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On April 3, 2024, Duke Initiatives in Theology and the Arts hosted philosopher, psychologist, and literary scholar Dr. Iain McGilchrist for a public conversation with DITA Director Dr. Jeremy Begbie. The best-selling author of The Master and His Emissary (Yale, 2010) and the two-volume work The Matter with Things (Perspectiva Press, 2021), McGilchrist researches, teaches, and lectures widely on brain hemisphere theory as a lens for understanding the development of Western culture over the last few centuries. In this public conversation, Dr. Begbie and Dr. McGilchrist explored what brain hemisphere theory might mean for education, the arts, and the sacred.

Special thanks to the Trent Center for Bioethics, Humanities and the History of Medicine and the Theology, Medicine, and Culture Initiative for their partnership in this event.