Catalyst Conversations: Matters of Light
About this Event
Location:
GBH Studio at the Boston Public Library
700 Boylston Street
Boston, MA 02116
Speakers: Marsha Wilcox and Sara Seager
Moderator: Jennifer Roberts
Light shapes how we see the world—and how we understand it. It illuminates, reveals, inspires, and guides. Darkness, by contrast, can obscure, challenge, and invite us to imagine what lies beyond the limits of perception. Together, they have long served as powerful metaphors for discovery, creativity, knowledge, and mystery.
In this Catalyst Conversations event, photographic artist Marsha Wilcox, astrophysicist Sara Seager, and moderator Jennifer Roberts explore light and darkness from strikingly different perspectives. Their conversation spans art and science, from the expressive power of light in visual culture to the search for distant worlds, the mysteries of dark matter and dark energy, and the ways illumination—both literal and metaphorical—changes how we understand ourselves and the universe.
Join us for an evening that bridges disciplines and invites curiosity, as these distinguished thinkers consider how light reveals what is visible, how darkness expands the boundaries of inquiry, and why both remain essential to discovery.
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