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OCTOBER 11-14, 2018 HOSTED BY MADISON PUBLIC LIBRARY IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE MADISON PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION SIGNATURE SPONSOR: MARVIN J. LEVY
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COURTNEY
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Daughter in Retrograde
October 13, 12pm
A bittersweet and stunning
memoir about family, loss, and
what we see in the stars.
Courtney Kersten is an essayist
and scholar. A native of Eau
Claire, she teaches creative
writing at the University of
California, Santa Cruz.
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THE BIGGEST WEEKEND(S) OF THE YEAR!
Over the next 10 days, Madison will host seventy author events on stages big Brinkley, and Lucy Tan showcasing the incredible work being created at the Join us Tue. Nov. 27 for a very
special book signing event
and small. To kick things off on Sunday, October 7th, the best-selling author in UW, or Rebecca Traister and Carol Anderson bringing their work to Central
the world, James Patterson, will make a very special appearance at the Over- Library in front of a nationally televised audience. Best of all, every event is
ture Center. That event will lead right in to a weekend of events downtown free. As a festival goer, you can show up and see something world class put
that will shine a spotlight on Wisconsin and Wisconsin authors. That might on in a great way, and it doesn’t cost you anything. We can’t wait to see you.
be Stu Levitan and Jerry Apps on Wisconsin’s past, Chloe Benjamin, Jamel CONOR MORAN, DIRECTOR
THE WISCONSIN BOOK FESTIVAL WOULD LIKE TO THANK
THE FOLLOWING PEOPLE AND ORGANIZATIONS FOR THEIR
HELP IN CREATING THE 2018 FESTIVAL.
Greg Mickells, Madison Public Library Director
Jenni Jeffress, Executive Director, Madison Public Library Foundation
Tana Elias, Digital Services and Marketing Manager, Madison Public Library
Tom Karls, Molly Shea, Patricia Ruiz-Rivera, Liz Wyckoff, Kristen Colgin, Studio, Mystery To Me Bookstore, National Book Foundation, Office of
Dayna Long, Karrah Staats, Tracy Phillippi, Kate Herron, Jake Ineichen, Hannah Multicultural Arts Initiatives, Safe Communities Parent Addiction Network,
Peschek, La Lee Thao, Laura Damon Moore, Trent Miller, Carlee Latimer, Somos Latinas, To the Best of Our Knowledge, UW-Madison Center for the
Rebecca Pettycash, Cindi Ofstun, Marc Gannon, John Schmitt, and the entire Humanities, UW-Madison Intellectual History Group, UW-Madison Program
staff of Madison Public Library, Molly who is constantly pushing the Festival in Creative Writing, UW Foundation, Willie Ney Productions, Wisconsin
to get better, Larkin who just reads and reads and reads, Mike Giarratano who Academy of Sciences, Arts, & Letters, Wisconsin Center for Educational
is always there when he’s needed, Cynthia Schuster and all of the incredible Research, Wisconsin Historical Society, Wisconsin Historical Museum,
volunteers who make it possible for me to be in five places at once, Gretchen Wisconsin Medical Society Foundation, Wisconsin Public Radio, Wisconsin
Treu, Jes Luckes, Sandi Torkildson, Nancy Geary, Joanne Berg, Chad Hopper, Public Television, Wisconsin Science Festival
Andrew Welyczko, Peter Slen, Cleve Corner, Jeffrey Potter, Anne Strainchamps,
Steve Paulson, Shannon Kleiber, Amy Quan Barry, Jesse Lee Kercheval, Ron Publishers
Kuka, Sean Bishop and everyone at The Program, Grant Mitmann, Emily Anchor, Berkley, Bloomsbury, Broadway Books, Candlewick, Counterpoint,
Clark, Aaron Fai, Laura Heisler and the Wisconsin Science Festival staff, David dancing girl press, Delacorte, Disney, Dutton, Dzanc, Entangled: Teen, Farrar,
Maraniss, KT Horning, Katie Schumacher, Fred Wade, Sheila Stoeckel, Michael Straus and Giroux, G.P. Putnam’s Sons Books for Young Readers, Grand Central
Chaim, Libby Theune, Erinn McGrath, Jennifer McFarland, Jason Smith, the Life & Style, Graywolf, Grove Press, Harper Perennial, Haymarket Books, HMH
Wisconsin Book Festival Ambassadors, and the Boards of Madison Public Books for Young Readers, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, jimmy patterson, Knopf,
Library and the Madison Public Library Foundation for their ongoing support Little A, Little Creek Press, Little, Brown and Company, Little, Brown Spark,
of Wisconsin’s premier literary event. Milkweed Editions, New Directions, New York University Press, Noemi Press,
Oxford University Press, Parallel Press, Penguin Press, Penn State University
Partners Press, Persea, Picador, Putnam, Riverhead Books, Routledge, Salmon Poetry,
A Room of One’s Own Bookstore, Batch Bakehouse, The Bubbler, Seal Press, Shambhala, Simon & Schuster, Soft Skull Press, Soho Teen,
Cooperative Children’s Book Center, C-SPAN BookTV, Dane County Historical Sourcebooks, St. Martin’s Press, Storey Publishing, The Experiment, Thomas
Society, FELIX Reading Series, Flak Photo, Friends of Madison Public Library, Dunne Books, Tor Books, Touchstone, University of California Press, University
Friends of the CCBC, Friends of UW-Madison Libraries, Go Big Read, Ian’s of Chicago Press, University of Iowa Press, University of Wisconsin Press,
Pizza, Library Takeover, Love Wisconsin, Madison Institute, Madison Writers’ Viking, W.W. Norton & Co., William Morrow, Wisconsin Historical Society Press
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SUN OCT 7 THURSDAY OCT 11
10 to 11 AM 5:30 to 6:30 PM 7 to 8 PM
Overture Center for the Arts: Capitol Theater Central Library: Community Rooms 301-302 Central Library: The Bubbler
Max Einstein: The Genius Madison in the Sixties Citizen Illegal
Experiment & Ambush Stu Levitan José Olivarez
James Patterson Madison, Wisconsin, made history in the tumultuous 1960s. Landmark civil rights laws were passed. Citizen Illegal is a revealing portrait of life as a first generation im-
Pivotal campus protests were waged. A spring block party turned into a three-night riot. Factor in migrant, a celebration of Chicano joy, a shout against erasure, and
The world’s #1 bestselling author James Patterson will be appearing at the Wisconsin Book
urban renewal troubles, a bitter battle over efforts to build Frank Lloyd Wright’s Monona Terrace, a vibrant re-imagining of Mexican American life. In this stunning
Festival in conversation with Steve Paulson from WPR’s To The Best of Our Knowledge. Patterson
and the expanding influence of the University of Wisconsin, and the decade assumes legendary debut, poet José Olivarez explores the stories, contradictions,
will discuss the motivation behind writing Max Einstein, his life in books, his love of reading, his
status. In the first-ever comprehensive narrative of these issues and these times, Madison historian, joys, and sorrows that embody life in the spaces between Mexico
method of writing, and what makes a good story. Free copies of Max Einstein will be distributed
Stuart D. Levitan, chronicles the birth of modern Madison with style and well-researched substance, and America. He paints vivid portraits of good kids, bad kids, fam-
to the first 500 young readers. Attendees will get exclusive pre-release access to buy Patterson’s
including account of everything from politics to public schools, construction to crime. This heavily ilies clinging to hope, life after the steel mills, gentrifying barrios,
latest Detective Michael Bennett Thriller, Ambush. Doors will open for this event at 9:00 AM. The
illustrated book also features annotated photographs that document the dramatic changes occurring and everything in between. Drawing on the rich traditions of Latinx and Chicago writers like Sandra
event is free and open to the public. Seating will be by general admission. Wisconsin Book Festival
downtown, on campus, and to the Greenbush neighborhood throughout the decade. Madison in the Cisneros and Gwendolyn Brooks, Olivarez creates a home out of life in the in-between. Combining
members will have the opportunity to reserve a seat at this event. Visit https://wisconsinbookfes-
Sixties is an absorbing account of 10 years that changed the city, and the country, forever. wry humor with potent emotional force, Olivarez takes on complex issues of race, ethnicity, gender,
tival.org/give to support the Festival with your membership gift today!
class, and immigration using an everyday language that invites the reader in. Olivarez has a unique
5:30 to 6:30 PM voice that makes him a poet to watch.
TUE OCT 9 Central Library: The Bubbler
The Great Believers 7 to 8 PM
Room of One’s Own
7 to 8 PM Rebecca Makkai
Mystery To Me
Debut YA Writers Panel
In 1985, Yale Tishman, the development director for a Chicago art gallery, is about to pull off a
Amelia Brunskill, Adrianne Finlay, Madeline Reynolds
How to Leave: Quitting the City coup, bringing an extraordinary collection of 1920s paintings. Yet as his career begins to flourish,
the carnage of the AIDS epidemic grows around him. One by one, his friends are dying and after A panel discussion of debut YA writers living in the Midwest. The authors will discuss their books, their
and Coping with a New Reality his friend Nico’s funeral, the virus circles closer and closer to Yale himself. Soon the only person he paths to publication, their thoughts on writing for young adults, and their works in progress. The authors
has left is Fiona, Nico’s little sister. Thirty years later, Fiona is in Paris tracking down her estranged write in a variety of genres within YA, including mystery/thriller (Amelia Brunskill - The Window), sci-
Erin Clune
daughter who disappeared into a cult. While staying with an old friend, a famous photographer who ence fiction (Adrienne Finlay - Your One & Only), and fantasy (Madeline Reynolds - Illusions).
An uproarious memoir/tongue-in-cheek guide to leaving the cool city in which you “found” documented the Chicago epidemic, she finds herself finally grappling with the devastating ways
yourself and moving somewhere far more ordinary. When Frank Sinatra and Alicia Keys said that if the AIDS crisis affected her life and her relationship with her daughter. Yale and Fiona’s intertwining
you could make it in New York, you could make it anywhere, they probably weren’t talking about
7 to 8 PM
stories take us through the heartbreak of 80’s and the chaos of the modern world, as both struggle Overture Center for the Arts: Capitol Theater
whatever suburb you used to make fun of. Because it’s hard to “make it” without world-class to find goodness in the midst of disaster.
museums and gourmet food trucks. Erin Clune regales readers with priceless stories of her own Passing the Bass
experiences leaving New York for her hometown in Wisconsin, and provides a jocular but useful Passing the Bass: A Global Tribute to NEA 2014 Jazzmaster Richard Davis is a historic event in
guide for anyone leaving, or thinking about leaving, their own personal mecca. How to Leave helps
5:30 to 6:30 PM
Room of One’s Own celebration of the life and legacy of world-renowned 2014 NEA Jazzmaster Richard Davis. Davis has
you find contentment while staying true to yourself in a place far, far away from The City. made an indelible impact on the world of music during his five decades as a performer and master
The Motherhood Affidavits teacher of the bass. This event will involve performances by some of his closest collaborators from
Laura Jean Baker across the globe, as well as, video and photographic tributes and never-before-seen memorabilia
WED OCT 10 With the birth of her first child, soon-to-be professor Laura Jean Baker finds herself electrified by
from his personal collection. At 6:00 there will be an exhibition of Richard Davis’ historic memorabil-
ia in the Capitol Theater foyer. Performances will begin at 7:00 PM featuring Andrew Cyrille (drums),
oxytocin, the “love hormone,” the first effective antidote to her lifelong depression. Over the next
Peter Dominguez (bass), Javon Jackson (sax), Aska Kaneko (violin), Angelica Sanchez (piano), and
4:30 to 5:30 PM eight years, her “oxy” cravings, and her family, only grow to the dismay of her husband, Ryan, a
special guest artists.Tickets can be reserved on a first come, first served basis by visiting https://
Wisconsin Historical Society Auditorium freelance public defender. As her reckless baby-making threatens her family’s middle-class exis-
www.overture.org/events/passing-the-bass or by contacting the box office at Overture Center for
tence, Baker identifies more and more with Ryan’s legal clients, often drug-addled fellow citizens of
The Illimitable Freedom of Oshkosh, Wisconsin. Is she any less desperate for her next fix? Baker is in an impossible bind: The
the Performing Arts. Doors will open at 6:15.
the Human Mind: Thomas same drive that sustains her endangers her family; the cure is also the disease. She explores this all-
7 to 8 PM
too-human paradox by threading her story through those of her local counterparts who’ve run afoul
Jefferson’s Idea of a University of the law. As Baker vividly reports on their alleged crimes, she unerringly conjures tenderness for Central Library:
Andrew Jackson O’Shaughnessy the accused, yet increasingly questions her own innocence. Community Rooms 301-302
Presented in partnership with the Wisconsin Historical Society, the 2018 James Madison Lecture The Immortalists
welcomes Andrew O’Shaughnessy to speak about Thomas Jefferson’s revolutionary ideas about 6 to 7 PM
higher education, which continue to have relevance to public education in our country today. Discovery Building: DeLuca Forum Chloe Benjamin
If you knew the date of your death, how would you live your
Dr. O’Shaughnessy is the Vice President of Monticello, the Saunders Director of the Robert H.
Smith International Center for Jefferson Studies at the Thomas Jefferson Foundation, Professor of
The Tangled Tree life? It’s 1969 in New York City’s Lower East Side, and word has
History at the University of Virginia, and a prize-winning author. David Quammen spread of the arrival of a traveling psychic who claims to be able
to tell anyone the day they will die. In search of one thing they
In the mid-1970s, scientists began using DNA sequences to reexamine the history of all life. Perhaps
can know for sure, the Gold children–four adolescents on the cusp
the most startling discovery to come out of this new field—the study of life’s diversity and related-
of self-awareness–sneak out to hear their fortunes. Though the
ness at the molecular level—is horizontal gene transfer (HGT), or the movement of genes across
siblings keep the dates secret from one another, their prophecies inform their next five decades. The
BOOK SALES species lines. It turns out that HGT has been widespread and important. In The Tangled Tree David
Quammen, “one of that rare breed of science journalists who blends exploration with a talent for
Immortalists tells a profoundly moving and compulsively readable family love story about life,
mortality and the choices we make: is it better to live a long and cautious life, or to burn brightly, but
synthesis and storytelling” (Nature), chronicles these discoveries through the lives of the researchers
Friends of UW-Madison Libraries who made them—such as Carl Woese, the most important little-known biologist of the twentieth
for the shortest time? Beautifully rendered in Benjamin’s lucid, magical prose, The Immortalists is a
testament to the power of story, offering a sweeping portrait of a rapidly evolving America through
UW Memorial Library: Room 116 century; Lynn Margulis, the notorious maverick whose wild ideas about “mosaic” creatures proved
the eyes of one captivating clan.
Wednesday, Oct 10 Preview Sale • 4 to 8 PM • $5 Entry to be true; and Tsutomu Wantanabe, who discovered that the scourge of antibiotic-resistant bacteria
Thursday & Friday, Oct 11–12 • 10:30 AM to 7 PM is a direct result of horizontal gene transfer, bringing the deep study of genome histories to bear on
Saturday, Oct 13 • 9 AM to 1 PM • $5-A-Bag-Sale a global crisis in public health. Presented in partnership with the Wisconsin Science Festival. 8:30 to 9:30 PM
(bring your own bag) Central Library:
Thousands of books at unbelievably low prices! This semiannual sale is free (except 7 to 9 PM Community Room 302
the preview sale) and open to the public. Organized by the Friends of UW-Madison
Libraries, proceeds help to support our annual lecture series, special purchases for the
Discovery Building: DeLuca Forum How Are You Going
library collections, preservation of library materials, and grants for the visiting scholar Big Ideas for Busy People: Contagion to Save Yourself
program. Books for the sale are donated primarily by University of Wisconsin faculty, staff, This popular, fast-paced event features 5 minute talks from some of UW-Madison’s biggest brains.
This year’s episode turns a microscope on microbes—specifically, infectious diseases. What do we
JM Holmes
students, and Madison-area residents.
have to fear, what can we expect and what can we do to keep the tiny bugs at bay? Come prepared Dub, Rolls, Rye, and Gio, who narrates most of these nine stories,
for a highly interactive event and stay after the talks to learn more, get your hands wet and see for have been friends since childhood, growing up in Pawtucket,
Friends of Madison Public Library yourself the creatures that are on, in and around us. Featured presenters include: Patrick Anderson, Rhode Island. How Are You Going to Save Yourself covers roughly
Central Library author, Autobiography of a Disease on the experience of life-threatening illness; Paul Ahlquist, a decade of these inseparable friends weaving in and out of one
Thursday, Friday & Saturday, Oct 11–13 • Library Hours virologist, Morgridge Institute for Research, on the how to fight many viruses with one punch; James another’s lives as their futures diverge. Among their differences, Gio’s mixed-race identity—with a
Sunday, Oct 14 (bag sale) • 1 PM to 3 PM Conway, pediatrician, UW Health, on the power of vaccination; Jo Handelsman, director, Wisconsin black father, an NFL player whose injury washed him out, and a white mother—sets him apart from
Thousands of gently used books, DVDs and other materials. Most items are $2 or less. Institute for Discovery, on the search for new antibiotics; Laurel Legenza, pharmacy, UW-Madison, on his friends, as does his eventual path to the Ivy League. As these four go from boys to men, they
Hosted by the Friends of the Madison Public Library. Sale runs October 11-14. forecasting antibiotic resistance. Presented in partnership with the Wisconsin Science Festival. grapple with the newfound power of sex and drugs, with the force of their needs, and at times with
the violence of their desires..
4 WISCONSIN BOOK FESTIVAL ✦ OCTOBER 11-14, 2018 ✦ WISCONSINBOOKFESTIVAL.ORG
FRIDAY OCT 12
2 to 4 PM 5 to 6:30 PM 7:30 to 8:30 PM
Discovery Building: DeLuca Forum Room of One’s Own Central Library: The Bubbler
Life in the Anthropocene Wisconsin People & Ideas 2018 A Lucky Man
Erle Ellis Fiction and Poetry Contest Reading Jamel Brinkley
Erle Ellis’ latest book explains the science behind the Anthropocene and the many proposals about Michael Hopkins, Jack Harris, AnnaKay Kruger, In the nine expansive, searching stories of A Lucky Man, fathers
when to mark its beginning: the nuclear tests of the 1950s? The beginnings of agriculture? The ori- and sons attempt to salvage relationships with friends and family
gins of humans as a species? Erle Ellis considers the many ways that the Anthropocene’s “evolving Jenna Rindo, Thomas J. Erickson, Justine Jones members, and confront mistakes made in the past. An imagina-
paradigm” is reshaping the sciences, stimulating the humanities, and foregrounding the politics of Wisconsin People & Ideas, the Wisconsin Academy’s magazine of contemporary Wisconsin thought tive young boy from the Bronx goes swimming with his group
life on a planet transformed by humans. The Anthropocene remains a work in progress. Is this the and culture, presents a reading featuring the winners of their 2018 Fiction and Poetry Contest. Fic- from day camp at a backyard pool in the suburbs, and faces
story of an unprecedented planetary disaster? Or of newfound wisdom and redemption? Ellis offers tion readers include: [1st place] Michael Hopkins, Neenah—“Static”, [2nd] Jack Harris, Mazom- the effects of power and privilege in ways he can barely grasp.
an insightful discussion of our role in shaping the planet, and how this will influence our future on anie—“Aeshnidae”, [3rd] AnnaKay Kruger, Madison—“A Sweet Thing.” Poetry readers include [1st] A teen intent on proving himself a man through the all-night
many fronts. Presented in partnership with the Wisconsin Science Festival. Jenna Rindo, Pickett—“Head, Thorax, and Abdomen”, [2nd] Thomas J. Erickson, Milwaukee—“No- revel of J’Ouvert can’t help but look out for his impressionable younger brother. And at a capoeira
vember”, [3rd] Justine Jones, Madison—“The Act.” The 2018 Fiction & Poetry Contests were conference, two brothers grapple with how to tell the story of their family, caught in the dance of
4:30 to 5:30 PM supported by Wisconsin Academy donors, members, and the following sponsors: Wisconsin Public their painful, fractured history. This stunning debut by Jamel Brinkley reflects the tenderness and
Radio, Wisconsin Book Festival, Shake Rag Alley Center for the Arts. vulnerability of black men and boys whose hopes sometimes betray them, especially in a world
Central Library:
shaped by race, gender, and class—where luck may be the greatest fiction of all.
Community Room 302
6 to 7 PM
Love, Hate and Central Library: Community Room 301 7:30 to 8:30 PM
Other Filters Black Queer Hoe Central Library:
Community Room 302
Samira Ahmed Britteney Black Rose Kapri
In this unforgettable debut novel, an Indian-American Muslim Black Queer Hoe is a refreshing, unapologetic look at the line between sexual freedom and sexual
The Radium Girls
teen copes with Islamophobia, cultural divides among peers and exploitation. Women’s sexuality is often used as a weapon against them. In this powerful poetry Kate Moore
parents, and a reality she can neither explain nor escape. Ameri- debut, Britteney Black Rose Kapri lends her unmistakable voice to fraught questions of identity, The Curies’ newly discovered element of radium makes gleaming
can-born seventeen-year-old Maya Aziz is torn between worlds. sexuality, reclamation, and power, in a world that refuses Black Queer women permission to define headlines across the nation as the fresh face of beauty, and won-
There’s the proper one her parents expect for their good Indian daughter: attending a college close their own lives and boundaries. der drug of the medical community. From body lotion to tonic
to their suburban Chicago home, and being paired off with an older Muslim boy her mom deems
water, the popular new element shines bright in the otherwise
“suitable.” And then there is the world of her dreams: going to film school, living in New York
6 to 7 PM dark years of the First World War. Meanwhile, hundreds of girls
City, and maybe pursuing a boy she’s known from afar since grade school, a boy who’s finally falling
Central Library: toil amidst the glowing dust of the radium-dial factories. The
into her orbit at school. There’s also the real world, beyond Maya’s control. In the aftermath of a
Community Room 302 glittering chemical covers their bodies from head to toe; they light up the night like industrious
horrific crime perpetrated hundreds of miles away, her life is turned upside down. The community
fireflies. With such a coveted job, these “shining girls” are the luckiest alive—until they begin to fall
she’s known since birth becomes unrecognizable; neighbors and classmates alike are consumed Storm Lake mysteriously ill. But the factories that once offered golden opportunities are now ignoring all claims
with fear, bigotry, and hatred. Ultimately, Maya must find the strength within to determine where
she truly belongs. Art Cullen of the gruesome side effects, and the women’s cries of corruption. And as the fatal poison of the
radium takes hold, the brave shining girls find themselves embroiled in one of the biggest scandals
In 2017 small-town newspaperman Art Cullen won the Pulitzer
of America’s early 20th century, and in a groundbreaking battle for workers’ rights that will echo for
4:30 to 5:30 PM Prize for Editorial Writing. Storm Lake, his first book, is like its
centuries to come. Presented in partnership with the Wisconsin Science Festival.
namesake city of 15,000 many things. It is an affecting memoir
Central Library: The Bubbler
about a family business, what it takes to keep an endangered
Science on Paper species of media alive and healthy, and a valuable reflection on 7:30 to 8:30 PM
how American farming has changed, transforming the heartland Central Library: Community Room 301
Jacki Whisenant
This talk will look at how science has been visually communicated through the ages, focusing on
with it. It is also a fascinating encapsulation of Iowa’s politics and character that could serve as a
primer for any political observers with their eye on the next presidential campaign. Perhaps most
Where Did You Get This Number?
natural history illustrations and the artists who were major contributors to the field in the age of ex- importantly, Storm Lake is a forward-thinking, hopeful vision of rural America. Anthony Salvanto
ploration and onward. Artists from many countries and backgrounds all contribute to the advance-
As Elections and Surveys Director for CBS News, it’s Anthony Salvanto’s job to understand
ment of science through their work, from Maria Sibylla Merian to Edward Tufte and many more.
6 to 7 PM you—what you think and how you vote. The language of polling may be numbers, but the stories
Visual communication itself can cover a broad range: organismal illustrations, habitat descriptions,
Central Library: The Bubbler it tells are about people. In this engaging insider’s account, Salvanto demystifies jargon with plain
diagrams, maps, charts, infographics, etc. The possibilities of the field are endless, and the practice
language and answers readers’ biggest questions about polling and pollsters. How can they talk to
of explaining science through art has a strong history and a strong future. Presented in partnership What We Were Promised 1,000 people and know the country? How do they know the winner so fast? How do they decide
with the Wisconsin Science Festival as part of Science on the Square.
Lucy Tan what questions to ask? Why didn’t they call you? Salvanto takes readers inside the CBS newsroom
on Election Night 2016 and makes readers rethink conventional wisdom and punditry just in time
4:30 to 5:30 PM Set in modern Shanghai, a debut novel, by a Chinese-American writer and graduate of the UW-Mad-
for the 2018 midterms. He shows who really decides elections and why you should think about a
ison Program in Creative Writing, about a prodigal son whose unexpected return forces his newly
Central Library: Community Room 301 poll differently from the forecasts popularized by Nate Silver and others. Where Did You Get This
wealthy family to confront painful secrets and unfulfilled promises. After years of chasing the
Writing the Unseen American dream, the Zhen family has moved back to China. Settling into a luxurious serviced apart-
Number? is an essential resource for anyone interested in politics—and how to better measure and
understand patterns of human behavior.
ment in Shanghai, Wei, Lina, and their daughter, Karen, join an elite community of Chinese-born,
Rosemary Zurlo-Cuva , Katrin Talbot, Andrea Potos
Western-educated professionals who have returned to a radically transformed city. From a silk-pro-
How do we write about experience that ties us to something beyond our material lives, beyond ducing village in rural China, up the corporate ladder in suburban America, and back again to the
what is empirically known and visible? Where do we find language for the light, love and connec- post-Maoist nouveaux riches of modern Shanghai, What We Were Promised explores the question
tion that brings peace and even joy through our darkest moments? These are questions that poets
Andrea Potos, Katrin Talbot and Rosemary Zurlo-Cuva have been exploring in their recent work,
of what we owe to our country, our families, and ourselves. FRIDAY OCT 12
during dark periods of struggle and personal loss. Informed at times by the Romantics, by Rilke and 7:30 to 8:30 PM
7 to 8 PM
Mary Oliver, these poems reach for a transcendant understanding of our connection to both this Union South–Wisconsin Union: Varsity Hall
world and what comes after. Room of One’s Own
White Dancing 2018 Charlotte Zolotow Lecture
5 to 6 PM
Elephants Benjamin Alire Sáenz
Union South–Wisconsin Union: Varsity Hall Mr. Sáenz is the author of a number
Chaya Bhuvaneswar
2018 Charlotte Zolotow Awards In luminous, vivid, searingly honest prose, the stories in White
of illuminating young adult novels,
including Sammy and Juliana in Holly-
Bao Phi Dancing Elephants center on the experiences of diverse women wood, Aristotle and Dante Discover the
The Charlotte Zolotow Award is given annually to the author of the best picture book text published of color—cunning, bold, and resolute—facing sexual harassment Secrets of the Universe, winner of the the
in the United States in the preceding year. The award is administered by the Cooperative Children’s and racial violence, as well as the violence women inflict upon Pura Belpré Author Award, the Lambda
Book Center, a children’s literature library of the School of Education, University of Wisconsin-Mad- each other. One woman’s miscarriage is juxtaposed against Literary Award and the Stonewall Award,
ison. 2018 award-winner A Different Pond is an unforgettable story about a simple event—a long- the story of the Buddha’s birth. Another cheats with her best in addition to being a Printz Award honor
ago fishing trip. Graphic novelist Thi Bui and acclaimed poet Bao Phi deliver a powerful, honest friend’s husband, only to discover it’s her friend she most yearns for. In three different stories, three book; and The Inexplicable Logic of My
glimpse into a relationship between father and son and between cultures. As a young boy, Bao and artists struggle to push courageous works into the world, while a woman with an incurable disease Life. The annual Charlotte Zolotow Lecture
his father awoke early, hours before his father’s long workday began, to fish on the shores of a small competes with her engineer husband’s beautiful android. Combining the speculative elements and is a free, public lecture sponsored by the
pond in Minneapolis. Unlike many other anglers, Bao and his father fished for food, not recreation. wry psychological realism beloved by readers of Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Margaret Atwood, Cooperative Children’s Book Center of the
A successful catch meant a fed family. Between hope-filled casts, Bao’s father told him about a Danzy Senna and Sandra Cisneros, this collection introduces Chaya Bhuvaneswar as an original and School of Education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, with support from the Friends
different pond in their homeland of Vietnam. memorable new voice. White Dancing Elephants is the winner of the 2017 Dzanc Books Short Story of the CCBC.
Collection Prize.
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Call Me When You Want to The Gift of Our Wounds Community Rooms 301-302
Talk about the Tombstones Pardeep Singh Kaleka, Arno Michaelis Tommy: My Journey
Cynthia Marie Hoffman The Gift of Our Wounds tells the remarkable story of how their friendship grew out of a horrific hate of a Lifetime
crime. This gut-wrenching book provides a vital understanding of how to combat racism and white
A mother inherits a leather box containing scraps of family papers and photos dating
supremacists in order to build an inclusive society based on unity and respect. In August 2012, Wade
Tommy Thompson, Doug Moe
back more than a century. Her daughter joins her on a moving quest to reconstruct their The many facets of Tommy G. Thompson—small-town grocer’s son, brash
Michael Page, a white supremacist, opened fire in a Sikh Temple in Oak Creek, WI. One of the men
family history. Together they sift through archives and inspect eroded headstones, piecing campaigner with a common touch, shrewd political strategist, savvy policy
killed that day was Pardeep’s father, Satwant Singh Kaleka. At the time of the attack, Arno, founder
together their ancestry in order to understand who they are. Elegiac yet spirited, this col- wonk, and ebullient promoter of Wisconsin—come across vividly in these
of one of the world’s largest skinhead organizations, had left his racist life behind. The Gift of Our
lection is a scavenger hunt, a DNA test, a jigsaw puzzle of lineage. Cynthia Marie Hoffman pages. Thompson, in conversation with journalist Doug Moe, traces his
Wounds offers readers an intimate and brutally honest view of both men’s lives. It’s not easy to read
is “a rising star,” a poet of infectious and meticulous vision. journey from boyhood to politics to the world stage, including his unprecedented four terms as Wisconsin
how Arno became a skinhead and the stories of his brutality. Pardeep’s account of the attack on
his temple brings the full force of that tragedy to light. The lessons and awareness that come from governor, his service as a cabinet secretary under President George W. Bush, and his continuing work in
10:30 to 11:30 AM Arno’s and Pardeep’s stories are invaluable. global efforts to fight AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria. Here is Tommy as a young man, just happening to be
Room of One’s Own on the National Mall in 1964 when Dr. Martin Luther King told the nation “I have a dream.” Here is Tommy
as Wisconsin governor, struggling to start a Harley-Davidson motorcycle before leading “a pack of Hell’s
Fearless Women in SF&F 11 AM to 12 PM
Republicans” on a ride through the state. Here is Tommy in Washington after the 9/11 attacks, slipping out of
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Mary Robinette Kowal, Mirah Bolender, a secure bunker (in defiance of orders) to aid the emergency medical response. Thompson speaks candidly of
K Arsenault Rivera Where Honeybees Thrive his achievements and regrets, including his involvement with welfare reform, school choice, land conservan-
cy, prisons, the financing of Miller Park, stem cell research, and health insurance.
Three of the most exciting and, of course, fearless women writing today discuss the Heather Swan
state of writing (and reading) Science Fiction and Fantasy. This new duology from Mary In this artfully illustrated book, Heather Swan embarks on a narrative voyage to discover solutions
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Robinette Kowal expands on her Hugo Award-winning novelette “Lady Astronaut of to—and understand the sources of—the plight of honeybees. Through a lyrical combination of
Mars.” Following The Calculating Stars, The Fated Sky brings the mathmetician, pilot, and Discovery Building: DeLuca Forum
creative nonfiction and visual imagery, Where Honeybees Thrive tells the stories of the beekeepers,
“lady astronaut” Elma York all the way to Mars on her new mission. Blending elements farmers, artists, entomologists, ecologists, and other advocates working to stem the damage and Play On
of adrenaline-charged military thrillers with immersive and atmospheric fantasy like City reverse course for this critical pollinator. Her mosaic approach to engaging with the environment not
of Stairs, debut author Mirah Bolender submerges readers in a world where non-magical only reveals the incredibly complex political ecology in which bees live—which includes human and
Jeff Bercovici
humans battle ancient weapons not of their own making. If you think of The Hurt Locker, nonhuman actors alike—but also suggests ways of comprehending and tackling a host of other con- A lively, deeply reported tour of the science and strategies helping athletes like Tom Brady, Serena Williams,
but replace bombs with magical weapons, you’ll have a sense of City of Broken Magic, the flicts between postindustrial society and the natural world. Each chapter closes with an illustrative Carli Lloyd, and LeBron James redefine the notion of “peak age.” How much of the difference is genetic des-
distinctive debut novel from Mirah Bolender (due out November 2018). Arsenault Rivera’s full-color gallery of bee-related artwork. A luminous journey from the worlds of honey producers, tiny and how much can be attributed to better training, medicine and technology? Is athletic longevity a skill
epic fantasy debut The Tiger’s Daughter was recently published to much critical acclaim urban farmers, and mead makers of the United States to those of beekeepers of Sichuan, China, and that can be taught, or a mental discipline that can be mastered? Can career-ending injuries be predicted and
and was named to the October 2017 Indie Next List. Her talent has been compared to Pat- researchers in southern Africa, Where Honeybees Thrive traces the global web of efforts to secure avoided? Journalist Jeff Bercovici spent extensive time with professional and Olympic athletes, coaches and
rick Rothfuss and Naomi Novik. The sequel, The Phoenix Empress continues the story of a sustainable future for honeybees—and ourselves. Presented in partnership with the Wisconsin doctors to find the answers to these questions. His quest led him to training camps, tournaments, hospitals,
the powerful Empress O Shizuka as she bands together with fierce warrior Shefali to fight Science Festival. anti-aging clinics and Silicon Valley startups, where he tried out cutting-edge treatments and technologies
off immortal and seemingly unbeatable demons threatening their lands. firsthand and investigated the realities behind health fads like alkaline diets, high-intensity interval training,
and cryotherapy. Bercovici illuminates the science and strategies extending the careers of elite older athletes,
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10:30 to 11:30 AM uncovers the latest scientific advances, and offers empowering insights about how the rest of us can find
Wisconsin Historical Museum peak performance at any age. Presented in partnership with the Wisconsin Science Festival.
Wisconsin Historical Museum
Daughter in Retrograde
Home of the Braves Courtney Kersten 1:30 to 2:30 PM
Patrick Steele When she isn’t eavesdropping on family gossip or gazing at taxidermy squirrels in smoky dives,
Room of One’s Own
When the struggling Boston Braves relocated to Courtney Kersten charts the uncertainty of her midwestern homeland by looking to the stars and Indictus
Milwaukee in March 1953, the city went wild for its new planets. As a teen she had plunged deep into the worlds of signs, symbols, and prophecy. But as her
baseball team. Soon, the Braves were winning games, mother—her traveling companion into these spheres—lies dying, Kersten must learn to navigate
Natalie Eilbert
drawing bigger crowds than any team but the Brooklyn without the person who always lit the way. Their last journey together, to swim in a Wisconsin lake, Poetry. Women’s Studies. Indictus re-imagines various creation myths to bear the invisible and unsaid assaults of
Dodgers, and turning Hank Aaron, Eddie Mathews, and is a bittersweet, darkly comic, poignant climax to this transformative memoir. women. In doing so, it subverts notions of patriarchal power into a genre that can be demolished and set again.
Warren Spahn into Hall of Famers. Within five years the Indictus is a Latin word, from which other words like “indict” and “indicate” are born. It translates literally as “to
team would win a World Series and two pennants. Yet write the unsaid.” There is an effort in this book to create the supernatural through the utterance of violence,
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in October 1964 team owners made a shocking announcement: the Braves were moving because jurisdiction fails in real time. That sexual assault can so easily become a science fiction when power is
Room of One’s Own rearranged to serve the victim speaks to the abject lack of control within victims to ever be redeemed. Crimes
to Atlanta. In the decades since, many have tried to understand why the Braves left Mil-
waukee. Fans blamed greedy owners and the lure of Coca Cola cash. Team management Interior States resolve to misdemeanors. In a world without my abusers, how can I soon become myself? Combining the myth-
claimed they weren’t getting enough local support. Patrick Steele delves deeply into all ological and autobiographical, this book attempts to indict us, so that the wounded might one day be free.
Meghan O’Gieblyn
facets of the story, looking at the changing business of baseball in the 1960s, the interac-
A fresh, acute, and even profound collection that centers around
tions of the team owners with the government officials who controlled County Stadium, 1:30 to 2:30 PM
the surging success of the Green Bay Packers, and much more, to understand how the two core (and related) issues of American identity: faith, in general
Wisconsin Historical Museum
“Milwaukee Miracle” went south. and the specific forms Christianity takes in particular; and the
challenges of living in the Midwest when culture is felt to be else- Love Wisconsin
where.What does it mean to be a believing Christian and a Mid-
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westerner in an increasingly secular America where the cultural
Megan Monday, Brijetta Hall Waller
Central Library: Children’s capital is retreating to both coasts? The critic and essayist Meghan Love Wisconsin is a storytelling project all about the people of Wisconsin. Launched online in 2015, the
Section O’Gieblyn was born into an evangelical family, attended the famed Moody Bible Institute in Chicago project captured attention by telling first-person, real-life stories, and publishing them right where people
hang out: on social media. As the stories were shared, the audience grew. Love Wisconsin: Stories From The
Judy Moody and for a time before she had a crisis of belief, and still lives in the Midwest. She writes of her “existential
Place We Call Home is a hard-cover, photo forward book containing over 80 of the inspiring voices featured
dizziness” and that rich sense of ambivalence and internal division that inform the fifteen superbly
the Right Royal thoughtful and ironic essays in this collection. Meghan O’Gieblyn stands a whole-hearted lover to her in the project.
Tea Party native Midwest, albeit one riven with ambivalence at the same time.
1:30 to 2:30 PM
Megan McDonald 12 to 1 PM Central Library: First Floor Conference Room
Judy Moody is in a royal purple-mountain-majesties
mood. Make that Majesty with a capital M! With
Central Library: The Bubbler Realer Than Real:
Grandma Lou’s help, Judy has dug up proof that some Raising the Dad Writing With All Five Senses
old-timey Moodys (aka the brave Mudeyes) lived in merry olde England. In fact, if her Tom Matthews Michelle Wildgen, Susanna Daniel
grandpa’s notes are right, Judy might even be related to—royal fanfare, please—the Queen
Raising the Dad is a small masterpiece that charts the all-too-familiar forces hastening the decline You can’t draw the reader into your world without first creating the world. Madison Writer’s Studio founders
herself! Should Judy start packing her purple robe for a sleepover at Buckingham Palace?
of the average American family, and in it Tom Matthews has produced a classic novel of modern Michelle Wildgen and Susanna Daniel present a workshop about sensory writing and how to use it in your
But then Judy’s family tree gets a few more shakes—thanks to her nemesis, Jessica “Fink”
life. In Raising the Dad, the dysfunction in John Husted’s family is vexing enough: His marriage has fiction and nonfiction. We’ll help you pay closer attention to the world-building details you have at your dis-
Finch—and some more surprises come tumbling out. Crikey! These new gems are not
slipped into a state of passionless functionality. His teenage daughter is growing distant and mean. posal and discuss how to select the most effective and evocative ones. We’ll read brief excerpts to stimulate
nearly as shiny or sparkly as the crown jewels. Now Judy has some right royal family se-
His older brother—a washed-up heavy-metal singer—is fresh out of jail, and their mother may be thinking about language and description, and we’ll discuss how the excerpts work and which words create
crets she’d like to keep hidden away in a dungeon somewhere—and especially away from
slipping away to dementia. Things just seemed to veer off course since the death of the family patri- which effects. Does a passage make us feel queasy or hungry, cozy or anxious? How did this mood affect the
Jessica, the princess in pink herself!
arch many years earlier. But then John is stunned to learn that his father’s fate was not what he had way we experienced the story? Finally, we’ll use prompts to get you thinking about all five senses. Partici-
long believed it to be. It falls upon John to decide if he should break the news to his family, knowing pants will have time to write, and some of you will have time to share and discuss your work as well. Register
that the truth could make the family whole—or smash it to pieces. online at https://wisconsinbookfestival.org/events/realer-real-writing-all-five-senses
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White Kids Severance Consent on Campus
Margaret Hagerman Ling Ma Donna Freitas
White Kids, based on two years of research involving in-depth interviews with white kids and their families, is a clear- Candace Chen, a millennial drone self-sequestered in A 2015 survey of twenty-seven elite colleges found that twenty-three percent of respon-
eyed and sometimes shocking account of how white kids learn about race. In doing so, this book explores questions a Manhattan office tower, is devoted to routine. She’s dents reported personal experiences of sexual misconduct on their campuses. That figure
such as, “How do white kids learn about race when they grow up in families that do not talk openly about race or content just to carry on: she goes to work, troubleshoots has not changed since the 1980s, when people first began collecting data on sexual
acknowledge its impact?” and “What about children growing up in families with parents who consider themselves the teen-targeted Gemstone Bible, watches movies in violence. What has changed is the level of attention that the American public is paying to
to be ‘anti-racist’?” Featuring the actual voices of young, affluent white kids and what they think about race, racism, a Greenpoint basement with her boyfriend. So Candace these statistics. Reports of sexual abuse repeatedly make headlines, and universities are
inequality, and privilege, White Kids illuminates how white racial socialization is much more dynamic, complex, and barely notices when a plague of biblical proportions scrambling to address the crisis. Their current strategy, Donna Freitas argues, is wholly
varied than previously recognized. By observing families in their everyday lives, this book explores the extent to sweeps New York. Then Shen Fever spreads. Families inadequate. Universities must take a radically different approach to educating their campus
which white families, even those with anti-racist intentions, reproduce and reinforce the forms of inequality they say flee. Companies halt operations. The subways squeak to a halt. Her bosses enlist her as communities about sexual assault and consent. Consent education is often a one-time
they reject. part of a dwindling skeleton crew with a big end-date payoff. Soon entirely alone, still affair, devised by overburdened student affairs officers. Universities seem more focused
unfevered, she photographs the eerie, abandoned city as the anonymous blogger NY on insulating themselves from lawsuits and scandals than on bringing about real change.
1:30 to 2:30 PM Ghost. Candace won’t be able to make it on her own forever, though. Enter a group of sur- What is needed, Freitas shows, is an effort by the entire university community to deal with
Central Library: The Bubbler vivors, led by the power-hungry IT tech Bob. They’re traveling to a place called the Facility, the deeper questions about sex, ethics, values, and how we treat one another, including
where, Bob promises, they will have everything they need to start society anew. But Can- facing up to the perils of hookup culture-and to do so in the university’s most important
Wisconsin Translators Panel dace is carrying a secret she knows Bob will exploit. Should she escape from her rescuers? space: the classroom.
Diane Grosklaus Whitty, Dong Isbister, Daniel Youd
Translators are an indispensable link between authors and their foreign readers because they are the means by which 3 to 4 PM 4:30 to 5:30 PM
texts from different cultures circulate. Without translators, Walt Disney would not have been able to introduce US Central Library: Central Library: The Bubbler
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children to Pinocchio (by Italian writer Carlo Collodi), The Little Mermaid (by Danish writer Hans Christian Andersen), Everyone Knows You Go Home
or Cinderella (by Italian storyteller Giovan Battista Basile and later French writer Charles Perrault)... Consider The Bible,
whose pages have been translated countless times into countless languages while others are still working on creating
The Fall of Wisconsin Natalia Sylvester
a “better” version of it? Translators are not just people with a good knowledge of one or more foreign languages: they Dan Kaufman The first time Isabel meets her father-in-law, Omar, he’s already dead—an apparition
also know firsthand the culture in which those foreign languages flourish. For this reason, they can understand the For more than a century, Wisconsin has been hailed as appearing uninvited on her wedding day. Her husband, Martin, still unforgiving for having
subtleties of the foreign text and can transpose it into their native language. They are often authors, writers, and poets a “laboratory of democracy”: a bastion of progressive been abandoned by his father years ago, confesses that he never knew the old man had
themselves who lend their writing skills to a foreign author, giving the opportunity to introduce a piece of work to an ideas and government, cradle of the labor and environ- died. So Omar asks Isabel for the impossible: persuade Omar’s family—especially his wife,
new audience. mental movements, and birthplace of the famed Wis- Elda—to let him redeem himself. Isabel and Martin settle into married life in a Texas border
consin Idea, which championed expertise in the service town, and Omar returns each year on the celebratory Day of the Dead. Every year Isabel
2 to 3 PM of the public good. But following a Republican sweep of listens, but to the aggrieved Martin and Elda, Omar’s spirit remains invisible. Through his
Discovery Building: Orchard View its state government in 2010, Wisconsin’s state laws protecting labor unions, the environ- visits, Isabel gains insight into not just the truth about his disappearance and her husband’s
ment, voting rights, and public education were dismantled—and, in perhaps the biggest childhood but also the ways grief can eat away at love. When Martin’s teenage nephew
The Man Who Caught the Storm shock of the 2016 presidential election, the state went for Donald J. Trump. The Fall of Wis- crosses the Mexican border and takes refuge in Isabel and Martin’s home, questions about
Brantley Hargrove consin is a deeply reported, riveting account of Wisconsin’s century-old progressive legacy past and future homes, borders, and belonging arise that may finally lead to forgiveness—
and how the state became a testing ground for national conservatives bent on remaking and alter all their lives forever.
At the turn of the twenty-first century, the tornado was one of the last true mysteries of the modern world. Researchers
American politics. Kaufman reveals the “divide-and-conquer” strategy that Governor Scott
all but gave up, until the arrival of an outsider. In a field of PhDs, Tim Samaras didn’t attend a day of college in his
life. He chased storms with brilliant tools of his own invention and pushed closer to the tornado than anyone else
Walker and his allies designed for Wisconsin, which has become a blueprint nationwide. 4:30 to 5:30 PM
And he chronicles the remarkable efforts of citizens who continue to fight back. Present- Room of One’s Own
ever dared. Yet even as he transformed the field, Samaras kept on pushing. As his ambitions grew, so did the risks.
ed in partnership with the Madison Institute and the UW Center for the Humanities.
And when he finally met his match—in a faceoff against the largest tornado ever recorded—it upended everything
he thought he knew. Brantley Hargrove delivers a masterful tale, chronicling the life of Tim Samaras in all its triumph
This Radical Land
and tragedy. He takes readers inside the thrill of the chase, the captivating science of tornadoes, and the remarkable 3 to 4 PM Daegan Miller
character of a man who walked the line between life and death in pursuit of knowledge. Presented in partnership with Room of One’s Own “The American people sees itself advance across the wilderness, draining swamps,
the Wisconsin Science Festival.
The Power of straightening rivers, peopling the solitude, and subduing nature,” wrote Alexis de Toc-
queville in 1835. That’s largely how we still think of nineteenth-century America today: a
3 to 4 PM Presence country expanding unstoppably, bending the continent’s natural bounty to the national
will, heedless of consequence. There’s much truth in that vision. But if you know where to
Discovery Building: DeLuca Forum Joy Thomas Moore,
look, you can uncover a different history, one of vibrant resistance, one that’s been mostly
Lost Connections Doug Nelson forgotten. This Radical Land recovers that story. Daegan Miller is our guide on a beautifully
Johann Hari As the mother of Wes Moore, whose memoir about written, revelatory trip across the continent during which we encounter radical thinkers,
overcoming the obstacles that face a fatherless young settlers, and artists who grounded their ideas of freedom, justice, and progress in the very
Depression and anxiety are now the most common mental illnesses in the US,
black man was a huge bestseller, Joy is constantly asked: landscapes around them, even as the runaway engine of capitalism sought to steamroll
affecting 18 percent of the population. Almost one in six Americans is now taking
How did you do it? How can you be a good parent, everything in its path. Miller offers nothing less than a new way of seeing the American
a drug for these or related disorders. A deeply researched new book asks: what
have a career and stay healthy when you don’t have a partner to pick up the slack? How past—and of understanding what it can offer us for the present . . . and the future.
if we have been radically misunderstanding these problems for more than a
do you connect with a child when you can’t always be there? Joy’s answer is “presence.”
generation—and missing the real solutions? Using his training as a social scientist
Specifically, seven different ways of being a force in a child’s life, ensuring that they feel 5 to 6 PM
at Cambridge University, Hari began to investigate the causes of depression and
your influence. We can’t always be physically there for our children, but the power of Discovery Building:
anxiety, traveling over 40,000 miles and conducting hundreds of interviews. He
presence can help us to be a voice in the back of their minds that guides them through
discovered something startling: the story we have been told about these problems is not true. Cutting-edge science DeLuca Forum
difficult times. In The Power of Presence, Moore explores seven pillars of presence–heart,
shows these problems are not caused by a spontaneous chemical imbalance in our brains. In fact, they are largely
caused by seven key factors in the way we are living today. Once we understand this different way of thinking, a
faith, mind, courage, financial freedom, values, and connectedness–that all parents can use American Wolf
to positively influence their children. Joy Thomas Moore will appear in conversation with
whole different set of solutions then open up. Presented in partnership with the Wisconsin Science Festival. Nate Blakeslee
Doug Nelson, former President and CEO of the Annie E. Casey Foundation.
Before men ruled the earth, there were wolves. Once
3 to 4 PM abundant in North America, these majestic creatures
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Wisconsin Historical Museum were hunted to near extinction in the lower 48 states
Discovery Building: by the 1920s. But in recent decades, conservationists
Once a Professor: A Memoir of DeLuca Forum have brought wolves back to the Rockies, igniting a
Teaching in Turbulent Times Wisconsin State Parks battle over the very soul of the West. With novelistic
detail, Nate Blakeslee tells the gripping story of one of these wolves, O-Six, a charismatic
Jerry Apps Scott Spoolman alpha female named for the year of her birth. She is beloved by wolf watchers, particularly
Farm boy professor and celebrated rural historian shares the life lessons he learned and the history he witnessed Wisconsin State Parks connects geologic processes to the current landscape, taking a dra- renowned naturalist Rick McIntyre, and becomes something of a social media star, with
as a University of Wisconsin Extension Agent and UW-Madison professor during 1960s, 70s and beyond in his new matic and historic look at northwestern Wisconsin’s volcanoes, at the glacial masses that followers around the world. American Wolf is a riveting multigenerational saga of hard-
memoir. During those years Apps experienced the turmoil of protests and riots at the UW in the 1960s, the struggles flattened and molded northern Wisconsin, at mountain ranges that rose up and wore away ship and triumph that tells a larger story about the ongoing cultural clash in the West—
of the tenure process and faculty governance, and the ever-present pressure to secure funding for academic research over hundreds of millions of years, and at many other bedrock-shaping phenomena. These between those fighting for a vanishing way of life and those committed to restoring one
and programs. Through it all—the protests and riots at the UW in the 1960s, the struggles of the tenure process stories, as well as to the evolution of flora and fauna and development of human settle- of the country’s most iconic landscapes. Presented in partnership with the Wisconsin
and faculty governance, and the pressure to secure funding for academic research and programs—the award-win- ment and activities, for a deeper understanding of our state’s natural history. Presented in Science Festival.
ning writer honed a personal philosophy of education—one that values critical thinking, nontraditional teaching partnership with the Wisconsin Science Festival.
approaches, and hands-on experiences outside of the classroom. Colorful characters, personal photos, and journal
entries from the era enrich this account of an unexpected campus career. Presented in in partnership with the Dane
County Historical Society.
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