The lineup of speakers for the third annual TEDxLSU event, scheduled to take place on the LSU campus in February, was released today. With this year’s theme being “connect,” the speakers will address topics of connectivity in areas from science and medicine to social networks, arts and culture.
The speakers announced today are: Cole Wiley, artist and software developer; Brian Wolshon, traffic and transportation engineer; John Besh, chef and cultural preservationist; Rashaud Red, teen change agent; Michael Hatfield, host of MonkeyBR trivia; Owen Carmichael, director of imaging at Pennington Biomedical Research Center; Prosanta Chakrabarty, ichthyologist and natural historian; Maxine Crump, humanitarian; Tracey Rizzuto, psychologist and BRAVE researcher; John Gray, musician; Kurt Ristroph, collegiate information access specialist; and Karen McKee, ecologist and coastline expert.
Tickets for the TEDxLSU event, which is scheduled to take place Saturday, Feb. 28, will go on sale in January. The event will be held at Shaver Theater, located in the Music & Dramatic Arts Building on Dalrymple Drive.
Modeled after the popular TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) Conferences held twice annually, TEDx events are independent and self-organized around the country and globe, with all of them focused on “ideas worth spreading.” At the events, speakers are encouraged to give the “talks of their lives” on a variety of topics.
