As a consequence of several exploratory conversations, it appears that I shall spend the first four months of next year lecturing on Marx's critique of capitalism. In the Duke University Learning in Retirement program, I shall be teaching an eleven week course on "The Thought of Karl Marx." In the UNC-Chapel Hill Philosophy Department, I shall be teaching a combined graduate and advanced undergraduate Spring semester course on Karl Marx's Critique of Capitalism. The Duke lectures will range widely over all of Marx's thought, while the focus of the UNC course will be the modern mathematical re-interpretation of Marx's economic theories. If time permits, I will end each course with a discussion of Thomas Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-first Century and its relation to Marx's thought.
I teach the Duke course as a volunteer. UNC will pay me a bit for their course, but not, I fear, as much as the two hundred thousand dollars Hillary Clinton has been getting for each lecture to Wall Street types. Still and all, the pay is a significant increase over the dollar-a-year I negotiated at Bennett College [which, by the way, they never paid me -- the Treasurer could not figure out how to pay me twelve instalments of 8.5 cents each.]
It should be fun.
This sounds like my dream job.
ReplyDeleteCongrats!
The Duke gig has the advantage of taking you to Durham and all sorts of good eats.
ReplyDeleteProfessor - these days, many universities have facilities to record and stream over the web lectures in podcast format (or others). I myself have enjoyed entire classes from the likes of David Harvey, Wendy Brown, and Hubert Dreyfus, among others.
ReplyDeleteI wonder if you would consider having your lectures recorded and distributed for the education and entertainment of your internet readers and the public at large?
I second Turkle's motion....
ReplyDeleteLet me look into it. I am averse to such things because I have a variety of facial tics [have had them all my life] that I think make me look grotesque [although my wife and children, bless them, assure me they don't]. There is of course the deeper question: can I master the techie stuff required. I might have to hire a twelve year old girl to handle it. :)
ReplyDeleteHow fascinating that the grotesque grips many of us the way the blintz gripped comrade Reuben?
ReplyDeleteI'm sure the tics are fine! I really hope you can arrange this, I for one wouldn't miss a beat.
ReplyDeleteI assure you Prof., that although I'm sure your audience would happily overlook any tics, it is rather the audio that is important. Recording audio is also much easier, and it is easy to automatically upload audio lectures in podcast format to put on one's mp3 player in the gym, subway, or what have you.
ReplyDeleteSo if camera-shyness is the only thing holding you back, please do consider audio recordings, which are in many ways more convenient for your internet audience anyway.
Good point, Turkle. I will look into it. That certainly sounds easier to manage.
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