Events
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2025

The wisdom of history
By confronting our past and reflecting upon its lessons we can better navigate the dangerous waters ahead

How to live well in a slippery world
For Aztec thinkers, the good life meant navigating a precarious path above a terrifying abyss
2024

Insight or illusion?
Psychedelic insights have a curious sense of authority, but the feeling of knowing doesn’t mean they’re true
2023

Africana philosophy
Encounter this liberatory emerging philosophical field with philosopher Lewis Gordon and musician Moor Mother

Love, sex and existentialism
An evening exploring the romantic and carnal side of life through a trio of European existentialists, guided by the philosopher Skye Cleary and the musician Darian Donovan Thomas

Is the Universe made of math?
Science writer and artist Margaret Wertheim, along with jazz pianist Dan Tepfer, explore the nature of reality
2022

Speaking across the divide
Exploring communication across cultures with translator Esther Allen, maqam singer Hamid Al-Saadi and trumpeter Amir ElSaffar

What work is
Anthropologist Manvir Singh and dancer-choreographers Molly Lieber and Eleanor Smith ask whether work is a universal human experience

Where mysticism went
Composer John Zorn, the JACK Quartet and vocalist Helga Davis join philosopher Simon Critchley in search of contemporary transcendence