Professor David Peimer
Great Migrations of the Mind: Socrates, Renaissance, Enlightenment, Today (after Darwin, Freud)
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Summary
Great migrations of human thought evolve in surprising, inspiring, and often unpredictable ways. In this lecture we will look at a brief history of four great migrations of ideas–ideas of human nature and society, showing our unique ability to attain imaginative insights in the restless pursuit of knowledge.
Professor David Peimer
David Peimer is a professor of theatre and performance studies in the UK. He has taught at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, and New York University (Global Division), and was a Fulbright Scholar at Columbia University. Born in South Africa, David has won numerous awards for playwriting and directing. He has written eleven plays and directed forty in places like South Africa, New York, Brussels, London, Berlin, Zulu Kingdom, Athens, and more. His writing has been published widely and he is the editor of Armed Response: Plays from South Africa (2009) and the interactive digital book Theatre in the Camps (2012). He is on the board of the Pinter Centre in London.