The Interplay of Science and Arts in our Perceptions of the World
Monday 3rd of June 2019, 7pm
Waterstones, Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow
Speakers: John Brown and Rab Wilson
In CP Snow's 1959 Rede Lecture his thesis was that "the intellectual life of the whole of western society" was split into two cultures – the sciences and the humanities – and that this was a major hindrance to solving the world's problems.
The last 50 years have seen an accelerating growth in cross-cultural science/art collaborations, cross -fertllisations, and Festivals etc such as Jodrell Bank's Blue Dot Fest, Wigtown's Big Bang Weekend, and sci-art collaborations like that between black hole physicists and the makers of the movie Interstellar. It has also seen new funding to promote "Public Engagement in Science". This resembles a return to the Enlightenment where great thinkers were commonly polymathic.
This Cafe Sci event is intended to promote discussion of the aims, processes and value of such sci-art collaboration, using as a catalyst the experience of the co-author presenters in writing Oor Big Braw Cosmos.