Felix Christen: unterwegs

Felix Christen teaches at the University of Zurich. He is currently the Max Kade Visiting Professor at Brown Universty. The full title of his lecture is "unterwegs: From Formal to Poetic Indication in Heidegger's Scenes of Writing." Gilman 479

Thomas Browne and the Mystery of Number

Gilman 479 Marked by the ‘mathematization’ of scientific knowledge, seventeenth-century European intellectual culture is also punctuated by profound skepticism about the stability, reliability, or calculability of numbers. Focusing on the natural philosopher and lay theologian Thomas Browne, who fluctuates puzzlingly between fascination and contempt for arithmology and numerology, this lecture will explore the seventeenth century’s […]

Voro’pi: Art and Education In between Worlds

Gilman 479 With Naine Terena, Gustavo Caboco, and Jamille Pinheiro Dias. Co-sponsored by the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, the Portuguese Program, and Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies. Voro'pi is an educational initiative that approaches the arts as a way to galvanize counter-histories, fight structural inequality, and learn about protagonists from different contexts. […]