Polymaths of the 21st Century with Dr Angela Cotellessa @ Comprehensivist Weds
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Polymaths are individuals with expertise in multiple domains. To explore
current day polymaths, we will interview Dr. Angela Cotellessa. The
interview will be conducted in two segments each followed by Q&A and a
group breakout.
Dr. Cotellessa's YouTube channel has further material about the subject:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCD_ew0Ba7bj8JOcggCjzLUQ/
Segment 1: The Development of Polymaths
How does a person become a polymath? Are there sufficient and/or necessary conditions for becoming a polymath?
Breakout questions for participants: What aspects in the development of a polymath do you see as easiest in your practice? What aspects would be most challenging for you? How might you address these difficulties? What did you think of Angela's insights?
Segment 2: The Experience of Polymaths
What are the benefits and challenges in being a polymath?
Breakout questions for participants: What advantages of being a polymath are most alluring for you? What challenges of being a polymath are most difficult for you? What did you think of Angela's insights?
After the second breakout, we will come back together in the large group and every attendee will have the opportunity of giving their reflections and takeaways for 2-3 minutes. Then we will wrap up.
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.
Watch here: https://youtu.be/qjwTy6pGkNA
July 22: Louis Sullivan’s Ideas: Art of Expression & Form Follows Function with Architect Sherri Tracinski & Shrikant
Watch it here: https://youtu.be/oM8vbQQ-4MU
Jul 29: Humanity's Great Traditions of Inquiry and Action with CJ Fearnley
Watch it here: https://youtu.be/8RuHE_3FMUs
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 Angela
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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