THE ICARUS PROJECT
Challenging ways of seeing the world
Fly close to the sun; catch a touch of sun stroke from the heat of the argument.
The Wapping Project brings philosophy and debate to the garden for three Saturdays in July. Inspired by Epicurus – to say that the season for studying philosophy has not yet come, or that it is past and gone, is like saying that the season for happiness is not yet or that it is now no more – The Wapping Project invites leading thinkers to stir your imagination and challenge your intellect. Accompanied by Pimms and the smell of magnolias, talk ranges across a thousand ideas:
The Icarus Project is curated by Sofia Stevi with Jules Wright and Celia Lowenstein.
13 July
14.00-15.00
THE EROTIC MAGUS: SOCRATES, EROS AND MAGIC,
Professor Angie Hobbs FRSA is Professor of Public Understanding of Philosophy, University of Sheffield
15.30-16.30
THE SECRET MUSEUM
Molly Oldfield non-fiction writer
17.00-18.00
HOW TO BE AN EPICUREAN
Professor David Sedley is Laurence Professor of Ancient Philosophy and a Fellow of Christ’s College, Cambridge
20 July
14.00-15.00
Joan Smith is a columnist, novelist, human rights activist – and a Classicist
15.30-16.30
BROOKLYN BRIDGE: THE GREAT EAST RIVER BRIDGE AND WAGNER’S LOVE AFFAIR WITH THE MAN WHO BUILT IT.
Erica Wagner is an author and is the Literary Editor of The Times
17.00-18.00
ETERNITY IS OVERRATED: THE USES OF TIME IN ARCHITECTURE
Rowan Moore is architecture critic of the Observer and author of Why We
Build: power and desire in architecture.
27 July
14.00-15.00
EMPTY TO DEPOT: ROUGH RIDES ON AN OVERLOADED ARK
Iain Sinclair is an author, historian, film maker and provocateur
(7pm screening of The Dark Eyes of London introduced by Iain Sinclair)
15.30-16.30
Federico Campagna
17.00-18.00
EPICURUS AND THE CLIMAMEN
Rye Dag Holmboe is a doctoral candidate at University College London and the co-founder and editor of LOCUS.
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Tickets: £15/afternoon to include a glass of Pimms
Places strictly limited to 50 / afternoon.
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