Category Archives: Presentations

Surprise! A Simulation on Statelessness

Posted on April 11, 2013 by

Each week students in my introduction to international relations course are required to lead a discussion on a ‘current issue’ in international politics.  Next week, the Institute for Human Rights and Humanitarian Studies at my university is hosting a conference … Continue reading →

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Question Time II

Posted on April 8, 2013 by

A short update on my previous post. Students in my comparative politics course chose option one: Each team is required to ask at least two questions, with each question asked of a different team during its presentation. If a team … Continue reading →

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Question Time

Posted on March 29, 2013 by

As Amanda has pointed out, attendees at academic conferences often ask questions only to demonstrate their own knowledge or their ability to tear down someone else’s argument. My students are displaying the opposite behavior. They are extremely reluctant to ask … Continue reading →

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Conference time!

Posted on March 26, 2013 by

I’m off in an hour or so to the Political Studies Association annual conference in Cardiff. It’s only a flying visit, for reasons that will become apparent later on, but it’s a great opportunity to step out of my normal … Continue reading →

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Live from the 2nd Annual Negma Conference @MIT Media Lab

Posted on March 24, 2013 by

I’m currently listening to social enterprise development project pitches by the ten finalists in Negma’s Impact Egypt competition at the MIT Media Lab. Three minute presentations, no slideshows, followed by an intense ten minute round of questioning from judges. Here are some questions … Continue reading →

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Where Are The Lantern Slides?

Posted on March 24, 2013 by

Second post in a series about presentations . . . I attended (ok, participated in) a conference in another discipline in which presenters traditionally read excerpts of their papers — verbatim. I find the practice odd for a few reasons. First, … Continue reading →

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Webinars Are Terrible

Posted on March 21, 2013 by

As I’ve mentioned previously, I frequently use competition to emphasize the importance of presentation skills for my students. I’ve recently attended webinars that have made me wonder why so many academics are so bad at delivering presentations. Here are a … Continue reading →

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Student Teaching

Posted on December 23, 2012 by

I’ve got one of my favorite subjects coming up next semester — comparative politics of Asia — and I’m going to experiment with MIT’s Visualizing Cultures (VC) curriculum. My goals are to introduce students to the scholarly interpretation of visual source … Continue reading →

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Tinkering

Posted on November 4, 2012 by

When I was a doctoral student, I once spent several weeks teaching Asian history to teenagers at Barrack Obama’s former high school. I vowed never again to put myself in the position of having to prep for class at 1:00 … Continue reading →

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