Brains & Beauty
The 13th annual Chicago Humanities Festival, Brains & Beauty, examined the tensions and ties between intelligence and aesthetics across centuries, cultures, and generations. This paradoxical yet timeless theme explores ways of knowing and seeing, of thinking and idealizing, of probing the working of the intellect and the allure of beauty.
Notable Presenters:
Oliver Sacks
Margaret Atwood
Francis Fukuyama
Amiri Baraka
Alan Lightman
Jefferey Eugenides
Howard Gardner
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