Interdisciplinary lecture series "Seeing and Understanding the World Differently"

Module code

10SMUZHI_1

Organizer

Commission UZH Interdisciplinary (UZH-i)

Provider

Institute of Asian and Oriental Studies

Description

It is the aim of this lecture series to enable a scientific conversation between historically oriented, theoretical and empirical fields of knowledge, working on different aspects of human thought, perception and behaviour. In the form of moderated panel discussions with short input presentations, the individual sessions will be devoted primarily to theories of time and space, cognition, action, perception, language, art, aesthetics, society and self, developed in physics, philosophy, religious studies and several other fields that work on "alternative" models of understanding the world. Such approaches have been developed, e.g., in many varieties of traditional Asian Buddhism, but also in some branches of cognitive science or iconic criticism, which increasingly move away from the predominantly "object-centered" approaches that still dominate in the "West".

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