Location
Lowey International Center Dining Hall
Start Date
10-8-2010 8:30 AM
End Date
10-8-2010 10:00 AM
Description
Mary Catherine Bateson is a writer and cultural anthropologist who has taught at Harvard, Northeastern University, Amherst College, Spelman College and abroad in the Philippines as well as in Iran. In 2004 she retired from her position as Clarence J. Robinson Professor in Anthropology and English at George Mason University, and is now Professor Emerita. Since the Fall of 2006 she has been a Visiting Scholar at the Center on Aging & Work/Workplace Flexibility at Boston College and is a special consultant to the Lifelong Access Libraries Initiative of the Libraries for the Future, with an emphasis on conceptualization, testing and implementation of her Active Wisdom model for community dialogues as a signature program of the Initiative. She serves on multiple advisory boards including that of the National Center on Atmospheric Research and the National Science Foundation, dealing with climate change. Her new book Composing a Further Life is due out on September 15, 2010.
Crossing Cultures: From Conversation to Participation
Lowey International Center Dining Hall
Mary Catherine Bateson is a writer and cultural anthropologist who has taught at Harvard, Northeastern University, Amherst College, Spelman College and abroad in the Philippines as well as in Iran. In 2004 she retired from her position as Clarence J. Robinson Professor in Anthropology and English at George Mason University, and is now Professor Emerita. Since the Fall of 2006 she has been a Visiting Scholar at the Center on Aging & Work/Workplace Flexibility at Boston College and is a special consultant to the Lifelong Access Libraries Initiative of the Libraries for the Future, with an emphasis on conceptualization, testing and implementation of her Active Wisdom model for community dialogues as a signature program of the Initiative. She serves on multiple advisory boards including that of the National Center on Atmospheric Research and the National Science Foundation, dealing with climate change. Her new book Composing a Further Life is due out on September 15, 2010.
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