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 speci...

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