A world in a grain of sand

• “The Moral Dimensions of Scale in a Paranoid Age,” in Utah Museum of Natural History’s Anthropology Hall, with University of Utah faculty Leslie Francis, professor and chair of philosophy; Utah State Epidemiologist Robert Rolfs, an adjunct assistant professor of biomedical informatics; and Angela Smith, assistant professor of English; and moderated by Monisha Pasupathi, associate professor of psychology.
  
  

Friday afternoon, Feb. 22, symposium participants may attend various talks and demonstrations, including a 2 p.m. talk by former space shuttle passenger and U.S. Sen. Jake Garn titled “The Farther You Travel, the More (or Less) You Know;” a 2:30 p.m. demonstration titled “Powers of 10;” and a 3 p.m. architectural tour.

Keynoter Linda Gregerson is a professor of English language and literature at the University of Michigan. Her poetry collection, “Magnetic North,” was named a 2007 National Book Award finalist. Her award-winning collections include: “Waterborne,” “The Woman Who Died in Her Sleep” and “Fire in the Conservatory.”

Lisa Randall is a world-renowned theoretical physicist and professor at Harvard University. Her book, “Warped Passages: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Universe’s Hidden Dimensions,” was one of the New York Times’ 100 notable books in 2005. In 2007, she was named one of Time magazine’s 100 most influential people.

Sanford Kwinter, an associate professor of architecture at Rice University, is an accomplished writer, designer and philosopher. He is co-founder and editor for Zone Books at MIT Press and founder of the content and communications design firm Studio !KASAM. He has written numerous books including “Architectures of Time: Toward a Theory of the Event in Modernist Culture” and “Phylogenesis: Foa’s Ark.”

Meanwhile, the King’s English Bookshop in Salt Lake City will help arrange book groups for people who want to read and discuss books by symposium keynoters. Call Anne Holman at (801) 484-9100.

For those attending the symposium, the Aline Wilmot Skaggs Biology Building is about a two-block walk from the TRAX light rail system’s Stadium Station.

For those who drive, parking marked for symposium attendees will be available in the “A” lot just north of South Campus Drive and northwest of Rice Eccles Stadium.

The symposium is sponsored by the University of Utah’s Office of the Vice President for Research, College of Humanities, Department of English, Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute and Utah Museum of Natural History. Co-sponsors include KUER-FM90.1, the Utah Humanities Council, the King’s English Bookshop, the Utah Arts Council, and the Salt Lake County Zoo, Arts, and Parks.

For more information on the symposium, see www.scienceandliterature.org

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