We are Nerd Nite Winston-Salem! Coming to you from the heart of downtown W-S hosted by Kaleideum.
Join us June 5 at 6pm for an entertaining night of science, art and pop culture.
Speaker Line up for June 5, 6 pm
Karrie Adams – Leader of Learning Technology and Global Education at Wake Forest Institute of Regenerative Medicine
Not That Kind of Doctor: Country Roots, Classroom Creds, and Why I Still Belong
A first-generation Southerner with an Ed.D. (YES. It’s real) shares how teaching, twang, and resilience—not lab skills—carved a place in science, proving belonging isn’t about fitting molds but owning who you are fully.
Dean Wilcox – Professor of Theatre History, Dramatic Literature, and Humanities
Malfunction Junction, What’s Your Function?
Ruminating on Glitch and Circuit Bending:
Machines don’t always do what we want them to do, which can be frustrating, but intentionally causing them to malfunction can create all sorts of interesting unpredictable outcomes. This talk will use a brief history of sound mangling to focus on the indeterminacy of glitch (the sound of a misbehaving compact disc) and circuit bending (the deliberate rewiring of toys and other battery-driven noise makers).
Jamie Ryan – High School English Teacher and Pop Culture Maven
Universal Monsters v. Fiction
(aka, For the last time: Frankenstein is the Scientist, not the Creation, dammit!):
An in depth look at how the classic Universal marvel films vary from their source materials and why those changes were made.