Paul Auster’s Haunted Books: Siri Hustvedt in Conversation with Norman Finkelstein
Join Siri at University library in Fiolstrade, Copenhagen
Join Siri at University library in Fiolstrade, Copenhagen
"Freedom in Art and Science."
Writers for Democratic Action honors Heather Cox Richardson.
An intimate conversation with podcast host Carole Zimmer.
Siri Hustvedt will be in conversation online with Professor David Dwan, in an event hosted by the Linen Hall Library, which was founded in 1788 and is the oldest library in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
Join Siri live online with the Escaramuza Bookstore & Café in Montevideo, Uruguay.
Join Siri Hustvedt, Helen Phillips and Jason Tougaw for readings and a panel discussion.
Join Siri at the International Authors' Stage, Copenhagen.
Meet Siri in Denmark at LiteratureXchange, the international literature festival in Aarhus.
Siri Hustvedt and Linn Ullmann will be in conversation at Oslo Litteraturhuset on June 12, 2019.
The 2019 Margaret Cavendish Society Conference takes place at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, from June 6 - 9. Siri will be the Keynote speaker.
Siri Hustvedt, renowned author of novels, poems, essays as well as non-fiction, will use her own mother and Jane Austen as starting point for a discussion of the cognitive sciences and the workings of the mind in a lecture entitled “Poetic Logic”.
What is the mind? How does it distinguish itself from the body? Can the mind be reduced to neurones in the brain or not? Join Siri Hustvedt and Miriam Meckel for a discussion on June 3, 2018, at 20:00 at Schauspielhus Zurich.
The question of how body and soul, brain and psyche interact with each other is considered one of the central philosophical problems. Is the body no more than the prison of the soul? Or, conversely, is the soul simply the intricate projection of a brain trying to understand itself? With her highly praised essay, “The Delusions of Certainty”, the writer, essayist, art critic and philosopher Siri Hustvedt has found her own answer to this question.
What is the mind? This fundamental question remains unanswered in both philosophy and science. Is the mind part of the body or is it something separate from it? Are the brain and the mind the same thing? Can the mind be disembodied into an algorithm and then realized in a machine?