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?
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