Harman Academy for Polymathic Study, DML 241

Many of the social, cultural, and political issues we face today can be traced back to the age of discovery: processes of exploitation and genocide; environmental disregard and degradation; capitalistic greed and imperialist ambitions. These too, along with Leonardo's glorious discoveries, are legacies from the Renaissance Era, legacies still very much among us. For this session we will engage professors from disparate fields who have considered the vast potentiality discovery holds.

Our opening session for the Fall 2023 Polymathic Pizza Series explores, from cross-disciplinary frameworks, the power curiosity holds as the polymathic engine that fuels discovery.

Much of our present technological and socio-cultural progress was imagined in Sci-Fi art, film, and literatures in the past. What are we imagining now that might illuminate our future?