Here are the Google+ Hangout topics for February! I hope you can come and join our discussions. All of the hangouts will be at the usual time of 11am PST, ending at noon.
February 6 Insults, Privilege, and Socially potent language use
February 13 Threats and Acceptance
February 20 Religious Privilege
February 27 Literacy and Technology [postponed to March 13]
I hope to see you there!
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The Literacy and Technology discussion sounds especially fascinating to me. As a student of history, I've learned that literacy levels varied greatly in the medieval and ancient world. Huge numbers of Romans were literate, and (among other things) happily writing vulgar graffiti on bathroom walls. But a few hundred years later a great king like Charlemagne, accounted as a very intelligent man by his contemporaries, struggled to learn to read and write into his later years. He came from a "dark age" culture where literacy was an unimportant skill for survival--yet he came to recognize its value in a more stable, more civilized society and strove to institute changes that would anchor written learning against the savage tides of history.
ReplyDeleteXian, if you would like to attend, please let me know how to find you on Google+. Thanks for your comment!
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