Publications
A History of Academic Freedom
Ellen Schrecker suggests that there would have been few purges of faculty "without pressure from outside."
Coaster, Clown, Concave Flower
Teaching Art and Craft in the Covid-Era Classroom
The Zooms We Missed in April
The liberal arts and higher education lectures we registered for last month, but may have missed live.
What if I like my pandemic work routine? Am I okay?
It depends...
A Conversation with Imani Perry and Jarvis Givens
On "The Black Teacher Archives"
Nodes from the Conversation with McKittrick and Mitchell
Four points of connection to which we keep returning.
Programs + Projects
Courses
Courses and the curriculum as a whole are at the heart of the Aydelotte Foundation’s mission.
Faculty Research Seminars
AF workshops aim to develop skills and techniques and to enrich our capacity for collaborative inquiry.
Aydelotte Consultancy
We are exploring the creation of a consultancy practice that will draw upon the institutional knowledge and insight of experienced faculty across academia.
Race, Racism, and the Liberal Arts
We are investigating and assembling work on underrepresented histories of how Black people, institutions, and ideas have existed outside of, pushed against, or reshaped from within the ideas and institutions of the liberal arts.
Public Writing
The Aydelotte Foundation was charged at its creation with encouraging faculty and administrators to enter more vigorously and creatively into public conversations about liberal arts education and its future.
Active Research Projects
Read updates on our research interests, including open questions and difficult problems that we are grappling with.
Events
June 23, 2021 3:30 – 5pm EDT
Davarian Baldwin and Gabriel Winant in conversation
In conjunction with the Black Cultural Center and the Lang Center for Civic and Social Responsibility, the Aydelotte Foundation is pleased to invite you to a conversation with Davarian Baldwin (Trinity) and Gabriel Winant (Chicago) on a critical understanding of the past and present political economy of "eds and meds." The conversation will be moderated by Jamaal Green (Penn) and Andy Hines (Swarthmore). The event will be held on Zoom. It is open to all in the Swarthmore community and to the public. To register, visit http://bit.ly/BaldwinWinant.
This event is part of the Aydelotte Foundation's project on "Race, Racism, and the Liberal Arts." Please visit our website for updates on this research initiative, including additional events and publications.
Darian L. Baldwin is Paul E. Raether Distinguished Professor of American Studies at Trinity College. His work largely examines the landscape of global cities through the lens of the African Diasporic experience.
Gabriel Winant is Assistant Professor of US History at the University of Chicago. He is a historian of the social structures of inequality in modern American capitalism..
September 16, 2021 4:30 – 6:30pm EDT
Aydelotte Foundation Faculty/Staff Happy Hour
Celebrate the return to campus with the Aydelotte Foundation at the Inn's Sycamore Room.
Next Weds at 3:30pm EDT @surlyurbanist and I will talk to @DavarianBaldwin and @gabrielwinant about the centrality of universities & hospitals to cities, the processes that led to this, & what it means for labor, neighborhoods, & urban space.
Join us! http://bit.ly/BaldwinWinant
Next week!!
Register now: https://swarthmore.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_jFTjEc-tS5S500r-Rx7f6g
Join us on June 23 at 3:30pm EDT on Zoom as we host a conversation with @DavarianBaldwin and @gabrielwinant on the present & past political economy of "eds and meds." @surlyurbanist and @hinesaj will moderate.
Register now! http://bit.ly/BaldwinWinant
"What if in addition to embodying the perspectives of this or that art historian, most of them writing from the receiving end of beauty, we embodied together a different positionality, that of collaborative producers of beautiful things?" - @lapalo
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