Complexity Explorer Santa Few Institute

CSSS 2023

Lead instructor: Dave Feldman

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5.3 SFI Community Lecture with Andrea Wulf (June 20) » SFI Community Lecture with Andrea Wulf (June 20)

Magnificent Rebels • Andrea Wulf  [optional special event]

Lensic Theater, Santa Fe • 7:30–9PM on Tuesday, June 20, 2023


Shuttles begin boarding in the IAIA parking lot at 6:30PM

Please collect your ticket from Santiago as you board the bus.

Shuttles depart IAIA promptly at 6:40PM

Shuttles depart Santa Fe promptly at 9:30PM (pick-up location to be announced)


Andrea Wulf will present the research captured in her latest book, "Magnificent Rebels - The First Romantics and the Invention of the Self," which tells the story of a group of extraordinary rebels who challenged traditional ways of thinking about ourselves and the world. This group of revolutionaries was not comprised of soldiers or politicians but instead of poets, philosophers, literary critics, and scientists who lived in Jena, a quiet German university town in the 1790s.

The Jena Set were the first Romantics, and their unconventional lives served as laboratories for their radical ideas. They believed in the creative power of the self and aspired to explore the meaning of art, science, nature, and freedom. Their leap into the self sparked a revolution of the mind that continues to influence our modern world today.

Andrea Wulf is an accomplished author, a member of PEN American Center, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and a Miller Scholar at the Santa Fe Institute.

More information on the Community Lecture here.