Seminars

Science and Subjectivity

Year Founded 2018

Seminar # 791

StatusActive

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.

Chair/s

Robert Pollack

Peter Gruenberger

Rapporteur/s

Tara Anne Hillman

External Website

Meeting Schedule

Scheduled

19
Dec

December 19, 20244:00 pm - 5:30 pm

Zoom

To Heal a Wounded Heart: The Transformative Power of Buddhism and Psychotherapy in Action by Pilar Jennings

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Past Meetings

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21
Nov

November 21, 20244:00 pm - 5:30 pm

Zoom

The Professor & The Madman by Simon Winchester

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17
Oct

October 17, 20244:00 pm - 5:30 pm

Zoom

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15
Aug

August 15, 202412:30 pm - 2:00 pm

Zoom

Hallucinations by Oliver Sacks

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09
May

May 9, 202412:30 pm - 2:00 pm

Zoom

Read Until You Understand – The Profound Wisdom of Black Life and Literature by Farah Jasmine Griffin

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18
Apr

April 18, 202412:30 pm - 2:00 pm

Zoom

This Chair Rocks – A Manifesto Against Ageism by Ashton Applewhite

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21
Mar

March 21, 202412:30 pm - 2:00 pm

Zoom

The Rooster’s Egg – On the Persistence of Prejudice by Patricia Williams

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22
Feb

February 22, 202412:30 pm - 2:00 pm

Zoom

They All Laughed at Christopher Columbus – Tales of Medicine by Gerald Weissman

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18
Jan

January 18, 202412:30 pm - 2:00 pm

Zoom

The Lottery and Other Stories by Shirley Jackson

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21
Dec

December 21, 202312:30 pm - 2:00 pm

Zoom

The Exceptions: Nancy Hopkins, MIT, and the Fight for Women in Science by Kate Zernike

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16
Nov

November 16, 202312:30 pm - 2:00 pm

Zoom

Rescuing Socrates by Roosevelt Montas

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19
Oct

October 19, 202312:30 pm - 2:00 pm

Zoom

Einstein: His Life and Universe, Walter Isaacson

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21
Sep

September 21, 202312:30 pm - 2:00 pm

Zoom

Quarrel and Quandry by Cynthia Ozick

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20
Jul

July 20, 202312:30 pm - 2:00 pm

Zoom

Home Is Where We Start From – Essays by a Psychoanalyst by Donald Winnicott

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