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Damion Searls, writer and translator, will explore the surprising cultural, artistic, and scientific renaissance in early-twentieth-century Switzerland. From Albert Einstein and Carl Jung to Rilke, Lenin, modern dance, and personality testing, Switzerland a century ago was a hotbed of innovative ideas that still shape our world today.
This talk and extensive slideshow will focus on three of the “magic mountains” where these peaceful revolutions took place: La-Chaux-de-Fonds in the Jura, birthplace of the Swiss watch industry and, later, Swiss Art Nouveau, Swiss socialism, and the architect Le Corbusier; Monte Verità in Ascona, home to a countercultural community of nudist, vegetarian, free-love nature-worshipping dreamers; and Davos, Thomas Mann’s original “Magic Mountain” and currently the site of the annual World Economic Summit.
Price: $free
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