Correction: September 29, 2000, Friday An article on Sept. 17 about the Oakland Table, a program of intellectual seminars organized by Mayor Jerry Brown of Oakland, Calif., referred imprecisely to some criticisms of the series.
An article on Sept. 17 about the Oakland Table, a program of intellectual seminars organized by Mayor Jerry Brown of Oakland, Calif., referred imprecisely to some criticisms of the series.
Of course, in Mr. Bush's White House, meetings do not evolve into free-flowing intellectual seminars, decisions are made crisply, and the world is viewed through an us-against-them prism.
No longer marginalized, the bare-chested rocket boy with the spiky hair, known in Japanese as Tetsuwan Atomu, is being hailed with fireworks, costume parades, intellectual seminars, an exhibit in Parliament and a $1 million diamond-and ruby-encrusted likeness in a downtown department store display.
The essay appeared in one of India's much respected intellectual forums, Seminar magazine.
In the late 1990s, there was a lot of intellectual ferment in seminars at the Graduate School for Social Research at the Polish Academy of Sciences -- the professors Janion, Fuszara, Titkow, and Snitow were the key influences.
I suspect, moreover, that Douthat has overestimated the influence of intellectual trends like the Jesus Seminar.
The program has its origins in the Democracy Seminar, a clandestine intellectual exchange between Budapest, Warsaw and New York in the 1980's, organized by Adam Michnik and me.
Tania L. Gergel, a philosopher whose work stretches from Ancient Greek ideas about ethics to dilemmas in contemporary medicine, was drawn to the Maudsley seminar out of intellectual curiosity.
The newbies attend day and night seminars conducted by intellectual heavy weights from Harvard's own faculty.
