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SUMMARY:Music and Numbers\, Part II
DESCRIPTION:Watch the recording\n\n\n\n\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uG0La1b-QuQ\n\n\n\n\n\na webinar produced\, presented\, and performed by \n\n\n\nDr Donna Coleman \n\n\n\nStreaming from Studio OutBach® Santa Fe\, situated in the heart of the deep Indigenous history of Native New Mexico\, from ancient Paleoindians to Keres- and Tanoan-speaking peoples who were raided by the Comanches. \n\n\n\nWednesday April 6 \n\n\n\n9:00am PDT  | 12:00pm EDT  | 5:00pm BST  |  6:00pm CESTThursday April 7 at 2:00am AEST (Australia) \n\n\n\n“What is above is as what is below.”The Book of Thoth \n\n\n\nThis session will continue the journey we began in Music and Numbers\, Part I. Having embarked upon the landscape comprised of dissonant intervals and avoidance of tonality\, we will explore the music of composers working with the so-called Twelve-Tone System: Riccardo Malipiero\, Anton Webern\, and Luigi Dallapiccola\, for whom numbers provided the pathway to their idiosyncratic musical languages. We will begin by considering the way interval relationships in Johann Sebastian Bach’s Sinfonia in F minor create what we know as consonance and compare it to Riccardo Malipiero’s (1914 Milan – 2003 Milan) Invenzione #7\, a dissonant work that is modelled upon it. Dr Coleman will demonstrate the way Webern created 144 possible versions of his twelve-tone row using the Magic Square. \n\n\n\nRepertory to be explored on this leg of the Quintessence of Music journey: \n\n\n\nJohann Sebastian Bach: Sinfonia in F minor\, BWV 795 (1723)Riccardo Malipiero: Invenzioni\, No. 7 (1949)Anton Webern: Variationen für Klavier\, opus 27 (1936)Luigi Dallapiccola: Quaderno Musicale di Annalibera (1952) \n\n\n\nThe discussion will also dwell upon traditional number attributes\, delving back to the Sephiroth of the ancient Qabalah\, the significance of the ten numbers assigned to the branches of the Tree of Life\, its seven planes\, twenty-two intersections\, and the hermetic adaptation of these into the Tarot. As always\, we will look for the meaning behind all of these inter-related manifestations of the Ethereal Universe. \n\n\n\nOn Wednesday April 6\, Donna will open our monthly monthly musical and philosophical journey  with a presentation and followed by discussion and Q&A. \n\n\n\nTHIS EVENT IS FREE AND OPEN TO EVERYONE! \n\n\n\nJoin our Zoom meeting via the following link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83082713624 \n\n\n\nIf you would like to participate\, have any questions or need any help just contact Eleanor Peat: eleanor@paricenter.com \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSuggested Reading\n\n\n\n\nCrowley\, Alistair. The Book of Thoth: A Short Essay on the Tarot of the Egyptians\, Being the Equinox Volume III No. V. Newburyport MA: Samuel Weiser\, Inc.\, 1974. https://echoesofegypt.peabody.yale.edu/egyptosophy/fragments-book-thoth\n\n\n\n———. Crowley Thoth Tarot Deck. http://www.thule-italia.net/esoterismo/Aleister%20Crowley/Crowley%20Thoth%20Tarot%20Deck.pdf\n\n\n\nMorris\, Robert. Mathematics and the Twelve-Tone System. https://edisciplinas.usp.br/pluginfile.php/229011/mod_resource/content/1/Mathematics%20and%20the%20Twelve-Tone%20System%20(Morris%202007).pdf\n\n\n\nPapus. The Tarot of the Bohemians. https://www.labirintoermetico.com/02tarocchi/papus_the_tarot_of_the_bohemians.pdf\n\n\n\nTufts University Faculty (unnamed). Twelve-Tone Technique: A Primer. https://sites.tufts.edu/markdevoto/files/2015/10/12TonePrimer.pdf\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDonna Coleman is a multi-award-winning concert pianist\, recording artist\, author\, performance researcher and philosopher\, and master teacher whose career spans a half-century\, of which more than half has been based in Australia. She is also an accomplished weaver and photographer and an amateur but passionate astronomer and archaeologist with a keen interest in the culture of the Indigenous peoples of Australia and the United States. As Head of Keyboard and of Postgraduate Studies at the Victorian College of the Arts in Melbourne\, she convened weekly thought-provoking seminars that explored relationships between music and other disciplines. Donna is writing a book entitled Dancing with the Piano\, a collection of essays distilled from these sessions and from her many years of phenomenological engagement with her ultimate dance partner\, the piano.
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SUMMARY:Teaching the Dinosaur to Dance: Moving Beyond Business as Usual
DESCRIPTION:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNDpL1S2fLY\n\n\n\n\n\nTeaching the Dinosaur to Dance: Moving Beyond Business as Usual \n\n\n\nDonna Kennedy-Glans in conversation with Julie Arts \n\n\n\nWednesday April 13 9:00am PDT  | 12:00pm EDT  | 5:00pm BST  |  6:00pm CEST \n\n\n\nFree Online Pari Dialogue \n\n\n\nDonna’s latest book Teaching the Dinosaur to Dance provides the roadmap builders and rebuilders—of society and of enterprise—with the tools to rethink\, redesign and revitalize their organizations and to remain relevant and sustainable in a new and very different future. Business as usual is extinct. Disruption and social pressure are the new norm and change is inevitable for enterprises of all kinds—businesses\, governments\, non-profits\, community initiatives and social institutions. We’ve reached a turning point and it’s time to evolve\, or we go the way of the dinosaurs. We all need to act now to survive and find new ways to thrive in a changed world. But in an age of polarized debates on complex issues (such as fairness and climate change)\, how can leaders find a new way forward? How can enterprises re-invent themselves to make capitalism work better for more people? These are some of the compelling and timely issues that Donna and Julie will tackle in their conversation. \n\n\n\nOn Wednesday April 13\, Donna and Julie will be in conversation followed by discussion and Q&A. \n\n\n\nTHIS EVENT IS FREE AND OPEN TO EVERYONE! \n\n\n\nJoin our Zoom meeting via the following link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85176061107 \n\n\n\nIf you would like to participate\, have any questions or need any help just contact Eleanor Peat: eleanor@paricenter.com \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDonna Kennedy-Glans is a boundary-crosser\, adding value throughout her career to enterprising projects in over thirty-five countries\, in the public\, private and non-profit sectors: as an energy insider rooted in Alberta’s oil patch; founding a non-profit to build the capacity of women in Yemen; serving as an elected politician and cabinet minister; holding leading roles on boards of directors; and helping to steward the family farm enterprise. She is a political commentator\, community builder\, writer and speaker\, weighing in on energy\, leadership\, governance\, community and integrity issues. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJulie Arts is currently on a sabbatical from being a senior faculty member and consultant with the Presencing Institute (PI)\, an organisation founded in 2006 by Otto Scharmer and colleagues\, to support action research and leadership development for systems change and societal transformation.Julie is an economist by training and has worked as a senior consultant\, designing and hosting multi-stakeholder transition processes and ecosystem leadership programs such as the UN SDG Leadership Lab and many in-house leadership programs for companies and NGOs. \n\n\n\nJulie is also a board member of Meg Wheatley’s Berkana Institute. She lives in Mechelen\, Belgium and in Pari\, Italy.
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SUMMARY:The Future Scientist – A Conversation with Dr Vandana Shiva
DESCRIPTION:Watch the recording\n\n\n\n\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j41Fcg2HmdY\n\n\n\n\n\nA Conversation between Dr. Vandana Shiva and Dr. Àlex Gómez-Marín \n\n\n\nWednesday April 279:00am PDT  | 12:00pm EDT  | 5:00pm BST  |  6:00pm CEST \n\n\n\nThe session is live and all registered participants will receive the RECORDING. \n\n\n\nA monthly virtual encounter to understand where science is going and to reimage where we hope it might go. \n\n\n\nThe dialogue will be in a lively and spontaneous format of approximately 45 minutes up to an hour and we will then open up for questions from the audience. \n\n\n\nScience is more than an academic activity circumscribed to laboratories and seminar rooms; it is a human creative effort that has political implications and bears societal responsibilities. In this installment of The Future Scientist series\, we will explore what scientists actually do\, aren’t doing\, and could do in the wider picture of the troubled relationship between human beings and the Earth. Drawing from science and philosophy\, but also from real-world activism\, we will explicitly address the pervasive and pernicious effects of the neoliberal tide and discuss how to enact reciprocal transformations at the individual and planetary levels\, so as to honor the land\, the feminine and\, above all\, mother nature. The Future Scientist shall not be the modern Prometheus. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDr Vandana Shiva is an Indian scholar\, activist\, and author. A food sovereignty advocate\, environmentalist\, and ecofeminist\, Shiva holds a PhD in physics and has written more than 20 books\, including Making Peace with the Earth\, Staying Alive\, Monocultures of the Mind\, Democratizing Biology\, Soil Not Oil\, and Stolen Harvest. Based in Delhi\, she is referred to as “Gandhi of grain” for her activism associated with the anti-GMO movement. Shiva is one of the leaders and board members of the International Forum on Globalization\, and a figure of the anti-globalization movement. She has worked as a consultant for the Indian government and abroad\, and in NGOs such as the International Forum on Globalization\, Women’s Environment & Development Organization and Third World Network. She is a co-founder of the gender unit of the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development\, and of the Women’s Environment & Development Organization. Shiva has received numerous international honors\, such as the John Lennon-Yoko Ono Grant for Peace (2008)\, Sydney’s Peace Prize (2010)\, Calgary’s Peace Prize (2011)\, and the Right Livelihood Award (1993)\, which is regarded as the “alternative Nobel Prize”. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDr Àlex Gómez-Marín is a Spanish physicist turned neuroscientist. He holds a PhD in theoretical physics and a Masters in biophysics from the University of Barcelona. He was a research fellow at the EMBL-CRG Centre for Genomic Regulation and at the Champalimaud Center for the Unknown in Lisbon. His research spans from the origins of the arrow of time to the neurobiology of action-perception in flies\, worms\, mice\, humans and robots. Since 2016 he is the head of the Behavior of Organisms Laboratory at the Instituto de Neurociencias in Alicante\, where he is an Associate Professor of the Spanish Research Council. Combining high-resolution experiments\, computational and theoretical biology\, and continental philosophy\, his latest research concentrates on real-life cognition and consciousness. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Future Scientist Series\n\n\n\nScience as we know it is a relatively recent human invention. \n\n\n\nAfter the ‘scientific revolution’ of the seventeenth century\, science and philosophy remained entangled as ‘natural philosophy’ until they started to separate in the nineteenth century (the very word ‘scientist’ was coined in 1834). Subsequently\, science morphed from an activity carried out by wealthy people as a hobby (the ‘amateur\,’ in the etymological sense of the word) into a paid job within an institutionalized system (the ‘professional’). Paradoxically or not\, great ideas come more easily from people who are not paid to have them—it’s like forcing someone to be free\, or compelling creativity by an act of will. \n\n\n\nIn the last decades\, a series of technological and societal changes have further accelerated mutations of what it means to be a scientist; from the selection forces cast by neoliberalism on ‘scientific careers\,’ to the kind of ‘science in the age of selfies’ that social media promotes. Scientists too are prey to the perverse dynamics of nowadays ‘attention economy.’ To understand what scientists do and why they do it\, one must also understand the political and social contexts in which they live. \n\n\n\nIn addition\, the rise of ‘big science’—initially in physics (particle physics and astronomy)\, and subsequently in life and mind sciences (genomics\, and connectomics)—is reconfiguring the landscape typically inhabited by the romantic figure of the lone scientist receiving visions in dream-like states of consciousness and\, eventually\, advancing science in a stroke of genius. In turn\, the idea of the scientist bred in the current academe is that of a diligent caffeinated deluxe technician as a part within the larger mechanism of research group army; a person trained exquisitely (and almost exclusively) on a research aspect\, a specialist unable to keep track of what goes on beyond the narrow confines of his/her discipline. Young scientists are indeed trained to be good at following rules and procedures (explicit laboratory protocols\, but also implicit codes of conduct and metaphysical commitments) but discouraged to learn to see when and how to transcend them. \n\n\n\nIn turn\, the more recent promises of ‘big data’ and ‘artificial intelligence’ posit a near-future landscape where some of the core skills and tasks traditionally attributed to humans may be soon carried out by machines (or so the ‘scientific soteriologists’ claim). Algorithms are not just ingenious means to an end that require human intervention to imbue them with meaning\, but are swiftly becoming ends in themselves\, pretending they offer an automated unbiased interpretation of the data. \n\n\n\nA re-appraisal of the habits of the modern scientist entails an ethical dimension as well: why do we treat animals as objects (as means\, rather than ends in themselves)\, why do we study life in laboratories primarily by killing it\, and why do we study life in laboratories in the first place? These questions also reflect on ecological considerations regarding our place in nature (humans in relationship with other animals\, and other kingdoms of life) and our destruction of the planet. Francis Bacon’s prophetic vision of the Promethean scientist\, so vividly captured in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein\, has become both a cautionary tale and an inspiration. \n\n\n\nIn addition\, and despite the real ‘paradigm changes’ in physics at the beginning of the twentieth century\, other branches of science such as biology and neuroscience remain under the spell of philosophical promissory materialism. Research facts are sold in tandem with covert metaphysical commitments. The objective-subjective divide still puzzles both scientists and the layperson. The mind-body problem remains to be solved (or dissolved). \n\n\n\nIn sum\, the whole enterprise seems to be committed to suppressing broad thinkers\, promoting academics that look more like corporate managers\, PR mavericks and professional fund-raisers and less like scholars\, who are asked to inhibit their interest in philosophy\, and to cast suspicion on their fertile imagination. Dogma and habit are inhibiting free inquiry. \n\n\n\nIt is as if science as a whole is becoming less scientific. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn the face of this milieu of factors\, in this series of online events we seek to reflect on what ‘the future scientist’ may look like. This is an ambitious exercise indeed\, which goes beyond mere theoretical speculation. It is not unlikely that sooner than we think current science will be unrecognizable to most of us. The consequences for humanity writ large\, not just for scientists themselves\, are pressing. \n\n\n\nThe question at stake is whether by ‘future scientist’ we mean what scientists in the future are all likely to look like\, or what a future better scientist might look like. In our conversations we will engage more in prescribing than in predicting\, that is\, we might begin by describing where science is going (prediction) to then describe where we hope science might go (prescription). Attempting the art of ‘dia-logos\,’ we hope to express a creative voice that will enlighten the way of a new science in the twenty-first century. \n\n\n\nThe series will be direct conversations\, that is\, no formal presentation of the invited speaker but a kind of ‘thinking aloud’ in the mode of a dialogue between each guest and Àlex Gómez-Marín as the conversation host. The idea is to engage critically with various aspects of ‘the future scientist’ in a lively and spontaneous format for approximately 45 minutes to an hour\, followed by comments and questions from the audience. Each conversation will take place virtually\, on a Wednesday each month. \n\n\n\nThe invited speakers to The Future Scientist series are chosen not just as great interlocutors to discuss these issues\, but also as exemplars and hints of what ‘the future scientist’ may actually look like here and now.
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