Word: seminar
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Each month the center hosts a seminar, which first met in February and includes professors from the Kennedy School, the Departments of Sociology, Economics and Psychiatry, as well as from the Law School, the MedicalSchool, the Graduate School of Education and theSchool of Public Health...
Jargowsky said that the purpose behind theinterdisciplinary seminar was to connect povertyexperts in different areas who were not aware ofone another's research...
Most -- perhaps all -- of the addresses at the seminar were remarkable. They evoked a rich diversity of emotions from those who heard them, laughter, joy, sorrow, admiration. But it was Niebuhr who evoked the most tremendous response at one moment of his address, and it happened in this manner. This particular incident is not recorded in Christian Idea of Education (Yale University Press, 1957), which was published as a record of the seminar, for the simple reason that it was spontaneous and unrehearsed, and did not form part of Niebuhr's script...
Professor of Education and Social Structure Nathan Glazer, a prominent expert on education who is leading a Social Studies junior tutorial this semester on race and ethnicity in the U.S., presented a paper to an Afro-American seminar on how to teach sensitive subjects. "Basically," he says, "it was a paper on how to tell the bad news and to try to develop some guidelines...
...newly named fellows, selected from a pool of more than 70 applicants, will research issues related to ethics in their respective fields and take part in a seminar on ethical issues common to all professions, according to a written University statement...