Conversations @ FAS

Conversations@FAS

The Future of the Present:
Faculty Imagine the FAS at 400

How will the digital revolution transform the FAS in 25 years? How could the role of individual scholars change as access to and quantities of data exponentially increase? What function should the Harvard campus serve when virtual classrooms can reach across the world? How should universities allocate their resources, physically and financially, as new technologies demand and enable fresh collaborations? Join us for two panel discussions that imagine how current trends may transform the way Harvard faculty teach and carry out their research, and consider what aspects of longstanding practice will remain vital to the pursuit of Harvard's scholarly mission.

Panel 1
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Thursday February 16, 2012 | 4:00 – 5:30 PM | Location: Tsai Auditorim, CGIS
Maya Jasanoff Moderated by:
Maya Jasanoff
Professor of History
David Charbonneau David Charbonneau
Professor of Astronomy
Hopi Hoekstra Hopi Hoekstra
Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology
Ann Pearson Ann Pearson
Professor of Biogeochemistry
Martin Puchner Martin Puchner
Byron and Anita Wien Professor of Drama and of English and Comparative Literature
Panel 2
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Wednesday March 7, 2012 | 4:00 – 5:30 PM | Location: Tsai Auditorim, CGIS
Maya Jasanoff Moderated by:
Maya Jasanoff
Professor of History
Claudine Gay Claudine Gay
Professor of Government and African and African American Studies
Matthew Nock Matthew Nock
Professor of Psychology
Parimal Patil Parimal Patil
Professor of Religion and Indian Philosophy
Robert Wood Robert Wood
Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering

View Past Conversations

Instilling a Global Perspective
Mar 25, 2011

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Active Learning, Feb 11, 2011
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Active Learning Panelists

Diane Paulus

Christopher Winship

David Malan