Category Archives: Epistemology (how we know what we know)

Arts, Stars, Autoethnography, Embodiment, Life Practices and More: A Sampling of Upcoming Faculty Workshops

Posted on February 8, 2013 by

Research Beyond Texts, Ethical Learning in the World, with faculty member James Sparrell. Join me for an engaged conversation about how to frame your questions in ways that help you to place them in a larger conversation and learn in … Continue reading →

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Hard Stone, Hard Choices: Memory, Community & Story with Scott Candage

Posted on August 7, 2012 by

Scott Candage, a new graduate of the Individualized MA program, explains to his local paper, The Working Waterfront, that his graduate thesis project looked deeply at community narratives that tell the community what it is and what stories matter most.  … Continue reading →

Posted in Community Building, Creativity & Imagination, Cultural & Cross-Cultural Studies, Epistemology (how we know what we know), Feminism, Women's & Gender Studies, History & Political Science, Identity, Transformative Language Arts, Visual Arts, Workshops | Tagged , , | 1 Comment

Faculty Workshops for Our Fall 2012 Residency

Posted on July 20, 2012 by

Highlights of faculty workshops at our upcoming residency with Individualized MA, Socially Responsible Business & Communities and Health Arts & Sciences faculty in our combined residency Aug. 3-10. A Brief History of Sustainability, with faculty member Ralph H. Lutts: Sustainability … Continue reading →

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Lise Weil on Why Christa Wolf Matters: Diagnosing the Darkness and Telling the Truth

Posted on January 25, 2012 by

Lise Weil, IMA faculty, writes, “’Literature today must be peace research,’ Christa Wolf pronounced in her Buchner Prize speech. More than any other writer I know, she showed me what it is to be a writer of conscience.” Here is … Continue reading →

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Toward a Noetic Ecology wtih Jeremy Johnson

Posted on December 29, 2011 by

Jeremy Johnson, a current Individualized MA student in the Consciousness Studies concentration, has just posted a great video on his studies, discussing “Cultural evolution, cyborgs, technology & consciousness: exploring what possibilities our era brings to us.” Here’s how he begins … Continue reading →

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Goddard President Knows “Trust the Process” From Her Own Experience

Posted on August 5, 2011 by

The Chronicle of Higher Education recently posted part 1 of a podcast with Barbara Vacarr, president of Goddard College, in which Barbara tells her own story of education: one that involves dropping out of high school at age 15, earning … Continue reading →

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Life After Goddard & Goddard’s Influence in Colombia: Juliana Borrero, Part II

Posted on April 8, 2011 by

I felt like a fish who had finally found the water when I went to a week-long event of the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics in Bogota in 2009. Here I was able to share ideas, discuss theory, learn, … Continue reading →

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What I Learned At Goddard: Autobiography of My Tongue by Juliana Borrero, Part 1

Posted on April 6, 2011 by

My Goddard work was about language. I wanted to find ways to revitalize language, returning it to its deep power of transformation in theory as well as in practice. This led me to recover the role of the subject and … Continue reading →

Posted in Creative Writing, Creativity & Imagination, Embodiment Studies & Body Image, Epistemology (how we know what we know), Feminism, Women's & Gender Studies, Identity, Multiculturalism & Diversity Studies, Mythology & the Oral Tradition | Tagged | 2 Comments

Truthseekers, Wake Up!: Eric Dalke & Recovering Our Knowledge

Posted on March 20, 2011 by

“For as long as he can remember, Eric Dalke has been trying to figure out why the voice floating inside his own skull has sounded far more knowledgeable and kind than the condescending sounds leaping out at him from the … Continue reading →

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A Transdisciplinary Look at the Oracle and the Architect: Tiffany Beard

Posted on March 11, 2011 by

“Movies, songs, dances, and the like have all been used to send important messages. Artists have the difficult honor of performing checks and balances regarding the system in which they exist. Art is also a means to celebrate unity, even … Continue reading →

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