All meetings are Monday/Wednesday/Friday at 11:15 – 12:05 in Davis Library 230, unless marked.

Week 0: September 8 (Wednesday, 8:00 – 9:15 in AXINN 103)

• “A Call to Arms for New Education Models.” Jonathan Isham. Stanford Social Innovation Review. March 2012.
• “Open-Source Learning for 2020 and Beyond.” Jonathan Isham. Stanford Social Innovation Review. July 2020.

Week 1: September 13, 15 and 17

Monday 9/13

• “‘Only Connect …’ The Goals of a Liberal Education.” William Cronon. The American Scholar, Volume 67, No. 4, Autumn 1998.
• I Corinthians 13
• “Commentary on 1 Corinthians 13:1-13.” Shively Smith. May 1, 2016.
• Middlebury LOVE-CAST: “Episode 1: What We Talk About When We Talk Candidly About Love.”  Cameron Weiner ’20 and Sabine Poux ’20

Wednesday 9/15

• 1619 podcast. Episode 1: The Fight for a True Democracy. Hosted by Nikole Hannah-Jones, produced by Annie Brown, Adizah Eghan and Kelly Prime, and edited by Larissa Anderson, Lisa Tobin and Lisa Chow. August 23, 2019.

Friday 9/17

• “Paulo Freire: On Hope.” Kathleen Weiler. The Radical Teacher. Spring 2003, No. 67 (Spring 2003), pp. 32-35. University of Illinois Press.
• Visit with writing tutor Kaila Jones ‘22.5

Week 2: September 20, 22 and 24

Monday 9/20

• Horton, Miles, Paulo Freire, Brenda Bell, John Gaventa, and John Peters. We Make the Road by Walking: Conversation on Education and Social Change. Philadephia: Temple University Press, 1990. Editors’ introduction and Chapter 5 (ERES)
• “The Adventures of a Radical Hillbilly: An Interview with Myles Horton.” Konner, Joan; Smith, Sidney; KNET/Thirteen; and Educational Broadcasting Corporation, (1981). Appalachian Kentucky Video Archives. 122.

Wednesday 9/22

• Ignition: What You Can Do To Fight Global Warming and Spark a Movement.  Jonathan Isham and Sissel Waage, Eds. 2007. Island Press. Introduction (Bill McKibben) and Chapter 1 (Jonathan Isham and Sissel Waage). (ERES)
• “Middlebury Students Breathe Life Into Climate Movement: Rumors of Environmentalism’s Death Seem Exaggerated.” Peter Land. Northern Sky News. Northern Sky News. March 2005. (ERES)
• “Middlebury College, Alma Mater of 350.org co-founders, Divests from Fossil Fuels.” Jamie Henn, May Boeve, Jeremy Osborn, Will Bates, Jon Warnow, Kelly Blynn, Jason Kowalski & Phil Aroneanu. January 29, 2019.

Thursday 9/23, 12:30 PM

• Clifford Symposium 2021. “Radical Implications: Facing a Planetary Emergency”

Bill McKibben joins the other cofounders of 350.org (all Middlebury alums) to reflect on the past decade of climate activism, on successes and failures, and on what’s changed (and what hasn’t, and what must) in the climate movement. Bill McKibben, joined by May Boeve ’06, Jeremy Osborn ’06, Phil Aroneanu ’06, Kelly Blynn ’07, Jon Warnow ’06, Will Bates ’06, and Jamie Henn ’07.

Thursday 9/23 and Friday 9/24, all day (no in-class meeting)

Please choose at least one of the events of the Clifford Symposium.

First draft of Writing Assignment 1 on the justice and the climate movement due by Sunday, 9/26 at 6:00 PM on Canvas

Week 3: September 27 and 29 and October 1

Monday 9/27

• Bring in a copy of your draft essay.

Wednesday 9/29

• Hochschild, Adam. Bury the Chains: Prophets, Slaves, and Rebels in the First Human Rights Crusade. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2004. Introduction, Chapters 2, 3, 8, 15, 21, 22, and Epilogue (ERES).

Thursday 9/30 (recommended)

• The Howard E. Woodin Colloquium. MIDD-ES CORE PANEL DISCUSSION: “Hope.”
  • Jon Isham, Professor of Economics and Environmental Studies
  • Christopher McGrory Klyza, Robert ’35 and Helen ’38 Stafford Professor in Public Policy, Professor of Political Science and Environmental Studies, Director, Program in Environmental Studies
  • Kathryn Morse, John C. Elder Professor of Environmental Studies and Professor of History

Friday, 10/1

• Academic integrity tutorial found at the Course Hub. (To be completed before the library workshop.)
• “Fighting for Justice Library Workshop I” compiled by Ryan Clement. (The due date for the Library Warm-Up is Thursday, September 30 at 11:59 PM.)

Week 4: October 4, 6, and 8

Monday 10/4

• Baptist, Edward E. The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism. New York: Basic Books, 2016. Introduction, Chapter 1, and Afterword (ERES).
• 1619 Podcast. Episode 2: The Economy That Slavery Built Hosted by Nikole Hannah-Jones, produced by Annie Brown, Adizah Eghan and Kelly Prime, with help from Jazmín Aguilera, and edited by Lisa Tobin and Lisa Chow. August 30, 2019.

Wednesday 10/6

• Fredrick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom. David W. Blight. Introduction; Chapters 1, 7, 13; and Epilogue. (ERES).
• “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” Frederick Douglass. July 5, 1852
• “The New Abolitionism.” Chris Hayes. The Nation. April 22, 2014.

Friday 10/8

• In-class writing workshop

Second draft of Writing Assignment 1 on the climate movement due by Sunday, 10/10 at 6:00 PM on Canvas

Week 5: October 11, 13, and 15

Monday 10/11

• Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow. Henry Louis Gates. 2019. Penguin Press. Preface, Chapter 1, and Epilogue. (ERES).
• “When It Costs $53,000 to Vote.” Photographs by Damon Winter; Text by Jesse Wegman. The New York Times. October 7, 2021.

Wednesday 10/13

• Opening conversation with Dean Matt Longman
• Museum Exhibition (Links to an external site.): “Art & Protest: Artists As Agents of Social Change.” Conversation with Jason Vrooman.

Friday 10/15

• Visit to the Middlebury College Museum of Art.
• Visit to the Town Hall Theater.

Week 6: October 20 and 22 (no Monday class)

Wednesday 10/20

• Wells-Barnett, Ida B., and Jacqueline Jones Royster. Southern Horrors and Other Writings: the Anti-Lynching Campaign of Ida B. Wells, 1892-1900. Boston: Bedford/St. Martins, Macmillan Learning, 2016. Selected chapters (ERES).

Friday 10/22

• Visit in the Davis Library Archives with Rebekah Irwin, Director and Curator, Special Collections & Archives.
• “The Twilight Project.”

First draft of Writing Assignment 2 on abolition due by Sunday, 10/24 at 6:00 PM on Canvas

Week 7: October 25, 27 and 29

Monday 10/25

• “Fundi- The Enduring Leadership Legacy of Civil Rights Activist Ella Baker.” Stephen Preskill. Advancing Women in Leadership Online Journal Volume 18, Spring 2005.
• Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision. Barbara Ransby. 2003. University of North Carolina Press. Chapters 8 and 12. (ERES).
• “The Quiet Courage of Bob Moses.” William Sturkey. July 28, 2021. The Atlantic.

Wednesday 10/27

• Holsaert, Faith S. Hands on the Freedom Plow: Personal Accounts by Women in SNCC. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2012. Selected chapters (ERES).

Friday 10/29

• In-class writing workshop

Second draft of Writing Assignment 2 on abolition due by Sunday, 10/31 at 6:00 PM on Canvas

Week 8: November 1, 3 and 5

Monday 11/1

• “America Was Forged by the Marginalized: How the political struggles waged by Black Americans forged U.S. democracy — and what we can learn from them.” The New York Times. Jamelle Bouie’s podcast interview of Professor Martha Jones, “a legal and cultural historian” at Johns Hopkins University and author of Vanguard How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All. October 22nd, 2021

Wednesday 11/3

• “A more civil union: Vermont’s legal recognition of same-sex couples has brought the latest struggle for gay rights out of the closet–and onto the stage of national politics.” Goodman, David. Mother Jones, vol. 25, no. 4, July-Aug. 2000, pp. 48
• “How Vermont’s ‘Civil’ War Fueled The Gay Marriage Movement (Links to an external site.).” Liz Halloran. March 23, 2013. National Public Radio. “Part of William Lippert’s March 15, 2000, speech.” March 23, 2013. National Public Radio. (Listen to this speech embedded in the main story.)
• “In Memory Of Marion Milne (Links to an external site.). A tribute to former Vermont State Representative Marion Milne (1935-2014).” Aug 14, 2014. Jeff Kaufman.

Friday 11/5

• In-class visit with Beatrice Parwatikar (Jubilee USA)

Week 9: November 8, 10 and 12

Monday 11/8

• “How to Survive a Plague.” David France 2012. [Stay tuned for streaming options.]
• Picano, Felice. “The remains of the night: six observers: Felice Picano talks with eyewitnesses to the Stonewall Riots.” The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide, vol. 22, no. 4, July-Aug. 2015.
• “The Night a Dark, Dingy Bar Became a Shrine of Gay Pride.” Michael Wilson. New York Times, 28 June 2019. (Extra reading.)

Wednesday 11/10

• “Thirteenth.” Directed by Ava DuVernay. Produced by Howard Barish, Ava DuVerna, and Spencer Averick.

Friday 11/12

• In-class visit with Tracy Himmel Isham of the Center for Careers and Internships.

Week 10: November 15, 17 and 19

Monday 11/15

• Just Mercy, by Bryan Stephenson. Introduction – Chapter 8.

Wednesday 11/17

• Just Mercy, by Bryan Stephenson. Chapter 9 – Epilogue.

Friday 11/19

• Writing workshop

Final draft of Writing Assignment 3 (your reflection piece) due by Sunday, 11/21 at 6:00 PM on Canvas

Week 11: November 22

Monday 11/22

• Practice with Oratory Now coaches.

Week 12: November 29, December 1 and 3

Monday 11/29

• “Session 3” from the Rockwood Leadership Institute, a conversation between Alicia Garza and Akaya Windwood.
• “Coalition of Immokalee Workers.” Highlights. Scan this website and watch the embedded video. (2019 TEDMED talk.)

Wednesday 12/1

• Student presentations (Day 1)

Friday 12/3

• Student presentations (Day 2)

Week 13: December 6, 8 and 10

Monday 12/6

• Student presentations (Day 3)

Wednesday 12/8

• Student presentations (Day 4)

Friday 12/10

• Final class

Final draft of Writing Assignment 4 due by last day of exam period (12/19) at noon on Canvas