Difference between revisions of "Heyman Center for the Humanities"
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| − | The '''Heyman Center for the Humanities''' supposedly provides a forum where all the humanities departments can intersect. It is located in [[East Campus]] - swipe in or sign in via the regular EC entrance, then turn left. The center's director is [[Akeel Bilgrami] | + | The '''Heyman Center for the Humanities''' supposedly provides a forum where all the humanities departments can intersect. It is located in [[East Campus]] - swipe in or sign in via the regular EC entrance, then turn left. The center's director is [[Akeel Bilgrami]]. |
Ostensibly an interdisciplinary center, the governing board of the Heyman Center is a collection of veritable academic badasses. | Ostensibly an interdisciplinary center, the governing board of the Heyman Center is a collection of veritable academic badasses. | ||
| − | The Center also sometimes feels like a refuge for a who's who of [[Columbia College]] and the [[Core Curriculum]]'s old guard, including [[William Theodore de Bary]], [[Peter Pouncey]], and a number of others. | + | The Center also sometimes feels like a refuge for a who's who of [[Columbia College]] and the [[Core Curriculum]]'s old guard, including [[William Theodore de Bary]], [[Peter Pouncey]], and a number of others, though under Bilgrami's directorship the program has grown somewhat more radical. |
== External links == | == External links == | ||
Revision as of 03:21, 14 November 2007
The Heyman Center for the Humanities supposedly provides a forum where all the humanities departments can intersect. It is located in East Campus - swipe in or sign in via the regular EC entrance, then turn left. The center's director is Akeel Bilgrami.
Ostensibly an interdisciplinary center, the governing board of the Heyman Center is a collection of veritable academic badasses.
The Center also sometimes feels like a refuge for a who's who of Columbia College and the Core Curriculum's old guard, including William Theodore de Bary, Peter Pouncey, and a number of others, though under Bilgrami's directorship the program has grown somewhat more radical.
