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

Elaine Bernstein

Rapporteur/s

Tara Anne Hillman

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Meeting Schedule

Scheduled

26
Feb

February 26, 20264:30 pm - 5:45 pm

Zoom

Saul Bellow, “Ravelstein”

Scheduled

26
Mar

March 26, 20264:30 pm - 5:45 pm

Zoom

Daniel Chamovitz, “What a plant knows: a field guide to the senses”

Scheduled

16
Apr

April 16, 20264:30 pm - 5:45 pm

Zoom

Jeremy DeSilva, “First Steps: How upright walking made us human”

Scheduled

14
May

May 14, 20264:30 pm - 5:45 pm

Zoom

Jamieson Webster, “On Breathing”

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Past Meetings

Scheduled

22
Jan

January 22, 20264:30 pm - 5:45 pm

Zoom

Octavia Butler, “Pattern Master, a patternist novel”

Scheduled

18
Dec

December 18, 20254:30 pm - 5:45 pm

Zoom

Renee Bergland, “Natural Magic: Emily Dickenson, Charles Darwin, and the dawn of modern science”

Scheduled

20
Nov

November 20, 20254:30 pm - 5:45 pm

Zoom

Patricia Williams, “The Miracle of the Black Leg: notes on race, human bodies, and the spirit of the law”

Scheduled

23
Oct

October 23, 20254:30 pm - 5:45 pm

Zoom

Simon Schama, “Foreign Bodies: pandemics, vaccines and the health of nations.”

Scheduled

18
Sep

September 18, 20254:30 pm - 5:45 pm

Zoom

David Brooks, “How to know a person: the art of seeing others deeply and being seen deeply”

Scheduled

27
Aug

August 27, 20254:30 pm - 5:45 pm

Zoom

Hannah Arendt, “On Lying and Politics”

Cancelled

17
Jul

July 17, 20254:00 pm - 5:30 pm

Zoom

How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen by David Brooks

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