News and Updates
Polymathic Premiere
The USC Academy for Polymathic Study held its inaugural event at Doheny Memorial Library on Wednesday, February 9. Nearly 200 members of the USC community and friends and supporters from across Los Angeles attended the academy’s first event—a conversation between USC University Professor Antonio Damasio and New York Times columnist David Brooks.
Check out the slideshow, and be sure to check back for a full roundup on the academy launch.
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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