CULTURE AND CONTEMPORARY ISSUES

SEMINARS

In order to explore issues in depth and to generate new insight and understanding a series of ten week seminars has been developed. These have a number of distinctive characteristics. They are:

- restricted in size--under 20 scholars--in order to facilitate intensive interchange, basically around one table;

- interdisciplinary, in order to draw upon the various contemporary capabilities in the various humanities and sciences;

- inter-cultural, in order to reflect the multiple rich experiences and perspectives of mankind as well as the multiple modes of a problem and the ramifications of proposed responses;

- focused upon a single topic, in order to make it possible to enable a convergence of efforts and insights;

- 10 week duration, in order to allow the issues to mature and the participants to establish a growing degree of mutual comprehension;

- consisting in the intensive discussion of the papers planned in common and written by each of the participants during the seminar; and

- published as a volume in a series in order to make the work available to many.