THE HUMANITIES/SCIENCE COLLOQUIA:

CONVERSATIONS ACROSS THE DIVIDE

Faculty hot-shots talk about the common ground between their disparate fields.

Spring Semester 2008 – Thursdays, 12:30-1:30 p.m.,

Whitewater Room, Idaho Commons

Sponsored by the College of Letters, Arts & Social Sciences,

and the Distinguished Humanities Professor Endowment

January 24: Larry Forney (biology), Jason Johnstone-Yellin (philosophy)

Shift Happens

February 14: Tom Bitterwolf (chemistry), Dan Bukvich (music)

Dimensions of Creativity: A Dialogue on the

Creative Process

February 28: Jodie Nicotra (English), Judy Parrish (geological sciences)

The End is Near! A Cold Look at the Global Warming

Media Frenzy

April 3: Sanford Eigenbrode (entomology), Michael O’Rourke (philosophy)

Exploring Interdisciplinary Divides: The Philosophical

Dimensions of Collaboration

April 10: James Foster (bioinformatics), Matthew Slater (philosophy)

The Philosophy of Biology

April 24: A Roundtable Campus-wide Discussion

Shaping The Interdisciplinary Future of UI’s Curriculum

“…this notion that ‘science’ is something that belongs in a separate compartment

of its own, apart from everyday life, is one that I should like to challenge.”

–Rachel Carson