TEDxUND 2014 to explore "Creating Knowledge Together"

The University of Notre Dame will present TEDxUND 2014, featuring a varied lineup of speakers exploring the topic “Creating Understanding Together,” on Jan. 21 (Tuesday) in the Patricia George Decio Theatre of Notre Dame’s DeBartolo Performing Arts Center.

Admission to TEDxUND 2014 is totally free, but tickets are required. Applications are currently being accepted on the internet until finally midnight Dec. 15 (Saturday) with a hundred seats accessible for the live event in the Decio Theatre and an further 800 for a live stream broadcast that will be presented in DeBartolo’s Leighton Concert Hall. Attendees will be chosen by lottery and should claim tickets at the DeBartolo box office 15 to thirty minutes prior to the event.

TEDxUND 2014 will be composed of two dwell sessions from 8:thirty a.m. to 1 p.m. and 1:thirty to 6 p.m., and will feature emcees Candida Moss, professor of New Testament and early Christianity, and Hugh R. Webpage Jr., vice president and associate provost for undergraduate affairs, dean of Initial Yr of Scientific studies and professor of theology and Africana studies.

Scheduled subjects and speakers are as follows:

Morning session

• “It’s Not All Intercourse and Violence: Cooperation in Human Evolution,” Agustin Fuentes, professor of anthropology


• “Creating Community Amid ‘Urban Decline’: A Review in Resurrection,” Claire Fyrqvist, 2005 Notre Dame graduate


• “Foreign Help and International Volunteering: Troubles Behind the Vision of Service,” Jingting Kang, undergraduate pupil


• “Searching for the other 95% of the Universe: Accurate Stories From the Power Frontier,” Kevin Lannon, professor of physics


• “Measuring Style Aesthetics: A Quantitative Challenge,” José E. Lugo, graduate pupil


• “Sharing Expertise By means of the Knowledge of Musical Overall performance,” Carmen-Helena Telléz, professor of conducting and director, Graduate Choral Conducting System


• “The Beautiful, Messy Democracy of Chamber Music,” Third Coast Percussion, ensemble-in-residence, DeBartolo Executing Arts Center (morning and afternoon sessions)


• “Changing the Hivemind: How Social Media Manipulation Impacts Everything,” Tim Weninger, assistant professor of personal computer science and engineering


• “Tourette Does the Speaking,” Thomas J. White, undergraduate pupil


• “The Value of a Paycheck and the Urgency of Now,” Peter Keon Woo, undergraduate student

Afternoon session

• “Learning to See: The Power of Visual Communication and Training the Eye,” Marie Bourgeois, graphic designer, University Communications assistant professor, visual communication design and style


• “Big Information for Frequent Great: Connecting the Dots for Patient-Centered Outcomes,” Nitesh Chawla, Frank Freimann Collegiate Chair of Engineering and associate professor of pc science and engineering


• “Varieties of Democracy: Global Regular, Neighborhood Knowledge,” Michael Coppedge, professor of political science and faculty fellow, Kellogg Institute for Global Scientific studies


• “The Speak About Talent: Rapping About Rap,” Jake Makowski, undergraduate student


• “Connecting the Dots: Caring Education, Joyful Learning, and Human Integrity,” Maria McKenna, director of undergraduate research, Department of Africana Research


• “Don’t Miss the Trees for the Forest: Producing Tiny Data Can Solve Big Difficulties,” Michael Mesterharm, graduate pupil


• “Evaluating the Position Culture Plays in Economic Outcomes,” Joel Ostdiek, undergraduate pupil


• “The Encounter of Innovation: What Does an Innovator Search Like?” J.R. Reagan, principal, Deloitte &amp Touche LLP
  


• “The Beautiful, Messy Democracy of Chamber Music,” Third Coast Percussion, ensemble-in-residence, DeBartolo Doing Arts Center (morning and afternoon sessions)


• “The Electrical power of Vulnerability: Healing Through Portraiture,” Christa Grace Watkins, undergraduate student

TEDxUND 2014 is presented by Student Government, the DeBartolo Carrying out Arts Center and Hesburgh Libraries, with assistance from the Workplace of the Provost and University Communications. Far more info is available on the web at TEDx.nd.edu.

About TEDx, x = independently organized event
In the spirit of concepts well worth spreading, TEDx is a system of regional, self-organized events that carry people collectively to share a TED-like encounter. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and dwell speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a modest group. These regional, self-organized occasions are branded TEDx, the place x signifies an independently organized TED occasion. The TED Conference gives general advice for the TEDx plan, but personal TEDx events are self-organized, and are subject to specific principles and rules.

About TED
TED is a nonprofit organization devoted to Suggestions Well worth Spreading. Began as a 4-day conference in California nearly 30 years in the past, TED has grown to help people globe-shifting concepts with a number of initiatives. The two annual TED Conferences invite the world’s top thinkers and doers to communicate for 18 minutes on a diverse mix of subjects. Many of these talks are then created accessible, totally free, at TED.com. TED speakers have incorporated Bill Gates, Jane Goodall, Elizabeth Gilbert, Sir Richard Branson, Nandan Nilekani, Philippe Starck, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Isabel Allende and former U.K. Prime Minister Gordon Brown. The TED2014 Conference will consider location in Vancouver, British Columbia, along with the TEDActive simulcast in neighboring Whistler. TEDGlobal 2014 will be held in Rio de Janeiro.

TED’s media initiatives consist of TED.com, in which new TED Talks are posted everyday the Open Translation Undertaking, which gives subtitles and interactive transcripts as nicely as translations from volunteers throughout the world the educational initiative TED-Ed and TEDBooks, short e-books on powerful concepts. TED has established the annual TED Prize, where outstanding men and women with a wish to modify the planet get help translating their wishes into action TEDx, which supports men and women or groups in hosting local, self-organized TED-type events close to the planet and the TED Fellows plan, helping planet-modifying innovators from about the globe to amplify the effect of their exceptional tasks and activities.

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Speak to: Paul Van Ness, occasion organizer, 574-631-1873, pvanness@nd.edu

TEDxUND 2014 to explore "Creating Knowledge Together"