Verdurin is a space for serious, engaged, and occasionally difficult conversations on vital aspects of today’s culture. We are committed to free expression and welcome diverse views. Our events will nurture debate without insisting that it leads to shallow agreement.
Our events include screenings, lectures, and reading groups on topics such as conspiracy theory and non-contemporary art history, as well as artistic interventions.
Forthcoming events
Trauma Fiction
Narrating true adversity
13 October 2026
Against the rise of trauma culture, truth is no longer the currency of wrongs. What use is fiction in narrating the evils that permeate our lives? How do cultures reconcile themselves to their traumatic present through artifice?
Disenchantment
A Liturgy of Lack Peter Rollins
28 October 2026
What if the embrace of alienation gave rise to religious conversion? The route to spiritual salvation already involves doubt and anxiety. Should it intentionally focus on them?
After Therapy
Suffering in the age of Big Mental Health
14 November 2026
What is the space for genuine illness in ‘mental health’ discourse? Can we still rely on Freud’s distinction between “neurotic despair” and ordinary human misery? Do we need more or less therapy, and to what private, social, or political end?
