Adam Kirsch is a senior editor at The New Republic and a columnist for Tablet Magazine. He is the author of two books of poetry, The Thousand Wells and Invasions, and several other books, including most recently Rocket and Lightship: Essays on Literature and Ideas.
Adam Kirsch
Senior Editor at The New Republic
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The Search for Immortality
This roundtable will examine how awareness of mortality shapes human life, from early anxieties to philosophical and spiritual responses, and how scientific and spiritual developments inform ideas about transcendence, perception, and possible forms of existence beyond death.