Friday Seminar

Weekly Friday lunch seminar with all faculty and students

Fall seminars include readings and discussion over lunch on foundational questions that span the disciplines. Topics include:

• What is education?
• Technology: the good, the bad, and the ugly
• The politics of physics
• The “elements” of the meaning of life
• What is the difference between evidence and proof?
• What is eudaimonia?
• Art and understanding
• How free should speech be?

Spring seminars include MIT faculty from various disciplines discussing the questions pursued by their own work as well as student-organized and student-led debates on hot-button issues of the day.

All Friday seminars include time to check in with your own advisor and/or other Concourse faculty.