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Salons

Eidos brings students into direct conversation with researchers and with one another. Our opening Science Engagement Series event is now accepting registrations.

November 13 · Registration Open

How Plant Research Could Inform Future Crops

Join a conversation with a Cquesta researcher about how scientists select genes to study in a model plant, what those experiments can reveal, and what further testing would be needed before the findings could inform crop research. A short presentation will be followed by student Q&A. Students from every major are welcome.

Join the Conversation

When
Friday, November 13, 20264:00–5:00 p.m. PT
Where
Bonner Hall 2130
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The final speaker and presentation title will be announced after confirmation.

A Model for an Eidos Salon

Conversation Does Not Erase Difference

A Ming-dynasty Chinese painting showing Sakyamuni, Lao Tzu, and Confucius standing together in a mountain landscape.
Sakyamuni, Lao Tzu, and Confucius, Ming dynasty · National Museum of Asian Art, Smithsonian Institution · CC0

A Model for an Eidos Salon

Conversation Does Not Erase Difference

This Ming-dynasty painting places Sakyamuni, Lao Tzu, and Confucius in one scene without treating their traditions as the same. An Eidos salon works in much the same way: students bring different frameworks to one question and make the points of disagreement clear.

How We Plan to Run Salons

01

Explain Your Approach

Share the evidence, terms, or methods your field would use.

02

Listen and Ask Questions

Find out why someone from another field defines the problem differently.

03

Compare Conclusions

No one has to agree by the end. We want to understand why the conclusions differ.