David J. Goa
Dr. David J. Goa has curated the U Encounter Online Exhibition and Anno Domini: Jesus Through the Centuries, a public exhibit and book in collaboration with Jaroslov Pelikan. He was the founding director of the Chester Ronning Centre for the Study of Religion and Public Life, at the University of Alberta (Augustana Campus), the first such centre at a Canadian public university. Over three decades, he developed the program for the study of culture at the Royal Alberta Museum in Edmonton. His most recent book is The Christian Responsibility to Muslims (2015).
Bio last updated June 15th, 2021.
Articles by David J. Goa
The Slow Professor
By David J. Goa
March 3, 2017
David Goa reviews The Slow Professor, Challenging the Culture of Speed in the Academy by Maggie Berg and Barbara K. Seeber and reflects on the tension between corporatization of academia and the importance of cultivating vocation.
Given this, do the humanities still offer an opportunity to fall in love with learning, to glimpse the way a culture – its art, ideas, institutions and history – unfold? Is the development of the civil canopy taught in a way that deepens our regard for its fragile treasures? It prompted me to remember Syria before all hell broke loose, to revisit what I heard and how it echoed with the central concerns of the professoriate over the last forty years Corporatization has captured the university because the humanities have lost their sense of public purpose: its capacity to cherish the tradition of the good, the true and the beautiful Prior to this period, university administrators sought to help with the university’s central goal of educating the young so they could enter society in positions of leadership with an understanding of what constitutes a culture and how to nurture the civil society central to liberal democracy Again, the authors offer useful suggestions for triage given the culture of the university