Tuesday Lunch with Leo Braudy and Friends
Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, literary scholar and critic, the Leo S. Bing Chair in English and American Literature, film critic and cultural historian, University Professor Leo Braudy is a polymath’s polymath who has written authoritatively on a wide variety of subjects. University Professor Braudy and University Professor Kevin Starr, joined by various deans, faculty, and students, will discuss various topics in a series of conversations over a hosted lunch. These sessions are open to undergraduates, graduates, post-doctoral fellows, and junior faculty. We do request attendees rsvp to secure a seat at the table.
February 15, 2011
Music with Robert Cutietta, Dean of the Thornton School of Music
12:00pm - 1:30pm, Intellectual Commons, DML 2nd floor, room 233.
February 22, 2011
Poetry with David St. John, Professor of English
12:00pm - 1:30pm, Intellectual Commons, DML 2nd floor, room 233.
March 8, 2011
Business with Sidney Harman, Presidential Professor, Isaias W. Hellman Professor of Polymathy
12:00pm - 1:30pm, Intellectual Commons, DML 2nd floor, room 233.
April 12, 2011
Government with Jack Knott, Dean of School of Policy, Planning and Development
12:00pm - 1:30pm, Intellectual Commons, DML 2nd floor, room 233.
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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