Krauss brings Hawking, artistic icons to ASU

March 09, 2011

Stephen Hawking, Werner Herzog, Anthony Grayling, Liz Lerman and Jean Auel will be among the celebrities and scientists at Arizona State University April 7-11 for a science and culture festival.

“The festival itself involves music, film and dance as well as other exciting events that involve lectures and panel discussions on topics to be touched on during the festival,” said Lawrence Krauss, founding director of the ASU Origins Project, which is organizing the festival.

“The ASU Origins Project focuses on fundamental questions that humans ask about themselves as we are trying to understand our place in the cosmos. This is precisely where science and culture merge,” said Krauss, a theoretical physicist and cosmologist who teaches in the School of Earth and Space Exploration and the Department of Physics in ASU’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.

“Science forces us to reassess our place in the cosmos, but so does good art, music, literature. So what better way to bring them together to celebrate these wonderful aspects of being human, in the context of Origins? And as everything the ASU Origins Project has attempted, we want to do it in an unprecedented and exciting fashion,” Krauss said. Keep reading...

Tickets to The Planets with special lecture by Stephen Hawking available here.