Profs & Pints Baltimore: The Cosmic Imagination

Profs and Pints Baltimore presents: “The Cosmic Imagination,” a look at thinkers who have changed our conception of reality, with William Egginton, professor of humanities and director of the Alexander Grass Humanities Institute at Johns Hopkins University.

Twentieth-century science was turned on its head by the discoveries of relativity and quantum physics. But what if you were told that those discoveries weren’t uniquely the product of the field of physics, but also sprang from centuries of efforts by artists, mystics, and thinkers to probe the extremes of human knowledge and challenge our very conception of reality?

Come learn the long, hidden history of such endeavors from Professor William Egginton, who teaches literature and intellectual history at Johns Hopkins, created that university’s Program in Medicine, Science, and Humanities, and has wowed Profs and Pints audiences with his captivating past talks on multiverses, zombies and philosophy, and dark winter folklore.

In a…