Michael Roth
President and Professor in History and Humanities, Wesleyan University
I'm the President and a professor at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut. My work is on how people make sense of the past. I have spent many years thinking about the philosophy of history through films, political theory, psychology and psychoanalysis. Most recently, I've written a couple of books around education, how it changes one's history and how it uses the past to create a different kind of future.
EXPs by Michael Roth
Many of us today are asking: how can we take what people learn in a classroom, especially in the humanities and interpretive social sciences, and apply that outside the classroom?
Someone who’s practised in critical feeling can see something from someone else’s point of view.
Freedom of speech is about freedom of expression. I want to be able to express myself, in dance, or in painting or in speech, because I should be able to tell you what I think.