http://www.ssrc.org/calhoun Wed, 17 Jun 2009 15:37:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 en ©The Social Science Research Council webmaster@ssrc.org (The Social Science Research Council) webmaster@ssrc.org(The Social Science Research Council) Social Science Commentary 1440 Social Science, Public Knowledge, Calhoun, Commentary Listen to the insights of sociologist and historian Craig Calhoun on pressing social and political questions. Societas is a podcast channel featuring the insights of leading sociologist and historian Craig Calhoun on current political and social issues in the United States and around the globe. Professor Calhoun heads the Social Science Research Council (SSRC), the world's first national organization of all the social sciences. He is also University Professor of the Social Sciences at New York University and director of its Institute of Public Knowledge. The channel features Professor Calhoun in conversation with Paul Price, the SSRC's editorial director, on the latest developments in American and world politics and society. Professor Calhoun provides perspectives not often found in mainstream media. The Social Science Research Council The Social Science Research Council webmaster@ssrc.org No no http://www.ssrc.org/calhoun/wp-content/uploads/podpress/societas_pod.jpg http://www.ssrc.org/calhoun 144 144 http://www.ssrc.org/calhoun/2009/03/18/%e2%80%9cinterdisciplinarity-innovation-and-informing-the-public%e2%80%9d/ http://www.ssrc.org/calhoun/2009/03/18/%e2%80%9cinterdisciplinarity-innovation-and-informing-the-public%e2%80%9d/#comments Wed, 18 Mar 2009 17:11:07 +0000 Jessica Chong http://www.ssrc.org/calhoun/?p=381 Go to lecture write-up. → Go to YouTube video. → Download transcript (pdf: 91 pages, 256kb).]]> For academic research to be truly innovative, it means not just coming up with that one new idea but coming up with effective ways of continually improving your ideas and communicating them to greater numbers of potential beneficiaries, Calhoun said in his 11 Feb 09 lecture for the USC Annenberg School for Communication, part of a series the school is running on sustainable innovation.
→ Go to lecture write-up.
→ Go to YouTube video.
→ Download transcript (pdf: 91 pages, 256kb).

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