Teaching

Besides its research, the Cosmic Visions project always tries to bring its ideas and questions to the students at Johns Hopkins.

The following is a selection of past, current, and future classes related to the project:

Detail of the right-hand facade fresco, showing Anaxagoras. National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (by Eduard Lebiedzki, c. 1888, after a design by Carl Rahl)

Prof. Karen ní Mheallaigh (Classics)

AS.040.216 Exploring the Ancient Astronomical Imagination (Spring 2022 and Spring 2023)

AS.001.180.01 Lunar Histories (First Year Seminar, Fall 2022)

AS.040.612 Science and wonder in Ancient Thought (Fall 2023)

Prof. Karen ní Mheallaigh (Classics) and Dr Ivan Padilla (Astronomy)

AS.040.402 Cosmology across the ages: Ancient and Modern Questions (Spring 2024) 

Prof. Christiane Frey (MLL, German) and Prof. Karen ní Mheallaigh (Classics)

Kepler’s Somnium (Spring 2024)

Prof. William Egginton (AGHI)

AS.001.143 : Poets, Physicists, Philosophers, and the Ultimate Nature of Reality (Fall 2023)