Alberto Manguel Writer and translator Alberto Manguel is an Argentinian-Canadian writer, translator and critic. He has published both fiction and non-fiction, and received numerous international awards, among others the Formentor Prize 2017 and the Gutenberg Prize 2018. Until August 2018, he was the director of the Argentine National Library. He lives in New York. Participant In: Particle Fever / The Quest Saturday, February 21, 2015 Film Screening: 10:30 am – 12:30 pm Q&A: 12:30 pm – 1:15 pm (Intermission) Roundtable: 2:30 pm – 4:30 pm Past Event Watch the video [Part 1] » Watch the video [Part 2] » Particle Fever, Mark Levinson’s award-winning 2013 documentary (for which Helix Center Executive Committee member Carla Solomon was a producer), tells the remarkable story of the monumental search for the Higgs boson, the elementary force particle predicted by the Standard Model of particle physics. Following a morning presentation of the film in its entirety, our afternoon… read more » Curiosity Saturday, March 14, 2015 2:30-4:30 pm Past Event Watch the video » Curiosity has been seen through the ages as the impulse that drives our knowledge forward and the temptation that leads us toward dangerous and forbidden waters. The question “Why?” has appeared under a multiplicity of guises and in vastly different contexts throughout the chapters of human history. Why does evil exist? What is beauty? How does language… read more » The Library as Reality and Metaphor Saturday, January 28th, 2017 at 2:30pm Past Event Watch the video » One of the habits of the mind is the invention of horrible imaginings. The mind has invented Hell, it has invented predestination to Hell, it has imagined the Platonic ideas, the chimera, the sphinx, abnormal transfinite numbers (whose parts are no smaller than the whole), masks, mirrors, operas, the teratological Trinity: the Father, the Son,… read more » Emergence of Empathy: Encountering The Other Through Fiction Saturday, November 16, 2019 at 2:30pm Past Event Watch the video » Like sympathy, empathy derives from the Greek root pathos meaning “to endure or to undergo.” It was coined in 1909 by a psychologist at Cornell University, Edward Bradford Titchner, who suggested the term as a translation of the German Einfühlung. According to Titchner, this emotional impulse to “feel into” something or someone is a strategy… read more »
Particle Fever / The Quest Saturday, February 21, 2015 Film Screening: 10:30 am – 12:30 pm Q&A: 12:30 pm – 1:15 pm (Intermission) Roundtable: 2:30 pm – 4:30 pm Past Event Watch the video [Part 1] » Watch the video [Part 2] » Particle Fever, Mark Levinson’s award-winning 2013 documentary (for which Helix Center Executive Committee member Carla Solomon was a producer), tells the remarkable story of the monumental search for the Higgs boson, the elementary force particle predicted by the Standard Model of particle physics. Following a morning presentation of the film in its entirety, our afternoon… read more »
Curiosity Saturday, March 14, 2015 2:30-4:30 pm Past Event Watch the video » Curiosity has been seen through the ages as the impulse that drives our knowledge forward and the temptation that leads us toward dangerous and forbidden waters. The question “Why?” has appeared under a multiplicity of guises and in vastly different contexts throughout the chapters of human history. Why does evil exist? What is beauty? How does language… read more »
The Library as Reality and Metaphor Saturday, January 28th, 2017 at 2:30pm Past Event Watch the video » One of the habits of the mind is the invention of horrible imaginings. The mind has invented Hell, it has invented predestination to Hell, it has imagined the Platonic ideas, the chimera, the sphinx, abnormal transfinite numbers (whose parts are no smaller than the whole), masks, mirrors, operas, the teratological Trinity: the Father, the Son,… read more »
Emergence of Empathy: Encountering The Other Through Fiction Saturday, November 16, 2019 at 2:30pm Past Event Watch the video » Like sympathy, empathy derives from the Greek root pathos meaning “to endure or to undergo.” It was coined in 1909 by a psychologist at Cornell University, Edward Bradford Titchner, who suggested the term as a translation of the German Einfühlung. According to Titchner, this emotional impulse to “feel into” something or someone is a strategy… read more »