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Jan. 9 | Call for papers: Identities and Technocultures
A 2-day conference about American culture and technologies that examines how new technologies dominate and define Americaness in the US and abroad. Co-sponsored by the University of Iowa Center for Ethnic Studies and the Arts (CESA) and the Mid-America American Studies Association (MAASA).
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James, Theresa. "Cradled in the Larger History of One's Time': Epistemological Pattern in the Work of Norman Mailer," Department of English, Tulane University, May 1993.
This study places the epistemological and pedagogical pattern evident in Mailer’s writing within the cultural and historical roots of the progressive era. Progressive educational reform defined Mailer’s early public schooling at PS 131 and Boys’ High School, allowing him access to a progressive epistemology characterized by the personal invention and contemplation of hypotheses, data, and conclusions that are similar in their order, purpose, and epistemological value to those of the scientific method authorized by John Dewey.
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