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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.
Episodes
Monday Apr 12, 2021
Traditioned Innovation
Monday Apr 12, 2021
Monday Apr 12, 2021
Noah Toly talks with Greg Jones, Dean of Duke Divinity School and president-elect of Belmont University, about what liberal arts institutions can learn from his new book, Navigating the Future: Traditioned Innovation for Wilder Seas (with Andrew P. Hogue).
Tuesday Apr 06, 2021
Why the ARTS of Liberal Arts Matter
Tuesday Apr 06, 2021
Tuesday Apr 06, 2021
Dr. Matthew Post, Associate Dean of Braniff college of humanities at the University of Dallas, and Dr J. Scott Lee, co-founder and retired Executive Director of the Association for Core Texts and Courses, discuss the latter's new book Invention: The Art of Liberal Arts.
Monday Mar 22, 2021
The Albertus Magnus Institute and Liberal Learning
Monday Mar 22, 2021
Monday Mar 22, 2021
Angel Adams Parham speaks with John Johnson, co-founder and executive director of the Albertus Magnus Institute (AMI). The AMI is a new, innovative learning community dedicated to liberal arts education focused on great books and great texts, rooted in the Catholic Intellectual tradition. Seminars are taught by the highest caliber teachers and scholars at no cost to participants, who are called fellows. Rather than tuition or fees, the AMI encourages fellows to contribute what they can to support the work. Johnson has a philosophy degree from St. Mary's College of California, Moraga, CA, and a Master’s degree in Theology from the Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology, Berkeley, CA, where his studies focused on the beatific epistemology of St. Thomas Aquinas. He has spoken at Catholic retreats and events across the country and lives in California with his wife and four children.
Sunday Mar 14, 2021
A K-16 Vision for Liberal Arts Education
Sunday Mar 14, 2021
Sunday Mar 14, 2021
Dr. Robert Jackson has experience both as a professor in the humanities, working at The King’s College in New York, and experience as the director of Great Hearts Academies—a network of K-12 classical charter schools that emphasize liberal arts education. In this conversation, he talks with Angel Adams Parham about the benefits of taking a K-16 view of liberal arts education.
Monday Mar 08, 2021
The Lost Seeds of Learning
Monday Mar 08, 2021
Monday Mar 08, 2021
Jeff Bilbro talks with Phillip Donnelly about his forthcoming book, The Lost Seeds of Learning: The Verbal Arts and Christian Faith. Professor Donnelly serves as Director of the Great Texts Program in the Honors College at Baylor University. His research focuses on the historical connections between philosophy, theology, and imaginative literature, with particular attention to Renaissance literature and the reception of Classical educational traditions. He also works with classical school educators in the K-12 setting.
Sunday Feb 28, 2021
Liberal Arts Beyond the University
Sunday Feb 28, 2021
Sunday Feb 28, 2021
Who are the liberal arts for? It is often assumed that liberal arts education is for the privileged, for those who have little need of a practical skill or trade.
But this view dismisses much experience which shows that the least advantaged are often the most strongly impacted by liberal arts education and have the most to gain from it. In this conversation we hear from Dr. Emily Auerbach who has spent nearly twenty years engaging in liberal arts education with the least advantaged, and Dr. Francis Su, who has mentored and co-authored with a young man who has found his voice in high level mathematics, despite being imprisoned.
Odyssey Project Website
Odyssey Project Documentary
Mathematics for Human Flourishing
Math Prize Shared with Christopher Jackson
Tuesday Feb 16, 2021
Sports and the Liberal Arts
Tuesday Feb 16, 2021
Tuesday Feb 16, 2021
Rachel Griffis talks with John Rocha about the role of sports in a liberal arts education. They discuss the importance of the body in education and the liberating effects of incorporating all aspects of a person in learning. John is Head of School at Ozark Catholic Academy in Northwest Arkansas.
Monday Jan 18, 2021
Monday Jan 18, 2021
2020 has exacerbated longstanding pressures facing many institutions dedicated to liberal arts formation: ongoing technological developments, economic shifts, and political divisions have been intensified by the events of this year. The Liberating Arts has focused on how institutions of higher education might respond to these realities, but many magazines are seeking related paths forward as they seek to foster humane, liberating conversations. We invited editors at three periodicals—Comment Magazine, The Hedgehog Review, and Plough Quarterly—to dialogue with Jeff Bilbro about their perspectives on these questions. B.D. McClay, Peter Mommsen, and Anne Snyder discuss how they seek to shape thoughtful conversations in an age where crises such as the COVID-19 pandemic and social injustice more often elicit soundbites, clickbait, and memes.
Monday Jan 11, 2021
The Misformation of Zoom
Monday Jan 11, 2021
Monday Jan 11, 2021
Reading guru Karen Swallow Prior (author of On Reading Well) interviews the ‘Neil Postman of our age’ Sven Birkerts (author of The Gutenberg Elegies) about how digital technologies can deform our freedom and our humanity. But also how reading may counter such malformation!
Monday Jan 04, 2021
Creating as the Primary Verb in Education
Monday Jan 04, 2021
Monday Jan 04, 2021
We hear quite a bit about applying what we learn to make it relevant. However, such conversations are usually aimed at the use of certain disciplines. Artist Makoto Fujimura counters these assertions by describing education as a creative activity. All truly human activity should be creating beauty. His new book Art and Faith forms the basis of this conversation between Jessica and Mako.