Workshop and Light Installations on the Relationship between Body and Soul, October 23 and 24, Topoi House Dahlem
The relationship between a soul understood to be immaterial and immortal and the physical and perishable human body as considered in philosophy, theology, and literature from antiquity to the 18th century will be addressed in a workshop on October 23 and 24 at Freie Universität. The workshop is being organized by the Excellence Cluster Topoi in cooperation with the Collaborative Research Centre Transformations of Antiquity of Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. In addition to the workshop itself, there will also be three light installations by the artist Lena Gätjens that pick up on the theme of the relationship between soul and body in the medium of light. ...