TEDxFairbanks LIVEstreamed at NSCF

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TEDx Fairbanks 2016 Event Schedule:

 

11:00 AM:    Opening Remarks

11:15 AM:    TEDx introduction video

11:30 AM:    Dr. Ping Lan

Dr Ping LanSparking Innovation in Alien Minds

This TEDTalk is based on Dr. Lan's efforts to crowdsource innovation by creating the Arctic Innovation Competition and helping growing new ventures.

11:45 AM:    Dr. Mary Beth Leigh

Dr. Mary Beth LeighSeeing the Elephant

This TEDTalk highlights projects combining ecology, dance, visual art, and other media to advance the arts, sciences, and public understanding of social-ecological issues.

12:00 PM:    Break/Appetizers

12:30 PM:    TED Video number one

12:50 PM:    Allan Hayton

Allan HaytonAthabascan Language, Land, Culture

This TEDTalk will tell the story of how the Athabascan languages of Alaska have developed over centuries in intimate conversation with the natural world.

  1:10 PM:    Misty Nickoli

Misty NickoliShattering the Glass to Build Bridges

This TEDTalk will discuss the effects of institutional racism from a personal perspective and suggest several ways in which we can curb microaggressions.

  1:30 PM:    Lunch

  2:30 PM:   TED Video number two

  2:50 PM:   Stephan Milkowski

Stefan MilkowskiLiving Smaller in a Warmer World

This TEDTalk starts off with the understanding that many parts of the Western lifestyle are unsustainable, and that we will all need to change our lives in substantial ways.

  3:10 PM:    Bill Brody

Bill BrodyMeditations on Art and Wilderness

This TEDTalk will tell the story of how Bill Brody came to paint alone on the glaciers in Alaska, and the lessons he learned along the way, in particular the value of silence and solitude.

  3:30 PM:    Closing Remarks

 

 

 

 
 
 
 
 
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