Vinciguerra A Community of Scholars

Seventy-Five Years of The University Seminars at Columbia
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-0-231-55291-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
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Reihe: Columbiana

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Vinciguerra, Thomas

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Schulen, Schulleitung Universitäten, Hochschulen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Bildungswesen: Organisation und Verwaltung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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).