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Joel R. Primack and
Nancy Ellen Abrams The View from the Center of the Universe
Discovering our Extraordinary Place in the
Cosmos
Starred events* are multimedia
lectures with high-resolution astronomical videos
2010
Apr 16 - Multimedia Keynote for In2:InThinking Network 2010 Forum: The Cosmic
Context for the Human Future, at Rocketdyne Leadership & Learning Center,
Woodland Hills, CA, 7:30 pm *
Apr 18 - Informal lecture at Roger Wolfson's Movie Industry Salon, Burton
Chase Park, Marina del Ray, CA, 3 pm
2009
Mar-June - University of California, Santa Cruz course Physics 80C: Cosmology
and Culture
June 24-28 - Multimedia Lecture at Conference on Science, Wisdom, and the Future:
Humanity's Quest or a Flourishing Earth, San Luis Obispo, CA *
July 19 Sun - Multimedia Lecture at Metanexus Conference on Cosmos, Nature, and
Culture, Phoenix, AZ *
Aug 25 Tues - Multimedia Lecture with book signing, Commonwealth Club, San
Francisco, CA - 5:30 pm reception, 6 pm lecture *
Oct 15 Thurs - A Cosmic View of the Human Future, Reidy Frendship Hall, All Souls
Unitarian Church, Lexington Avenue at 80th Street, Manhattan -
6:30 pm refreshments, 7 pm lecture (free and open to the public) * http://www.allsoulsnyc.org/publications/htmlBulletins/1009ebull/Export9.htm
Oct 20, 21 and 27,28
Tues,Weds - Cosmic Society: The New Universe
and the Human Future, Dwight H. Terry Lectures, Yale University Art Museum,
4:30 pm with reception following (four lectures, to be published by Yale
University Press) * http://www.yale.edu/terrylecture/thisyear.html
Late 2008 July 31-Aug 3 Thurs-Sun - Nancy is one of two keynote speakers at the
Universe as Blessing conference http://www.creationspirituality.info/events.html
at De Pauw University Sept 5-6 Fri-Sat - Public conference in Oslo to launch the Norwegion edition of View from the Center of the Universe, featuring several presentations by Nancy, Joel, and both together, and a concert by Nancy of her original songs Sept 8-12 Mon-Fri - Joel and Nancy are plenary speakers at international conference in Granada, Spain, on Cosmology Across Cultures http://www.iac.es/congreso/cac2008/; give joint multimedia lecture on Fri Sept 12 with simultaneous Spanish translation * Oct 15 Wed - Multimedia Lecture at Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, Santiago - 6 pm * Oct 29 Wed - Multimedia Lecture at Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG), Belo Horizonte, Brazil, with simultaneous Portuguese translation, 11 am * Oct 27-28, 30-31 - Joel lectures on cosmology to grad students at the
National Observatory of Brazil, Rio de Janiero; Nancy and Joel give public
talk there Oct 31, 6 pm, to celebrate publication of the Portuguese edition
of View from the Center of the Universe Nov 5 Wed - Lecture, Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago (LSTC), Common Room 350, 1100 E 55th St (at University Ave), Chicago, IL, 7:30 pm Nov 6 Thurs - Multimedia Lecture, Staerkel Planetarium, Champaign, IL, 7 pm * Nov 8 Sat - Multimedia Lecture, Chicago Humanities Festival, Thorne
Auditorium, 375 E Chicago Ave, 10 am * http://www.chfestival.org/index.cfm?fa=fallfest.progdtl&pid=2789
Dec 4 Thurs - Awards Banquet
Lecture, U.S. Army Science Conference, Orlando, FL * online at http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6446178691022603971
Spring 2008 Mar 24 Mon - Public Lecture,
sponsored by Center for Cosmology and AstroParticle Physics, Ohio State
University, The Ballroom, The Blackwell Inn, 2110 Tuttle Place Park, 5 - 6 pm
* http://www.physics.ohio-state.edu/~astro/ccapp/PublicLectures.html
March 26 Wed - Public Lecture at
Vanderbilt University, Room 4327, Stevenson Center, 4 pm * http://www.vanderbilt.edu/news/releases?id=39723
March
27 Thurs - Public Lecture in The Center for Science and Spirituality
Distinguished Lecture Series, What it
Means to be Human: Science, Consciousness and Our Place in the Universe, at Business and Aerospace
Building’s State Farm Lecture Hall, Middle Tennessee State University, 7 pm * April 14 Mon - The Public Lecture
of the 2008 Annual Meeting of the American Physical Society, May Hall, St.
Louis Science Center, St. Louis, MO, 7 pm * Early 2008 Jan 6 Sun - Luau Evening,
Evolutionary Epic conference, Makaha Resort, Oahu, Hawaii http://www.evolutionaryepic.org/
Jan 23 Wed - Silicon Valley
Astronomy Lecture, Smithwick Theater, Foothill College, Los Altos Hills, CA,
7 pm * http://ephemeris.sjaa.net/0801/j.html
Late 2007 Sept 21 Fri - Lecture for Core
Course, University of California, Merced * Oct 18-19 Thurs-Fri - Talks at
State University of New York, Geneseo, NY * Nov 14 Wed - After-Dinner Lecture
by Joel Primack, American Physical Society Division of Plasma Physics Annual
Meeting, Orlando, FL * Dec 16/18 Tues/Thurs
- Nancy and Joel taught inner city high school kids about cosmology in
Matthew Fox and Professor Pitts YELLAWE
program in Oakland, CA * Summer 2007 June 30 Sat - The Future of
Intelligence in the Cosmos workshop, NASA Ames Laboratory - Joel: The
Future of the Visible Universe May Depend on Us; Nancy: Interstellar Travel
Requires a Shared Cosmology July
16 Mon - J. Robert Oppenheimer Memorial Lecture by Joel Primack, Los Alamos
High School Duane Smith Auditorium, Los Alamos, NM, 7:30 pm * July
17 Tues - Presentation, St. Johns College, Santa Fe, NM, 7:30 pm * July
19 Thurs - Colloquium, Robert N. Noyce Conference Room, Santa Fe Institute,
Santa Fe, NM, 3:30 pm * July
29 Sun - Keynote Lecture, International
Society for the Study of Time Conference, Asilomar, CA * Sept
10 Mon - Public Lecture at Science North, Sudbury, Ontario, Canada, 7:30 pm * Sept
13 Thurs - Public Lecture at Queens University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada,
7:30 pm * Spring 2007 April 9 Mon - Michigan Center for
Theoretical Physics Public Lecture, 1800 Chemistry Bldg, 930 N. University,
Ann Arbor, MI, 7:30 pm * April 15 Sun - Public Lecture,
David Rittenhouse Lab 1A, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 5:30
pm * April 16 Mon - Panel Discussion
in connection with Brecht’s Galileo, Wilma Theater, 265
S. Broad St., Philadelphia, PA, 7 pm
June 16 Sat - Epic and Futures
Mini-Conference, The Presidio, San Francisco Winter 2007 Jan 26 Fri - University of Texas, Austin, and McDonald Observatory,
Robert Lee Moore Hall on the UT campus, Room 4.102, 7:30 pm * Jan 27 Sat -
Feast of Jewish Learning, Temple Beth Am, 26790 Arasterdo Road, Los Altos
Hills, CA, 8:45-10:15 pm Mar 1 Thurs - Princeton Club of Northern California and Harvard Club of San Francisco, Gordon & Rees LLP, 275 Battery Street, Suite 2000, Embarcadero West, San Francisco, 6-8 pm * November 2006 Nov 11 Sat - Advanced Imaging Conference, Doubletree Hotel, San Jose, 1:30 pm * Nov 13 Mon - Sonoma State University, What Physicists Do Colloquium, Darwin Hall 103, 4 pm * Nov 17 Fri - Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, Sigma Xi and Teilhard Society Lecture, 3:15-5 pm Britain and Ireland - October 9-18, 2006 Oct 9 Mon - Archaelogy Lecture Theatre, Gordon Square, University College London, 4 pm * Oct 10 Tues - Mason Lecture Theatre, Bancroft Building, Queen Mary, University of London, cosponsored by the Scientific and Medical Network, 6:30 pm * Oct 11 Weds - Oxford University, Martin Wood Lecture Theatre, 4:30 pm * Oct 12 Thurs - Miller's Academy of Art and Science, 28a Hereford Road, Notting Hill, London, 7 pm * Oct 16 Mon - Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, Dublin, 7 pm * Oct 18 Weds - Cambridge University, Institute of Astronomy, 7 pm * October 2006 Oct 2 Monday - Congregation Etz Chayim Yom Kippur presentation and study group, Gunn High School auditorium, starting 1 pm Oct 25 Weds - NASA Ames Director's Colloquium, 2 pm; NASA Research Park public lecture, 7 pm * Oct 26 Thurs - Temple Beth El, Soquel, CA, 7 pm Oct 30 Mon - San Francisco State University, 411 Thornton Hall, 4 pm Spring - Summer 2006 Mar 9 Thurs - Santa Cruz, California, Halliday Lecture, University Inn and Conference Center, 8 pm Apr 6 Thursday - Publication date: books go on sale Apr 10 Mon - Stanford University, Room 200 Hewlett Teaching Center, 8 pm * Apr 11 Tues - Capitola Book Cafe, Capitola, California 7:30 pm Apr 12 Wed - Salt Lake City, Frontiers of Science Lecture at University of Utah, Skaggs Biology Bldg., 7:30 pm * Apr 17 Mon - Portland, Oregon, Reed College 4 pm; Powell's Books, 1005 W Burnside, 7:30 pm Apr 18 Tues - Seattle Town Hall, 1119 8th Avenue, 7:30 pm * Apr 19 Wed - Vienna, Virginia, Borders Books, 7:30 pm Apr 20 Thurs - Washington, DC, Politics & Prose, Treasury Executive Institute, 9 - 11 am * Apr 25 Tues - San Francisco, California Academy of Sciences, Sequoia Boardroom, 875 Howard Street, 2 pm and 7:30 pm * Apr 28 Fri - Chicago, Transitions Bookplace, 1000 W. North Avenue, 7:00 pm Apr 29 Sat - Chicago, Field Museum, 1 pm * May 2 Tues - Berkeley, University of California,Sackler Lecture, 5:45 pm * 2050 Valley Life Sciences Bldg. - contact: Loraine Dowling, ldowling@berkeley.edu (510) 642-7091 May 3 Wed - Davis, CA, University of California, Sciences Center Lecture Hall, 8 pm * May 8 Mon - Santa Cruz, CA, Bookshop Santa Cruz, 7:30 pm May 9 Tues - Santa Cruz, CA, University of California, Media Theater, 8 pm * May 10 Weds - Irvine, CA, University of California, Room 100 Engineering Lecture Hall, 8 pm * May 16 Tues - Harvard Observatory Author's Night, Phillips Auditorium, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, 8 pm * May 31 Wed - Philadelphia, Franklin Institute, 6:30 pm * June 2 Fri - Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, McDonnell Hall A02, 1:30 pm * June 6 Tues - Keynote Lecture, Metanexus Annual Conference on Science and Religion, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia * June 25 Sun - Keynote Lecture, Evolutionary Salon on Transformational Philanthropy, Gold Lake Mountain Resort, Colorado * Aug 25 Fri - Invited Lecture, Google NYC, 1440 Broadway 21st FL, New York, NY 10018 * * Multimedia lecture with high-resolution astronomical videos, possibly with book signing afterward Last updated April 26, 2010. |
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