20190727 BOOKSTOCK  Dr. MARCELO GLEISER, Ph.D. -THE SIMPLE BEAUTY OF THE UNEXPECTED
Channel: Woodstock Community Television
Date: 01/08/2019

MARCELO GLEISER -THE SIMPLE BEAUTY OF THE UNEXPECTED Marcelo Gleiser is the Appleton Professor of Natural Philosophy and a professor of physics and astronomy at Dartmouth College. He obtained his Ph.D. from King’s College London and received the 1994 Presidential Faculty Fellows Award from the White House. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society. Dr. Gleiser is the winner of the 2019 Templeton Prize. His books have been published in 15 languages and include The Island of Knowledge: The Limits of Science and The Search for Meaning, A Tear at the Edge of Creation, and The Simple Beauty of the Unexpected. He has published hundreds of peer-reviewed articles, essays, and op-eds, and frequently participates in TV documentaries and radio shows in the US and abroad. He is the co-founder of the NPR blog on science and culture,13.7. He currently directs the Institute for CrossDisciplinary Engagement at Dartmouth College. Dr. Gleiser will reflect on the limits of what we can know about the world and ourselves and how the sciences and the humanities may together shed some light on the mystery of who we are. He will borrow from some of his ideas in his books The Island of Knowledge and The Simple Beauty of the Unexpected. More details at www.marcelogleiser.com Before the Keynote address the Bookstock Literary Festival honors the Green Writers Press as the first recipient of the Vermont Literary Inspiration Award because of its demonstrated commitment to Vermont authors. The award is for “outstanding inspiration to the literary prosperity and traditions of Vermont.” Green Writers Press was founded by writer, poet and environmental activist Dede Cummings of Brattleboro, Vermont, to spread a message of hope and renewal through the words and images it publishes. The Press has brought to the public’s attention many authors from the Green Mountain State. Over the years Bookstock has featured some twenty of these authors in poetry, memoir, fiction and non-fiction. In addition, Bookstock applauds the Green Mountain Press’ commitment to environmentally-friendly book production methods, and its commitment to preserve and protect the natural resources of the earth. Green Writers Press is of interest not only to Vermont residents, but has a national distribution with an ever-broadening reach and impact.