Seminars

  • Founded
    2018
  • Seminar Number
    791

The Seminar on Science and Subjectivity was established in 2018 after a prior period of a few years as a class in the Hovde Seminar series at the Heyman Center. The Seminar continues to follow the format that worked well in that earlier iteration: we all read a book in advance of the session, then we all have something to say about it. In the past we then would all have dinner and continue the conversation. Since Covid we have met by zoom earlier in the day, and then those members who are in the area have come together to continue the discussion over dinner at 6:00 at Faculty House. We have begun to invite authors of our books, and other scholars who are focused on the work we are discussing to join our discussions; regardless, we plan to remain a convivial group of interested and articulate readers willing to delve deeply into the intersection of science and individual subjective experience.

Books Discussed, 2014-2023


Co-Chairs
Robert Pollack
pollack@columbia.edu

Peter Gruenberger
peter.gruenberger@gmail.com

Rapporteur
Tara Anne Hillman
tah2168@columbia.edu

Meeting Schedule

07/20/2023 Zoom
12:30 PM
Home is where we start from – Essays by a psychoanalyst by Donald Winnicott
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09/21/2023 Zoom
12:30 PM
Quarrel and Quandry by Cynthia Ozick
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10/19/2023 Zoom
12:30 PM
Einstein: His Life and Universe, Walter Isaacson
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11/16/2023 Zoom
12:30 PM
Rescuing Socrates by Roosevelt Montas
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12/21/2023 Zoom
12:30 PM
he Exceptions: Nancy Hopkins, MIT, and the Fight for Women in Science by Kate Zernike
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01/18/2024 Zoom
12:30 PM
The Lottery and other stories by Shirley Jackson
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02/15/2024 Zoom
12:30 PM
They all laughed at Christopher Columbus – tales of medicine by Gerald Weissman
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03/21/2024 Zoom
12:30 PM
The rooster’s Egg – on the persistence of prejudice by Patricia Williams
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04/18/2024 Zoom
12:30 PM
This Chair Rocks - a manifesto against ageism by Ashton Applewhite
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05/16/2024 Zoom
12:30 PM
Read Until You Understand – The profound wisdom of Black life and literature by Farah Jasmine Griffin
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