Fun with Scholarly Conjectures

If you have a bit o' free time, or if you know what you will be doing on October 14th @4pm, check out the Getty Museum's scholarly series on various subtopics under the umbrella topic of Change. Change will be the overall motif of the 2007-8 Getty Institute Scholar Year Program. Whether it will help YOU to decide if change is good or otherwise is indeterminable; whether it will get your ass out of work early for some extra-curricular activities on hump day is up to you.



[photo courtesy of the Getty, La terre n'est pas précisément ronde, photomechanical print in L'Illustration, vol. 133, no. 3439 (January 23, 1909), p. 67]

Kicking off the whole shindig is 'Identity Theft in the Ancient Mediterranean World' on October 4th @ 8pm in the Getty Villa. Then next is Angus Fletcher on 'Aristotle Contemplating the Bust of Homer: Reflections on Change' on October 14th. Since everything that IS is concievably not immune to change, I can certainly imagine that a wide variety o' topics can and will certainly be covered at the Getty during this 'scholarly year'. Work? Bah!

Here's a blurby bit on the October 14th talk:

In this lecture, Angus Fletcher highlights the relationship between philosopher and artist as a prelude to considering various fundamental ideas of change in three domains: the natural world, the world of the arts, and the world of thought. These forms of life are always changing their apparent shapes and dimensions, as time passes in nature and in human affairs. Fletcher advances a theory of change that focuses any and all understandings of cultural development. He suggests major conceptual issues for theories of change, illuminating scenes from the drama of Western intellectual life.

Amen. I know what I'll be doing then. And yes I'm a nerd. Make sure to make reservations, either by enrolling online on their website here, or calling their hotline at (310) 440-7300. Beats fighting traffic!

Getty Center
1200 Getty Center Drive
Los Angeles, Ca

Parking is $8. The lectures are free, as they should be.