At first, I proposed teaching a graduate course in the UNC philosophy department called “The Use and Abuse of Formal Methods in Political Philosophy.” The department said they did not have the money for such a course, so I suggested a series of non-credit lectures in the department this spring. There was a good deal of interest in that idea, but then the question arose of finding me a handicap accessible room and a graduate student who could assist me with various technical matters. A student volunteered, but all the room assignments are frozen until after the first week of the semester in January. I do not yet know whether I will be able to offer the lectures.
So I sit and wait.
Why don't you offer to lecture by zoom to anyone interested as you did previously?
ReplyDeleteAs I recall, you had an excellent response, but people forget. You have to remind them from time to time that your services as a zoom lecturer are still available.
You might even add that offer as part of the heading of your website so that anyone who clicks on your website is aware of your availability.
Here's Tom Lehrer's take on this: Tom Lehrer doing some of his non-recorded material
ReplyDeleteBut also dig this:
All Lehrer's song work
In 1950, as a freshman at Harvard, I took physics 12, a jumped up intro physics course taught by some hotshot young professors. At the end of the year, they put on a show called The Physical Review ( which was the name of the leading journal in the day). The music was written and sung by a young instructor in the mathematics department named Tom Lehrer. That was when he previewed a bump and grind number called "the definition of a derivative." It was quite an introduction to college life.
ReplyDeleteI can't think of a topic in which I would be more interested, and second the motion for a Zoom (or a recording of it uploaded to YouTube).
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