MSU researchers to discuss connection between space, humanity
Contact: Sarah Nicholas
STARKVILLE, Miss.鈥斞侵奚墒悠碘檚 Institute for the Humanities will host an in-depth discussion this month with a university astrophysicist and historian of science regarding current phenomena in space and what it means to humankind.
Part of the Institute鈥檚 鈥淐onversation with a Humanist鈥 program, 鈥淓clipses, Satellites and Betelgeuse! Betelgeuse! Betelgeuse! Is Our Night Sky in Peril?鈥 is scheduled for 3 p.m., April 16 in the U.S. Grant Presidential Library Auditorium, fourth floor, Mitchell Memorial Library.
Event panelists include Alix Hui, associate professor of history, and Angelle Tanner, associate professor of physics and astronomy.
The public is invited to participate in the conversation which will be streamed live at .
鈥淒r. Hui and Dr. Tanner will discuss how our understanding of space affects our humanity and the importance of being able to gaze at the night sky and actually see it,鈥 said Julia Osman, director of the Institute for the Humanities and associate professor of history. 鈥淭his program will also show how science and the humanities are not separate fields at all, but inherently intertwined.鈥
For additional questions about the event, contact Osman at humanities@msstate.edu.
Part of MSU鈥檚 College of Arts and Sciences, the Institute for the Humanities promotes research, scholarship and creative performances in the humanistic disciplines and raises their visibility, both within MSU and the wider community.
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