Articles
Essays, translations and notes written with and around CILAS — from the rooftop in Darb el-Labbana to the Translation Lab.
Equality and Intimacy: An Imaginary Construction
Jacques Rancière's The Ignorant Schoolmaster presents 19th-century educator Jacotot's "universal" or "emancipatory teaching." Such teaching presupposes a…
23 min
Playing Our Selves: An Aesthetic Education for the Twenty-First Century
What is the role of education in a time of counterrevolution? Friedrich Schiller’s prescription in On the Aesthetic Education of Man, after the hopes of the…
20 min
Diversity and Differentiation in the Dialectic of Liberal Arts
Pigeon towers are inherently diverse places. Because they are located just above the city, all manner birds can fly in and out. As a result, they are a…
22 min
On the Emergence of Pigeon Towers - Foreword
The term “Ivory Tower” conjures up images of carefully and often symmetrically landscaped university squads, concerns with dogmatic and increasingly corporate…
8 minon ir-regular documentation (retrieved from the archives)
it has been 55 days since the first year students' graduation ceremony and 30 days until the beginning of the second academic year at CILAS. A result of this…
2 min
we, too, are Berlin-ers! (also retrieved from the archives)
while the above is worth no less than a thousand words, please read an account of CILAS' first exchange trip to Berlin written by the young gentleman with the…
2 min
as we transition from the normative to the empirical realm
in trimester two (January 3rd to March 15th, 2015), CILAS is offering eight thematic courses: two per field of study. Thematic courses are of a duration of ten…
1 min