Dan Falk, award-winning author of The Science of Shakespeare: A New Look at the Playwright's Universe, joins Dr. Eric Dorfman, President of the Linda Hall Library, for a lively conversation on the connections between the famous playwright and the beginnings of the Scientific Revolution—and how, together, they changed the world forever.
This program complements the upcoming free exhibition, Alchemy of Knowledge: Science and Mystery from Shakespeare to AI. Exhibition galleries are open 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday-Friday; 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on second Saturdays of each month; and during evenings when the Library hosts public programs.
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Speakers
Dan Falk
Dan Falk is a journalist and author with a particular interest in science, especially physics and astronomy. His freelance writing credits include Smithsonian, New Scientist, Scientific American, Astronomy, and many other publications. The Science of Shakespeare is his third book; his two previous books are In Search of Time and Universe on a T-Shirt. The Toronto native is a regular contributor to Canadian public radio, and he has won several international awards for his radio documentaries. He also hosts a podcast called BookLab, which reviews popular science books. Falk was a 2011-12 Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT.
Eric Dorfman, PhD (President, Linda Hall Library)
Dr. Eric Dorman is the author of several popular books on New Zealand natural history and climate change, as well as scholarly papers on museum education, public programming, Egyptology, and the ecology of wetland birds. His most recent book, The Future of Natural History Museums, is currently being translated into Chinese and Japanese. He earned a doctorate at the University of Sydney on scale-dependent habitat use of waterbirds in eastern and central Australia.Prior to his current position, Dr. Dorfman was CEO of the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences and a Research Professor at North Carolina State University.
