{"id":9753,"date":"2012-04-26T22:07:54","date_gmt":"2012-04-27T02:07:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/news\/article.php?ArticleID=9753"},"modified":"2012-04-26T22:07:54","modified_gmt":"2012-04-27T02:07:54","slug":"9753_institute-for-the-humanities-hosts-interdisciplinary-intercollegiate-conversation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/institute-for-the-humanities\/2012\/04\/26\/9753_institute-for-the-humanities-hosts-interdisciplinary-intercollegiate-conversation\/","title":{"rendered":"Institute for the Humanities hosts interdisciplinary &#8220;intercollegiate&#8221; conversation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;An audience of 80-something faculty, students, and members of the community filled Brantl Hall on Thursday, April 19 to hear panelists representing each of the five undergraduate colleges on campus debate the issue &quot;The &#8216;Golden Rule&#8217; &#8212; Why Abide By It?&quot;:<span>&nbsp; <\/span>Ronald Sharps, Associate Dean for CART, Zoe Burkholder, Department of Educational Foundations for CEHS, Avram Segall, Department of Political Science &amp; Law for CHSS, <span>&nbsp;<\/span>Scott Kight, Department of Biology &amp; Molecular Biology for CSAM, and Mark Kay, Department of Marketing for SBUS.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--more--> <\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><span><span>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/span>Each panelist had five minutes to speak to how the &quot;golden rule&quot; relates or <em>should<\/em> relate to his or her discipline, as well as how it might <em>not<\/em>.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>After all, as George Bernard Shaw has his character John Tanner from the play <em>Man and Superman <\/em>point out, &quot;the golden rule is that there are no golden rules&quot;!<span>&nbsp; <\/span>After moderator Dorothy Rogers, Chair of the Department of Philosophy and Religion, invited questions from the floor &#8212; students first &#8212; lively discussion between panel and audience members ensued.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><span><span>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/span>As Alan Cottrell, Associate Dean of CHSS, who welcomed audience and panelists on behalf of Dean Morrissey, pointed out, the day\u2019s \u201cintercollegiate\u201d discussion represented a chance to recover the Renaissance ideal of the interconnectedness of all knowledge, such as it was before modern academia fragmented it into separate disciplines, departments, and schools.<span>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><\/span><\/span><span><span>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span><span>&nbsp;<\/span>This was the first of what Victoria Larson, Director of the Institute for the Humanities, hopes to make an annual event in the Institute calendar, offering an unusual opportunity for &quot;cross-campus interdisciplinary conversation&quot; among members of different colleges at MSU, which is inevitably quite rare on a campus of our size.<span>&nbsp; <\/span><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;An audience of 80-something faculty, students, and members of the community filled Brantl Hall on Thursday, April 19 to hear panelists representing each of the five undergraduate colleges on campus debate the issue &quot;The &#8216;Golden Rule&#8217; &#8212; Why Abide By It?&quot;:&nbsp; Ronald Sharps, Associate Dean for CART, Zoe Burkholder, Department of Educational Foundations for CEHS, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":109753,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-221_institute-for-the-humanities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/institute-for-the-humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/institute-for-the-humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/institute-for-the-humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/institute-for-the-humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/institute-for-the-humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/institute-for-the-humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9753\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/institute-for-the-humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/institute-for-the-humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/institute-for-the-humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/institute-for-the-humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}