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Liberal Arts Curriculum

Daniel Kontowski on the freedom of students, prescribed curriculum and a ‘cafeteria’ model of education

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Arts and Humanities in Higher Education

David Dussault on human relationships, life experience and how to understand the influence that IT has on our everyday life

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Classical Education

Daniel Kontowski on trivium and quadrivium, the great books tradition and what are the arguments against classical education

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Higher Education and Employability

David Dussault on the ideal type of students, gig economy and the difference between skills and knowledge

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Overqualification in Employment

David Dussault on the value of PhD, the needs of the employers and why a career trajectory should not be linear

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Panopticon in Russia

Historian of Science Simon Werret on Michel Foucault, the Grigory Potemkin’s estate and theatricality of Samuel Bentham’s panopticon

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National Identity in the Age of Migration

Sociologist Peter Kivisto on Eugen Weber, settler states, and Jihadist terrorism

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Social Cognition

Neuropsychologist Chris Frith on the experiments with biological motion, emotion recognition, and open questions of cognitive psychology

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Feminism in the U.S.

Historian Annelise Orleck on gender inequality, the fight for equal rights, and "Jane Crow" laws

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Quakers

Historian of religion Thomas Hamm on George Fox, the Religious Society of Friends, and the idea of equality