A Community of Scholars: Seventy-Five Years of The University Seminars at Columbia

Published by Columbia University Press 2020

A Community of Scholars

Seventy-Five Years of The University Seminars at Columbia

Edited by: Thomas Vinciguerra

In the series Columbiana

https://doi.org/10.7312/vinc19900

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About this book

A Community of Scholars is a seventy-fifth anniversary celebration of the founding of the Columbia University Seminars. It brings together essays by seminar chairs and other leading participants that exemplify the diversity and vibrancy of these proceedings.

Author / Editor information

Thomas Vinciguerra, a founding editor of the newsmagazine The Week, is the author of Cast of Characters: Wolcott Gibbs, E. B. White, James Thurber, and the Golden Age of The New Yorker (2015).

Reviews

Eric Foner, DeWitt Clinton Professor Emeritus of History, Columbia University:
For seventy-five years The University Seminars at Columbia have had a powerful, if too often unacknowledged impact on the intellectual life of the city and the nation. Bringing together members from full professors to graduate students and people without an academic affiliation, Seminar meetings have established democratic spaces for the exchange of ideas. Long before interdisciplinarity became a byword in the academy, the Seminars practiced it, uniting individuals from numerous areas of expertise to discuss subjects ranging from the Renaissance to the city, from social-science methods to population biology, from dance to human rights. In short essays relating the history of over a dozen Columbia Seminars, this gem of a book reminds us, at a fraught time for the life of the mind, of the intellectual values so central to social progress and human understanding.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Foreword The University Seminars at Seventy-Five: An Ongoing Experiment in Continuity with Novelty Robert E. Pollack Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Introduction Engaged Learning Alice Newton Publicly Available Download PDF	xiii
A Note to the Reader Thomas Vinciguerra Publicly Available Download PDF	xxv
1: Thinking Aloud The Seminar in the Renaissance (#407) Cynthia M. Pyle and Alan Stewart Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
2: Critiquing the Enlightenment The Seminar on Eighteenth-Century European Culture (#417) Elizabeth Powers Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	16
3: Out of Chaos, Order The Seminar on Content and Methods of the Social Sciences (#411) Tony Carnes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	30
4: Mirror Images and Parallel Progression The Seminar on Cinema and Interdisciplinary Interpretation (#539) William G. Luhr and Cynthia Lucia Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	46
5: Keeping Alive the Dream The Seminar on Full Employment, Social Welfare, and Equity (#613) Gertrude Schaffner Goldberg, Sheila D. Collins and Helen Lachs Ginsburg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	62
6: Exploring a Diverse Tropical Colossus The Seminar on Brazil (#557) Sidney M. Greenfield Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	77
7: “Where Do You Live?” The Seminar on the City (#459A) Lisa Keller and Robert Beauregard Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	90
8: Fruit Flies and Tomcod The Seminar in Population Biology (#521) Kathleen A. Nolan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	104
9: Living Long and Prospering The Seminar on Aging and Health: Policy, Practice, and Research (#695) Victoria H. Raveis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	118
10: Speaking About the Unspeakable The Seminar on Death (#507) Christina Staudt, Joseph W. Dauben and John M. Kiernan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	132
11: Thinking and Talking About Talking and Thinking The Seminar on Language and Cognition (#681) Robert E. Remez Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	149
12: Embracing Our Common Humanity The Seminar on Human Rights (#561) George Andreopoulos Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	162
13: Understanding Conflict The Seminar on the Problem of Peace (#403) Catherine Tinker Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	177
Appendix 1: Frank Tannenbaum A Biographical Essay Joseph Maier and Richard W. Weatherhead Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	193
Appendix 2: Jane Belo First Lady of the University Seminars Georgina Marrero Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	205
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	211
Author Biographies Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	215
List of the Columbia University Seminars, 1945–2019 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	223
Name Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	237

Language: English
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;

eBook

Published: December 10, 2020
ISBN: 9780231552912