Reading and Talk: “Einstein’s Dreams”

Join the MIT Museum for a special reading with author Alan Lightman from his seminal work, “Einstein’s Dreams,” a fictional meditation on the nature of time. Lightman and Pillis will lead a public reading of some of the book’s most beloved passages, inviting audience members to read aloud and share their own favorites. Attendees will also have the opportunity to imagine new worlds of time

Following the reading, Lightman, Professor of the Practice of the Humanities at MIT; and Pillis, an MIT Media Lab alum and Assistant Professor of Virtual Production at Emerson College, will engage in a conversation about the book’s enduring impact, emerging research on TeleAbsence, and deep connections between time, physics, memory, identity, and the universe. To submit a reading or an idea, click here.