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Name: 21st Annual Paul D. Bartlett, Sr. Lecture: Interstellar: The Search for Extraterrestrial Life and Our Future in the Stars
Start: 2023-9-21T19-19-00-00
End: 2023-9-21T20-20-00-00
Location: Linda Hall Library

Radical Congresswomen boycott bi-partisan trip to Israel

August 12, 2019 Israel, News

There’s not much that both Democrats and Republicans can agree on these days. Unless you’re talking about bi-partisan support for Israel. They can agree on that. Support for Israel regularly brings people ...

Two more nations to move embassies to Jerusalem

March 25, 2019 Israel, News

Two more nations will move their embassies to Jerusalem: Romania and Honduras are the latest to do so. The official announcement for Romania was made Sunday at the AIPAC Policy Conference in Washington, D.C., ...

Feb. 15 forum explores what future holds for Israel

February 1, 2017 Local

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September

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21Sep7:00 pm8:00 pm21st Annual Paul D. Bartlett, Sr. Lecture: Interstellar: The Search for Extraterrestrial Life and Our Future in the Stars7:00 pm - 8:00 pm Linda Hall Library, 5109 Cherry Street in Kansas City, Missouri

Time

(Thursday) 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Location

Linda Hall Library

5109 Cherry Street in Kansas City, Missouri

Event Details

The annual Paul D. Bartlett, Sr. Lecture invites the finest university professors to speak on subjects related to the Linda Hall Library’s collections. The Paul D. Bartlett Lecture is presented in association with the Harvard-Radcliffe Club of Kansas City, the Yale Club of Kansas City and the Princeton Alumni Association of Greater Kansas City.

The Lecture is free and open to the public, though pre-registering is required and seating is limited. You may attend in person September 21 from 7-8 p.m. CDT at the Linda Hall Library, 5109 Cherry Street in Kansas City, Missouri, or watch via livestream. Dr. Loeb will sign copies of his new book “Interstellar” in the Library’s Main Reading Room immediately following his lecture.

In the New York Times bestseller Extraterrestrial, Avi Loeb, the longest serving Chair of Harvard’s Astronomy Department, presented a theory that shook the scientific community: our solar system, Dr. Loeb claimed, had likely been visited by a piece of advanced alien technology from a distant star. This provocative and persuasive argument opened millions of minds internationally to the vast possibilities of our universe and the existence of intelligent life beyond Earth. But a crucial question remained: now that we are aware of the existence of extraterrestrial life, what do we do next? How do we prepare ourselves for interaction with interstellar extraterrestrial civilization? How can our species become interstellar?

\essor Loeb tackles these questions in a revelatory, powerful call to arms that reimagines the idea of contact with extraterrestrial civilizations. Dismantling our science-fiction fueled visions of a human and alien life encounter, Interstellar provides a realistic and practical blueprint for how such an interaction might actually occur, resetting our cultural understanding and expectation of what it means to identify an extraterrestrial object. From awe-inspiring searches for extraterrestrial technology, to the heated debate of the existence of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena, Dr. Loeb provides a thrilling, front-row view of the monumental progress in science and technology currently preparing us for contact. He also lays out the profound implications of becoming—or not becoming—interstellar; in an urgent, eloquent appeal for more proactive engagement with the world beyond ours, he powerfully contends why we must seek out other life forms, and in the process, choose who and what we are within the universe.

Combining cutting edge science, physics, and philosophy, Interstellar revolutionizes the approach to our search for extraterrestrial life and our preparation for its discovery. In this eye-opening, necessary look at our future, Avi Loeb artfully and expertly raises some of the most important questions facing us as humans, and proves, once again, that scientific curiosity is the key to our survival.

September 21, 2023

7:00pm – 8:00pm CDT