'TEDxSMU Hilltop' coming to the campus Sepember 21
TEDxSMU Hilltop will feature performance, technology and great talks on “Ideas Worth Spreading.”
DALLAS (SMU) – TEDxSMU Hilltop is coming to SMU’s Bob Hope Theater on Friday, Sept. 21 – a free, SMU-only mashup of performance, technology and great talks that will spotlight “Ideas Worth Spreading” right here on campus.
The Lyle School of Engineering and Meadows School of the Arts will join to present high-energy talks and performances that tap the talents of the SMU community.
The half-day conference will run from 1 – 5 p.m., punctuated by a half-hour conversation break in the middle of the afternoon. By limiting the audience to the SMU community and staging the event in a campus theater, TEDxSMU is bringing home the kind of event that started with the first TEDxSMU conference in 2009.
TEDxSMU Hilltop is open to everyone on the SMU campus – students, faculty and staff – but it’s first-come, first served. Register here and bring your SMU ID to the event.
The program’s theme is re:THINK. Presenters and schedule:
Session One: 1:00-2:45
Conversation Break: 2:45-3:15
Session Two: 3:15-5:00Emcees:
Alicia Booker, Graduate Student, Simmons School of Education & Human Development
Janielle Kastner, Senior, Meadows School of the Arts
Session One Speakers (in alpha order)
Adam Anderson, Student
Spoken Word
Willie Baronet, Faculty
Rethinking Home
Kate Canales, Staff
Empathy and Innovation
Erin Crosby, Staff & Alumni
The Bridge to NowhereCarl Dorvil, Alumni
The Four P's of SuccessLane Johnson, Student
The Possible Efficacy of Psychotherapy in the Slowing of the Progression of Alzheimer's DiseaseBrandon Lazarus, Student
It's Not What You Know, It's Who You KnowTammy Nguyen Lee, Alumni
Starting My MovementKatrina Leshan, Student
PerformanceJSpear, Student
PerformanceRyszard Stroynowski, Faculty
Particle Physics -New World Waits for DiscoveryJaquai Wade, Alumni
NowSession Two Speakers (in alpha order)
Christopher Bhatti, Staff & Alumni
Benefit of Being Comfortable with the UncomfortableChristian Genco, Student
You should learn to programRick Halperin, Faculty
The Current Status of Human RightsHank Hammett, Faculty
Opera In and Out of the BoxKevin Lavelle, Alumni
No = GoKatrina Leshan, Student
A New Way of Looking at MusicDaniel Poku, Student
CauseCakesIsake Slaughter, Student
My Soul CriesJSpear, Student
PerformanceJonathan Wentz, Student
Road to 2012 ParalympicsRonald Wetherington, Faculty
Turning Interdisciplinary Teaching Upside Down
TEDxSMU premiered on the SMU campus in 2009 at Caruth Auditorium, one of the first university events licensed as an independently organized “TEDx” event by the nonprofit organization that hosts the TED conference annually in Long Beach. People who have never attended TED or a TEDx event routinely embrace the concept of “Ideas Worth Spreading” by tapping into the thousands of TEDtalks available online.
Response to the first TEDxSMU was strong enough to require a larger venue for subsequent years. Tickets to TEDxSMU, scheduled for Dec. 1 this year at the new Dallas City Performance Hall, are limited and priced at $150 to cover the production costs.
"We identified an opportunity to reconnect with the University community by bringing the show back to campus for an SMU-only event," said Marc Christensen, dean ad-interim at the Lyle School. "Our goals are simple: make the conference more accessible to the SMU community both in terms of physical access and financial commitment, highlight our own talented students, faculty, staff and alumni and spark meaningful conversation on campus."
TEDxSMU also hosts TEDxSMU Wednesdays, which are free, weekly, open-to-the-public brown bag lunch presentations where participants watch and discuss a TEDtalk from the TED.com archives. Check the website for the talk topic and location each week at www.tedxsmu.org/event/tedxsmu-wednesdays-–-fall-series/. The group will meet every Wednesday during the fall semester from noon to 1 p.m.
TEDxSMU programming ranges from personal discussions of physical and mental journeys to demonstrations of high-tech gadgetry and inspirational musical performances and great visuals are the common denominator. Modeled on the annual TED (Technology, Engineering and Design) conference in Long Beach, Calif., TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience.
About TEDx, x = independently organized event
In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x =independently organized TED event. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized. (Subject to certain rules and regulations.)
About TED
TED is a nonprofit organization devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. Started as a four-day conference in California 26 years ago, TED has grown to support those world-changing ideas with multiple initiatives. At TED, the world's leading thinkers and doers are asked to give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes. Talks are then made available, free, at TED.com. TED speakers have included Bill Gates, Jane Goodall, Elizabeth Gilbert, Sir Richard Branson, Benoit Mandelbrot, Philippe Starck, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Isabel Allende and former UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown. Two major TED events are held each year: The TED Conference takes place every spring in Long Beach, California (along with a parallel conference, TEDActive, in Palm Springs), and TEDGlobal is held each summer in Edinburgh, Scotland.
TED’s media initiatives include TED.com, where new TEDTalks are posted daily; the new TED Conversations, enabling broad conversations among TED fans; and the Open Translation Project, which provides subtitles and interactive transcripts as well as the ability for any TEDTalk to be translated by volunteers worldwide.
TED has established the annual TED Prize, where exceptional individuals with a wish to change the world are given the opportunity to put their wishes into action; TEDx, which offers individuals or groups a way to host local, self-organized events around the world; and the TED Fellows program, helping world-changing innovators from around the globe to become part of the TED community and, with its help, amplify the impact of their remarkable projects and activities.
For information about TED's upcoming conferences, visit http://www.ted.com/registration
Follow TED on Twitter at http://twitter.com/TEDTalks, or on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/TED
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