1. Trump vs Harvard, two NYT gift articles from the front line of the battle for academic freedom in the USA:

The Trump Administration’s Letter to Harvard https://tinyurl.com/mrucmzf7

Harvard’s Response to the Trump Administration https://tinyurl.com/3rzmv455

2. A persuasive piece for Lit Hub by Viet Thanh Nguyen, Most American Literature is the Literature of Empire https://lithub.com/viet-thanh-nguyen-most-american-literature-is-the-literature-of-empire/

The problem for imperial literature under Trump is that he sees no need for soft power, only hard power. The Trump innovation during Trump II, the Sequel—and Americans love sequels—is to dispense of any sense of imperfection, which is what imperial literature explores, as well as the notion of rules, domestic or international.

3. Recordings of all the plenaries from last week’s IATEFL conference in Edinburgh https://www.iateflconference.org/about-the-conference/plenary-recordings

The conference started with IATEFL’s first woman president (in 1993), Catherine Walter, looking back on a long and illustrious career that began in 1972, 50 years on: what has changed?, https://youtu.be/b-3WN0lN-uU

and ended with a daughter and father double act from eleven-year-old Alicia Waters Galán & Harry Waters, Five burning questions to education from a young changemaker https://youtu.be/mzMLyUfaNMM

4. Michael Feldstein’s latest post on his E-literate blog, AI Mindscape Prompting https://eliterate.us/ai-mindscape-prompting/ The title gets explained in the post!

Michael: Today’s post is going to get both a little geeky and a little trippy. But I promise it will come back to education. I’m trying to get at some little-discussed aspects of how AI works and the implications for how we work with it. Today I’ll be chatting with Gemini Advanced 2.5 Pro (experimental). Gemini, welcome to the show.

Gemini: Thank you for having me, Michael. It’s a pleasure to be “on the show” and part of this conversation for e-Literate.

5. And, finally, without further commentary, First They Came by Pastor Martin Niemöller https://hmd.org.uk/resource/first-they-came-by-pastor-martin-niemoller/

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