Trinity Workshops

2012- 2013 Workshops

Trinity Workshop no. 1.

October 18th: What is Interdisciplinarity?

Speakers: Alison Draper (Trinity), Tom Harrington (Trinity), Ethan Kleinberg (Wesleyan)
Moderator: Dan Lloyd (Trinity)
Readings:
1) Ethan Kleinberg, “Interdisciplinary Studies at the Crossroads,” Liberal Education 94: 1 (Winter 2008): 6-11.
2) Stanley Fish, “Being Interdisciplinary is so Very Hard to Do,” Profession (1989): 15-22.

Trinity Workshop no. 2.

November 27th: Place and Displacement

Speakers: Zayde Antrim (Trinity), Garth Myers (Trinity), Kathyrn Libal (UConn)
Moderator: Sean Cocco (Trinity)
Reading:
1) Jenny Robinson, "City Futures: New Territories for Development Studies?", in Development and Displacement, ed.
J. Robinson (Oxford: Oxford UP, 2002), 141-204.

Trinity Workshop no. 3.

February 26th: The Art and Politics of Gardens

Speakers: Sarah Bilston (Trinity), Jane Nadel-Klein (Trinity), Raffaella Fabiani Giannetto (UPenn)
Moderator: Kristin Triff (Trinity)
Reading:

1) Gertrude Jekyll, "The Idea of a Garden,” Edinburgh Review, July 1896. Repr. A Gardener’s Testament: A

Selection of Articles and Notes. London: Country Life, 1937, 10-38.

2) Robert Pogue Harrison, "The Human Gardener," in Gardens: an Essay on the Human Condition(Chicago: Chicago UP, 2008), 25-38.

Trinity Workshop no. 4.

April 2nd: Humans and Animals

Speakers: Shafqat Hussain (Trinity), Kathleen Kete (Trinity), Alan Mikhail (Yale)
Moderator: Maurice Wade (Trinity)
Reading:

1) Robert Garner, “Political Ideologies and the Moral Status of Animals,” Journal of Political Ideologies8:2 (2003): 233-46.

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