One of our last days in Delhi we were able to visit JNU, one of the top social science universities in India. While this dialogue and its participants are interdisciplinary, most of our speakers and excursions have been more STEM heavy. As a computer science major, I've mostly felt in my element. Hearing that we were going to visit a school known for the humanities, I was unsure what to expect.
Looking back now, it was my favorite university visit in terms of content covered. We were put in a room with some amazingly intelligent professors from the school of law and other various fields. In the five or more hours we were there, the conversation went from AI to labor policies to the philosophy of meat eating habits. Because the visit was much less structured than some of our other visits, the discussion was free and open and no questions were off topic. This resulted in some of the most stimulating discussion with people that have spent their whole careers in research and academia.
At the end of the day, I was inspired by the sheer amount of knowledge in one room. It was a refreshing breath of air to talk about concepts that are more subjective compared to the heavy data and science that we had previously covered. I gained a new admirations for the humanities side of the climate problem and truly understood the need for a wholistic approach.
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