10/21/2024
Applications are now being accepted for TEDx SUNY Cortland 2025. Students, faculty, staff and alumni are all encouraged to make a pitch to be one of next spring’s speakers with a presentation about … nothing.
Well, at least nothing that’s easy to see.
The third annual TEDx SUNY Cortland event has adopted the current theme of the university’s academic year-long series organized by the Cultural and Intellectual Climate Committee: “Air.”
They are inviting members of the university community to explore the invisible forces affecting our lives and share their thoughts with a global audience. The deadline is Friday, Nov. 15.
What topics might be covered by this theme?
You can explore air as a carrier of human emotions. Is love in the air? Tension? Foreboding? Does it serve as the conduit for cultural or societal shifts, giving us a sense that change is in the air? You can look through the lens of spiritual or metaphysical interpretations. Or science. From microplastics and greenhouse gases to radio signals from deep space, unseen forces pose new mysteries that need to be solved. What comes out of thin air? Money, perhaps? Great works of art? Artificial intelligence?
You can apply to be a speaker using this link. It will take you to an official TEDx online application.
SUNY Cortland’s annual TEDx conference seeks to bring together a handful of inspiring and visionary thinkers made up of faculty, staff, students, alumni and the surrounding upstate New York regions for an evening of shared ideas. The inaugural TEDx SUNY Cortland debuted in the spring of 2023.
To learn more, or to view presentations by previous TEDx SUNY Cortland speakers, visit SUNY Cortland’s TEDx pages.