Tag: Nicholas Syrett
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The Academic Minute for 2018.02.26-03.02
Academic Minute from 2.26 – 3.02 Monday, February 26th Christian Miller – Wake Forest University The Character Gap Christian B. Miller holds a B.A. in philosophy from Princeton University, and a Ph.D. from the University of Notre Dame. His main areas of research are meta-ethics, moral psychology, moral character, action theory, and philosophy of…
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Nicholas Syrett, University of Kansas – Child Marriage
Why is child marriage still allowed in every state in the U.S.? Nicholas Syrett, professor of women, gender and sexuality studies at the University of Kansas, explores the reasons. Nicholas L. Syrett studies gender, sexuality, and childhood in the nineteenth- and twentieth-century United States. He is a coeditor of Age in America: The Colonial Era…
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This Week on The Academic Minute (2018.02.26)
This Week on The Academic Minute 2018.02.26 Monday, February 26th Christian Miller of Wake Forest University explores the character gap inside all of us. Tuesday, February 27th Kate Manne of Cornell University discusses misogyny and how our attitudes still need a change on sexual assault. Wednesday, February 28th Christine Blackburn of Texas A&M University explains…