Oneness and Reality

Speaker Series

Oneness and Reality

Part 4 of The New Discourse on Oneness

May 10, 2024

Co-sponsored by the Institute for Public Knowledge at New York University, the Rock Ethics Institute at Penn State, and the Center on Modernity in Transition.

Speakers

Kenneth R. Brown

Duke University

Kenneth R. Brown is Michael J. Fitzpatrick Distinguished Professor of Engineering at Duke University. His research is on the control of quantum systems for both understanding the natural world and developing new technologies.

Heinrich Päs

TU Dortmund University

Heinrich Päs is a professor of theoretical physics at TU Dortmund University, where he conducts research on particle physics and cosmology. His book The One: How an Ancient Idea Holds the Future of Physics (Basic Books) explores the nature of reality and the universe.

Moderators

Shahrzad Sabet

Co-Director, COMIT

Shahrzad Sabet is Co-Director of the Center on Modernity in Transition (COMIT) and a Fellow at New York University’s Institute for Public Knowledge. Her current book project, which spans a variety of disciplines, makes the case for a reimagined universalism that reconciles the oneness and the diversity of humankind.

Benjamin Schewel

Co-Director, COMIT

Benjamin Schewel is Co-Director of the Center on Modernity in Transition (COMIT). He is the author of Seven Ways of Looking at Religion (2017) and is currently working on a second book, Encountering the Axial Age, both from Yale University Press.