The second episode from the FPR conference After Virtual: The Art of Recovering Lost Goods looks at education.  Jeff Polet discusses walking away from Hope.  Angel Adams Parham talks about the elementary power of a rapping Homer.  Jason Peters goes back to the future of the educational machine. 
Speakers:  Jeff Polet, Angel Adams Parham, and Jason Peters 
Highlights 
1:15 Jeff Polet—Why I Left the Academy 
2:00 The news from Nineveh  
5:30 Signs of declines 
8:30 Searching for a pony  
16:30 Jargon, gymnasts, adjudications, and generals  
23:15 Gerald Ford comes calling  
25:00 Angel Adams Parham—Education for Flourishing: K-16 and Beyond 
26:30 Cultural canons and tug-of-war 
28:15 Classics and community 
32:30 Taking creative license with the gods 
34:00 Disturbing images of beauty 
40:00 Rapping Homer, Reading Frederick Douglas, and Rediscovering Sundiata 
45:00 Resources for Learning 
47:00 Jason Peters—The Sin Against the Body: For This They Wept Not 
48:30 March madness and the managerial class 
51:45 Phone sex prophecy 
55:00 Would not a storm by any other name smell just the same 
58:00 Even better than the real thing? 
64:00 1909 all over again 
70:00 Truth buoys up 
 
 
Resources 
Speaker bios 
Conference videos 
Save the date:  2023 Conference in Madison, Wisconsin (October 7, 2023) 
Thanks to Wendell Kimbrough for his musical talents 

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