Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University

Workshops

Breakthroughs: Creativity across the Disciplines

May 2013

Breakthroughs: Creativity across the Disciplines will explore revolutionary leaps in understanding in various intellectual contexts. Sudden moments of startling insight, or realizations that lead to paradigm shifts, can strike anywhere and anytime, and they may be the product of solitary contemplation or intensely collaborative and social forces. Participants will consider the things that connect (and distinguish) breakthrough moments in sciences, the arts, and in other intellectual vocations.

Anna Henchman (Boston University)
Ray Jayawardhana (University of Toronto), Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
John Plotz (Brandeis University), Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
Leah Price (Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences) , Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study