The Matter with Things: A Day’s Seminar with Iain McGilchrist
You are invited to join Iain McGilchrist at the Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Centre on Palmerston Place for an in-house Seminar on Saturday 9th April 2022.
About The Matter with Things: A Day’s Seminar with Iain McGilchrist
Join the author and scholar for lectures, questions and conversation.
You are invited to join Iain McGilchrist at the Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Centre on Palmerston Place for an in-house Seminar on Saturday 9th April 2022. This Seminar will be focused on his new book, The Matter with Things. Attendees can pre-order an advance copy of The Matter with Things below.
Iain McGilchrist, world-famous philosopher, author and psychiatrist, discusses the links between neurology, spirituality and consciousness.
About Iain McGilchrist:
Iain McGilchrist is a former Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, an associate Fellow of Green Templeton College, Oxford, a Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, a Consultant Emeritus of the Bethlem and Maudsley Hospital, London, a former research Fellow in Neuroimaging at Johns Hopkins University Medical School, Baltimore, and a former Fellow of the Institute of Advanced Studies in Stellenbosch.
He is committed to the idea that the mind and brain can be understood only by seeing them in the broadest possible context, that of the whole of our physical and spiritual existence, and of the wider human culture in which they arise – the culture which helps to mould, and in turn is moulded by, our minds and brains.
With a background in English, he eventually followed his interests in philosophy and psychology into medicine. He has written for numerous magazines and journals, and his books include Against Criticism, The Master and his Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World, The Divided Brain and the Search for Meaning; Why Are We So Unhappy?, and Ways of Attending.
What To Expect:
The day will have several lectures, a Q&A and an opportunity to buy McGilchrist’s new book, The Matter with Things.
10:00 am Lecture: Iain McGilchrist, ‘An Introduction to the Hemispheres’
11:00 am Coffee Break
11:30 am Iain interviewed by Lance Butler
01:00 pm Lunch (included in ticket price)
02:00 pm Lecture: Iain McGilchrist, ‘The Sense of the Sacred’
03:00 pm Discussion with Iain McGilchrist: chaired by Lance Butler and including participants
04:00 pm Tea Break
04.30 pm Q&A: Iain, Lance and Everyone
06:00 pm Finish: Book signing available in the Tea Room
Topic Breakdown
Mindfulness & Mysticism Class
An Introduction to the Hemispheres
Everything you thought you knew about hemisphere differences is false. The truth is far more interesting – indeed fascinating and revelatory; and helps make sense of what is happening to us in the modern world.
The Sense of the Sacred
The sacred is simultaneously the profoundest aspect of human experience and the hardest to articulate. What can knowledge of the hemispheres contribute to our understanding?
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