Alumni:
In our time together, I invite us to consider three case studies from the Middle Ages that created communal experiences of knowledge in times of political transition and societal transformation, and to use those to ask questions about such experiences within institutions of higher education today. Our frameworks for this study will be the early 20th-century articulations of “communities of inquiry” by John Dewey and Jane Addams, and the contemporary description of the “phenomenological practice” of diversity work by Sarah Ahmed as these ideas center lived experience and open up ways of thinking about our living and learning community. I look forward to thinking together about the contexts and partnerships that create and sustain conditions of possibility for knowledge and inquiry.
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