TEDxHarvardCollege 2017: Stargazing

October 14, 2017

Time: 2:00 PM - 5:30 PM

Ensure your spot at TEDxHarvardCollege’s biggest event of the year, a conference with an viewership of thousands and one of the most anticipated events at Harvard! We are bringing together the brightest minds to discuss issues of politics, history, technology, science, and innovation, alongside high energy performances and a post-event technology and art exhibit featuring artists, virtual reality, 3D printing, and robotics. Our event wouldn't be what it is without you, to create as diverse an attendee base as possible-- contribute your voice in our mission to push the boundaries of thought!

Buy Your Ticket: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/tedxharvard-college-2017-stargazing-tickets-37140275564

Learn more at www.tedxharvard.org!

Featuring

5 world-renowned speakers and a competition-winning student speaker
Performances by the Harvard Undergraduate Drummers, the Harvard Modern Dance Company, and a sand-animation artist, all premiering stellar new performances
For the first time, a technology and art exhibition featuring virtual reality demonstrations by Harvard SEAS, robotics by the Harvard Undergraduate Robotics club, Engineers without Borders, and displays by various artists around Harvard.
Refreshments provided by some of our sponsors around the square; Sweetgreen, David’s Tea, JP Licks, and Insomnia Cookies.

Our Speakers (read more at tedxharvard.org)

Sarah Lewis - Curator and Harvard Assistant Professor of Art History, former TED main-stage speaker, bestselling author featured on NYT and WSJ

Avi Loeb - Director of Harvard's Black Hole Initiative, chair of the Breakthrough Starshot Initiative, named one of the top 25 people most influential in space by TIME Magazine

David Edwards - Health science pioneer, founder of Le Laboratoire, an art and science collaborative, Chevalier at the French Ministry of Culture

Michael McCormick - Goelet Professor of Medieval History; chair of the Science of the Human Past at Harvard interdisciplinary research network of geneticist, archeologists, climatologists and humanists

Jay Edidin - Pop-culture writer, editor, and journalist at Wired and ComicsAllince; X-Men expert and podcaster

Floriane Kameni - Student Speaker Competition Winner speaking on the neurobiology of portrait drawing