News and Updates
Polymathic Academy Fall 2011 Opening Event
The academy launched its second year at Doheny Memorial Library on Monday, September 12. Click on the link and find event details about The Art of Business and the Business of Art.
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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