Where Does It End? Saturday, May 19th 2:30 - 4:30PM Past Event Watch the video » We follow up our inquiry into beginnings by posing complementary questions about endings: why are we curious about endings, whether that of the cosmos or our own? What can we discover from each other’s curiosity about endings? What are the organizational properties necessary to call something an ending? How might conceptualizations of the end of consciousness, life, civilization, and the universe at large inform one another? Free and open to the public. Participants: James Berger Senior Lecturer in American Studies and English, Yale University James Berger is Senior Lecturer in American Studies and English at Yale University. He received his B.A. from Columbia University, his M.A. from Teachers College, Columbia University, and his Ph.D. from the University of Virginia. His interests include twentieth- and twenty-first-century American literature, literary theory, disability studies, neuroscience and literature, and apocalyptic literature and film, the… read more » William Koblener Associate Professor, Bar-Ilan University William Kolbrener is Associate Professor of English at Bar-Ilan University. He received his B.A. from Columbia College, his M.A. from University College, Oxford, and his Ph.D. from Columbia University. He has written in major scholarly journals in literature, history, theology, psychoanalysis, and cultural criticism, on Jewish topics in Commentary, Azure,JQR, the AJS Review, Tradition and many other Jewish publications, and the Washington… read more » Michael Rampino Professor of Biology, Earth & Environmental Studies, New York University Michael Rampino is Professor of Biology with the Earth and Environmental Science Program at New York University and is a Research Consultant at NASA, Goddard Institute for Space Studies. He received his B.A. from Hunter College of the City University of New York and his Ph.D. in Geological Sciences from Columbia University. A highly regarded teacher… read more » Paul J. Steinhardt Albert Einstein Professor in Science and Director, Princeton Center for Theoretical Science, Princeton University Paul J. Steinhardt is the Albert Einstein Professor in Science and Director of the Princeton Center for Theoretical Science at Princeton University, where he is also on the faculty of both the Department of Physics and the Department of Astrophysical Sciences. He received his B.S. in Physics from Caltech, and his M.A. and Ph.D., both in… read more »
James Berger Senior Lecturer in American Studies and English, Yale University James Berger is Senior Lecturer in American Studies and English at Yale University. He received his B.A. from Columbia University, his M.A. from Teachers College, Columbia University, and his Ph.D. from the University of Virginia. His interests include twentieth- and twenty-first-century American literature, literary theory, disability studies, neuroscience and literature, and apocalyptic literature and film, the… read more »
William Koblener Associate Professor, Bar-Ilan University William Kolbrener is Associate Professor of English at Bar-Ilan University. He received his B.A. from Columbia College, his M.A. from University College, Oxford, and his Ph.D. from Columbia University. He has written in major scholarly journals in literature, history, theology, psychoanalysis, and cultural criticism, on Jewish topics in Commentary, Azure,JQR, the AJS Review, Tradition and many other Jewish publications, and the Washington… read more »
Michael Rampino Professor of Biology, Earth & Environmental Studies, New York University Michael Rampino is Professor of Biology with the Earth and Environmental Science Program at New York University and is a Research Consultant at NASA, Goddard Institute for Space Studies. He received his B.A. from Hunter College of the City University of New York and his Ph.D. in Geological Sciences from Columbia University. A highly regarded teacher… read more »
Paul J. Steinhardt Albert Einstein Professor in Science and Director, Princeton Center for Theoretical Science, Princeton University Paul J. Steinhardt is the Albert Einstein Professor in Science and Director of the Princeton Center for Theoretical Science at Princeton University, where he is also on the faculty of both the Department of Physics and the Department of Astrophysical Sciences. He received his B.S. in Physics from Caltech, and his M.A. and Ph.D., both in… read more »
Michael Rampino’s research supporting the link between cyclical comet showers and mass extinctions is featured in the November 2015 The Atlantic article, “The Chilling Regularity of Mass Extinctions”: http://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2015/11/the-next-mass-extinction/413884/ Reply