Erik Ribsskog <eribsskog@gmail.com>
Klage/Fwd: Announcing the 2023 Forbidden Courses
Erik Ribsskog <eribsskog@gmail.com> 25. februar 2023 kl. 01:04
Til: postkasse@datatilsynet.no
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Hei,
dette er trakassering som følge av identitetstyveri, (virker det som).
(Jeg har ikke kontaktet disse).
Vennligst rydd opp!
Med hilsen
Erik Ribsskog
PS.
Jeg sender fortsatt om identitetstyveri til Datatilsynet, (siden at det ikke
virker helt klart, hvem andre jeg burde sende om dette til, synes
jeg).
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Fra: UATX <newsletter@uaustin.org>
Date: tor. 19. jan. 2023 kl. 19:13
Subject: Announcing the 2023 Forbidden Courses
To: Erik Gale-Ribsskog <eribsskog@gmail.com>
Applications Now Open!
Apply to Join UATX’s 2023 Forbidden Courses
JUNE 2023 • DALLAS, TX
Applications for our Forbidden Courses summer program are now open! This year’s courses include:
Dorian Abbot on Science and Christianity
Rob Henderson on The Psychology of Morality
Katie Roiphe on Writing Sexual Politics
Walter Russell Mead on Anglo-American Grand Strategy
Matthew B. Crawford & Marilyn Simon on The Battle of the Sexes
Mark Lilla on Conservatives and Reactionaries
Glenn Loury on Racial Inequality in America
Luana Maroja on The Invasion of Ideology into Evolutionary Biology
The program also features conversations with top scholars, entrepreneurs, writers, and thinkers: Bari Weiss, Peter Boghossian, Marc Andreessen, Rep. Ro Khanna, Joe Lonsdale, Kathleen Stock, Mike Solana, Kevin D. Williamson, Nadine Strossen, Richard Hanania, Kathleen Stock, Nancy Rommelmann, Meghan Daum, Sarah Hepola, Lee Jussim, Lea Carpenter, Erik Larson, Adrian Walker, Shilo Brooks, Ilana Redstone, Christopher Nadon, Johnathan Bi, and Stephen Hsu — and even more to be announced soon.
Our one-week program is free and open to everyone over the age of 18. Apply by March 8!
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Watch: Highlights from Last Year’s Forbidden Courses
UATX Spotlight: Ilana Redstone
We recently sat down with Mill Institute Director Ilana Redstone to discuss how to have better conversations. Here are some highlights:
UATX: What is the connection between intellectual humility and settled thinking?
Ilana: Settled thinking impedes intellectual humility. A failure to recognize this link often leads to misdiagnosing and underestimating the problem of broken discourse. After all, if you ask people if they think intellectual humility is important, the vast majority will say yes. Most of us are more than willing to acknowledge the value in being willing to see the world in a way that differs from their own. The problem is that intellectual humility requires the ability to first recognize what you’re not being humble about….
Focusing on the problem of settled thinking does not mean: believing that everybody should “just get along,” asserting that any answer or value is as good as any other, or insisting that the right answer to a complex problem always lies in the middle of two extremes. Rather, I’m pointing out that our tendency to treat complex issues as settled has stopped us from interrogating our own thinking and that this has led to a wide range of other challenges.
UATX: What possible solutions, tools, or resources do you recommend to students and teachers who seek more productive discourse on campus (and beyond)?
Ilana: At the Mill Institute, we recommend establishing clear and explicit ground rules that include an agreement to seek out multiple perspectives on a topic and a commitment to treating people as individuals, rather than representatives of an identity group.
UATX: What should we look forward to in the Mill Institute’s near future?
Ilana: In April 2023, we’ll launch our Say More series in NYC. At that event, I will have the opportunity to moderate a conversation between John McWhorter and Glenn Loury on what the debate about affirmative action reveals about how we think about race, inequality, and fairness….We also have a live podcast event scheduled in June with Meghan Daum, Sarah Haider, Nancy Rommelmann, and Sarah Hepola…. More generally, we’re building content to work with educators at UATX and more broadly on the creation of a culture where interrogating our thinking, along with the thinking of others, is something we do all the time.
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UATX In The News
Given that the product [offered by higher education] is declining while the price goes up, UATX is developing a model where the price is much, much lower. UATX’s product is a hell of a lot of fun. It’s very exciting.
— UATX Advisor Jonathan Haidt on The Tim Ferriss Show
“One of the things we’re trying to do is redefine ‘prestige,’” UATX President Pano Kanelos said. “Is prestige simply a matter of gaining access to legacy institutions, or is prestige centered around an openness and willingness to be a maverick, to be risk-taking, to be innovative, to be a builder? We don’t want to be Yale.”
—Abigail Anthony in The College Fix: “‘We don’t want to be Yale’: new University of Austin constructing a different model of excellence”
In the Thinkery everything is upside-down… Socrates investigates inane matters, like how far fleas can jump in flea-feet, which requires delicately fitting them with little wax booties. The things between the heavens and the underworld, the great celestial spheres and the tiniest insects, hold little interest for him… With cheerless students, pointless research, and a curriculum that involves exposing pervasive injustice, the Thinkery looks a lot like a 21st-century university.
— UATX Director of Intellectual Foundations Jacob Howland in Unherd: “How universities entered Cloud Cuckoo Land”
UATX has just launched its inaugural Polaris Fellowship, which offers “a rigorous study of classical and contemporary leadership” and is geared toward entrepreneurs. This is a far cry from the introspective study of “the human self.” Yet both Ralston and UATX are about building better futures through attention to the past. Ralston is hoping to reestablish a tradition; UATX is hoping to forge a new one. I hope that both succeed, and I will do what I can to make this happen.
— UATX Advisor Joshua Katz in City Journal: “Logos in Savannah”
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