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A Community of Scholars: Seventy-Five Years of the University Seminars at Columbia

Name: A Community of Scholars: Seventy-Five Years of the University Seminars at Columbia
Brand: Columbia University Press
SKU: 9780231199001
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Contributors:

Thomas Vinciguerra (Editor)

Publisher:

Columbia University Press

Binding:

Hardcover

Book Category:

Education, History

Book Subcategory:

Administration, Schools, United States

Book Topic:

Higher, Levels, State & Local

Series:

Columbiana

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Release Date:

2020-11-03

ISBN 13:

9780231199001

Weight:

1.15 lbs

Size:

9.10 x 6.00 x 1.00 inches

Pages:

280

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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 subjects, sometimes beyond their specialties. Through collegial discussion, participants learn from one another. Today, over ninety seminars are ongoing: some have outlived their founders, while others are just beginning.

A Community of Scholars is a seventy-fifth anniversary celebration of the founding of The University Seminars. It brings together essays by seminar chairs and other leading participants that exemplify the diversity and vibrancy of these proceedings. Their topics are wide-ranging--the evolution of the labor movement, urban life, the politics and culture of Brazil, the Enlightenment, the prospects for world peace--but in each, a commitment to intellectual provocation and shared learning is on full display. An informative introduction explains how The Seminars came into being and why they continue to matter. The volume also features biographical sketches of Frank Tannenbaum, the Latin America scholar and criminologist who founded The Seminars, and his wife, the anthropologist Jane Belo, a close friend of Margaret Mead. Belo and Tannenbaum endowed The Seminars and allowed them to flourish. A remarkable testament to an unparalleled intellectual forum, A Community of Scholars allows readers to share in the eclectic spirit of The Seminars.

About the Author
Thomas Vinciguerra, a founding editor of the newsmagazine The Week, is the author of Cast of Characters: Wolcott Gibbs, E. B. White, James Thurber, and the Golden Age of The New Yorker (2015).

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