Since the April 26th update, Comprehensivist Wednesdays has organized six events. This update documents two forthcoming events and collects resources including event descriptions, video, and essays from the ten most recent past events.
Three Forthcoming Events
In order to RSVP to attend these events, you must join either the 52 Living Ideas meetup or the Greater Philadelphia Thinking Society meetup. Joining either group will require joining Meetup.com which is a free on-line service with strong privacy controls. Once you are a member, you can RSVP to join the event from the link to its Event Page.
- Wed 30 Jun 2021 9PM (New York time): Bring Your Most Interesting Topics & Questions to Discuss (Event at Thinking Society)
- Wed 7 Jul 2021 9PM (New York time): TBD
- Sun 11 Jul 2021 5PM (New York time): The Quest to Purge Vices in the center of Dante’s Comedìa: Purgatorio 12-22 (Event at Thinking Society)
- Wed 14 Jul 2021 9PM (New York time): Comprehensivism in the Islamic Golden Age (Event at Thinking Society)
The 11 Most Recent Past Events including video links and essays
- 28 April 2021: Your Polymath/Comprehensivist Experience: Heroes & Insights (Event at 52 Living Ideas) (Event at Thinking Society)
- Video (1h 52m): Your Polymath/Comprehensivist Experience, Insights & Heroes
- 2 May 2021: Towards Lucifer’s Icy Lair – Fraud and Treachery in Inferno XXIII-XXXIV (Event at 52 Living Ideas) (Event at Thinking Society)
- 5 May 2021: Is Taoism Comprehensivist? What does Eastern Thought offer Polymaths? (Event at 52 Living Ideas) (Other event at 52 Living Ideas) (Event at Thinking Society)
- 12 May 2021: How To Explore The Future (and Why) with CJ Fearnley (Event at 52 Living Ideas) (Event at Thinking Society)
- 19 May 2021: Consciousness and Approximations: What makes “Us”? (Event at 52 Living Ideas) (Event at Thinking Society)
- Video (2h 6m): Consciousness and Approximations: What makes “Us”?
- 26 May 2021: “Language as Interpretation” as a Tool for Comprehensivism (Event at 52 Living Ideas) (Event at Thinking Society)
- Video (1h 58m): “Language as Interpretation” a Conversation
- 2 Jun 2021: Speaking & Listening; Reading & Writing (Event at 52 Living Ideas) (Event at Thinking Society)
- Video (2h 3m): Speaking & Listening; Reading & Writing
- 6 Jun 2021: Dante’s Ascent of Mount Purgatory: Cleansing From Vice. Purgatorio I-XI (Event at 52 Living Ideas) (Event at Thinking Society)
- 9 Jun 2021: “Redressing The Crises of Ignorance” with CJ Fearnley (Event at 52 Living Ideas) (Event at Thinking Society)
- 16 Jun 2021: The Networked Brain (Event at 52 Living Ideas) (Event at Thinking Society)
- 23 Jun 2021: Bring Topics & Questions You Find Most Interesting to Breakout Room Extravaganza (Event at 52 Living Ideas) (Event at Thinking Society)
About Comprehensivist Wednesdays
Comprehensivist Wednesdays is an on-going series of weekly events to foster the art of comprehensivity, our inclination to integrate all our sources of learning so as to better comprehend the world and how it works. The idea of comprehensivity may best be captured by a quote from Buckminster Fuller’s book “Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth”: “wanting to understand all and put everything together”. Although it is impossible to fully achieve by any one human being, it is our conviction that the aspiration of comprehensivity opens new worlds of learning that may not be possible through other approaches. In addition, a citizenry with adequate numbers of practitioners of comprehensivity may be more aware, connected, and able to address planetary challenges.
The series is being organized by emcee Shrikant Rangnekar of 52 Living Ideas in collaboration with CJ Fearnley of Collaborating for Comprehensivism and the Greater Philadelphia Thinking Society. Here are three playlists of past events:
- Introduction to Comprehensivism (YouTube Playlist)
- 2020 Events from the “Comprehensivist Wednesdays” series (YouTube Playlist)
- 2021 Events from the Comprehensivist Wednesdays series (YouTube Playlist)
Collaborating for Comprehensivism is an emerging initiative to energize humanity’s collective intelligence through group conversations that step-by-step compose ever broader and deeper and more integrated understandings of our worlds and its peoples.
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Other Comprehensivist Wednesday's Series News Releases
- “Comprehensivist Wednesdays” begins 15 July 2020 @9-11PM EDT
- August 2020 Update on Comprehensivist Wednesdays
- September 2020 Update on Comprehensivist Wednesdays
- October 2020 Update on Comprehensivist Wednesdays
- November 2020 Update on Comprehensivist Wednesdays
- December 2020 Update on Comprehensivist Wednesdays
- January 2021 Update on Comprehensivist Wednesdays
- March 2021 Update on Comprehensivist Wednesdays
- April 2021 Update on Comprehensivist Wednesdays
- June 2021 Update on Comprehensivist Wednesdays
