In a few weeks, there is another event as well. On Oct 4 at 7:05, the General Education department is holding their 2nd Annual “Gen Ed At Bat: A Discussion of America’s Favorite Pastime with the Faculty of Gen Ed” in Science Center Hall A. This event is free and open to the public. Description:
Why is the knuckleball so hard to hit? How does baseball’s racial history challenge American assumptions? What can we appreciate about the aesthetics of baseball cards? In Gen Ed’s second annual faculty panel, members of Red Sox Nation (and one Mets fan) will discuss how the Gen Ed curriculum is embodied through baseball. The discussion will include a look at the dynamic cultural interactions between the U.S. and Japan as well as the relations between the U.S. and Latin America illuminated through baseball. Focus will also be given to the ways that baseball is a historian’s dream by creating its own archive–a past written and remembered, told and questioned.
Featuring:
Andrew Gordon - History
John Huth - Physics
Robin Kelsey - History of Art & Architecture
Michael Klarman - Law School
Jill Lepore - History
Steve Levitsky – Government
If interested, you can rsvp at http://baseball.cocodot.com/
(if anyone can add this to the other thread in the main forum, it would be appreciated)
