We have finished a wonderful week of intellectual explorations. Thank you to everyone!...
Continue readingTeddy Bear Patriarchy
We spent the morning in the library reading an article by Donna Haraway called “Teddy Bear Patriarchy.” This is a sophisticated piece of cultural analysis that looks closely at the messages embedded in the American Museum of Natural History, where we will visit tomorrow. Our conversation as we read took us a number of...
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Thinking about where we went and where we are going
We began the second day of Intensive Learning with a brief recap of Day 1. We discussed the important factors of our first day, and our major takeaways from our trip to the APS. Each student talked briefly about the document or artifact they examined at the library, and we filled in an absent...
Continue readingAmerican Philosophical Society Museum
We sat in a lovely room on the second floor surrounded by glass cases filled with Benjamin Franklin’s personal library. Among the documents we examined was this first printing of the Declaration of Independence. We also looked at original copies of Thomas Paine’s Common Sense and John Dickinson’s Letters from an American Farmer. The...
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