Dartmouth Events

Physics & Astronomy Colloquium - Professor Marcelo Gleiser, Dartmouth College

Title: "The Dawn of a Mindful Universe"

Friday, January 26, 2024
3:30pm – 4:30pm
Wilder 104 & Zoom
Intended Audience(s): Public
Categories: Arts and Sciences, Lectures & Seminars
Abstract: Our project of civilization is at a crossroads and inaction can be disastrous to our collective future.
Clearly, fear is not working as a way to push forward a new worldview where we exist symbiotically with the planet.
In this talk I’ll touch upon some of the central ideas of my book, in particular connecting Copernicanism and
modern astrobiology to propose a new, post-Enlightenment worldview, centered on a biocentric view, a view that places
our living world as a rare and precious planet and asks for a new moral stance from humanity, inspired by a multicultural
way of thinking about the world and our relation to it.
 
Hosted by the 23-24 Colloquium Committee
 
***Join before the Colloquium at 3:00 pm for coffee, cookies and brownies from Lou's in Wilder 103!***
 
Please click the link below to join the webinar:
https://dartmouth.zoom.us/j/91888702369?pwd=aUlaVEFYNGZHNlZWL0R3cEVWQXg4UT09
Email physics.department@dartmouth.edu for passcode
For more information, contact:
Tressena Manning
603-646-2854

Events are free and open to the public unless otherwise noted.