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Day 12: done with conferencing for a bit
The Coursera Future of Higher Education Summit was excellent. Everyone involved should take a bow. These things rarely have a single thesis, but in this case the three main keynotes—my own on the history of disruption, Jeff Maggioncalda’s on AI in the workforce and at Coursera, and Vic Strecher’s on GenZ and the power of …
Day 12: pooped after two conferences
Day 11: Death and the Printers
“Death and the Printers”from Le Danse Macabre (Matthias Huss: Lyons, 1499) The first-ever image of the printing press appears, strangely, as a story of Death. Printing was developed across the 1450s in a halting progress of experimentation. Johannes Gutenberg had taken a number of loans for various financial schemes. Printing paid off, but not quickly …
Day 10: a short hello from san jose
Today we headed up to San Jose for the Coursera event. Flying out of Burbank always makes me feel like a movie star because it involves a walk on the tarmac in the sun. Richelle came along to look at some documents at Stanford. I ’m looking forward to the talk tomorrow. I’ve given versions …
Day 9: Mapping and Planning
I returned home to map out the trip so far and look ahead. Tomorrow, Richelle and head up to Mountain View, where I am to give a keynote at the Coursera Future of Higher Education Summit. I’m looking forward to the talk, and to meeting people. Coursera has a piece of the action, it sure …
lunch
My favoriate Cubano lunch stop in LA closed up due to family infighting. Since then I’ve been on the lookout for a new place. I tried La Cubana on Glendale, but they are closed on Mondays, so I headed further down the avenue, to Baracoa, near the base of Glendale where it crosses the Los …
Day Nine: Taking it easy
An easy going day: Lunch with the family—Beth, Senon, and Sabine—at a local place, worked up my presentation for Coursera, and had a chat with an old friend on the phone. Oh, and checked the tire pressure—ten lbs down on the big bike. That’d explain “Gingerfoot.” Onwards!
DAY EIGHT: THE PRODUCTION OF KNOWLEDGE
The day began with a seven am nature hike through Malibu Creek State Park led by Pepperdine Assistant Professor of Biology, Helen Holmlund and her students. We didn’t make to either the filming site of M*A*S*H or of the 1968 Planet of the Apes, but it was a satisfying start to the day, indeed, one …
DAY SEVEN: A MEDIEVAL INTERLUDE
I’m in Calabasas at the Medieval Association of the Pacific conference, which has been quite wonderful. The conference began with a great panel on teaching, which set a inclusive tone right from the start. It’s been a long time since I’ve been to a conference on Medieval Studies, and it’s exciting to engage in conversation …
Onwards! 