
October 2023
Wisconsin Book Festival Author Events
The Wisconsin Book Festival, presented by Madison Public Library in partnership with Madison Public Library Foundation, presents free, public author events that celebrate books and spark conversations. Check out these author events happening at Madison Central Library in conjunction with Science on the Square. 5:30 p.m. - The Supermajority (Michael Waldman) Community Room 301 5:30 p.m. - Generation Anxiety (Dr. Lauren Cook) Community Room 302 5:30 p.m. - Dry Land (B. Pladek) Lower Level Program Room 7:00 p.m. - Ginseng…
Find out more »WI Book Festival Author Event: Planting an Idea (Jerry Apps, Natasha Kassulke)
Madison Central Library - Lower Level Program Room Presented in partnership with the Wisconsin Book Festival. A first-of-its-kind handbook, allowing the reader to combine the processes of critical and creative thinking with a detailed discussion of the environmental challenges facing our planet. Planting An Idea is part guidebook for better critical and creative thinking and part overview of the environmental challenges that face our planet today. It is designed to help readers young and old examine and develop opinions on…
Find out more »WI Book Festival Author Event: Mapping the Darkness (Kenneth Miller)
Madison Central Library - Community Room 302 Presented in partnership with the Wisconsin Book Festival. The definitive story of the scientists who set out to answer two questions: “Why do we sleep?” and "How can we sleep better?” A century ago, sleep was considered a state of nothingness—even a primitive habit that we could learn to overcome. Then, an immigrant scientist and his assistant spent a month in the depths of a Kentucky cave, making nationwide headlines and thrusting sleep…
Find out more »Crossroads of Ideas: Comparing the Creative Process in Science and Art
There is more overlap between scientific research and creative writing than you may think! Both involve a process of research, creative thought and storytelling, and in this panel we will discuss what these disciplines have in common and what each can take from the other. Acclaimed novelist Chloe Benjamin (THE IMMORTALISTS) uses science to inform her fiction, while data scientist and statistician Claudia Solis-Lemus writes fiction and memoir when she isn’t researching evolutionary biology and microbiome. Moderated by novelist and…
Find out more »WI Book Festival Author Event: Eve (Cat Bohannon)
Madison Central Library - Community Room 302 Presented in partnership with the Wisconsin Book Festival. How did the female body drive 200 million years of human evolution? Why do women live longer than men? Why are women more likely to get Alzheimer’s? Why do girls score better at every academic subject than boys until puberty, when suddenly their scores plummet? Is sexism useful for evolution? And why, seriously why, do women have to sweat through our sheets every night when…
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