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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.

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• 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 Buddhism
• American Dreams
• American Founding Principles
• American Liberty
• American Memories
• American Musical Theater
• American Political and Activist Theater
• American Taste
• American Time Travels
• American Utopias
• Ancient Genes/Land of Plenty
• Animals in History
• Antarctica
• Are We in the Anthropocene?
• Asimov, Science and Fiction
• Awake, Sleeping or Dreaming? (London)
• "Bad" Science
• Biotech Revolution
• Blacks in Film
• British Grand Tour
• British Past in Film (London)
• Broadway Musical
• Bloomsbury and Its Surroundings (London)
• Bodies and Identities
• 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
• Changing Our Minds
• Chaos Finds a Voice
• Children's Literature Revisited
• China and the West
• Chinese Wisdom
• Class, Race & Labor History
• Classless Society
• Classics on Film
• Climate, Science & History
• Comics, Jesters, Satirists and Hacks: Locating British Humor (London)
• 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
• Darwin, Dickens, Marx (London)
• 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 Life
• Digital Security
• Disney's America
• Drug Discovery
• Dynamics of Chaos
• Earth Elegies
• Earth System Evolution
• Eating and Being
• Educating Citizens for the American Republic
• Endurance: Long Distance Running through the Majors
• Emerging Diseases
• Empire and Knowledge in Chinese History
• 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
• Floods, Hurricanes and Forest Fires
• Food and Society
• Food, Groups and Mates
• Food, Self, and Society
• Forensic Science & Criminal (In)Justice
• Forest, Garden and Meaning of Life
• Freedom Dreams
• Galaxies and the Cosmic Web
• Gender and Family in Medieval and Renaissance Europe (London)
• Gendering God and "God Talk"
• Gender Benders
• Genes and Generation
• Global Health
• Gods and Monsters
• The Good Life
• The Good Life in Greek Literature and Philosophy
• The Good War
• Hamilton and the Liberal Arts
• 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 Dilemmas
• Human/Machine
• Human - Nature
• Human Origins
• Humor & Laughter, Seriously
• The Idea of Freedom
• Ideal Worlds
• If the Elements Could Talk
• Images of Education
• Images of Work
• Imagination, Innovation, and the Impossible
• Imagine That!
• Imagined London (London)
• Imagining the Future
• Incarceration Nation
• In Light of Death
• Industry and Innovation
• In the Lab and on the Screen
• 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
• Japanese Popular Culture Studies
• Jones, Croft and Ancient Aliens
• Law, Religion, and Society
• Jewish - Christian Relations
• The Killing State
• K-Pop
• Latin American Cities
• Latin American Image/Reality
• LatinX Expression
• LatinX Identities
• Leather, Paper, and Lead
• Liberalism
• 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 (On-Campus and London)
• Mapping the Social World
• Mathematics and the Art of M. C. Escher
• Media and British National Identity (London)
• Mediating the Great War (London)
• Medieval Technology
• Mind Design
• The Mind's I
• Minority Rights in Majority Driven Democracy
• Mixed Race on Stage and Film
• Modern Family, Human Bonds
• Molecular Frontier
• Molecules That Matter
• Money Matters
• Mother Russia's Daughters & Sons
• Movers & Shakers
• The Music Between Us
• Music, Race & Class
• Musical Aesthetics, Technology & Copyright
• My So Called Life
• Myth and Modernity
• Myth Conceptions
• Narcocultures
• The Nature of Comedy (London)
• No Place to Hide
• Non-Euclidean Revolution
• Nothing Doing: The Space of Modern Thought
• Novels in the Grip of History
• Nuclear Legacy
• Numb3rs in L0nd0n
• A Pact with the Devil
• 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
• Picturing Time
• Pixelated: The new photography
• Plagues and Their Power on Human Society
• Political Economy and Her Poor
• Political Economy and Poverty
• Politics & Eros
• 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)
• Reading the Cosmos
• 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
• The Seductive Figure
• Seduction of the Strange
• Self and Desire
• Serious Games: Conflict, Voting and Power
• Sex and the Ancient City
• Sexing Politics
• Sextants, Nutmeg, Maps, and Muskets
• Sexualities/Textualities
• Science Sound Bites
• Shakespeare was Jewish?
• Shakespeare's Ecologies
• Social Class in America
• Soldiers, Diplomats and Spies
• Speculative Fiction/New Plays
• Sport, Self, and Society
• Sports Analytics
• Statesmen and Tyrants
• Stress and the Human Brain
• Sustainability and Social Justice
• "Swinging London": 1966 (London)
• Technology & Education
• 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
• Vanity: From Narcissus to Nike
• Visions of the City
• 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
• We Can Work it Out
• 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
• World Through Maps
• World Turned Upside Down
• Writing America: The Contemporary Essay