21.09.2025, 16:30 - 18:00
The adventures of the princes of Serendip
Everything, whether ideas, things or objects, migrates from one country to another, where the foreign then becomes our own; nothing that is ours really comes from here.
Raoul Schrott demonstrates the dynamics of such a cultural transfer using an example that can be traced seamlessly over three millennia: He tells us how a Jewish anecdote about Persia, India, Ceylon, Venice, France and America gives rise to both the Sherlock Holmes of detective fiction and the concept of ‘serendipity’.