Schedule of Events
Thursday, March 24
5-6:30 OPENING RECEPTION for Rachel Berwick's A Vanishing.
Salt Lake Art Center, 20 South West Temple.
6:30-7:00 REGISTRATION/PREREGISTRANTS PICK UP BADGES. University of Utah's Gould Auditorium, Marriott Library.
Take TRAX (depart Temple Square at 6:28, arrive South Campus 6:46) or carpool to campus.
7-8:15 p.m. KEYNOTE. Leslie Forbes. INVISIBLE IDIOTS: How collisions with the nucleus of another discipline (science, art, literature, or pizza-making) may help to produce newly charged questions about restoration. University of Utah's Gould Auditorium, Marriott Library.
Friday, March 25
8:45-9:15 REGISTRATION. University of Utah's Gould Auditorium, Marriott Library
9:15-10:15 CONCURRENT PANELS
1: ARTICULATE OBJECTS: The Language of Artifacts. Craig Dworkin, Department of English, University of Utah; Madelyn Garrett, Marriott Library, University of Utah; Fletcher Gross, Department of Mathematics, University of Utah.
Fine Arts Classroom (Room 2220), University of Utah's Marriott Library.
2: LIFE AS A WORM: Memory and the fragmentary nature of experience. Monisha Pasupathi, Department of Psychology, University of Utah; Villu Maricq, Department of Biology, University of Utah; Jennifer Sinor, Department of English, Utah State University.
Room 1715, University of Utah's Marriott Library.
10:30-11:30 CONCURRENT PANELS
3. WHAT'S FOREVER FOR? Extinction and preservation in life, language, and stone. Lyle Campbell, Center for American Indian Languages, University of Utah; Chris Cokinos, Department of English, Utah State University; Tony Ekdale, Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of Utah. Fine Arts Classroom (Room 2220)
4. STORIES WE TELL ABOUT THE STORIES WE TELL: The science of history and the historical sciences. Glenn Olsen, Department of History, University of Utah; Pierre Sokolsky, Department of Physics, University of Utah; Mauricio Mixco, Department of Linguistics, University of Utah.
Room 1715, University of Utah's Marriott Library.
11:30-12:30 LUNCH
12:45-2:15 SCIENCE FRIDAY LIVE PANEL: SOME ReASSEMBLY REQUIRED.
Join us in the University of Utah's Gould Auditorium or on the air as Ira Flatow moderates a live NPR Science Friday broadcast. The panel will feature symposium keynote speakers Rachel Berwick, Leslie Forbes, and Michael Novacek talking about restoration as it occurs in the art gallery, between the pages of a novel, or in the Mongolian desert.
University of Utah's Gould Auditorium, Marriott Library.
Only symposium registrants will be guaranteed admission; others will be admitted on a first-come, first-served basis as long as seats are available. Please arrive by 12:30.
2:30-3:30 BREAKOUT SESSIONS
1. PAST AND PRESENCE: The role of the museum in preservation and restoration. Michael Novacek, American Museum of Natural History; Scott Sampson, University of Utah; Sarah George, Utah Museum of Natural History. Utah Museum of Natural History, University of Utah.
2. FIELD TRIP. Take TRAX (depart South Campus at 2:22, arrive Temple Square at 2:40) or carpool to the Salt Lake Art Center, where staff members will be available to answer questions about Rachel Berwick's A Vanishing. 20 South West Temple.
TRAX departs Temple Square at 3:43 and arriving at South Campus at 4:01, or, if you want to dine downtown, there's a train departing Temple Square at 6:28, arriving South Campus at 6:46.
7-8:15 p.m. KEYNOTE. Rachel Berwick. THE LANGUAGE OF LOSS: A visual artist talks about process and product. University of Utah's Gould Auditorium, Marriott Library.
Saturday, March 26
10-11:15 a.m. KEYNOTE. Michael Novacek. RESTORING A LOST WORLD: to be a mammal in the age of the dinosaurs. University of Utah's Gould Auditorium, Marriott Library.
11:30-12:30 ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION: ReASSEMBLING OURSELVES. Keynote speakers respond to questions from moderator Katharine Coles, the audience members, and each other. University of Utah's Gould Auditorium, Marriott Library.
1:30-3:00 WORKSHOP READING: Leslie Forbes' radio play, Humboldt's Last Word. Directed by Aden Ross. Performed by Kirt W. Bateman, Emmet N. Larimer, and Christy Summerhays. University of Utah's Gould Auditorium, Marriott Library.
