Are we alone in the universe? And what would it mean for religion, spirituality, and our sense of self if we discover we're not? How might Judaism wrestle with the idea of a nonhuman intelligence? Join Avi Loeb, former chair of the Harvard astronomy department and current head of the Galileo Project in conversation with science journalist and Lehrhaus co-founder Joshua Foer.

Avi Loeb is the head of the Galileo Project, founding director of Harvard University’s — Black Hole Initiative, director of the Institute for Theory and Computation at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, and the former chair of the astronomy department at Harvard University (2011–2020). He is a former member of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology and a former chair of the Board on Physics and Astronomy of the National Academies. He is the bestselling author of “Extraterrestrial: The First Sign of Intelligent Life Beyond Earth” and a co-author of the textbook “Life in the Cosmos”, both published in 2021. The paperback edition of his new book, titled “Interstellar”, was published in August 2024.

Science journalist Joshua Foer is the author of the #1 international bestseller Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything, a finalist for the Royal Society Winton Science Book Prize. His science writing has been published in the New Yorker, Esquire, National Geographic, and Discover, among many other publications. He is also the co-founder of Atlas Obscura, Sefaria, and most recently, Lehrhaus.