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COVID-19 has been apocalyptic for higher education, and indeed for our nation as a whole; it has intensified pressures already threatening liberal arts education. Our conversations aim to enable colleges and universities across the country to learn from one another in addressing today's challenges and opportunities, and they will encourage these institutions to draw on the rich heritage of the liberal arts tradition, while acknowledging its historical limitations, in shaping their responses. Our goal is to think and talk in public about the enduring value of the liberal arts for the particular concerns and challenges of our time.
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Wednesday Nov 18, 2020
Wednesday Nov 18, 2020
In this webinar hosted by The King's College, Dr. Joe Lonconte spoke on the history of higher education, Dr. Jessica Hooten Wilson spoke on the goodness, truth, and beauty of teaching the Classics, and Dr. Zena Hitz spoke on the usefulness of “useless” arts during a pandemic and beyond. Dr. Josh Kinlaw then moderated the ensuing Q&A, which included discussions about the positive influence of classical learning on society.
In Dr. Hitz’s words, “Intellectual life, learning for its own sake, isn’t just the sort of crowning of all achievements… it’s also a refuge when we lose everything else - in failure, in imprisonment, in circumstances of terrible oppression, in decline, in despair of any kind, the liberal arts are there for us, in a way that nothing else is, apart from art, or music, or worship, or our love for one another.”
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