New Blues: Robert Gordon, Peter Guralnick, and Craig Werner
September 25, 2003
Wisconsin Historical Society Auditorium
This event is one of the Special Events events.
Robert Gordon, Journalist and Author
Peter Guralnick, Journalist and Author
Craig Werner, UW-Madison
Writers Robert Gordon and Peter Guralnick join Craig Werner for a discussion of new ways of thinking about the Blues. Robert Gordon is the author of Can't be Satisfied: The Life and Times of Muddy Waters. Peter Guralnick is the author of Last Train to Memphis: The Rise of Elvis Presley, and the editor of the forthcoming Martin Scorsese Presents The Blues: A Musical Journey. Craig Werner is Professor of Afro-American Studies at the UW-Madison and the author of A Change is Gonna Come: Music, Race & The Soul of America. New Blues is organized in partnership with Wisconsin Public Television in support of the PBS series The Blues, airing September 28-30.
Writing Science
October 23, 2003
Wisconsin Historical Society Auditorium
This event is one of the Special Events events.
Deborah Blum, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Antonio Damasio, University of Iowa
Alan Lightman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Sherwin Nuland, Yale University
Writing Science will bring together four renowned writers for a panel discussion on the special challenges of writing about science for a general readership—while simultaneously keeping specialist readers happy.
Deborah Blum is Associate Professor of Communication at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the author of Love at Goon Park (Perseus, 2002) and The Monkey Wars (Oxford Univ, Press, 1994). Antonio Damasio, a neurologist at the University of Iowa, is well-known for his best-selling book Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain (Avon, 1995), and the recent Looking for Spinoza: Joy, Sorrow, and the Feeling Brain (Harcourt, 2003). Alan Lightman, a physicist who directs the writing program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is the author of Einstein's Dreams (Warner Books, 1994) and a host of novels, volumes of poetry, and scientific works. Sherwin Nuland is clinical professor of surgery at Yale University, where he also teaches medical history and bioethics. He is the author of How We Die and How We Live (Vintage Books, 1995 and 1998) and the forthcoming The Doctors' Plague (W.W. Norton, 2003).
Writing Science is organized by the Center for the Humanities as a part of the 2003 Wisconsin Book Festival.
Dava Sobel
Galileo's Daughter: Counselor and Confidante in Search of the Truth
November 17, 2003
Pyle Center
This event is one of the Special Events events.
Acclaimed science writer Dava Sobel joins the Center for her first-ever lecture in Madison. Sobel is the author of the wildly popular Galileo's Daughter (Walker and Co., 1999) and Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time (Penguin, 1996). In addition to her public lecture, Ms. Sobel will be on campus for a three-day residency in which she will lead workshops and discussions with an interdisciplinary range of UW-Madison faculty and staff.
Dava Sobel's visit is presented in partnership with the Wisconsin Initiative for Science Literacy.
