This Morning: Seminars Begin

Alex Ackroyd and Rachel Vogel

LOS ANGELES, Cali. – The Session II@UCLA suite of seminars began this morning. In the first time block, students attended “A History of the Middle East Conflict, or: How to Not Get Ourselves Blown Up” with Liz Scoggin, “New Understandings of the Enlightenment: Habermas and Derrida” with John Lewis, and “Transitions to Democracy” with Ryan Lawrence. In the second time block, students attended “Post-Enlightenment Ethics” with Petey Gil-Montllor, “Revolution!” with Ryan Lawrence, and “Internationals Relations” with Josh Anderson.

Novices do not attend seminars, but instead participate in an intensive program of lab sessions with me and Mira Chernick. This morning, after a most classic of ice breakers (Two Truths and a Lie), a discussion on “The Tournament Experience,” and an introduction to the basic structure of Lincoln-Douglas debate, novices began a series of lighthearted but impressively substantive mini-debates pitting MySpace against Facebook and science fiction against fantasy.

You can read the full list of seminars (and learn which students are taking which seminars) by clicking here.

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