Trojan Family Weekend Polymathic Pizza: Figures of Speech

USC SIDNEY HARMAN ACADEMY FOR POLYMATHIC STUDY

TROJAN FAMILY WEEKEND POLYMATHIC PIZZA: FIGURES OF SPEECH

DATE | TIME: Thursday, October 29 | 5:00 pm to 6:30pm

[note special day]

WHERE: Harman Academy for Polymathic Study,

Doheny Memorial Library, 241

PIZZA: YES!!

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Figures are numbers. Figures are scientific diagrams. Artists do figurative drawing. We all have a figure as a body. And we figure things out. So figuring is a word that immediately connotes art, science, mathematics, and cognition.

~ Margaret Wertheim, science writer, artist, curator and polymath

With the Harman Academy celebrating its fifteenth anniversary, we turn to the concept of figuring as a framework for renewed inquiry. As Margaret Wertheim observes, the term simultaneously invokes mathematics, scientific representation, artistic practice, embodiment, and cognition. To figure is both to represent and to understand; it is an act of creation, interpretation, analysis and imagination. Continuing along these lines of inquiry, we invite you to join Professor of Linguistics Khalil Iskarous in conversation and explore myriad figures of speech ~ expressing, communicating, connecting ~ as a complex, polymathic enterprise.