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These are the places to make mistakes and to take intellectual risks.Robert L. Belknap
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Every Seminar evening produces a renewal of intellectual curiosity and energy and a surge in the power of thinking.Lisa Keller
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The University Seminar is an independent universe. Its boundaries are limited only by its horizons.Frank Tannenbaum
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I have always been a great admirer of this institution, which to me looks like an authentic republic of letters…Hannah Arendt
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The strength of its structure lies in the very multiplicity of its forms; each a small living world in itself...Margaret Mead
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...Seminars provide a haven for the expression of the partly-baked idea: 'a speculation, a question of some novelty…Robert K. Merton
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We have to some extent learned each other's language... to talk together more profitably.Horace L. Friess
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These seminars let participants combine what they worry about as members of the academy, with what they worry about when they read the morning paper.Sidney Morgenbesser
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The Seminars are one of the few places on campus where faculty, from different disciplines, across the NYC area, can come together for open, honest, and sustained dialogue...Paige West
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...Seminars provide a brilliant system for faculty and graduate students of the greater New York area to discuss topics that fall outside the traditional confines of departments.Herbert Terrace
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Because the idea is still alive…it is still a movement. Because it has assumed a shape, it is a community of scholars.Joseph Maier
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Since their inception in 1944, the Seminars have provided a place to experience the simultaneous loss of innocence and prejudice.Robert Pollack
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The Seminars bring together three generations of scholars and nonacademic members: young professionals, persons in the prime years of their careers, and emeriti.The University Seminars
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Dear Seminars Community, I wish a very happy, healthy, and peaceful New Year to us all. As you have probably guessed, we will not be meeting in person this spring. I am heartened by all of the efforts...
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The University Seminars seeks proposals for our pilot program: The University Seminars Workshops, to begin Fall 2021. Deadline for proposals is April 30th and the Proposal Committee will notify submitters by June 15th. Workshops will be formed around the in-depth study of an intellectual...
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The Columbia University Seminars, founded in 1945, represent a distinctive experiment in academia. Scholars from different disciplines and institutions, as well as practitioners and other experts, meet once a month through the academic year to study and discuss...
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The University Seminars Archive is a valuable compilation of intellectual history spanning nearly 75 years. In the academic year 1944-1945, five seminars began to meet on an ongoing basis; three of those original seminars remain active. Since these WWII-era beginnings,...
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