Dec 29, 2015
In this episode Dave speaks with
Craig Benjamin on his career as a world historian. He describes his
graduate work at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia, and his
fateful meeting with David Christian that led him to become an
important proponent of big history. We then discuss how university
students respond to the big history “creation-myth” and how to
manage the classroom while debating controversial subjects. Episode
8b will be posted shortly, and it includes the second half of this
interview. I forgot to ask Craig for a book recommendation during
the interview, but I will make amends below;
Dave
– Christian, Brown, and Benjamin, Big History: Between Nothing
and Everything