The Faculty of Polish and Classical Philology at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań and the City of Poznań invite you to a public lecture by Dr Iain McGilchrist entitled "Why brain asymmetry matters to our civilisation and the plight of the humanities". The lecture will take place on 6 June at 5:30 p.m. in the Lubrański Hall, Collegium Minus, Wieniawskiego 1. The lecture will be delivered in English.
Iain McGilchrist (born 1953) is a British literary scholar, psychiatrist, and philosopher. He held a prestigious fellowship at All Souls College, Oxford, and was also affiliated with Green Templeton College, Oxford. After completing his medical studies and specialising in psychiatry, he worked as a consultant at the Bethlem and Maudsley Hospital in London and conducted research at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. He was also a fellow at the Institute of Advanced Studies in Stellenbosch. In 2009 and 2021, McGilchrist published two groundbreaking books combining neuroscience research on brain hemisphere functions with philosophical and intellectual history: The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World (London, 2009), and The Matter with Things: Our Brains, Our Delusions, and the Unmaking of the World (London, 2021). He is currently an active public intellectual, delivering lectures around the world and sharing his research widely on YouTube.