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The Scribner Seminars are the centerpiece of the First-Year Experience, taught by faculty from virtually every discipline, who design seminars to highlight their own intellectual curiosities and passions. Scribner Seminars will help you begin to explore ideas, challenge assumptions, and gain first-hand experience of faculty expectations of academic rigor and excellence.
Below is a list of Scribner Seminars that have been offered since 2005.
- 20th Century Apparel in the United States
- Across the Bridge: Turkey
- Adirondacks: Forever Wild
- Africa Through Its Changing Cinema
- African Arts
- Africa in Stereotypes
- Afterlives
- Almodóvar Dialogues
- American Dreams
- American Founding Principles
- American Liberty
- American Memories
- American Musical Theater
- American Political and Activist Theater
- American Taste
- Ancient Genes/Land of Plenty
- Animals in History
- Asimov, Science and Fiction
- Biotech Revolution
- Blacks in Film
- British Grand Tour
- British Past in Film (London)
- Broadway Musical
- Bloomsbury and Its Surroundings (London)
- Bullock Carts to BMWs
- Buzz: The Art and Design of Caffeine
- Can Literature Save the Environment?
- Can Machines Think?
- Care of the Heart
- Challenges to Global Health
- Children's Literature Revisited
- China and the West
- Chinese Wisdom
- Class, Race & Labor History
- Classics on Film
- Coming of Age
- Coming of Age in London (London)
- Contemporary British Politics from an Outsider's Perspective (London)
- Creative Minds
- Cycles of Marriage and Divorce
- Dangerous Earth
- The Debate About Women in the Middle Ages
- Democracy Inaction
- Den of Antiquities
- Den of Antiquities (London)
- Designing a Mind
- Detective Fictions, Dark Designs (London)
- Diabesity
- Digital Acting
- Digital Security
- Drug Discovery
- Dynamics of Chaos
- Earth System Evolution
- Educating Citizens for the American Republic
- Endurance: Long Distance Running through the Majors
- Emerging Diseases
- Empire Strikes Back: Imperial Ambitions of Greece, Rome, Britian and the US (London)
- Endurance: Running
- Environmental Problems. Economic Solutions?
- Eros and Belonging
- Ethics of Tobacco & Alcohol
- European Integration
- Extraordinary Bodies
- Eyes Wide Open
- Faces of Capitalism
- The Federal Reserve
- Family Connections
- Famine, Warfare, and Plague in 14th-Century England (London)
- Film, Truth & Value
- Food and Society
- Food, Groups and Mates
- Food, Self, and Society
- Forensic Science & Criminal (In)Justice
- Gender and Family in Medieval and Renaissance Europe (London)
- Gendering God and "God Talk"
- Gender Benders
- Genes and Generation
- Global Health
- The Good Life
- The Good Life in Greek Literature and Philosophy
- The Good War
- Hard Times in the Big Easy
- Heretics & Visionaries
- Hollywood's Portrayal of Science
- The Holocaust
- How Computers See
- How Do Women Look?
- Hudson River in American Life
- The Hudson: Science, Society, and Art
- The Human Body—From Science to Society
- Human Colonization of Space
- Human Identity
- Human - Nature
- Human Origins
- Humor & Laughter, Seriously
- The Idea of Freedom
- Ideal Worlds
- Images of Education
- Images of Work
- Imagination, Innovation, and the Impossible
- Imagine That!
- Industry and Innovation
- In the News: Science Sound Bites
- Intercultural/Global Understanding and You: Why Does Skidmore Care?
- Interpreting Ceramics
- Ireland: Myth, Reality, Conflict, Identity
- Italian Cinema
- Italian Food & Fiction
- Italy, Fascism, and Jews
- Japanese Animation
- Law, Religion, and Society
- Jewish - Christian Relations
- The Killing State
- Latin American Cities
- Latin American Image/Reality
- Leather, Paper, and Lead
- Life in the North Woods
- Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Capitalism
- Lives of the Hudson
- Living in a Green World
- Location and GIS
- Love and Lust
- Made in God's Image
- Making of the Hudson
- Making Theater in a Digital Age
- Making Things Right
- Mathematics and the Art of M. C. Escher
- Media and British National Identity (London)
- Medieval Technology
- Mind Design
- The Mind's I
- Minority Rights in Majority Driven Democracy
- Modern Family, Human Bonds
- Molecular Frontier
- Mother Russia's Daughters & Sons
- Movers & Shakers
- The Music Between Us
- Music, Race & Class
- Musical Aesthetics, Technology & Copyright
- My So Called Life
- Myth Conceptions
- Narcocultures
- The Nature of Comedy (London)
- Non-Euclidean Revolution
- Nothing Doing: The Space of Modern Thought
- Nuclear Legacy
- Paint, Potential, and Power: The London Experience for American Artists (London)
- The Painters' Convention: Landscape, Still Life, Figure
- Perception and Reality
- Philosophic Basis of the American Founding
- Pixelated: The new photography
- Plagues and Their Power on Human Society
- Political Economy and Her Poor
- Popular Kabbalah and Contemporary Culture
- Projecting History: Post-Wall German Cinema
- Psyching Out the Stock Market
- Psychological Theories of Social Justice
- Purple Nation
- Queenship and Change: Wisdom From China
- Race in the Obama Era
- Radical Children's Writers
- Reading Minds
- Reading British Identity in London's Museums (London)
- Real Democracy
- Remaking the Hudson
- Representations of the Holocaust
- Resisting Hitler
- Rich, Free, and Miserable
- Ring of the Nibelungs
- River Goddesses of India
- Robot Design
- Sailing the Seas with Captain Cook
- Saratoga: People & Place, Past & Present
- The Search for Pattern and Symmetry
- Seduction of the Strange
- Self and Desire
- Serious Games: Conflict, Voting and Power
- Sex and the Ancient City
- Sextants, Nutmeg, Maps, and Muskets
- Sexualities/Textualities
- Science Sound Bites
- Shakespeare was Jewish?
- Social Class in America
- Sport, Self, and Society
- Statesmen and Tyrants
- Liquid History: The Thames River (London)
- The Liberally Educated Leader
- There's No Place Like Home
- Thinking for Yourself
- Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Painting
- Travel Writing and Gender
- Truth and Value in Cinema
- An Unsettled Place: 400 Years of Remaking the Hudson
- Under the Influence
- Unexpected Math
- Urban Latin America: Aztec Spaces to Modern Places
- Virtual Republic
- Waging War, Making Peace
- Wagner's Ring of the Nibelungs
- War and Peace and Eugene Onegin
- Warfare Today
- Water: Society, Science and the Arts
- Ways of Seeing
- Welfare & Politics
- What's the Big Idea?
- What is Noir?
- What to Eat?
- Where Are We? (London & Campus)
- Who Governs Saratoga Springs?
- Why We Eat What We Eat
- Without Bound
- Word and Image
- World in A Town
- Writing in America: The Contemporary Essay