Armen Zakharyan in Stuttgart: "30 Seconds to the Renaissance"

Armen Zakharyan - philologist and public intellectual, creator of the literary YouTube channel "Armen and Fyodor" - comes to Stuttgart with his lecture "30 Seconds to the Renaissance".

The talk centres on turning points in history: we tend to feel that we live in an age of upheaval, where the familiar world is dissolving and a new one has yet to take shape. But humanity has been here before. The late 15th century was exactly such a moment - the medieval worldview was crumbling...