with C4I Director, Michael O’Rourke

Interdisciplinarity has been an important mode of knowledge organization for decades, but there remains a diversity of opinion about what it is. In this talk, I’ll consider a range of different ways of thinking about what counts as interdisciplinarity. These include ways of thinking that turn on different conceptions of disciplinarily, as well as different ways of conceptualizing the combination of disciplines. I’ll then  marshal a few skeptical considerations against the very idea of interdisciplinarity, developing the common charge that interdisciplinarity is just a meaningless buzzword. I will close by evaluating these considerations and their implications for interdisciplinary research and practice.

Zoom Link: https://msu.zoom.us/j/95048790349
Passcode: msuc4i