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An ensemble of singers and instrumentalists specialized in the performance of Baroque music on period instruments, Les Arts Florissants are renowned the world over. This concert features the San Diego debut of Théotime Langlois de Swarte, who is rapidly emerging as a much sought-after violin soloist (on both baroque and modern instruments), chamber musician, recitalist, and conductor. Gramophone wrote of him, “Performances so special that I feel a changed man from listening,” while The Strad called him “A stunner by any standard” and The New Yorker wrote he was “mesmerizing.” Visit: https://theconrad.org/events/les-arts-florissants-theotime/ Les Arts Florissants on Instagram and Facebook

Illume Speaker Series Knapp Lecture Beyond the Standard Western Diet: Why Fixing Global Food Systems Requires a New Confrontation with Animal Agriculture David Clough, PhD, FHEA | Knapp Chair of Liberal Arts Wednesday, November 20, at 5:30 p.m. Warren Auditorium, Mother Rosalie Hill Hall David Clough, PhD, chairs the Department of Theology and Applied Sciences at the University of Aberdeen and is an internationally leading scholar in Christian theology and ethics, with a particular focus on Christian thinking and practice in relation to the more-than-human world. This lecture will draw on Dr. Clough’s experiences as the principal investigator of an interdisciplinary team that completed a $700,000 four-year UK government-funded project on the Christian ethics of farmed animal welfare, and his assemblage of an even more interdisciplinary team to execute a project on the Christian ethics of food systems with an anticipated budget of $1.9 million. Stream past lectures on YouTube

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