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Politics and Poetics of Translation
The phrase “Politics of Translation” is quite a trope – it is sometimes used pretty badly as an excuse for doing the hard work of learning languages. Of…
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Brain and Mind (and a return from silence)
People are often mystified that I find currency in Freudian and Lacanian thought. The ground/warrant usually revolves around “Psychoanalysis is not scientific.” The backing to this warrant is…
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Putting Students and Final Exams in Proper Order
Just finished round one of my final exam grading, and heard a great speech on the role of finals connected to life tests and other ways of assessing…
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CEDA/NDT Development Conference
In June it appears there will be a development conference for CEDA/NDT practitioners to discuss many areas of improvement for policy debate in the US. This is the…
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Final Exams Abound But Still A Busy Time for Debate
What to do in the summer – this is a popular question right now for my students. What can we do to prevent our skills from atrophying? 1)…
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Why not Oral Finals?
Had a very productive meeting with an independent study student this afternoon that really made me think that oral examinations are the way to go. We had such…
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