Invited Speakers Leslie Forbes. The author of four award-winning travel books, Forbes has presented many BBC documentaries such as Crimescapes and Radio 3's Tabletalk (for which she won a Silver Sony). Her first thriller, Bombay Ice, wove Chaos Theory into a Bollywood remake of The Tempest. Translated into ten languages, it was read on Radio 4 and optioned by Warner Bros. Her second novel, Fish, Blood & Bone, forged deadly links between a Spitalfields garden and a mysterious Indian botanist. Her third novel, Waking Raphael, was published in September 2003 and described as 'pretty well perfect' by this year's Booker Prize chairman, Professor John Carey of Oxford University. Leslie Forbes also writes for the BBC, the Independent, Condé Nast Traveller, and Gardens Illustrated. Rachel Berwick. In the simplest sense, Berwick's work addresses a matter of life and death: the sometimes permeable boundary between survival and extinction. Two Fold Silence in 1995 juxtaposed refrigeration equipment and a cast rubber Coelacanth, a rediscovered species of fish that had been thought to be extinct. Her celebrated May-por-é (1998) enclosed live parrots in a translucent cylinder, backlit into shadows and chattering in strange syllables: she had taught the parrots to speak the few known words of the lost Maypure people of South America, who had been massacred, but passed their vocabulary on through their pet parrots. Rachel's "A Vanishing" will be installed at the Salt Lake Art Center (20 South West Temple) Michael Novacek. Michael Novacek has served since 1982 as a curator at the American Museum of Natural History (New York) where he is currently Senior Vice President and Provost of Science, and Curator of Paleontology.