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Can Liberal Arts Education Meet the Climate Crisis? One Approach

...my mini-series, series five of Into Philosophy. Jeremy Bendik-Keymer, Sidra Shahid, and I undertook an effort of attention to the most ordinary parts of our lives as well as to...

The Distance Between Us Belongs to Love, Reason, Trust

...something—maybe love—has room to happen? Can philosophy do that? The Dutch countryside, January 2023, photo by Sidra Shahid With love, Katherine P.S. Here are two paintings I love. I saw...

Back to the Warm Home, Good Relationships, and Philosophy

...country dark. Jeremy ~ Sidra’s view of Station Sloterdijk, Amsterdam on her commute to work, 2023. Photo by Sidra Shahid March 13th, 2023 Portland, Oregon Dear Sidra and Jeremy, I...

Let Me Show You Some of My History

...of the APA, for hosting this unconventional series, my co-editors, Jeremy Bendik-Keymer and Sidra Shahid, and interviewees so far and still coming. Simone Weil House, Portland, Oregon, February 2023. Tweet...

Growing Older and The Value of Intergenerational Bonds

My grandmother and my mother in Dera Ghazi Khan, Pakistan, 1970s. Note: This post uses inclusive language, replacing the term "elderly" with terms like “older generations” or “older people.” An...

Think What Academia Does to People: Beauvoir contra Precarity

A current practice in academia is the use of casual or fixed term work. Non-tenure track teaching positions are one example. Research also takes the shape of fixed term projects,...

Elena Popa

Elena Popa is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at FLAME University in India. She holds a PhD from Central European University, and had visiting fellowships at University College London and Tilburg...

How to Be Foolish in Being Angry: Against Sarcasm

...interpersonal relating remains a possibility, even if we must go back to the root of each of ourselves and of our situation? Thanks to Katherine Cassese and Sidra Shahid for...

One Way to Think with Precarity in the Classroom

...to your opening post in this series, Sidra, taking academia itself as an “inside,” where structures and policies serve tenure-track and tenured faculty with precisely those things that make a career...

Wall-to-Wall Unionizing on Campus: A Powerful Way to Change

...you tell us a bit about yourself? Thanks for having me Sidra! I’m a Lecturer – that’s our term for “adjunct” – at the University of Colorado Boulder (CU Boulder),...