Dr. Mary Beth Leigh to TEDTalk on Reintegration of the Arts, Humanities, and Sciences
Seeing the Elephant: Towards Reintegration of the Arts, Humanities, and Sciences.
This TEDTalk highlights projects combining ecology, dance, visual art, and other media to advance the arts, sciences, and public understanding of social-ecological issues. Collaborations between the arts, humanities and sciences can engage us at the intellectual, intuitive and emotional levels, and can strengthen our connection to the ecosystems in which we live.
The 2016 In Time of Change program theme is Microbial Worlds, which seeks to develop artistic representation of the rich and complex nature of miniature ecosystems that thrive all around us, below the threshold of normal sight. There are lessons to be learned by observing similarity across scale between microbial ecosystems and human scale social systems. The program includes an artist-on-residence, and an expanded group of scientists, including microbiologists and ecologists.
Mary Beth Leigh Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of Microbiology at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. Ms. Leigh, is the director of the In a Time of Change program which seeks to integrate science with the arts and humanities. She is also active in the nationwide Ecological Reflections network.
Mary Beth Leigh is also a dancer, choreographer, and musician. She is a founding member of Deliquescent Designs dance company and is an organizer of state and national efforts to integrate the arts and humanities with ecological science, including the Alaska-based program, In a Time of Change, and the nationwide Ecological Reflections network.
The event will be held at the Morris Thompson Cultural & Visitor Center at 101 Dunkel St, Fairbanks on February 21, 2016 from 11 AM to 4 PM.
The few remaining seats to the live performance can be had via a corporate donation. The event will be LIVEstreamed at the NSCF Website.
