AH! Talks - Arts & Humanities Speaker Series

Music of the Spheres Panel

Monday, October 24, 2016
Memorial Union Lecture Bowl
3 p.m.

Current popular, institutional, and political focus on practical application of the products of the STEM disciplines, with commensurate dismissal of the arts and even theoretical sciences, is disturbing. Just as Anita Gadberry's mention of music therapy being in linkage with circadian rhythms led me to seek out Tristan Darland to discuss circadian rhythms within a larger biological context, my hope is public unawareness of linkage of mathematics, logic, and musicology will be edifying to the audience. Additionally, evolution from the harmonic of classical astrophysics to the probabilism of contemporary physics is an evolution of which most members of the public are not aware. - Donald Poochigian

Moderated by: Donald Poochigian, Philosophy & Religion
Panelists:
Tristan Darland, Biology
Anita Gadberry, Music
Ryan Zerr, Mathematics
William Schwalm, Physics & Astrophysics
Gary Towne, Music
Michael Beltz, Philosophy & Religion

About AH! Talks

AH! Talks (Arts and Humanities Talks) is the new name of the Interdisciplinary Studies Speaker Series. These presentations are designed to engage interdisciplinary thinking broadly and to be accessible to the larger community, bringing listeners to their own "AH" moments as intellectual connections are made and our understanding of one another expands.

AH! Talks may address either enduring or emerging questions central to the arts and humanities, or questions arising from other disciplines to which the arts and humanities might speak. In addition to presenting a major public event, external lecturers usually interact in smaller settings with faculty, graduate students, and/or undergraduates.