A community of scholars : seventy-five years of the University Seminars at Columbia / edited by Thomas Vinciguerra.

Includes index.

Foreword / Robert E. Pollack - Introduction / Alice Newton -- A note to the reader / Thomas Vinciguerra -- Thinking aloud (the Renaissance) / Cynthia M. Pyle and Alan Stewart -- Critiquing the Enlightenment (Eighteenth-century European culture) / Elizabeth Powers -- Out of chaos, order" (Content and methods of the social sciences) / by Tony Carnes -- Mirror images and parallel progression (Cinema and interdisciplinary interpretation) / William Luhr and Cynthia Lucia -- Keeping the dream alive" (Full employment, social welfare, and equity) / Gertrude Goldberg and Sheila D. Collins, with Helen Lachs Ginsburg -- Exploring a diverse tropicalcColossus (Brazil) / by Sidney Greenfield -- Where do you live?" (The city) / Lisa Keller and Robert Beauregard -- Fruit flies and tomcod (Population biology) / Kathleen A. Nolan -- Living long and prospering (Aging and health : policy, practice, and research) / Victoria Raveis -- Speaking about the unspeakable (Death) / Christina Staudt, Joseph W. Dauben and John M. Kiernan -- Thinking about talking and talking about thinking (Language and cognition) / Robert E. Remez -- Embracing our common humanity (Human rights) / George Andreopoulos -- Understanding conflict (The problem of peace) / Catherine Tinker -- Appendix 1. Frank Tannenbaum : a biographical Essay / Joseph Maier and Richard W. Weatherhead -- Appendix 2. Jane Belo : first lady of the University Seminars / Georgina Marrero.

"The Columbia University Seminars, which celebrate their 75th anniversary next year, constitute a unique forum in academia. At these periodic campus gatherings, experts of all sorts-drawn from many different institutions of higher learning and the world at large-convene to reach beyond their specialties and, through confidential discussion, learn from each other. A Community of Scholars will convey the diversity and vibrancy of these proceedings by offering 13 essays written by Seminar chairs and other leading participants. The introduction explains how the Seminars came into being, why they still exist, and why they matter"-- Provided by publisher.