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It’s that time again – the 8^th Annual TEDxNSU event will be taking place in the Performance Theatre in the Don Taft University Center on Saturday, March 16, noon – 5:00 p.m. Tickets are $20 and can be purchased online.  Your ticket includes admission to the event, lunch, snacks, and all the interesting conversations and fun you can stand!

In the spirit of “ideas worth spreading,” TED has created TEDx. TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. NSU is proud to host the eighth annual TEDxNSU event – an engaging day of live presentations by fellow NSU students, faculty, staff, and alumni; along with TED videos, interactive exhibits, and discussion. TEDxNSU is co-organized by College of Psychology Associate Professors Leanne Boucher and W. Matthew Collins.

This year’s speakers include:

• Mansoor Choudhry, medical student in the Kiran C. Patel College of Osteopathic Medicine, “Transcending Language”
• Sarah Goltsman, undergraduate student in the Pallavi Patel College of Health Care Sciences, “I Don’t Deserve to be Here Today”
• Mariana Guzmán de Pérez, doctoral student in the College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences, “On Becoming Hopeful in the Midst of Uncertainty”
• Guy Harvey, of NSU’s Guy Harvey Oceanographic Center, “Art and science working together for the conservation of large pelagic fish”
• Barry Nierenberg, College of Psychology faculty, “Mastering Suffering”
• Ashley Rizzotto, career advisor in the Office of Career Development, “Researching and Soul-Searching: Mastering the Art of the Interview”
• Rita Shea-Van Fossen, assistant dean and faculty in the Wayne Huizenga College of Business and Entrepreneurship, “Embrace Challenges to Find Your Meaning”
• Maria Valladares, undergraduate student in the College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences, “Become a Storyteller: The Importance of the Stories of Others”

Our theme this year is KNOWNS & UNKNOWNS. We’ll be exploring some ways in which knowledge – or the absence thereof – have shaped our speakers’ personal and professional lives.

To read more about this year’s speakers, click here. Tickets are required and are nonrefundable and nontransferable. Tickets are limited to encourage interaction between speakers and attendees. To get your ticket, click here. For more information, like TEDxNSU on Facebook, follow @TEDxNSU on Twitter, or email TEDxNSU@nova.edu.

The Faculty Symposium will be held on Thursday, March 14, 2019 from 4:30 to 6:00 p.m. in the Faculty Shark Club (Rosenthal Building).

Freedom of the press is a paramount right guaranteed by the First Amendment of the Constitution of the United States. This freedom is recognized as necessary for the free exchange of ideas in a democracy. Yet, the media is sometimes seen as going beyond the boundaries of its mission and impinging on rights guaranteed to individuals. Freedom of the press does not entirely insulate the media from suits based on defamation and invasion of privacy. This symposium will explore the role of the media through the lens of politics, law, and history. The discussion will include the role of the media generally, the protection of the media in fulfilling its role, and the way courts treat the media’s intrusiveness into private lives.

Presenters

Michael Richmond, J.D., M.S.L.S., professor of law, has been teaching at the Shepard Broad College of Law since 1978. He currently teaches Torts and Constitutional Law II (the First Amendment). Richmond taught a course in Defamation, Privacy, and Publicity, as well as a Goodwin Seminar dealing with media intrusiveness. He was president of the faculty senate in the early 1980s. His research interests range from torts to popular culture and from publicity to Gilbert and Sullivan. Richmond is presently researching an article dealing with questions raised by the First Amendment.

Charles Zelden, Ph.D., professor of history and political science for the department of history and political science in the College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences, is the author of seven books and numerous articles. Zelden teaches and writes at the borderland of law, history, and politics. His teaching includes addressing the role of a free press in a democratic society. Zelden also is a regular political commentator for local and national media outlets including CNN, AP, the Tallahassee Democrat, the South Florida Sun Sentinel, WLRN public radio, and each of the South Florida network television affiliates.

RSVP to
facultysymposium@nova.edu.

Save the Date update
End-of-Year Reception has been canceled.