WICI Speaker Series: Microbial Research and the Circular Bioeconomy

Brenda Panasiak — Wed, 26 Oct 2022 03:32:33 +0000

WICI Speaker Series: Microbial Research and the Circular Bioeconomy Brenda Panasiak Tue, 10/25/2022 - 23:32

WICI Speaker Series: Microbial Research and the Circular Bioeconomy

Wednesday November 9, 2022

1-2:30 p.m. | QNC 2502

Join WICI and WCMR as Dr. Trevor Charles, Professor of Biology and Director of the ��ݮ��Ƶ Centre for Microbial Research, presents an overview of ��ݮ��Ƶ’s microbiome research program, illustrating microbiomes as complex systems, with an emphasis on sustainable food production systems and biodegradable plastics.

Light refreshments will be available.

Please register for this free event at Eventbrite.com

WICI Fall 2022 Open House

Brenda Panasiak — Fri, 09 Sep 2022 13:46:45 +0000

WICI Fall 2022 Open House Brenda Panasiak Fri, 09/09/2022 - 09:46

Please join us for the ��ݮ��Ƶ Institute for Complexity & Innovation's Open House on Wednesday, September 21st, 2022 in DC 1301 from 1 - 2:30 p.m. Network with faculty and students interested in complex systems!

Meet WICI's Director Dr. Vanessa Schweizer and other WICI Members.
Learn about upcoming events and initiatives.
Light refreshments will be provided.

WICI Virtual Book Club: The Little Animals with Sarah Tolmie

Brenda Panasiak — Mon, 24 Jan 2022 15:55:16 +0000

WICI Virtual Book Club: The Little Animals with Sarah Tolmie Brenda Panasiak Mon, 01/24/2022 - 10:55

WICI Virtual Book Club: The Little Animals

Tuesday March 8th at 1 p.m. (Register in advance via Zoom)

Hosted by Dawn Parker, with a reading by the author

Call for Graduate Student Participants

We are looking for complexity-minded or complexity-curious graduate students from a variety of disciplines to participate in this book club discussion. Students will be provided a copy of the book in advance and will be asked to prepare a short reading with commentary on its relevance to complexity science, complex systems themes and/or the students own research. Please contact Brenda Panasiak, WICI Administrative Coordinator, if you are interested, and please share!

WICI affiliate member Sarah Tolmie’s novel The Little Animals tells the story of Antoni Van Leeuwenhoek, natural philosopher and pioneer of microscopy in 17th-century Delft, and the Goose Girl, drawn from the Brothers Grimm, who can hear the voices of the microbes he is discovering. Magic realism meets early science in Holland’s Golden Age, at the confluence of art and science, religion and commerce.

WICI graduate student respondents across a range of disciplines will be invited to give brief five-minute talks, reading aspects of the novel from the diverse perspectives of their research.

The event will conclude with an open Q & A session with the author and graduate student readers.

Register in advance via Zoom

Sarah Tolmie, a Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at the University of ��ݮ��Ƶ, is a traditionally-trained, philologically-oriented medievalist with a master's degree from the University of Toronto and a PhD from the University of Cambridge. Her research interests are in historiography, visionary poetry and embodiment. She has published articles on Middle English and Scots literature, as well as on Langland's Piers Plowman.

A poet and speculative fiction writer, Sarah has authored multiple works including The Art of Dying (2018); the 120-sonnet sequence Trio (2015); novels The Little Animals (2019)and The Stone Boatmen (2014); and short fiction collections Disease (2020), Two Travelers (2016), and NoFood (2014). In 2020 she published three books, The New Weird short fiction collection Disease, the poetry collection Check, and the novella The Fourth Island. Her newest work All the Horses of Iceland is anticipated in 2022.

The Little Animals earned the Special Citation at the 2020 Philip K Dick Awards and The Art of Dying was a finalist for the 2018 Griffin Prize.