A community of scholars : seventy-five years of the University Seminars at Columbia /

"The Columbia University Seminars, which celebrate their 75th anniversary next year, constitute a unique forum in academia. At these periodic campus gatherings, experts of all sorts-drawn from many different institutions of higher learning and the world at large-convene to reach beyond their sp...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Vinciguerra, Thomas J. (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Columbia University Press, [2020]
Subjects:
Columbia University. > University Seminars > History.
Columbia University. > University Seminars.
Humanities.
Learning and scholarship.
Savoir et érudition.
EDUCATION / Administration / Higher
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword / Robert E. Pollack
  • Introduction / Alice Newton
  • A note to the reader / Thomas Vinciguerra
  • Thinking aloud (the Renaissance) / Cynthia M. Pyle and Alan Stewart
  • Critiquing the Enlightenment (Eighteenth-century European culture) / Elizabeth Powers
  • Out of chaos, order" (Content and methods of the social sciences) / by Tony Carnes
  • Mirror images and parallel progression (Cinema and interdisciplinary interpretation) / William Luhr and Cynthia Lucia
  • Keeping the dream alive" (Full employment, social welfare, and equity) / Gertrude Goldberg and Sheila D. Collins, with Helen Lachs Ginsburg
  • Exploring a diverse tropicalcColossus (Brazil) / by Sidney Greenfield
  • Where do you live?" (The city) / Lisa Keller and Robert Beauregard
  • Fruit flies and tomcod (Population biology) / Kathleen A. Nolan
  • Living long and prospering (Aging and health : policy, practice, and research) / Victoria Raveis
  • Speaking about the unspeakable (Death) / Christina Staudt, Joseph W. Dauben and John M. Kiernan
  • Thinking about talking and talking about thinking (Language and cognition) / Robert E. Remez
  • Embracing our common humanity (Human rights) / George Andreopoulos
  • Understanding conflict (The problem of peace) / Catherine Tinker
  • Appendix 1. Frank Tannenbaum : a biographical Essay / Joseph Maier and Richard W. Weatherhead
  • Appendix 2. Jane Belo : first lady of the University Seminars / Georgina Marrero.

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