March 8, 2002

Spreading Ideas Around the World

To the Editor:

Colin Day argues for "Globalizing the Exchange of Ideas" (The Review, February 1). He cannot argue that such exchange should occur without an "Americanizing filter" based on the limits of the topic of the conference held in January 2001 at the University of Hong Kong. A major goal of the conference was practical and pedagogical. ...

Colin Day laments that Asian academics were limited to the role of readers at our conference. But humanities teachers know that