Lunch Lecture: Space and Spirit

In the Middle Ages, two types of space existed - material and spiritual - with greater importance being placed on the latter. Nowadays, this spiritual element has vanished. In this lecture, the evolution of the Western notion of space will be traced from the dualistic Middle Ages to the twenty-first century. Margaret Wertheim will show how spiritual space was written out of the realism of reality, a transformation whose psychological consequences we are still struggling with today.