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Previous TEDxAustinCollege Events

TEDxAustinCollege 2018

On Saturday, September 29, 2018, Austin College hosted the third annual TEDxAustinCollege event. It featured members of the Austin College community as speakers, TED talks, lunch, and an interactive Discovery Depot to explore ideas worth spreading. The theme was Changing Currents and honored 100 years of co-education at Austin College.

 

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TEDxAustinCollege 2018

Speakers & Videos

  • Shelby Bagby ‘20 - One Language is Not Enough ¿Por qué no los dos?
  • Anissa Centers ‘93 - Looking Good While Falling Apart: There are some things in life even a great pair of stilettos won't fix
  • Devin Gonier ‘09 - The Morality of Artificial Intelligence and the Power of the Unknowable
  • Randi Tanglen, Ph.D. - How to be a Bad-ass Woman: Changing the Current in Daunting Political Times
  • Aly Tharp ‘12 - Climate Chaos or Social Change? Choose one
  • Rev. John Williams, Ph.D. ‘84 -Out of the Audience and into the Story: Including Marginalized Persons

TEDxAustinCollege 2017

On Saturday, September 23, 2017, Austin College hosted the second annual TEDxAustinCollege event. It featured members of the Austin College community as speakers, TED talks, lunch, and an interactive Discovery Depot to explore ideas worth spreading. The theme for this year’s event was Pieces of a Mosaic, celebrating the diversity of speakers and ideas.

 

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TEDxAustinCollege 2017 Videos

TEDx 2017
TEDx 2017
  • Rob Kelso - Paving the Way to Planetary Settlement
  • Sierra Salser - First Glances and First Words
  • David Savage -International Refugees in Texas: How They Get Here and What Happens Next
  • Peter Schulze - We Aren’t Going to Mars
  • Ivette Vargas-O’Bryan - Paradigm Shift Toward Universal Compassion
  • Aaron White - What Part of You Will Live Forever?
  • Asil Yassine - Literacy: The Great American Theft

TEDxAustinCollege 2016

On September 22, 2016, Austin College hosted the first annual TEDxAustinCollege event, with the theme of Adding Value to a Changing World. It featured our own faculty speakers who gave live TED talks about ideas worth spreading. There were also TED talk videos, an interactive Discovery Depot, a Main Stage for a limited number of people to attend the live event, and on-campus simulcast of the entire programming.

 

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TEDxAustinCollege 2016 Videos

TEDx2016
TEDx2016

Dr. David Baker
 The Most Extreme Life Form in Our Solar System

Dr. Lisa M. Brown
Who Gets the Benefit of the Doubt? And Who Shouldn’t?

Dr. George Diggs
Real Food Diets for Lions, Zebras, People and Beyond

Dr. Mark Hébert
Happiness vs. Meaning:
Must I Choose?


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