Category Archives: History & Political Science

Thoreau, Twitter, Dust, Soul, Language, Sustainability, Imagination, and the Chestnut Trade: Workshops About Place at the Feb. 2013 Residency

Posted on February 5, 2013 by

Place: An Interdisciplinary Conversation for our Vibrant and Vulnerable Times, with faculty members Susan Pearson, Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg, Ralph Lutts, and returning students  Josh Pollock & Sonja Swift. Join students and faculty from various programs and perspectives as we wander through … Continue reading →

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New Queer Jewish Writing & Ezra Berkley Nepon

Posted on August 23, 2012 by

IMA student Ezra Berkley Nepon has had a busy year first with the publication of Justice, Justice Shall You Pursue: A History of New Jewish Agenda and a consequent book tour that brought together Jewish activists from the 1980s with … 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 →

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Graduating Students Workshops at the Fall 2012 Residency

Posted on August 2, 2012 by

Take a look at what our graduating students in the Sustainable Business & Communities (SBC), Health Arts & Sciences (HAS), and Individualized MA (IMA) program did during their time here, and get a better idea of what possible with your … Continue reading →

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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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Fear, Resistance, Action and Change in Chicago: Reports by Matthew Dineen

Posted on May 24, 2012 by

Matthew Dineen, a current student in the Individualized MA Program, has been on the scene in Chicago, reporting on the May Day March, People’s Summit and NATO Week of Action, which happened in early May. Writing for Toward Freedom, a … Continue reading →

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Kyle Bella Interviews Gender Theorist Judith Butler on the Occupy and Slutwalk Movements

Posted on December 27, 2011 by

Kyla Bella, who just graduated from Goddard’s Individualized BA program and will start our Individualized MA program this February, recently interviewed Judith Butler for Truthout magazine. Butler is the Maxine Elliot Professor of Rhetoric and Comparative Literature at the University … Continue reading →

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Graduating Student Presentations: Embodied Movement, Identity, Progressive Education, Moral Medicine, the Early Republic, Place & More

Posted on August 6, 2011 by

While some graduating presentations have been and will elaborated upon in other posts, here’s a listing of others that made for a fabulously integrating and interdisciplinary weekend for our new graduates: Myth  of  Unification:  The Birth  of  the  Early Republic  and  the  … Continue reading →

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Watch Danielle Boutet Discuss Knowledge that Matters and Connects

Posted on February 19, 2011 by

As I walked through the cafeteria this morning, I heard the buzz from one table to the next. “There is no knowledge without the knowledge of knowledge,” one of the students was telling her friend, quoting Danielle Boutet quoting Edgar Morin. … Continue reading →

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ADHD, Media Literacy, Jung & Embodiment: Graduating Presentations at the Upcoming Residency

Posted on February 12, 2011 by

At the upcoming IMA residency Feb. 18-25, our graduating student is small but mighty, covering everything from what it means to be human to media literacy for children to ADHD Coaching to the Jung and the problem of evil. Here … Continue reading →

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