Northwestern Events Calendar

Nov
17
2015

Brother Guy Consolmagno: "Would Extraterrestrials Go to Church? Or Keep Kosher? Or Observe Ramadan? And Other Questions from the Astronomer's Inbox"

When: Tuesday, November 17, 2015
7:00 PM - 8:00 PM CT

Where: McCormick Foundation Center, 1870 Campus Drive , Evanston, IL 60208 map it

Audience: Faculty/Staff - Student - Public

Contact: Pamela Villalovoz   (847) 491-3644

Group: Physics and Astronomy Special Events and Invited Talks

Category: Academic

Description:

Title: "Would Extraterrestrials Go to Church?  Or Keep Kosher?  Or Observe Ramadan?  And Other Questions from the Astronomer's Inbox"

Speaker: Brother Guy Consolmagno, S.J., Ph.D., Director of the Vatican Observatory

Abstract: Brother Guy Consolmagno will speak on the search for extraterrestrial life and the philosophical and religious questions such a discovery would raise.  He will be joined by a panel who will offer Jewish and Islamic perspectives: both Prof. David Slavsky and Prof. Omer Mozzafar from Loyola University will also answer questions on extraterrestrial life.

 

Sponsored by Sheil Catholic Center at Northwestern, the Department of Physics and Astronomy, and NU Hillel

 

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