Oppenheimer, Technology, and Humanity

A Conversation and Q&A with Kai Bird

Thursday, May 18, 5:30 p.m.

Wolfensohn Hall 

Kai Bird is a historian, journalist, and executive director and distinguished lecturer at CUNY Graduate Center’s Leon Levy Center for Biography in New York City. Hear him in conversation with IAS Director David Nirenberg as they discuss the Pulitzer Prize-winning biography, American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer, and the complex legacy of the theoretical physicist and former director of theInstitute for Advanced Study, J. Robert Oppenheimer.