Lecture series: Poet in Residence | סדרת הרצאות: משורר הבית

At times, a meeting between different “cultures” may be a fertile ground that allows for breakthroughs and new insights into the two cultures. And what is more appropriate than bringing together brain researchers and poets? At the basis of science and poetry stands the joint longing to arrive at the meaning of things, at their essence, to arrive at the “truth.” This shared longing was expressed by the Spanish artist Joan Miró as the search for “the ABCs of the soul.”

In the framework of the wish to expand the limits of the scientific investigation and to bring together different languages, the language of science and the language of art, ELSC will be hosting the author and poet Yonatan Berg for the next six months. During his stay, we will want to open a two-way channel. On the one hand, Yonatan will offer all the people at ELSC an expansion of horizons and a meeting with content from the world of poetry and literature; and on the other hand, Yonatan will request to be in the laboratories, to talk with the researchers, to watch the scientific work, and to respond to all these in literary work.

Yonatan will conduct a series of open lectures on various subjects, some of which relate directly to the scientific work (see below). In this framework, he will describe how these subjects are treated in the field of poetry. We will meet the finest poets worldwide, we will visit their poetic laboratories, we will test their linguistic experiments, and we will seek to understand the methods of language and consciousness in their poetry.

The first meeting will take place on Thursday, March 24th, 2022, from 12:00-13:00, in room 2004.

All meetings will be conducted in Hebrew.