Starborn: A World without Stars

Speaker
Cosmologist Roberto Trotta, author of Starborn, in conversation with Astrophyics Proefessor Roger Davies
Event date
Event time
18:00 - 19:00
Venue
St Anne’s College
Woodstock Road
Oxford
OX2 6HS
Event type
Lectures and seminars
Event cost
Free
Disabled access?
Yes
Booking required
Not required

Imagine Earth wholly shrouded in thick, perennial clouds, and our ancestors looking up at night to see... nothing. How radically altered would have been the story of our species on such a planet! Cosmologist Roberto Trotta, author of Starborn, explores in conversation with philosopher Carissa Véliz, the hidden story of how the stars have made us who we are, from prehistory to AI.