A Community of Scholars : : Seventy-Five Years of The University Seminars at Columbia / / ed. by Thomas Vinciguerra.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press Complete eBook-Package 2020
• MitwirkendeR: Andreopoulos, George,; Beauregard, Robert,; Carnes, Tony,; Collins, Sheila D.,; Dauben, Joseph W.,; Ginsburg, Helen Lachs,; Greenfield, Sidney M.,; Keller, Lisa,; Kiernan, John M.,; Lucia, Cynthia,; Luhr, William G.,; Maier, Joseph,; Marrero, Georgina,; Newton, Alice,; Nolan, Kathleen A.,; Pollack, Robert E.,; Powers, Elizabeth,; Pyle, Cynthia M.,; Raveis, Victoria H.,; Remez, Robert E.,; Schaffner Goldberg, Gertrude,; Staudt, Christina,; Stewart, Alan,; Tinker, Catherine,; Vinciguerra, Thomas,; Weatherhead, Richard W.,
• HerausgeberIn: Vinciguerra, Thomas,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: Columbiana
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

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.

Table of 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