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The Academy for Polymathic Study Spring 2012 series is about to begin. The series offer several kinds of encounters for undergraduates, graduate students, post-docs, junior faculty, and senior faculty as well as open events that are available to the entire USC community.
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Spring 2012 Series
Quadrant Series with Edwin McCann
Professor of philosophy and English Edwin McCann will conduct four conversational workshops over the Fall and Spring terms from a philosophical, historical, and practical point of view.
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The Society of University Professors
The Society of University Professors meets with the younger generation of scholars to discuss polymathic inquiry and practice.
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Graduate Series:
Objects of Knowledge
Conversations regarding objects of knowledge, visuality, and material worlds from a polymathic perspective.
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Undergraduate Series:
Polymathic Pizza - Weird Science
Spring 2012 discussions will explore the wonder, mystery, and vast, inviting strangeness of scientific pursuits.
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Homage to Hypatia and Hildegard
Conversations energized by the polymathic impulse in honor of two great female polymaths, Hypatia (350/70-415 c.e) a philosopher, astronomer, and mathematician, and Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179 c.e.), abbess, composer, botanist, poet, playwright, and reformer.
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