Talks
James Mary O'Connor |
The transformative power of education
James has provided inspired design leadership for numerous large-scale, innovative master planning, urban design, campus planning, residential and mixed-use projects throughout the USA and the world.
In his 30-year career, architect James Mary O’Connor, FAIA, has demonstrated a steadfast, passionate commitment to design excellence. Born in Dublin, Ireland, James received his Diploma in Architecture from the Dublin Institute of Technology and his Master of Architecture from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).
Alice Kimm |
What architecture can do for you
Alice Kimm is co-founder and partner of LA architecture firm John Friedman Alice Kimm Architects (JFAK). Renowned for its design of innovative and catalytic environments, JFAK’s output is marked by spatial fluidity, quality of light, and cultural impact. With each project, JFAK incorporates developing technologies, working with its clients and collaborators to realize a sustainable and artful design intelligence. A 1999 Fulbright Scholar, Alice is also an associate professor at USC, where from 2010-2014 she directed the undergraduate programs in Architecture. Alice is a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects.
Brigham Yen |
Downtown LA rising
For Brigham Yen, Los Angeles has been a poster child of suburban sprawl and car dependency in the United States. The rise of Downtown LA with its urban revitalization is redefining what it means to be Angeleno who walks instead of drives.
Ralph Gibson |
Finding a Visual Identity in the Digital Age
Gibson's photographs are included in over 170 museum collections around the world, and have appeared in hundreds of one man exhibitions. According to ArtDaily: "For Gibson, photography isn't about capturing a special event or a certain moment but about making the most insignificant subject into a work of art".
Ruairi Robertson|
Food for thought: How your belly controls your brain
"Have you ever had a gut feeling or butterflies in your stomach? Has hunger ever changed your mood? Our bellies and brains are physically and biochemically connected in a number of ways, meaning the state of our intestines can alter the way our brains work and behave, giving a whole new meaning to 'Food for thought'.
Alice Blumenfeld|
Flamenco is a language
"Alice Blumenfeld's powerful performance onstage, and her scholarly work offstage, make her a preeminent force in the American flamenco dance scene. According to Thinking Dance: "[Blumenfeld has] a fierce presence (her movements seem to arise from several feet beneath the ground) ..."
At TEDxFulbright she performed with musician Gabriel Osuna.
Brian Boxer Wachler | Fight for Sight
Dr. Brian Boxer Wachler restored the vision of athlete Steven Holcomb, who had been declared blind due to an eye disease know as Keratoconus. Steven was able to immediately return to bobsledding and won the World Championship in 2009. Brian has restored the lives of thousands of people with his procedures.
Priyali Sur | Gender equality - A man's fight as well
Leland Lazarus | A Dream Worth Fighting For
Priyali Sur's in an award winning journalist reporting on gender-right issues. She defends the urgent need for men to join the fight for gender equality by showing inspiring stories from her documentary film of a few men in India who are risking their lives to fight for women's rights.
Is English your second language? Did you ever dream about learning English? Listen to this inspiring talk how this dream becomes a reality for many disadvantaged students in Panama by a scholarship with a name inspired by Martin Luther King's "I have a dream" speech.
Samantha Lakin |
Exploring Stories of Genocide and Justice after Conflict
How can a society turn around and recover after genocide? Survivors need to achieve justice. For these survivors, justice in the legal sense is not enough. New considerations of justice are as or more important to making survivors feel whole again.
Cristina Trenas | My time machine
Cristina shares her journey into movies that matter. She talks about her adventures as a way to explain how we all have the power to make a difference through whatever it is that we are most passionate about.
Dolph Lundgren | On healing and forgiveness
The movie Rocky IV turned Dolph Lundgren aka Soviet boxer Ivan Drago into a Hollywood star. Exactly 30 years later the Fulbrighter Dolph Lundgren shares his personal fight worth fighting with a live audience at the Broad Stage in Santa Monica. âIf you heal yourself you can heal othersâ is the message of this surprising TEDxFulbright talk about a fighter who became a social activist.
Catalina Talero |
Fighting the good fight in education
For Catalina Talero education is not a systemic, esoteric problem inaccessible to the average citizen. It is not strictly the responsibility of teachers and, perhaps, parents. The education system of the United States of America is the responsibility of each and every one of its citizens.
Kate Conklin | Responding to Desire
Talent is insufficient. Desire is insufficient. We have to chose to respond to our desire and do the work that we need to do to support that response.
Eric Trules | The Train of Opportunity
"Trules is an original. He turns his vivid writing into dark/comic lacerations building to the cosmic. His work reverberates with grit." (LA Times).
"Trules is an accomplished writer; he has both a feel for contemporary idiom and a poetic imagination that echoes the great American playwrights" (Edinburgh Scotsman)
Michael Goldberg | Beyond Silicon Valley
Goldberg's massive open online course (MOOC) called beyond Silicon Valley: Growing Entrepreneurship in Transition Economies, has attracted over 55,000 students from one hundred and ninety countries and has been translated into thirteen languages.
Ryan Bart | Tranformational magic:
Extending the realm of possibility
Ryan Bart has been infusing wonder in audiences large and small for a decade. There is a difference between fooling people and amazing them and Ryan understands this subtle, yet distinct difference. Ryan Bart, will amaze you with both his magic and his passion for Magicians Without Borders.
