Authors of 'Runaway Species' kick off Innovation Week with discussion

<div class="newscaption">The Runaway Species is the 2018-2019 Common Reading book.</div>

Neuroscientist David Eagleman and composer Anthony Brandt, authors of The Runaway Species, will present a discussion at 7 p.m. September 24 in Evans Auditorium at Texas State University as part of the Common Experience Insight Series.

The event is free and open to the public. Seating is limited, however, and tickets are required. Tickets may be obtained at txstatepresents.universitytickets.com/w/event.aspx?id=2448&p=1

In The Runaway Species , Eagleman and Brandt team up to take a deep-dive into the creative mind, examining hundreds of examples of human creativity through storytelling and images. Together, they explore how individuals, organizations and educational institutions can benefit from fostering creativity, while celebrating humanity’s unique ability to remake the world.

Eagleman is a New York Times-bestselling author of Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain and Sum. He is the writer and host of the Emmy-nominated PBS television series The Brain. Eagleman is an adjunct professor at Stanford University, a Guggenheim fellow and the director of the Center for Science and Law. He has written for the New York Times, Discover Magazine, The Atlantic, Slate, Wired and and appears regularly on National Public Radio and BBC.

Brandt is a professor at Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music. He is also artistic director of the contemporary music ensemble Musiqa, winner of two Adventurous Programming Awards from Chamber Music America and ASCAP. Brandt has received a Koussevitzky Commission from the Library of Congress and grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, Meet-the-Composer and the Houston Arts Alliance. Brandt has written two chamber operas and works for orchestra, chamber ensembles, dance, theater, film, television, and sound and art installations. He has co-authored papers on music cognition published in the journals Frontiers and Brain Connectivity.

This event is part of the 2018-19 Common Experience theme on innovation, and Innovation Week which runs September 24-28 at Texas State. The Runaway Species is the 2018-2019 Common Reading book.

For more information, contact Twister Marquiss at twister@txstate.edu or (512) 245-3579, or Erika Nielson at erika.nielson@txstate.edu.