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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,
possibly with book signing afterward.
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
10-13 – Multimedia Lecture at Conference on Astronomy and Civilization,
Budapest, Hungary *
Oct
19-30 – Dwight H. Terry Lectureship, Yale University (four lectures during
two weeks, to be published by Yale University Press) *
Dec
3-9 – Multimedia Lecture at Parliament of the World’s Religions, Melbourne,
Australia *
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, 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, Dec 16/18
Tues/Thurs – Nancy and Joel taught inner city high school kids about
cosmology in Matthew Fox and Professor Pitt’s 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, July
19 Thurs – Colloquium, Robert N. Noyce Conference Room, Santa Fe Institute, July
29 Sun – Keynote Lecture, International
Society for the Study of Time Conference, Sept
10 Mon – Public Lecture at Science North, Sudbury, Ontario, Canada, 7:30 pm * Sept
13 Thurs – Public Lecture at Queen’s 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, April 16 Mon – Panel Discussion
in connection with Brecht’s “Galileo,” 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, 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 - Nov 17 Fri - Oct 9 Mon - Archaelogy Lecture Theatre, 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 - Oct 12 Thurs - Miller's Oct 16 Mon - Oct 18 Weds - October 2006 Oct 2 Monday - Congregation Etz Chayim Yom Kippur presentation and study
group, Oct 25 Weds - NASA Ames Director's Colloquium, 2 pm; NASA Research Park public lecture, 7 pm * Oct 26 Thurs - Oct 30 Mon - Spring - Summer 2006 Mar 9 Thurs - Apr 6 Thursday - Publication date: books go on sale Apr 10 Mon - Apr 11 Tues - Capitola Book Cafe, Apr 12 Wed - Salt Lake City, Frontiers of Science Lecture at University of Utah, Skaggs Biology Bldg., 7:30 pm * Apr 17 Mon - Apr 18 Tues - Apr 19 Wed - Apr 20 Thurs - Washington, DC, Politics & Prose, Treasury Executive Institute, 9 - 11 am * Apr 25 Tues - Apr 28 Fri - Chicago, Transitions Bookplace, Apr 29 Sat - May 2 Tues - May 3 Wed - May 8 Mon - May 9 Tues - 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 - 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 August 16, 2007. |
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