History of Polymath Research with Drs Robert & Michele Root-Bernstein
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Drs Robert & Michele Root-Bernstein are pioneers in Polymathy research. Dr Angela Cotellessa credits them for creating this field. Shrikant will be interviewing them on the story of their decades long research on Polymathy, followed by Q&As, breakout rooms, takeaways and wrap up.
Robert Root-Bernstein (born August 7, 1953) (Ph.D., Princeton University) is a professor of physiology at Michigan State University. In 1981, he was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship, commonly known as a "genius grant." He has also researched and consulted on creativity for more than fifteen years. Among other books, he has authored Sparks of Genius: The Thirteen Thinking Tools of the World's Most Creative People, Discovering: Inventing and Solving Problems at the Frontiers of Scientific Knowledge, and Rethinking AIDS: The Tragic Cost of Premature Consensus.
Michele Root-Bernstein received her B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1975 and a Ph.D. in History from Princeton University in 1981. She has taught history, writing and creativity studies. She is currently a member of an interdisciplinary research group at Michigan State University interested in cultural creativity. As part of that team she received a Faculty Incentive Grant in 2008 for the research project, Art Class and the High-Tech Entrepreneur: Is There a Connection? Other current research and writing focuses on the invention of imaginary worlds in childhood and adulthood.
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Welcome to the series "Comprehensivist Wednesdays". Transdisciplinarity, Renaissance humanism, homo universalis, and Polymathy are some of the ways of describing this approach which Buckminster Fuller called Comprehensivity and described as “macro-comprehensive and micro-incisive”.
July 15: Why Be a Comprehensivist? — a Panel Discussion.
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July 22: Louis Sullivan’s Ideas: Art of Expression & Form Follows Function with Architect Sherri Tracinski & Shrikant
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Jul 29: Humanity's Great Traditions of Inquiry and Action with CJ Fearnley
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Aug 5: Optimize Everything: Interview with mathematician Spencer Greenberg on Psychology, society, technology & science https://youtu.be/P7sJrtwazeI
Aug 10: Four Human Functions with Shrikant: https://youtu.be/aM8i8pzFjo8
Aug 12: The Necessities and Impossibilities of Comprehensivism with CJ Fearnley https://youtu.be/u6372Te2YA8
Aug 16: Your 50 Year Experiment: Ideas of Buckminster Fuller with D W Jacobs https://youtu.be/DnY3ptAjweo
Aug 19: Polymaths in 21st Century with Dr Angela Cotellessa https://youtu.be/ltbPex0oVAY
Aug 26: The Art-Experience and The Architecture of Our Identities with Karen Montanaro
Sep 2: Neuroscience: Why are our Habits so Powerful? with Sanjay
Sep 9: Four Cardinal Greek Virtues in Visual Art & Mythology by John Roth
Sep 16: The Fundamental Role of Story in Our Lives with CJ Fearnley
Sep 23: Lightening Talks (Talk for 5 minutes about what you are exploring)
Sep 30: The Great Conversation & Syntopicon of Mortimer Adler with Shrikant
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