# Two Cultures
**Entity class:** Intellectual framework
## Definition
The **two cultures** names C. P. Snow’s diagnosis of a divide between literary intellectuals and scientists. The [[wiki/Institute for Cross-Disciplinary Engagement|Institute for Cross-Disciplinary Engagement]] was funded and designed as an institutional response: not science annexing the humanities, but a bridge traversable in both directions.
## Relationships
- **origin:** [[wiki/C. P. Snow|C. P. Snow]].
- **institutional response:** [[wiki/Institute for Cross-Disciplinary Engagement|Dartmouth ICE]].
- **method:** [[wiki/Convergence Research|Convergence Research]] and [[wiki/Interdisciplinarity|Interdisciplinarity]].
- **disambiguation route:** [[wiki/ICE|ICE disambiguation]].
## Sources / Provenance
- C. P. Snow, _The Two Cultures_ (1959).
- [Templeton — Institute for Cross-Disciplinary Engagement](https://www.templeton.org/grant/the-institute-for-cross-disciplinary-engagement-at-dartmouth-2)