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Addressing the importance of inter-disciplinary communications in a relentlessly complexifying world, the Bridging Chasms initiative seeks to identify tools and strategies that facilitate the crossing of disciplinary boundaries. It seeks to enable similarly accomplished individuals from different disciplines to better grasp one another’s essential issues and intentions. A series of weekend sessions, involving curated encounters, will serve to establish better frameworks for communication and informed collaboration not within but across disciplines.
—The Bridging Chasms Steering Committee
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Articles of Interest
Transdisciplinary and Trans-sector Knowledge Ecosystems Leverage
Interdependencies, Promote Agency and Advance Knowledge Democracies
The European Conference on Education 2019
Official Conference Proceedings
Keynote Paper
Thanassis Rikakis, Virginia Tech, United States
Aisling Kelliher, Virginia Tech, United States
Todd Nicewonger, Virginia Tech, United States
Randy Swearer, Autodesk Corporation, United States
Matthew Holt, Virginia Tech, United States
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The New York Times, August 4, 2019
TRICK MIRROR
Reflections on Self-Delusion
by Jia Tolentino
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The New York Times, February 19, 2019
A Nation of Weavers
The social renaissance is happening from the ground up.
by David Brooks
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The San Diego Union-Tribune, September 4, 2018
'Bridging Chasms' aims to boost communication, understanding in our fractured times
By John Wilkens
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Opinion: The New York Times, September 1, 2018
How to Make a Big Decision
Have no fear. An emerging science can now help you choose.
By Steven Johnson
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Science Magazine, 13 July 2018
Learning from different disciplines
Conversations spark connections as scientists search for inspiration in other fields (.pdf)
Theater: The New York Times, September 10, 2018
They Know Russian. I Know Plays.
Would That Translate?
By Richard Nelson
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University of Chicago Press Journals
Journal of Political Economy, Oct. 1989, Volume 97, Issue 5, pp. 1232-1254
The Curse of Knowledge in Economic Settings:
An Experimental Analysis
By Colin Camerer, George Loewenstein, and Martin Weber
Abstract
In economic analyses of asymmetric information, better-informed agents are assumed capable of reproducing the judgments of less-informed agents. We discuss asystematic violation of this assumption that we call the "curse of knowledge." Better-informed agents are unable to ignore private information even when it is in their interest to do so; more information is not always better. Comparing judgments made in individual-level and market experiments, we find that market forces reduce the curse by approximately 50 percent but do not eliminate it. Implications for bargaining, strategic behavior by firms, principal-agent problems, and choice under uncertainty are discussed.
Sunday Review: The New York Times, August 25, 2018
Those Who Can Do, Can’t Teach
Advice for college students: The best experts sometimes make the worst educators.
By Adam Grant
"If you want to be great at something, learn from the best. What could be better than studying physics under Albert Einstein?"
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Bridging Chasms Documents and Interviews
A Preliminary Report
on Bridging Chasms Event 1
Prepared by Kari Zacharias in consultation
with Roger Reynolds
September 21-23, 2018
Conrad Prebys Music Center, Department of Music
University of California San Diego
A Preliminary Report
on Bridging Chasms Event 2
Prepared by Kari Zacharias
April 5-7, 2019
National Museum of American History
Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C
A Preliminary Report
on Bridging Chasms Event 3
Report Prepared by Mina Girgis with inclusions from Edmund Campion and Roger Reynolds
May 13, 2023
Center for New Music and Audio Technologies
University of California, Berkeley CA
The Sloan Interview
with Roger Reynolds
MUS 291/501
November 16, 2018
Interview project report by Peter Sloan
Thoughts on an Effort
to Enable Sharing
Following EVENT 1
September 2018
By Roger Reynolds
Bridging Chasms Planning Session:
9-10 November 2017
Planning Session Report (.pdf)
9-10
November 2017
Trial ENCOUNTER
The following text is an extract from a “trial ENCOUNTER” between two members of the Bridging Chasms Steering Committee: Professors Oumelbanine Zhiri (UC San Diego) and Stephen McAdams (McGill University).
They entered into a spontaneous exchange between their focal disciplinary interests of French and Arabic Literature, and Comparative studies in European and Arab cultures (Zhiri) and Cognition & Cognitive Neuroscience in regard to complex auditory messages (McAdams). Their “theme” was the single word ”pattern”, to which they brought their very distinctive disciplinary perspectives.
Stephen McAdams:
As a psychologist, I think the one thing I know is that the brain is constantly
trying to find pattern. Pattern is something we're always seeking. Pattern
gives us the objects and gives us events and gives us things that we're
looking for. And, we learn to recognize patterns, recognize meanings. If
something happens, and something else happens, and you know that that
thing has been experienced before, there's the pattern of that thing that then
connects.
Patterns can be very, in my mind, very specific. They can be very abstract. I
can recognize a pattern of a certain style of music, and I know that
something else is not the same music, but it has similarities to it that make
me think that these things are something of the same kind. So, patterns allow
us to compare things. I think that's one of the things we're constantly doing.
Music is building patterns, presenting them so that people receive them and
understand them and store them in their memories. And then, we play
around with the way those patterns are dealt with.
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