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ANNOUNCEMENTS
What is Interdisciplinarity?
Perspicuous Representations: Basic Questions in the Life of an Institute:
Monday, October 30, 12:30-1:45 pm
Alumni Reading Room, 3rd Floor Pratt Library
Dear Friends and Colleagues,
Please join us this Monday, 30 October, for the next lunch-time discussion
of the Academic Initiatives Committee. We will be meeting in the Alumni
Reading Room of the Pratt Library, Brooklyn Campus, from 12:30-1:45 pm.
Dedicated to the question "What is Interdisciplinarity?", the Academic
Initiatives Committee is pleased to have Toni Oliviero, Dean of the School
of Liberal Arts and Sciences, and Kimberly Lamm, Assistant Professor of
English, open our discussion.
We hope you will join us. The meeting is open to faculty, administration,
staff, and students. Lunch will be served.
What is Interdisciplinarity? What do we mean when we describe something--a
work, our research, our teaching--as interdisciplinary? Is it the
collaboration of disciplines? Is it the 'use' of one discipline's concepts
and methodology in another discipline? How do disciplines make their
appearance? Are there such things as disciplines (anymore)? If not, then
is there such a thing as interdisciplinarity? |