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SUMMARY:The Success of Failure: Perspectives from the Arts\, Sciences\, Humanities\, Education\, and Law
DESCRIPTION:Cowin Auditorium\, 147 Horace Mann Hall\, Teachers College\nEntrance on Broadway\, between 120th and 121st Streets \n****Free and open to the public\, registration required. –  REGISTER HERE.**** \nA real failure does not need an excuse. It is an end in itself. – Gertrude Stein\nWe are all familiar with the many bromides teaching us the value of failure on the path to success. It builds character\, shows perseverance and dedication\, demonstrates willingness to take a risk\, and so forth. All perhaps true\, but all constrained by a view of failure as a means to an end\, an unfortunately necessary obstacle to be overcome. One may learn from failures\, but what is mostly meant is that one learns not to do that particular thing again. Failing is fine\, especially on someone else’s dime\, if you gain some experience to avoid future failures. \nWe take here an alternative view of failure. What about failure as a good? What about the intrinsic value of failure? How about failure that contains valuable data\, not just an error message? Failure that is a critical part of the process\, not a means to an end? Failure that stands shoulder to shoulder with success? Can there be such a thing as positive failure? Can failure make progress? Can we use failure to improve creativity\, education\, or behavior? How do we research failure? How do we discover important failures? How do we recognize important failures? This symposium will investigate these and other perspectives on failure across disciplines\, searching for commonalities and differences. \nThis symposium follows on the conference\, Evidence: An Interdisciplinary Conversation about Knowing and Certainty\, held at Columbia University April 21-22\, 2017. Similar in format\, Failure will bring together scholars and practitioners in the arts\, sciences (natural and social)\, humanities\, economics\, business\, law\, and education to examine the value of failure in making progress in each of these areas.  Speakers and participants will include academic and industry leaders from around the world and within the Columbia University community. Historical\, current\, and future perspectives will be discussed through a combination of short presentations\, discussions\, and panels divided by disciplinary topic. In order to foster cross-disciplinary interactions and generate new ideas\, speakers will participate as respondents to the presentations in other sessions. \n\nDownload (PDF\, 76KB) \nConfirmed Speakers: \n\nSara Jane Bailes (Associate Professor in Theatre and Performance Studies; University of Sussex)\nJohn Black (Cleveland E. Dodge Professor of Telecommunications & Education; Teachers College\, Columbia University)\nCatherine Chase (Assistant Professor of Cognitive Studies; Teachers College\, Columbia University)\nHarry Collins (Distinguished Research Professor of Social Sciences; Cardiff University)\nJohn Collins (Artistic Director; Elevator Repair Service)\nCarl Hart (Dirk Ziff Professor of Psychology in Psychiatry; Columbia University)\nJennifer Hecht (Historian and Author)\nMatthew Jones (James R. Barker Professor of Contemporary Civilization\, Columbia University)\nDavid Kaiser (Germeshausen Professor of the History of Science and Professor of Physics; Massachusetts Institute of Technology)\nXiaodong Lin (Professor of Cognitive Studies; Teachers College\, Columbia University)\nMario Livio (Professor of Astrophysics; University of Nevada\, Las Vegas)\nDavid Madigan (Executive Vice President for Arts and Sciences\, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences\, and Professor of Statistics; Columbia University)\nAlondra Nelson (Professor of Sociology; Columbia University)\nPeter Norvig (Director of Research; Google)\nKatharina Pistor (Michael I. Sovern Professor of Law\, Columbia University Law School)\nScott Sandage (Associate Professor of History; Carnegie Mellon University)\nLuz Santana (Co-Director; Right Question Institute)\nJutta Schickore (Professor of History of Science; Indiana University Bloomington)\nMichael Shadlen (Professor of Neuroscience; Columbia University Medical Center)\nRobert Siegler (Teresa Heinz Professor of Cognitive Psychology; Carnegie Mellon University)\nLisa Son (Associate Professor of Psychology; Barnard College\, Columbia University)\nJohn Spiro (Deputy Scientific Director; Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative)\nChris Washburne (Associate Professor of Music; Columbia University)\nJonathan Weiner (Maxwell M. Geffen Professor of Medical and Scientific Journalism; Columbia University Journalism School)\nJosh Wolfe (Co-Founder and Managing Partner; Lux Capital)\nTim Wu (Isidor and Seville Sulzbacher Professor of Law; Columbia University Law School)\n\n  \nOrganizers: \n\nStuart Firestein (Professor of Biological Sciences; Columbia University)\nEileen Gillooly (Executive Director of the Heyman Center for the Humanities and Society of Fellows\, Adjunct Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature\, and the Institute for Research on Women and Gender; Columbia University)\nJeremy Kessler (Associate Professor of Law; Columbia University Law School)\nXiaodong Lin (Professor of Cognitive Studies; Teachers College\, Columbia University)\nPamela Smith (Seth Low Professor of History and Director of the Center for Science and Society; Columbia University)\n\n  \nCo-Sponsors: \n\nThe Center for Science and Society\, Columbia University\nHeyman Center for the Humanities\, Columbia University\nThe Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy (ISERP)\, Columbia University\nTeachers College\, Columbia University\n\nThis conference is supported\, in part\, by The Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy (ISERP) at Columbia University and the John Templeton Foundation.
URL:https://blogs.cuit.columbia.edu/scisoc/cssevent/success-of-failure/
LOCATION:Cowin Auditorium\, Teachers College\, 3040 Broadway\, New York\, NY\, 10027\, United States
CATEGORIES:Center for Science and Society Events,Columbia University Events,NYC Metro area events
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