Groves, Adam Staley

In 2011, Departamenti i Shqiponjave (Department of Eagles) was established in Tirana, Albania - the 'Country of Eagles' - as a weekly reading group bringing together students and scholars from diverse regions such as art, law, anthropology, philosophy, computer science, and international relations, in an attempt to reinvigorate the discourse of the "liberal arts," the studies - ranging from grammar to music and mathematics - of the free man. Over the last two years, this interdisciplinary group has developed into an independent platform for artists and thinkers, and it now aims to establish it...