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Let’s Walk: A Peripatetic Conversation Series with Philosopher Simon Critchley SOLD OUT

From April through June, the Onassis Cultural Center NY will host a series of peripatetic conversations inside the Gods and Mortals at Olympus exhibit. In Let’s Walk, a lineup of surprise guests will join philosopher Simon Critchley to tackle contemporary topics inspired by Gods and Mortals at Olympus, and the mythology of the sacred mountain. Small groups of visitors will follow the interlocutors in a leisurely walk through the artifacts of Dion, and down the unexpected paths their minds will take.

Simon Critchley is Hans Jonas Professor at the New School for Social Research. His books include Very Little…Almost Nothing, Infinitely Demanding, The Book of Dead Philosophers, The Faith of the Faithless, Bowie, Memory Theatre and Notes on Suicide. He is series editor of “The Stone,” a philosophy column in the New York Times, to which he is a frequent contributor.

Zainab Bahrani will be joining Simon Critchley for Let’s Walk on Saturday, May 21 at 1 pm.

Zainab Bahrani is the Edith Porada Professor of Art History and Archaeology at Columbia University, New York. A specialist in the art and archaeology of ancient Mesopotamia and the eastern Mediterranean world, she is the author of several books including: Women of Babylon: gender and representation in Mesopotamia (London: Routledge, 2001), The Graven Image: Representation in Babylonia and Assyria (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003) and Rituals of War: The Body and Violence in Mesopotamia (New York: Zone Books, 2008), which won the American Historical Association’s James Henry Breasted Prize. Her most recent book, The Infinite Image: Art, Time and the Aesthetic Dimension in Antiquity (University of Chicago Press, 2014) is based on her 2010-2011 Slade Lectures in the Fine Arts at the University of Oxford, and was the winner of the Lionel Trilling Prize in 2015. Bahrani is the recipient of numerous fellowships and awards for her research including a 2003 Guggenheim and awards from the Getty Foundation, the Mellon Foundation and the Kevorkian Foundation. She has been a curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and has conducted archaeological fieldwork in Iraq, Syria and Turkey. She is currently the Director of a Columbia University field project, Mapping Mesopotamian Monuments.











When: Sat., May. 21, 2016 at 1:00 pm
Where: Onassis Cultural Center
645 Fifth Ave.
212-486-4448
Price: Free
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From April through June, the Onassis Cultural Center NY will host a series of peripatetic conversations inside the Gods and Mortals at Olympus exhibit. In Let’s Walk, a lineup of surprise guests will join philosopher Simon Critchley to tackle contemporary topics inspired by Gods and Mortals at Olympus, and the mythology of the sacred mountain. Small groups of visitors will follow the interlocutors in a leisurely walk through the artifacts of Dion, and down the unexpected paths their minds will take.

Simon Critchley is Hans Jonas Professor at the New School for Social Research. His books include Very Little…Almost Nothing, Infinitely Demanding, The Book of Dead Philosophers, The Faith of the Faithless, Bowie, Memory Theatre and Notes on Suicide. He is series editor of “The Stone,” a philosophy column in the New York Times, to which he is a frequent contributor.

Zainab Bahrani will be joining Simon Critchley for Let’s Walk on Saturday, May 21 at 1 pm.

Zainab Bahrani is the Edith Porada Professor of Art History and Archaeology at Columbia University, New York. A specialist in the art and archaeology of ancient Mesopotamia and the eastern Mediterranean world, she is the author of several books including: Women of Babylon: gender and representation in Mesopotamia (London: Routledge, 2001), The Graven Image: Representation in Babylonia and Assyria (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003) and Rituals of War: The Body and Violence in Mesopotamia (New York: Zone Books, 2008), which won the American Historical Association’s James Henry Breasted Prize. Her most recent book, The Infinite Image: Art, Time and the Aesthetic Dimension in Antiquity (University of Chicago Press, 2014) is based on her 2010-2011 Slade Lectures in the Fine Arts at the University of Oxford, and was the winner of the Lionel Trilling Prize in 2015. Bahrani is the recipient of numerous fellowships and awards for her research including a 2003 Guggenheim and awards from the Getty Foundation, the Mellon Foundation and the Kevorkian Foundation. She has been a curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and has conducted archaeological fieldwork in Iraq, Syria and Turkey. She is currently the Director of a Columbia University field project, Mapping Mesopotamian Monuments.

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