Graduate Salon: Disciplines on the Boundary

Catalog description

To address complex problems, it is essential to explore how different disciplines talk to each other. By engaging in acts of “translation,” disciplinary boundaries can be crossed to collaboratively and responsibly connect the ways disciplines frame and engage problems. The Salon will provide a venue for exploring how to think, talk, and work successfully across disciplinary boundaries. In our global society, graduates must think critically and ethically to assess complex interconnected systems and processes, perform in a variety of situations, and continually adapt within rapidly evolving technological and social environments. We will explore different disciplinary cultures and develop the translational skills required to understand how various disciplines converge on a given research problem. Salon themes include: Disciplinary World Making; Nature of Cognition & Consciousness; Conceptions of Science and Technology; Roles of Religion and Culture; Constructions & Interpretations of Time, Space & other Fundamentals; Chaos Theory; Disruption and the Creation of New Knowledge; Nature of Translation; and others.