Two recent stories reported in the New York Times about U.S. professors being fired for posting art pieces that students or parents found offensive to their beliefs. One (above) was a painting within a 14th-century Islamic history book supposed to represent G and M. As showed [with much warning] during an art class at Hamline College. The other is the (monumental) Renaissance Michelangelo’s David [exhibited a la Galleria dell’Academia, in Florence]. Whose posting during a Florida sixth-grader class on Renaissance art led to accusations of pornography! These extreme cases of religious beliefs taking over the classroom (and rationality!) remind me of the difference I noticed between teaching in D and W, since in the former institution, classes and tests can take place any day that is not a public holiday, following general secular rules in French public institutions, while in the latter, every possible effort should be made (by the University) to provide an alternative test…
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religions in the classroom
Posted in Books, Kids, pictures, University life with tags Florence, Florida, Galleria dell'Academia, Hamline College, Islamic art, Michelangelo, Pennsylvania, rationalism, religious art, religious beliefs, Renaissance, secularism, theocracy, Université Paris Dauphine, University of Warwick, US politics on April 10, 2023 by xi'anstreets of Philly [jatp]
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murals of Philly [jatp]
Posted in Books, Kids, pictures, Running, Travel with tags flag, jatp, Mercantile Library, murals, parking lot, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Philly, Ukraine, USA on October 30, 2022 by xi'an





Philly skyline [jatp]
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Frontiers in Machine Learning and Economics: Methods and Applications
Posted in Statistics with tags ABC, Approximate Bayesian computation, approximate Bayesian inference, conference, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, USA on October 7, 2022 by xi'an