Public Dialogues

YHouse continues its program of lectures, events, and conversations on exciting and provocative topics at a number of venues around New York City.

Consciousness Club NYC

YHouse invites you to the Consciousness Club, a study group to promote broadly transdisciplinary discussions on the neural and computational bases of consciousness, and how these concepts can be applied to other fields of interest. Our weekly meetings are for you if you are into awareness, science, technology, philosophy, art, and design.

For more information and meeting schedule, check out our Facebook page, or tune in to our Twitter updates.

Although the meetings are open to all, we encourage technical and scientific discussions for this series of meetings.

Cognition Lunch Salon

YHouse continues to organize informal Lunch Salon events hosted by the Program in Interdisciplinary Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study, 1 Einstein Drive, Princeton, N.J., West Building Seminar Room, 2nd floor. The format is an informal chat, followed by longer open-ended discussions among the participants, on the topic of consciousness and cognition. This event is by invitation only. To request an invitation, please email us at info@yhousenyc.org

Part of the series “Chasing Consciousness: From Cells to Societies, Neuroscience to Machine Awareness”

Speakers: Marcelo Gleiser (The Institute for Cross-Disciplinary Engagement, Dartmouth) and Julia Buntaine (SciArt Center/Rutgers University) 

We humans spend a lot of time wondering about our identities, about how we relate to one another and to the world around us. The sciences, the arts, and the various fields of inquiry grouped as the humanities, all attempt to build upon this quest, bringing meaning to our existence. After centuries of bigotry and division, there is a new vision emerging, bringing together these “different ways of knowing” as complementary ways to make sense of who we are. Join physicist, writer, and director of the Institute for Cross-Disciplinary Engagement at Dartmouth Marcelo Gleiser and artist, co-founder and director of SciArt Center Julia Buntaine to explore this complementarity of knowing, starting with the general question “What is Reality?” in hopes of forging new paths of mutual engagement between the disciplines.

Friday, October 7, 5 p.m. – 6 p.m.
Art Lounge of the Rubin Museum of Art