Townsend Events

The Case for a Philosophical Life

Agnes Callard in Conversation with Judith Butler
Thursday, Jan 30, 2025 5:00 pm
| Maude Fife Room, 315 Wheeler Hall and Online

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.

Both Eyes Open

Chamber Opera
Saturday, Feb 15, 2025 8:00 pm
| Zellerbach Playhouse

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

Thursday, Mar 20, 2025 9:00 am
| Maude Fife Room, 315 Wheeler Hall

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.”

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| Geballe Room, 220 Stephens Hall

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.