Institute for Advanced Study and Nautilus Co-Present Categorically Not! Event on April 14

The Institute for Advanced Study and Nautilus are pleased to present a special edition of Categorically Not!, the conversation series exploring the common ground of art, science and politics, April 14 at Wolfensohn Hall on the Institute campus (1 Einstein Drive, Princeton, NJ 08540). Moderated by writer, Categorically Not! creator and current IAS Director’s Visitor K.C. Cole, the event will feature a diversity of thinkers discussing the limits and horizons of science, art and culture, including biologist Sean B. Carroll, VP for Science Education, Howard Hughes Medical Institute; mathematical physicist Robbert Dijkgraaf, Director and Leon Levy Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study; biological anthropologist Helen Fisher, Senior Research Fellow at the Kinsey Institute and Chief Scientific Adviser to Match.com; and Felice Frankel, research scientist and photographer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Categorically Not! at IAS: On the Edge will begin at 5:30 p.m. This lecture is free and open to the public, but registration at https://www.ias.edu/edge-lecture is required. IAS will live-stream the event at www.ias.edu. For the month of April, Nautilus is tackling the theme of boundaries from multiple perspectives inside science and culture.

“Boundaries and horizons are both solidly real yet elusively out of reach,” K.C Cole said. “The edges of things are the most interesting places in the universe: the horizon of space and time, the beginnings and endings of relationships and epochs, the lines between life and nonlife, the permeable walls between art, science and culture.”

Categorically Not! at IAS: On the Edge will explore these active interfaces, with participants looking through the lenses of physics, medicine, photography and anthropology. Sean B. Carroll will speak on The Serengeti Rules, explaining what the plight of lions and sharks has to do with human cancers—and what we can learn from medicine to heal an ailing planet. Felice Frankel will look at various interfaces in science and architecture in her talk, Between This and That, Is Where It’s At. Robbert Dijkgraaf will speak on From Limits to Frontiers, reflecting on the multiple meanings of boundary in the context of knowledge—from what we do not know to how far our knowledge can extend. Helen Fisher will talk about sex, romance and attachment in our modern age, where long-held boundaries have disappeared.

Labyrinth Books of Princeton will be on site selling copies of the speakers’ books.

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