Oneness and Reality
Kenneth R. Brown and Heinrich Päs
Date: May 10, 2024
Time: 3:00 - 4:30 pm ET
Speakers
KENNETH R. BROWN
Kenneth R. Brown is Michael J. Fitzpatrick Distinguished Professor of Engineering at Duke University. His research is on the control of quantum systems for both understanding the natural world and developing new technologies.
HEINRICH PÄS
Heinrich Päs is a professor of theoretical physics at TU Dortmund University, where he conducts research on particle physics and cosmology. His book The One: How an Ancient Idea Holds the Future of Physics (Basic Books) explores the nature of reality and the universe.
Moderators:
SHAHRZAD SABET
Shahrzad Sabet is Co-Director of the Center on Modernity in Transition (COMIT) and a Fellow at New York University’s Institute for Public Knowledge. Her current book project, which spans a variety of disciplines, makes the case for a reimagined universalism that reconciles the oneness and the diversity of humankind.
BENJAMIN SCHEWEL
Benjamin Schewel is Co-Director of the Center on Modernity in Transition (COMIT). He is author of Seven Ways of Looking at Religion (2017) and is currently working on a second book, Encountering the Axial Age, both from Yale University Press.
SPRING 2024 SPEAKER SERIES
The New Discourse on Oneness
The idea of oneness has emerged as an important concept within a growing number of scholarly debates. This series brings together a diverse group of leading thinkers to explore notions of oneness and to consider their implications for some of the pressing social and ethical questions we face today. Guided by the conviction that the principle of oneness contains rather than contradicts the robust expression of diversity, The New Discourse on Oneness invites dialogue across a wide spectrum of fields including physics and philosophy, history and ecology, as well as Black, Indigenous, Indian, and Chinese thought.
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