This post at Crooked Timber is interesting if only for the list of possible
conference speakers it generates
http://crookedtimber.org/2005/05/27/interdisciplinary-query/
The question was:
~We are trying to think of a keynote speaker who represents the idea of
learning and scholarship across institutions. Someone who crosses borders
and who combines disciplinary perspectives. It could be a novelist who
writes about science; or someone like Stanley Fish or William Buckley Jr, or
... Can you think of any compelling polymaths (famous or otherwise) that
could represent the notion of cross-domain writing/thinking?~
What do you think of the people they suggest? Can you improve upon on the
list?
http://crookedtimber.org/2005/05/27/interdisciplinary-query/
Sue
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