Townsend Events

Agnes Callard and Judith Butler discuss Callard's new book, Open Socrates: The Case for a Philosophical Life, which explores how the work of Socrates can be used to ask and answer life’s most important questions.

Chamber opera Both Eyes Open, with libretto by Philip Kan Gotanda, recasts the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II.

What might the study of psychoanalysis in and for the 21st century look like? Forty scholars, artists, and clinicians gather to explore the idea of a “Return to Freud.”

In The Entanglement, Alva Noë explores the inseparability of life, art, and philosophy, arguing that we have greatly underestimated what this entangled reality means for understanding human nature.