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​Interdisciplinary Faculty Seminar (IFS)

The Providence College Interdisciplinary Faculty Seminar (IFS) brings together up to eight faculty members from across the disciplines on campus in a collaborative teaching and learning experience each year. Participants devote an entire semester to a multidisciplinary and multidimensional study of a particular theme.

2014 ​
Interdisciplinary Faculty Seminar
Call for Applications:

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The Center for Teaching Excellence and the Office of Academic Affairs invite applications to the eighth annual Providence College Interdisciplinary Faculty Seminar for the Spring of 2014.  

Any member of the Ordinary Faculty is eligible to apply.

 

Applications are due on May 15, 2013.

 


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2013 IFS:  JUSTICELadyJustice.jpg

  • What is justice?
  • What is the role of social justice in a society?
  • Is it just to earn a profit?
  • How is justice embedded into comtemporary issues (e.g., poverty, health care, the environment, mental illness, human subject research)?
  • Is justice fair? 

JUSTICE Seminar Participants

 

Mary O'Keeffe (Seminar Coordinator), Psychology
Tuba Agartan, Health Policy and Management
Fred Drogula, History
Raymond Hain, Philosophy
Julia Jordan-Zachery, Political Science, Black Studies
Nicholas Longo, Public and Community Service Studies
Darra Mulderry, History
Jeffrey Pugh, Political Science 

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2012 IFS: Blood 
  

Joan Branham (Seminar Coordinator), Art and Art  History 
Kathleen Cornely, Chemistry and Biochemistry
Chard deNiord, English
Ian Christopher Levy, Theology
Patrick Macfarlane, Philosophy
Jane Lunin Perel, English and Women’s Studies
Charles Toth, Biology

 
Seven Providence College faculty members dedicated their scholarly and teaching efforts last year to the study of “Blood.”
 
However, they did not just study blood as it’s defined—the red liquid that circulates through the arteries and veins of vertebrate animals. They studied blood to understand how it’s portrayed in Socratic Greek thought and the sacrificial architecture of ancient Judaism; its central role in the Eucharistic traditions of medieval Christianity; how it has been employed in images, metaphors, and symbols by American poets; as it pertains to the status of vaccines for malaria; and how stem cell-derived blood cells for regenerative medicine offer scientific promise. more​



IFS Themes and Participants 2007-11


2011: Relationships

Keith Morton, (Seminar Leader) Public & Community Service Studies
Joseph Cammarano, Political Science
Angela Licia Carlson, Philosophy
Sandra Keating, Theology
Lynne Lawson, Engineering/Physics/Systems
Paul Maloney, Finance
Michael Spiegler, Psychology
Benjamin Yost, Philosophy
 

2010: Beauty

Bruce Graver, (Seminar Leader) English
Elisabeth Arevalo, Biology
Helen Caldwell, Marketing
Peter Costello, Philosophy
Matthew Cuddeback, Philosophy
Sang Woo Kang, Music
Edgar Mejia, Foreign Language Studies
Eric Sung, Art and Art History
 

2009: Are We Free?

Deborah Johnson, (Seminar Leader) Art and Art History
Christopher Arroyo, Philosophy
Maia Bailey, Biology
Lydia Barovero, Foreign Language Studies
Dana Dillon, Theology
Anthony Esolen, English
Robert Hackey, Health Policy & Management
William Hudson, Political Science
 

2008: Color

Charlotte O'Kelly, (Seminar Leader) Sociology
James Baker, Art and Art History
Deidre Bird, Marketing
Laura Landen, Philosophy
Stephen Mecca, Engineering/Physics/Systems
Carmen Rolón, Secondary Education
Ray Sickinger, History/Public and Community Service
 

2007: Being Human

Joseph Torchia, O.P., (Seminar Leader) Philosophy
Nicanor Austriaco, O.P., Biology
Louis A. Beaubien, Management
Deborah P. Goessling, Elementary/Special Education
Paul L. Gondreau, Theology
Susan K. McCarthy, Political Science
Thomas F. Strasser, Art and Art History
Tuire M. Valkeakari, English 
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