The LASERs (Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous) are an international program of evening gatherings that bring artists and scientists together for informal presentations and conversation with an audience. This evening, chaired by cultural historian Piero Scaruffi, will feature two talks:

- Sarah Cole (Columbia Univ) on "100 years of Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway"

- John Wehrle (Muralist and Photographer) on "Visual Stories, Public Works and Private Thoughts"

Sarah Cole is Parr Professor of English and Comparative Literature and Dean of Humanities at Columbia University. A specialist in literary modernism, she is the co-founder of the NYNJ Modernism Seminar and publishes widely on literary modernism and on war and peace. As Dean, she founded and directs the Humanities War and Peace Initiative and the Climate Humanities initiative at Columbia. She is the author of three books, Inventing Tomorrow: H. G. Wells and the Twentieth Century (Columbia, 2019), At the Violet Hour: Modernism and Violence in England and Ireland (Oxford, Modernist Literature and Culture series, 2012) and Modernism, Male Friendship, and the First World War (Cambridge, 2003).

John Wehrle, for more than forty-seven years, has created gargantuan narrative paintings and installations throughout California and beyond.   John’s work has transformed public and private spaces in West Coast cities from Los Angeles and San Francisco to Washington State; schools, libraries, civic centers, firehouses, train stations, banks, building walls and freeways. John has painted murals inside and outside museums and was one of ten artists chosen to paint murals for the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles. Many of these monumental works have become urban landmarks.

The Stanford LASERs are sponsored by the schools of Medicine, Engineering, and Humanities & Sciences, by Continuing Studies and by Chemical Engineering.

Detailed bios at: www.lasertalks.com

Register here:  https://stanford.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_kWolYDf7QK22aWrhoiz1Cw

The Stanford LASERs are co-sponsored by the deans of Humanities and Sciences, Engineering and Medicine, and by Chemical Engineering.