Philosophy
Lincoln Center White Light Conversation: Let’s Talk About Religion
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts 10 Lincoln Center Plaza, New York, NY, United StatesGod was declared dead in 1966, no longer relevant to an increasingly secular society. Today, people around the world ardently seek religious and faith-based experiences, at times with an intolerant fervor. How did we vacillate between such extremes in the span of only half a century? In modern society, few topics are as subject to […]
Cornel West Matters: Book Talk with Mahamadou Lamine Sagna and Cornel West
The Africa Center 1280 Fifth Ave., New York, NY, United StatesJoin The Africa Center and Teranga as we present a conversation between Mahamadou Lamine Sagna and Cornel West about “Cornel West Matters”. The book Cornel West Matters is a review of the titular philosopher’s seminal texts by Mahamadou Lamine Sagna, who has long been interested in the way West analyses politics, democracy, religion and race, and […]
Festival Albertine: How Do We Get People to Care
Albertine Books 972 5th Avenue, New York, NY, United StatesArtists and activists will be called upon to discuss how to change people’s minds and amplify the call to action. Literature, music, drama—these are key resources for societies trying to come to grips with new realities. In recent years we’ve seen them begin to grapple with climate change, but that engagement must now grow. The […]
Drug Test: Psychedelics & Family
Caveat 21A Clinton St, Manhattan, NY, United StatesCome learn how to come out of the psychedelic closet to your parents! Come out to your children! Heal intergenerational trauma. Suggest psychedelic therapy or medicinal marijuana for sick relatives. And for the advanced class: Navigate how to trip with the fam.
What’s a Brain For? A Moving Story
Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism 2950 Broadway, New York, NY, United StatesNeuroscientist Daniel Wolpert, PhD, is fascinated by how the brain controls our every movement. The ease with which humans move our arms, our eyes, even our lips when we speak masks the true complexity of the control. While computers can now beat grandmasters at chess, no computer can yet control a robot to manipulate a chess […]