The Creativity Forum at Lesley University

When:
Monday, Mar 30, 2015 7:00p -
Thursday, Apr 02, 2015 9:00p

Where:
Various locations
Various locations
Cambridge, MA 02138

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Admission:
FREE

Categories:
Art, Lectures & Conferences, University

Event website:
http://www.lesley.edu/the-creativity-forum/

Monday, March 30, 2015 through Friday, April 03, 2015
7:00 PM


The Creativity Forum features a series of presentations on creativity by renowned experts from synergistic fields such as the arts, education, and the sciences, as well as interdisciplinary studies. In addition, throughout the Forum week, Voices From the University presents the creative work of faculty, students, and alumni through lectures, exhibitions, performances, and readings.


Featured Speakers:


Dr. Pedro Noguera
Peter L. Agnew Professor of Education - Steinhardt School of Education, NYU
Monday, March 30, 7 pm | Marran Theater, 34 Mellen Street, Cambridge, MA


Dr. Noguera is the Executive Director of the Metropolitan Center for Research on Equity and the Transformation of Schools. He is a sociologist whose work focuses on the ways in which schools are influenced by social and economic conditions. An award-winning educator, author, and activist, he is an expert on School reform, diversity, and the achievement gap. Dr. Noguera is the author of several books including: The Imperatives of Power: Political Change and the Social Basis of Regime Support in Grenada (Peter Lang Publishers, 1997), City Schools and the American Dream (Teachers College Press, 2003), Unfinished Business: Closing the Achievement Gap in Our Nation’s Schools (Josey Bass, 2006), and The Trouble With Black Boys…and Other Reflections on Race, Equity and the Future of Public Education (Wiley and Sons, 2008). His most recent book is Schooling for Resilience: Improving the Life Trajectories of African American and Latino Boys (Harvard Education Press 2014) with Edward Fergus and Margary Martin.


Dr. Mae Carol Jemison
Physician and NASA Astronaut
Tuesday, March 31, 7 pm | Washburn Auditorium, 10 Phillips Place, Cambridge, MA


Scientist, physician, and activist, Dr. Mae Carol Jemison became the first woman of color to travel in space when she went into orbit aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavor in 1992. Dr. Jemison is highly involved in science education and, given her dance background, she has spoken extensively on the need to diversify STEM fields and foster collaboration between the sciences and the arts. She also has a TED talk entitled: Teach Arts and Sciences Together. She has established a foundation to support science education, including a program entitled: The Earth We Share (TEWS) where children ages 12 – 16 from around the world share ideas about how to solve current global issues. More recently, she founded The Jemison Group “to research, develop, and implement advanced technologies suited to the social, political, cultural, and economic context of the individual, especially for the developing world.” Jemison’s current projects include: the Alpha, ™, a satellite-based telecommunications system to improve health care in West Africa.


Panel: Channeling Creativity
Wednesday, April 1, 7 pm | Washburn Auditorium, 10 Phillips Place, Cambridge, MA


Mags Harries


Award-winning, Cambridge-based visual artist, who has completed over 30 major public art projects with her husband /collaborator Lajos Heder in cities throughout the US and abroad. Early in her career, Harries created the well-known Glove Cycle for the Porter Square T- Station, adjacent to Lesley’s new Lunder Arts Center.


Eric Lander


MacArthur Fellow and Professor of Biology at MIT. Founding director of the Broad Institute. Lander is co-chair of President Obama’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology. His research is dedicated to the promise of the human genome for medicine, including his important work to develop a molecular taxonomy for cancers.


Tod Machover


Composer and innovator in the application of technology in music.
Professor of Music and Media, The Media Lab, MIT, Director of the Hyperinstruments/ Opera of the Future group and Co-Director of the Things That Think and Toys for Tomorrow consortia. Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Music, 2012.


Dr. David H. Rose


Developmental Neuropsychologist, co-founder of CAST and Universal Design for Learning, whose mission is expanding educational opportunities for all students, especially those with disabilities, through innovative technologies. Professor, Harvard Graduate School of Education.


Kara Miller


Panel Moderator, host and executive editor of The Innovation Hub from WGBH and Public Radio International. Miller also contributes to “The Takeaway,” a national radio program, and WGBH’s “Morning Edition.” Her writing has appeared in The National Journal, the Atlantic.com, the Huffington Post, The International Herald Tribune, and the Boston Globe.


Dr. Daniel Goleman
Psychologist, Author, and Lesley University 2015 Sonnabend Fellow
A Force for Good: The Dalai Lama's Call to Action
Thursday, April 2, 4 pm | Washburn Auditorium, 10 Phillips Place, Cambridge, MA


Dr. Goleman was trained as a psychologist and subsequently became a science journalist for the New York Times. His 1995 best-selling book, Emotional Intelligence, has been translated into 40 languages and ‘EQ’ has been referred to as “a revolutionary, paradigm-shattering idea.” He is also co-author of the 1992 book The Creative Spirit and has written books on self-deception, transparency, meditation, ecoliteracy, and more. He is the co-founder of the Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning. Goleman’s most recent book, co-authored with Peter Senge, was The Triple Focus: A New Approach to Education which won the 2013 McKinsey award. His next book, entitled A Force for Good: The Dalai Lama’s Vision for Our World will be published in June, 2015.

Twyla Tharp
Dancer, Choreographer
Thursday, April 2, 7 pm | Cambridge Rindge & Latin High School Auditorium, 459 Broadway, Cambridge, MA


Twyla Tharp is among America’s most acclaimed and recognized artists. She has choreographed more than 160 works: 129 dances, 12 television specials, 6 Hollywood movies, four ballets, 4 Broadway productions, and 2 figure skating routines. She has received the National Medal of Arts, the Kennedy Center Honors, a MacArthur Fellowship, two Emmy Awards, a Tony Award, and 19 honorary doctorates, among other awards. In 2003, Tharp created an original dance musical, Movin’ Out, which won a Tony Award and became her most popular creation. Also in 2003, she published her second book, The Creative Habit: Learn it and Use it for Life. Her creative vision has had a pervasive influence on the work of younger choreographers and has permanently expanded the boundaries of contemporary dance. [Photo: Twyla Tharp, 2003, by Richard Avedon]


Marran Theater
Lesley University - Doble Campus
34 Mellen Street, Cambridge, MA


Washburn Auditorium
Lesley University - Brattle Campus
10 Phillips Place, Cambridge, MA


Cambridge Rindge and Latin
459 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02138


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