Monday, January 05, 2009
Catherine Chalmers to Speak on ‘Sex, Food Chains and Cockroaches
Multi-media artist, Catherine Chalmers to Speak on ‘Sex, Food Chains and Cockroaches’
6:30 to 8 p.m.,
Wednesday, Jan. 7
in the Wyatt Pavilion.
UC Davis
The lecture is free and open to the public.
Nationally known multi-media artist Catherine Chalmers, who explores the lives of cockroaches and other creatures that the general public disdains, will speak on “Sex, Food Chains and Cockroaches” on Wednesday, Jan. 7 at the Wyatt Pavilion, University of California, Davis.
Her presentation, from 6:30 to 8 p.m., is the second in a series of four lectures on “The Consilience of Art and Science,” a centennial colloquium sponsored by the UC Davis Art/Science Fusion experimental learning program. The lectures are free and open to the public.
The Wyatt Pavilion is located on Old Davis Road, just southwest of A Street, across from Wyatt Deck.
“Catherine Chalmers investigates the natural world, from food chains to insect sex, revealing new points of view about our place in the ecosystem,” said Art/Science Fusion co-director Diane Ullman, associate dean of Undergraduate Academic Programs, College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, and professor of entomology.
http://www.catherinechalmers.com/
http://entomology.ucdavis.edu/news/catherinechalmers.html
Sponsored by the Dept. of Entomology, UC Davis
6:30 to 8 p.m.,
Wednesday, Jan. 7
in the Wyatt Pavilion.
UC Davis
The lecture is free and open to the public.
Nationally known multi-media artist Catherine Chalmers, who explores the lives of cockroaches and other creatures that the general public disdains, will speak on “Sex, Food Chains and Cockroaches” on Wednesday, Jan. 7 at the Wyatt Pavilion, University of California, Davis.
Her presentation, from 6:30 to 8 p.m., is the second in a series of four lectures on “The Consilience of Art and Science,” a centennial colloquium sponsored by the UC Davis Art/Science Fusion experimental learning program. The lectures are free and open to the public.
The Wyatt Pavilion is located on Old Davis Road, just southwest of A Street, across from Wyatt Deck.
“Catherine Chalmers investigates the natural world, from food chains to insect sex, revealing new points of view about our place in the ecosystem,” said Art/Science Fusion co-director Diane Ullman, associate dean of Undergraduate Academic Programs, College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, and professor of entomology.
http://www.catherinechalmers.com/
http://entomology.ucdavis.edu/news/catherinechalmers.html
Sponsored by the Dept. of Entomology, UC Davis
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