Posts tagged ‘How Insect Are We?’
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Pestival Symposium – Last chance to buy tickets
Pestival gets off to a flying start with its opening event How Insect Are We?, hosted by ZSL London Zoo, on 3rd September 2009. Join leading scientists, artists and thinkers to discover how the most despised creatures on earth, insects, bite back and reclaim their central place in our lives at Pestival’s cutting-edge symposium.Eighty percent of creatures on earth are insects, the ‘pests’ without whom humans wouldn’t survive. Pestival opens on September 3rd in partnership with ZSL with a cutting edge symposium at London Zoo and celebrates the 100’s of millions of years of evolution, which places insects at the heart of human existence.
Four leading thinkers from four different disciplines discuss how close to insects mankind really is and what contributions they make in all our lives. From swarm theory to architecture to extending life and political thinking to insect as muse, great minds get to grips with the insect contributions of everything from social insects to solitary wasps.
The speakers are:
- Stanford University biologist Deborah Gordon, the world’s leading ant specialists and TED speaker
- Engineer and designer Natalie Jeremijenko, who has been described as one of the most original creative minds of the 21st century
- The cultural theorist and literary critic Professor Steve Connor
- Simon Laughlin, Professor of Neurobiology in the department of zoology, Cambridge, who specializes in insect brain and vision
The Symposium will be chaired by Roger Highfield, the editor of New Scientist magazine.
Bridget Nicholls is Pestival Director and Founder. Bridget presents and contributes to programmes on BBC radio and presents Creature Curious for Resonance FM.
Tickets are on sale now – go to the Symposium page to order yours.
Date: 3rd September 2009
Time: Doors 7pm for 7:30pm -
New Scientist editor to chair the Symposium
We are delighted to announce that Roger Highfield will be chairing Pestival’s ‘How Insect Are We?’ Symposium . Highfield was the Daily Telegraph’s science editor for two decades and is currently editor of the New Scientist. He has written numerous books, including The Arrow of Time and After Dolly, and is a regular contributor to BBC radio science shows such as Leading Edge. What’s more he is, by his own account, the “first person to bounce a neutron off a soap bubble”!The Pestival Symposium takes place on September 3rd at ZSL London Zoo. Tickets are on sale now – go to the Symposium page to order yours.
