Inter-college Seminar in Humanities and Sciences (ISHS)
A forum for discussion and interaction among faculty, staff, and advanced graduate students at UMass Boston. Participants from different disciplines and colleges come together every other week to focus on topics of common interest, exchange ideas, renew their intellectual energy, and advance their work in a spirit of adventure and collaboration.
- Spring 2019 -- Teaching across divides
- Spring 2017 -- Making and Breaking: Research and Engagement in the Neo-Liberal Economy
- Spring 2016 -- Puzzling and Probing: Inquiry into Conceptual Foundations
- Spring 2015 -- Making and Breaking: Research and Engagement in the Neo-Liberal Economy (postponed)
- Fall 2014 -- Writing and Reading Beyond Our Disciplines
- Fall 2013, Spring 2014 -- Illness, place and collective responses
- Spring 2013 -- Science in context, context in science
- Fall 2012 -- Community building and research collaboration in virtual spaces
- Spring 2012 -- Infrastructure and agents
- Fall 2010 and Spring 2011 -- Who gets to use race--or stop using it--and at what cost?
- Spring 2010 -- Engaging Colleagues in Caring Collaborations
- Fall 2009 -- Science and society at UMass Boston
- Spring 2009 -- Science and society at UMass Boston
- Spring 2008 -- Teaching across divides
- Fall 2007 -- Who makes sense of developments in science and technology?
- Spring 2007 -- Placing science and technology in social context
- Fall 2006 -- Perspectives on/from the New Sciences of Complexity
- Spring 2006 -- Sustainability, science, and social change
- Spring 2005 -- Disease and difference
- Spring 2004 -- Social uses of 'genetic' knowledge