Daily Archive for March 23rd, 2009

Shirley Tilghman on Charlie Rose

Published on March 23, 2009 in academia, education, science, science and society and women in science. 0 Comments

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An excellent interview, coming in at slightly over 18 minutes. Well worth your time. Shirley Tilghman talks about science and the humanities, funding for them, their role Continue reading ‘Shirley Tilghman on Charlie Rose’

The Spiritual Life of Plants

Published on March 23, 2009 in architecture, art, biology, gardening, literature, Los Angeles, science, technology and work. 2 Comments

cvj sowing seedsGiven all the gardening I’ve been doing over the last week or so (there’s some seed-sowing action going on to the right – more later), it may be fitting to go and sit and participate in the event coming up today. It is another of the College Commons events I’ve been mentioning here.

It’ll be a round table discussion and workshop to kick off a series, and here’s the summary:

“The Spiritual Life of Plants” series, arranged by Natania Meeker and Antónia Szabari of French and comparative literature, aims to reunite urgent contemporary conversations around ecology and the built environment with an early modern past — a past in which plants existed both at the limits of being and at the frontier of new forms of knowledge. What might these animated plants have to tell us about the ways in which humans experience, regulate, and are transformed by the non-human beings that surround them? How can we carry these conversations forward into the present and the future?

Today’s round table: Continue reading ‘The Spiritual Life of Plants’