Tag: fear

Saturday, May 7, 2016
2:30 - 4:30 pm

Fear: Wherefore, Whence?

Someone is shouting! Ho! Do you hear? Am I howling in vain? For if one is frightened, everything makes a noise!

 – Sophocles, Acrisius [fragment]

…the sound of a driven leaf shall put them to flight, and they shall flee as one flees from the sword, and they shall fall when none pursues.

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Saturday, May 7, 2016
2:30 - 4:30 pm

Fear: Wherefore, Whence?

Someone is shouting! Ho! Do you hear? Am I howling in vain? For if one is frightened, everything makes a noise!

 – Sophocles, Acrisius [fragment]

…the sound of a driven leaf shall put them to flight, and they shall flee as one flees from the sword, and they shall fall when none pursues.

… read more »
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Saturday, March 9th
1:30 - 3:30PM

The Topology of Fear

How do emotions color and shape our actions? How do we decide to take action in the midst of fear for our own lives–go to war, fight an intruder, save a person falling on subway tracks–or to ward off catastrophes such as global climate change and the irreversible loss of species that could lead to the extinction of our own species?… read more »

Saturday, March 9th
1:30 - 3:30PM

The Topology of Fear

How do emotions color and shape our actions? How do we decide to take action in the midst of fear for our own lives–go to war, fight an intruder, save a person falling on subway tracks–or to ward off catastrophes such as global climate change and the irreversible loss of species that could lead to the extinction of our own species?… read more »

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