Tue September 19, 2017
Margaret Levi at The Interval: The Organized Pursuit of Knowledge
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The Interval at Long Now welcomes
Margaret Levi (Executive Director of CASBS-Stanford)
The Organized Pursuit of Knowledge from the Long Past into the Near Future
Check-in begins 6:30pm; talk will start 7:30pmat The Interval at Long Now
In some ways it is the original long-term pursuit: the quest to understand our world and ourselves. From myths that date back tens of thousands of years to the inquiries of the ancient Greeks to the first universities a millennia ago to massively open online courses today... the tools have evolved, the networks have changed, but the pursuit of knowledge continues. And will into the future.
A world-renowned political scientist and member of the National Academy of Sciences, Margaret Levi is part of our best tradition of academic pursuit. As Executive Director of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford she presides over an organization whose fellows have received 25 Nobel prizes and 51 MacArthur Fellowships (amongst many other honors). So she has perspective on some of the best research and scholarship in the world today.
But as she'll tell us she also looks to historical precedents and new opportunities to question the status quo and keep this very human enterprise vital in a future full of disruption. It is not a destination, but a journey. Where will the pursuit of knowledge take us next?
This event is co-presented by the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS). Now in its seventh decade, CASBS is part of an international consortium of Institutes for Advanced Study in six countries around the world.
"[The Center] is a place for sustained research, reflection and conversation in the midst of one of the most dynmaic regional economies in the world—close enough to benefit from the culture of innovation, but with its own distinct space for free inquiry." — Paul Starr, Princeton sociologist, Pulitzer Prize-winning author, and former CASBS fellow
Long Now members can watch a free livestream of this event
Margaret Levi is the Sara Miller McCune Director of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences and Professor of Political Science at Stanford University. She is Jere L. Bacharach Professor Emerita of International Studies in the Department of Political Science at the University of Washington. She is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a Guggenheim Fellow, and a member of the National Academy of Sciences. She served as president of the American Political Science Association and is a past recipient of the William H. Riker Prize in Political Science. Her 02014 Edge.org conversation is entitled Entwined Fates.
Since 01954 the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences has been a preeminent national and international locus for cutting-edge, interdisciplinary, and transformative thinking and research on some of the most important challenges and issues. Its aim is discovery in the service of advancing social science methods, theories, and topics that address and answer socially significant questions. At the heart of the CASBS enterprise is its residential fellowship program, which attracts the finest minds from psychology, sociology, economics, political science, anthropology, history, philosophy, linguistics, and related disciplines.
Long Now members hear about Interval events first: become a member today.
You can watch videos of past Interval talks.
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Margaret Levi (Executive Director of CASBS-Stanford)
The Organized Pursuit of Knowledge from the Long Past into the Near Future
Check-in begins 6:30pm; talk will start 7:30pmat The Interval at Long Now
In some ways it is the original long-term pursuit: the quest to understand our world and ourselves. From myths that date back tens of thousands of years to the inquiries of the ancient Greeks to the first universities a millennia ago to massively open online courses today... the tools have evolved, the networks have changed, but the pursuit of knowledge continues. And will into the future.
A world-renowned political scientist and member of the National Academy of Sciences, Margaret Levi is part of our best tradition of academic pursuit. As Executive Director of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford she presides over an organization whose fellows have received 25 Nobel prizes and 51 MacArthur Fellowships (amongst many other honors). So she has perspective on some of the best research and scholarship in the world today.
But as she'll tell us she also looks to historical precedents and new opportunities to question the status quo and keep this very human enterprise vital in a future full of disruption. It is not a destination, but a journey. Where will the pursuit of knowledge take us next?
This event is co-presented by the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS). Now in its seventh decade, CASBS is part of an international consortium of Institutes for Advanced Study in six countries around the world.
"[The Center] is a place for sustained research, reflection and conversation in the midst of one of the most dynmaic regional economies in the world—close enough to benefit from the culture of innovation, but with its own distinct space for free inquiry." — Paul Starr, Princeton sociologist, Pulitzer Prize-winning author, and former CASBS fellow
Long Now members can watch a free livestream of this event
Margaret Levi is the Sara Miller McCune Director of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences and Professor of Political Science at Stanford University. She is Jere L. Bacharach Professor Emerita of International Studies in the Department of Political Science at the University of Washington. She is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a Guggenheim Fellow, and a member of the National Academy of Sciences. She served as president of the American Political Science Association and is a past recipient of the William H. Riker Prize in Political Science. Her 02014 Edge.org conversation is entitled Entwined Fates.
Since 01954 the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences has been a preeminent national and international locus for cutting-edge, interdisciplinary, and transformative thinking and research on some of the most important challenges and issues. Its aim is discovery in the service of advancing social science methods, theories, and topics that address and answer socially significant questions. At the heart of the CASBS enterprise is its residential fellowship program, which attracts the finest minds from psychology, sociology, economics, political science, anthropology, history, philosophy, linguistics, and related disciplines.
Long Now members hear about Interval events first: become a member today.
You can watch videos of past Interval talks.
The Interval at Long Now welcomes
Margaret Levi (Executive Director of CASBS-Stanford)
The Organized Pursuit of Knowledge from the Long Past into the Near Future
Check-in begins 6:30pm; talk will start 7:30pmat The Interval at Long Now
In some ways it is the original long-term pursuit: the quest to understand our world and ourselves. From myths that date back tens of thousands of years to the inquiries of the ancient Greeks to the first universities a millennia ago to massively open online courses today... the tools have evolved, the networks have changed, but the pursuit of knowledge continues. And will into the future.
A world-renowned political scientist and member of the National Academy of Sciences, Margaret Levi is part of our best tradition of academic pursuit. As Executive Director of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford she presides over an organization whose fellows have received 25 Nobel prizes and 51 MacArthur Fellowships (amongst many other honors). So she has perspective on some of the best research and scholarship in the world today.
But as she'll tell us she also looks to historical precedents and new opportunities to question the status quo and keep this very human enterprise vital in a future full of disruption. It is not a destination, but a journey. Where will the pursuit of knowledge take us next?
This event is co-presented by the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS). Now in its seventh decade, CASBS is part of an international consortium of Institutes for Advanced Study in six countries around the world.
"[The Center] is a place for sustained research, reflection and conversation in the midst of one of the most dynmaic regional economies in the world—close enough to benefit from the culture of innovation, but with its own distinct space for free inquiry." — Paul Starr, Princeton sociologist, Pulitzer Prize-winning author, and former CASBS fellow
Long Now members can watch a free livestream of this event
Margaret Levi is the Sara Miller McCune Director of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences and Professor of Political Science at Stanford University. She is Jere L. Bacharach Professor Emerita of International Studies in the Department of Political Science at the University of Washington. She is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a Guggenheim Fellow, and a member of the National Academy of Sciences. She served as president of the American Political Science Association and is a past recipient of the William H. Riker Prize in Political Science. Her 02014 Edge.org conversation is entitled Entwined Fates.
Since 01954 the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences has been a preeminent national and international locus for cutting-edge, interdisciplinary, and transformative thinking and research on some of the most important challenges and issues. Its aim is discovery in the service of advancing social science methods, theories, and topics that address and answer socially significant questions. At the heart of the CASBS enterprise is its residential fellowship program, which attracts the finest minds from psychology, sociology, economics, political science, anthropology, history, philosophy, linguistics, and related disciplines.
Long Now members hear about Interval events first: become a member today.
You can watch videos of past Interval talks.
read more
Margaret Levi (Executive Director of CASBS-Stanford)
The Organized Pursuit of Knowledge from the Long Past into the Near Future
Check-in begins 6:30pm; talk will start 7:30pmat The Interval at Long Now
In some ways it is the original long-term pursuit: the quest to understand our world and ourselves. From myths that date back tens of thousands of years to the inquiries of the ancient Greeks to the first universities a millennia ago to massively open online courses today... the tools have evolved, the networks have changed, but the pursuit of knowledge continues. And will into the future.
A world-renowned political scientist and member of the National Academy of Sciences, Margaret Levi is part of our best tradition of academic pursuit. As Executive Director of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford she presides over an organization whose fellows have received 25 Nobel prizes and 51 MacArthur Fellowships (amongst many other honors). So she has perspective on some of the best research and scholarship in the world today.
But as she'll tell us she also looks to historical precedents and new opportunities to question the status quo and keep this very human enterprise vital in a future full of disruption. It is not a destination, but a journey. Where will the pursuit of knowledge take us next?
This event is co-presented by the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS). Now in its seventh decade, CASBS is part of an international consortium of Institutes for Advanced Study in six countries around the world.
"[The Center] is a place for sustained research, reflection and conversation in the midst of one of the most dynmaic regional economies in the world—close enough to benefit from the culture of innovation, but with its own distinct space for free inquiry." — Paul Starr, Princeton sociologist, Pulitzer Prize-winning author, and former CASBS fellow
Long Now members can watch a free livestream of this event
Margaret Levi is the Sara Miller McCune Director of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences and Professor of Political Science at Stanford University. She is Jere L. Bacharach Professor Emerita of International Studies in the Department of Political Science at the University of Washington. She is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a Guggenheim Fellow, and a member of the National Academy of Sciences. She served as president of the American Political Science Association and is a past recipient of the William H. Riker Prize in Political Science. Her 02014 Edge.org conversation is entitled Entwined Fates.
Since 01954 the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences has been a preeminent national and international locus for cutting-edge, interdisciplinary, and transformative thinking and research on some of the most important challenges and issues. Its aim is discovery in the service of advancing social science methods, theories, and topics that address and answer socially significant questions. At the heart of the CASBS enterprise is its residential fellowship program, which attracts the finest minds from psychology, sociology, economics, political science, anthropology, history, philosophy, linguistics, and related disciplines.
Long Now members hear about Interval events first: become a member today.
You can watch videos of past Interval talks.
show less
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