Weekly Discussions Fall 2014 Series
Join the TEDxSMU team for a weekly talk series. We watch a TEDTalk from the TED.com archives and have a lively discussion. The TEDTalk will change at each meeting, and all members of the SMU and Dallas communities are welcome.
When: Tuesdays at 12:30pm – 1:30pm
Where: Deason Innovation Gym, Garden Level of Caruth Hall
August 26: Tim Berners-Lee, “A Magna Carta for the web”
September 2: Margaret Gould Stewart, “How giant websites design for you (and a billion others, too)”
September 9: Jackson Katz, “Violence against women – it’s a men’s issue”
September 16: Colin Stokes, “How movies teach manhood”
September 23: Chimamanda Ngozi, “We should all be feminists”
September 30: Zak Ebrahim, “I am the son of a terrorist. Here’s how I chose peace”
October 7: Michael Green, “What the Social Progress Index can reveal about your country”
October 14: No Weekly Discussion due to Fall Break
October 21: Myriam Sidibe, “The simple power of hand-washing”
October 28: No Weekly Discussion due to TEDxKids@SMU (10/31) and TEDxSMU (11/1)
November 4: Jeremy Heimans, “What new power looks like”
November 11: Will Marshall, “Tiny satellites show us the Earth as it changes in near-real-time”
November 18: Vincent Moon and Nana Vasconcelos, “Hidden music rituals around the world”
November 25: Jeff Iliff, “One more reason to get a good night’s sleep”
December 2: Ben Saunders, “To the South Pole and back – the hardest 105 days of my life”
This will be our last discussion of the semester. Good luck on Finals SMU students!
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