Polymathic Pizza

Much of our present technological and socio-cultural progress was imagined in Sci-Fi art, film, and literatures in the past. What are we imagining now that might illuminate our future?

Memory is one of the most prominent features of human cognition and one that is becoming increasingly important for AI systems. AI has memory, but can AI imagine?

This session explores the power of experiencing the past in the present and the present in the past through the arts and technology.

The retelling histories from a different positionings changes the story in powerful, real ways.

As we move from memory to the moment, this session explores the scientific, philosophical and spiritual value of present-ness. Just in time for finals!!

Two historians will lead a discussion with our polymath students on ways to animate grievous injustices in our city and nation’s past.

In conversation with scholars far-a-field from one another, this special TFW session explores what happens in our brain and heart when we remember the past and imagine the future.

Our opening session explores Innovative, creative ways of healing from traumatic memories through science and the arts.