{"id":23039,"date":"2015-01-29T16:19:15","date_gmt":"2015-01-29T21:19:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/?p=23039"},"modified":"2015-02-06T15:54:50","modified_gmt":"2015-02-06T20:54:50","slug":"upcoming-writers-read-author-and-english-professor-mark-bauerlein-to-speak-on-humanities-in-the-digital-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2015\/upcoming-writers-read-author-and-english-professor-mark-bauerlein-to-speak-on-humanities-in-the-digital-age\/","title":{"rendered":"Upcoming Writers Read author and English professor Mark Bauerlein to speak on humanities in the digital age"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Take a minute and read this book title:\u00a0<em>The Dumbest Generation: How the Digital Age Stupefies\u00a0Young Americans and Jeopardizes our Future (or Don\u2019t Trust Anyone under 30).<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Chances are those words elicited some kind of emotion.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re under 30, you may have just looked up or away from your digital device and rolled your eyes.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re over 30, your facial expression might be an unbidden, but half-amused grimace accompanied by a bit of nodding.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019d like to hear and engage with the author in person, whether to take issue with his stance, and\/or to soak up the intellectual discourse of one of the eminent thinkers of the day, you\u2019re in luck.<\/p>\n<p>Author Mark Bauerlein, an English professor at Emory University, will speak at Eastern Mennonite University Thursday, Feb. 5, on \u201cThe Humanities in the Digital Age.\u201d Bauerlein\u2019s talk will begin at 6:30 p.m. in Strite Conference Room in the Campus Center, followed by a discussion with the audience, including formal responses by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.emu.edu\/personnel\/people\/show\/hw456\">Heidi Winters Vogel<\/a>, professor of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.emu.edu\/theater\/\">theater<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.emu.edu\/personnel\/people\/show\/ezc2578?ssi=housebook\">Eric Codding<\/a>, director of residence life.<\/p>\n<p>Bauerlein will also speak at Friday\u2019s 10 a.m. chapel in Lehman Auditorium on \u201cFrom Atheism to Catholocism.\u201d A talk-back with refreshments follows in Common Grounds from 10:30-11:30 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>Bauerlein has taught at Emory University since 1989, with a break in 2003-05 to serve as the\u00a0Director of the Office of Research and Analysis, at the National Endowment for the Arts. He has published numerous scholarly works, including an acclaimed account of a 1906 race riot in Atlanta, <em>Negrophobia<\/em>. In addition, his work has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, The Weekly Standard, The Washington Post, Times Literary Supplement, and the Chronicle of Higher Education, where his blog eloquently promotes the humanities.<\/p>\n<p>For a preview of his visit\u2013 and to develop a sense of Bauerlein\u2019s wide-ranging and deeply personal conversation with and among great texts as an enlivened source of consolation, wisdom and revelation \u2013 read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.firstthings.com\/article\/2012\/05\/my-failed-atheism\">this 2012 essay \u201cMy Failed Atheism<\/a>,&#8221; published in the magazine First Things (in one sentence, he quotes Sartre, Faulkner and Nietzche, in that order).<\/p>\n<p>That essay, and Bauerlein\u2019s unique perspective about the relevance of the humanities in the digital age are reasons why <a href=\"http:\/\/www.emu.edu\/personnel\/people\/show\/medley\">Mike\u00a0Medley<\/a>, professor of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.emu.edu\/language-and-literature\/\">language and literature<\/a>, is pleased to welcome him to campus. Both Bauerlein\u2019s book and academic studies are closely linked to this year\u2019s campus Common Read selection, Nicholas Carr\u2019s <em>The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains.<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.emu.edu\/academics\/events\/read\/\">http:\/\/www.emu.edu\/academics\/events\/read\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>At a time when study of the humanities are under attack, Bauerlein is an ally of the many professors on college campuses who \u201care eager to give students exposure to great texts, images, sounds and ideas,\u201d says Medley, who notes that it\u2019s not the digital devices themselves that are the problem, but the time-consuming and intense nature of the peer-to-peer relationships they enable. \u201cIf we can lure them away from their addicting digital devices, we think we can get them hooked.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bauerlein\u2019s lecture is the fourth event in a year-long exploration of the effects of the digital age on education. He joins two other scholars, both from University of Virginia, who have lectured on this theme: Siva Vaidhyanathan, professor of media studies and author of \u201cThe Googlization of Everything (And Why We Should Worry), and Dan Willingham, professor of psychology and author of \u201cWhen Can You Trust the Experts? How to Tell Good Science from Bad In Education.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Take a minute and read this book title:\u00a0The Dumbest Generation: How the Digital Age Stupefies\u00a0Young Americans and Jeopardizes our Future (or Don\u2019t Trust Anyone under 30). 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