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How to Be Wrong
March 25, 2023
War, Optimism, Humility
This episode of How To Be Wrong is a conversation with Mariia Shuvalova, a lecturer at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, Fulbright Schol…
March 5, 2023
Error, Ego, Humility and Music
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Bioethics, Humility, and Responsibility
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The Editor and Humility
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Radicalism, Humility, and Racism in America
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September 27, 2022
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Humility and the Academic Administrator
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Ethnography, Humility, Identity, and the Academy
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May 17, 2022
Higher Education and the Humble Brag
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March 14, 2022
Leadership and Humility
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March 10, 2022
Intellectual Humility
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