Do We Have Time to be “Lost in Thought”?
A Conversation for Tired Graduate Students and Faculty
A Dinner Conversation with Zena Hitz
Graduate students and faculty are invited to discuss the impediments to cultivating an intellectual life in the contemporary university. Do we have time for thought and study that isn’t purely for professional utility? How does one cultivate the inner life—both the intellect and the soul—with such demands? Is there a way to energize our professional tasks with the curiosity that led us into our fields in the first place—or can such curiosity only be found in leisure? We’ll think together about such questions, with the assumption that conversations like these are a good place to start.
Free copies of Zena Hitz’s book Lost in Thought: The Hidden Pleasures of the Intellectual Life are available to all Berkeley Institute participants. Please RSVP or email info@binst.org to receive a copy in advance of the dinner. However, no reading is required or expected prior to our conversation.
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Location: 2134 Allston Way
Time: 5:30pm-7pm
Date: November 17th
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Zena Hitz
Zena Hitz is a Tutor at St. John’s College, author of Lost In Thought: The Hidden Pleasures of an Intellectual Life, and founder of the Catherine Project, a non-profit for adult education.
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