A community of scholars : seventy-five years of the University Seminars at Columbia / edited by Thomas Vinciguerra.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Vinciguerra, Thomas J., editor.

Series:

Columbiana

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Columbia University. University Seminars--History.

Columbia University.

Humanities.

Learning and scholarship.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (240 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York : Columbia University Press, [2020]

Summary:

The Columbia University Seminars, founded in 1945, represent a distinctive experiment in academia. Scholars from different disciplines and institutions, as well as practitioners and other experts, meet once a month through the academic year to study and discuss subjects, sometimes beyond their specialties. Through collegial discussion, participants learn from one another. Today, over ninety seminars are ongoing: some have outlived their founders, while others are just beginning.A Community of Scholars is a seventy-fifth anniversary celebration of the founding of The University Seminars. It brings together essays by seminar chairs and other leading participants that exemplify the diversity and vibrancy of these proceedings. Their topics are wide-ranging—the evolution of the labor movement, urban life, the politics and culture of Brazil, the Enlightenment, the prospects for world peace—but in each, a commitment to intellectual provocation and shared learning is on full display. An informative introduction explains how The Seminars came into being and why they continue to matter. The volume also features biographical sketches of Frank Tannenbaum, the Latin America scholar and criminologist who founded The Seminars, and his wife, the anthropologist Jane Belo, a close friend of Margaret Mead. Belo and Tannenbaum endowed The Seminars and allowed them to flourish. A remarkable testament to an unparalleled intellectual forum, A Community of Scholars allows readers to share in the eclectic spirit of The Seminars.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Foreword

Introduction

A Note to the Reader

1: Thinking Aloud

2: Critiquing the Enlightenment

3: Out of Chaos, Order

4: Mirror Images and Parallel Progression

5: Keeping Alive the Dream

6: Exploring a Diverse Tropical Colossus

7: “Where Do You Live?”

8: Fruit Flies and Tomcod

9: Living Long and Prospering

10: Speaking About the Unspeakable

11: Thinking and Talking About Talking and Thinking

12: Embracing Our Common Humanity

13: Understanding Conflict

Appendix 1: Frank Tannenbaum

Appendix 2: Jane Belo

Acknowledgments

Author Biographies

List of the Columbia University Seminars, 1945–2019

Name Index

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780231552912

0231552912

OCLC:

1229161167