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Luis Campos, the 2016-2017 Baruch S. Blumberg NASA/Library of Congress Chair in Astrobiology, is hosting a symposium entitled “Life As It Could Be: Astrobiology, Synthetic Biology, and the Future of Life.”

Date/Time: Thursday, September 28, 2017 from 9:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m.

Location: The John W. Kluge Center, Room 119, Thomas Jefferson Building

What is life? How might life have emerged on Earth or on other worlds? And how might we engineer the future of life—what might we make life to be? Astrobiologists and synthetic biologists grapple with these questions every day. To further explore the intersections between these sciences and the humanities, the Library of Congress is bringing together scientists, scholars, artists, and journalists for a special symposium on the intersections of astrobiology and synthetic biology.

The event is free and open to the public. A video of the symposium will be available after the event at the Kluge Center website and on the Library of Congress YouTube channel.

Participants:

Luis Campos – Associate Professor, Department of History, University of New Mexico and current Baruch S. Blumberg NASA/Library of Congress Chair in Astrobiology

Mary Voytek – Senior Scientist for Astrobiology at NASA

Nicola Twilley – Contributing Writer, newyorker.com

Giada Arney – NASA Goddard

Betul Kacar – University of Arizona

Jason Kelly – Ginkgo Bioworks

Valerie Thompson – Book Review Editor, Science Magazine

Jennifer Joy and Benumerata Muhammad

Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg – Royal College of Art

Andy Gracie – Digital Artist

Joe Davis – Massachusetts Institute of Technology

For more information, visit the Library of Congress website.