Week 12 Briefing: The peace conference
The closing Briefing — auditing every week's diplomatic label against the credentials test set in week 1, before the capstone is due.
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Case file 12
Case file 12- Date
- 10 May 2027
- Metaphor
- The peace conference — the closing session where every side's account of the negotiation gets checked
- Phenomenon
- Synthesis of the semester's phenomena, and an explicit accounting of where the diplomatic frame sharpened observation versus where it substituted for one
Before the session#
Reread your notes from weeks 1, 3 and 8 — the credentials test and its two clearest failure cases. Bring a ranked list: which week’s label was the most honest, which the least.
In the session#
Run the full audit as a class, week by week, in the order taught. Every label defended has to survive a challenge from someone who read the same material and disagrees.
Afterwards#
The Peace Conference assessment asks you to write this same audit alone, for a phenomenon of your own choosing, held to the same standard set in week 1. See the assessment page for the brief.
The spec
What you bring to the session. Written so a reader can tell whether it has been met without asking you.
- you can list, from memory, at least four of the eleven phenomena covered by week and pair each with its diplomatic label
- you can state, for one label, the specific sentence where using it would have overclaimed something the biology does not support
Teaching team
- Dr. Marguerite Osei — convenor
- Tobias Lindqvist — tutor