My new translation of Rilke’s Letters to a Young Poet ✍🏻…. beautifully reviewed by #johnhawkins 🙏 “Letter to an Old Poet” - CounterPunch.org counterpunch.org/2023/02/14/let…

Excited for FRIDAY 3/2 to teach an online class The 92nd Street Y, New York about the Literature of Happiness, reading Woolf, Freud, Rilke, Hemingway, Dickinson, & others. We read these works to go beyond the idea of life hacks that maximize your potential for success. Registration open now.

🗓️Join us on 3/22, 6pm Deutsches Haus for a conversation about “Right-Wing Populism and #Gender” with Julia Roth Bielefeld University & Hadas Aron & Ulrich Baer New York University & Erasma Beras-Monticciolo Tambora Dialogues💡Register here: as.nyu.edu/research-cente…

Annie Abrams @anndaraabrams and I have some things to say about liberal education and the culture war in The Atlantic this morning theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

So honored to give the University Professorship Lecture New York University on Wednesday, April 19, 5 PM. If you can guess the source of the title, “Well,then…” (key moment in an American book), you get extra free drinks 🍸 🍹

Tune in as Ulrich Baer (Uli Baer ) and Greg discuss the unique emphasis that Americans place on free speech, especially in a higher education context, and how free speech can sometimes conflict with other values. Check the full episode at buff.ly/40z7hJf

Please join us on 5/3 at 6 PM for readings and a conversation with our current writer-in-residence Sasha Marianna Salzmann, Saïd Sayrafiezadeh and Uli Baer about writing and inspiration in times of turmoil and war. Details and RSVP here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

“Wonder - is not precisely knowing-/and not precisely knowing not-“ “Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror…no feeling is final.” Thrilled to teach 3 classes on Emily Dickinson & Rainer Maria Rilke Roundtable starting May 5 11:00 EST.

(sorry only in German) Former German Constitutional Justice Susanne Baer: »You will need basic human rights if you are different in any way« spiegel.de/kultur/richter… via DER SPIEGEL

Harvard Law Professor Randall Kennedy explained Think About It why affirmation action matters, & the arguments for it. Today’s SCOTUS decision should motivate everyone in higher ed to work ever harder to ensure ALL students can succeed & flourish. open.spotify.com/episode/2Si9qq…

Please recall that no same-sex couple has ever sought to engage Lorie Smith's business to create a wedding for their website; this case is built entirely on hypotheticals; there are essentially no facts. The decision's scope is ambiguous and uncertain. supremecourt.gov/opinions/22pdf…

“What is your idea of perfect happiness?” Find out from Ricardo Alberto Maldonado 🇵🇷, & how the executive director & president of the Academy of American Poets Academy of American Poets thinks of poetry, life, creativity, and being from the island of Puerto Rico 🇵🇷 living in New York. newbooksnetwork.com/the-life-assig…

Any productive college policies on laptop computers in lecture courses? My ug students said they wd welcome a hard ban on computers, except when needed for learning needs, etc. It’s a gen ed requirement on literature; most students major in Econ, data, computer science & business

Emily Dickinson and Rainer Maria Rilke on Loss and Transformation…. 3 classes starts Friday September 1 The 92nd Street Y, New York roundtable.org/class/live/lit…