POLYMATH EVENINGS

Toward a peer culture inspired by the sciences
OPUS I · What Is the Source of Creativity?

This page is intended as a shared space for the members of the Polymath Circle as we prepare for our first collective conversation.

It brings together the Portrait Conversations, earlier interviews, lectures, and other materials through which we can begin to encounter one another’s work and thought before we meet. Rather than approaching the collective conversation as strangers, the aim is to arrive with some familiarity with the questions, perspectives, and forms of knowledge already present within the Circle. The page will continue to evolve alongside the inquiry, eventually bringing together the documents and outcomes produced through our collective work.

THE CIRCLE

DISCOVER THE Polymath Portrait CONVERSATIONS

→ Loïc Yengo

Mathematician · Statistical Geneticist · Musician

Or read the conversation by chapter

→ David Capps

Philosopher · Poet · Violinist

+ Why Thought and Creativity Need Silence | David Capps

→ Sourav Sengupta

Poet · Erudite

+ The Poet’s Path: Craft, Tradition & Patronage | Sourav Sengupta

+ Aśoka, Buddhism & the Baul Singers of Bengal | Sourav Sengupta

→ Dmitry Popov

Curator · Collector · Artist · Cultural Thinker

Between Two Worlds: Dmitry Popov on Art, Inner Fire, and the Invisible Work of the Curator (Revue R 2026)

→ Valentin Gerlier

Philosopher · Scholar · Musician

« We Need a Creative Common Ground » (Revue R 2026)

↗️ Lecture: Art, Imagination & Revelation with Valentin Gerlier
(The King’s Foundation School of Traditional Arts)

OUR FIRST GATHERING ON ZOOM

→ Saturday, September 19, 2026

• New York — 8:00 am EDT
• Bengaluru — 5:30 pm IST
• London — 1:00 pm BST
• Brisbane — 10:00 pm AEST
  

THE SHARED INQUIRY

→ What Is the Source of Creativity?

NEXT

→ The first in-person gathering of the Polymath Circle
→ Spring 2027 · New York