be dissected under the microscope of scientific analysis. It was by these methods that law's fundamental axioms would be uncovered—which would in turn explain the relationship of all its parts to the whole. And with the right set of principles, new data could be effortlessly incorporated into an ever-growing scientific taxonomy of the law.This mode of thinking dominated both European and American legal jurisprudence in the mid- to late-nineteenth century and the early twentieth century, although it went by different names. One fundamental thread ran throughout—the law was not unprincipled, but logical. It could be reasonably explained and rationally ordered. This paper demonstrates that Rabbis Isaac Jacob Reines and Moses Avigdor Amiel, two important Jewish thinkers living at the turn of the twentieth century, saw Jewish law, orhalakha, in the same light. Although Reines and Amiel may not have been directly influenced by secular jurisprudence, many of the elements of this classical legal science provide an interesting parallel to the answers these two thinkers gave to some of the oldest problems of Jewish law. Most notably, the way in which Reines and Amiel explained the connection between the Torah's oral and written components, as well as the way in which they asserted the internal coherence ofhalakhicjurisprudence, was similar to the legal formalism of their contemporaries.

scholarly journals The website content as positioning strategy of the university in indonesia

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 163-180
Author(s):  
Amida Yusriana ◽  
Mutia Rahmi Pratiwi ◽  
Lisa Mardiana
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Quantitative Research ◽  
Analysis Method ◽  
Positioning Strategy ◽  
Content Analysis Method ◽  
Content Strategy ◽  
The Right ◽  
The University ◽  
Website Content ◽  
The Way

University of Indonesia is granted as the number one campus based on the Webometrics rank. It cannot be separated from the way University of Indonesia in building a strategic content for its website thus can fulfill the four points score indexes of webometrics such as Presence, Impact, Openness, and Excellence. Never theless the way the website serves the menu and information can build the right point of the scores. At the same time, Dian Nuswantoro University is granted as the 31st rank for the Webometrics index. Hence, by analyzing the website content of University of Indonesia, later it can be a guideline for Dian Nuswantoro University in developing a better content. This research uses the Positioning Strategy Theory. This is a descriptive quantitative research with a content analysis method. The results shows that the University of Indonesia uses the functional concept positioning strategy as its website content strategy.

scholarly journals Employing Virtualization in Library Computing: Use Cases and Lessons Learned

2009 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 110 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arwen Hutt ◽  
Michael Stuart ◽  
Daniel Suchy ◽  
Bradley D. Westbrook
Keyword(s):  
San Diego ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Use Cases ◽  
University Of California ◽  
Careful Planning ◽  
Virtualization Technology ◽  
The Right ◽  
The University ◽  
Broad Overview

This paper provides a broad overview of virtualization technology and describes several examples of its use at the University of California, San Diego Libraries. Libraries can leverage virtualization to address many long-standing library computing challenges, but careful planning is needed to determine if this technology is the right solution for a specific need. This paper outlines both technical and usability considerations, and concludes with a discussion of potential enterprise impacts on the library infrastructure.

How to Exit the Conspiracy of Silence?

2011 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 129-152 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joanna Tokarska-Bakir
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Public Discourse ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
Postwar Period ◽  
Conspiracy Of Silence ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The University ◽  
The Way ◽  
New Millennium

On the subject of the Polish-Jewish postwar relations, this paper deals with the pathology of public discourse known as the “conspiracies of silence” phenomenon (see Eviatar Zerubavel, The Elephant in the Room: Silence and Denial in Everyday Life , 2008). The concept in question may be applied to the Polish historic conditions. It helps to problematize the circumstances in which social conspiracies were accumulating around the Polish-Jewish relations in the postwar period so as to pave the way for analysis of the current difficulties in researching the title issues, particularly those that emerged while using a quantitative and qualitative approach to research Polish attitudes toward Jews. The resulting polemical analysis is made on the basis of a text by one of the most renowned Polish sociologists, Prof. Antoni Sułek. His lecture titled “Ordinary Poles Looking at Jews” was delivered at the University of Warsaw, Poland, on 17 December 2009, within the cycle “Ten Lectures for a New Millennium.” It summarises the Polish twenty-year poll-based researches of Poles’ attitudes towards Jews.

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