Previous Conferences
TEDxGeorgeMasonU was founded in April 2011. Since then we have had over 20 thought-provoking speakers. Learn more about them, and see their TEDx talks below.
2014
Daniel N. Cox
The Why of the Fly
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Mary Lechter
Magic Moments: The Transformative Power of Theater
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Linda Apple Monson
Overcoming Stage Fright
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Mamta Patel Nagaraja
The Power of One
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Michael Nickens
Music, Identity, Diversity, Convergence
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Nathalia Peixoto
On Dating and Engineering
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Padmanabhan Seshaiyer
The M in STEM
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Amie Woods
What’s Helping Me Become a Better Doctor
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2013
Kirk Borne
Big Data, Small World
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Michael Randy Gabel
The Nature of Mathematics
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Monique van Hoek
Healed by a Crocodile: the Search for New Antibiotics
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Heather McDonald
Locate the Ache – Why Story Matters
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Michael Smith
Dialogue for a Global Society
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Bethany Usher
Preparing Students For the World through Undergraduate Research
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2012
Richard Davis
Catholic, Muslim, Enemy, Friend
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Paula Ruth Gilbert
Women’s Stories, Human Rights
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Bassam Haddad
Building Solidarity-Based Organizations
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Kristin Johnsen-Neshati
That Bright and Radiant Morn
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James Olds
When TMI Kills
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Padmanabhan Seshaiyer
Mathematics, A Multidisciplinary Universal Language
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Michael Summers
Astrobiology and the search for life beyond Earth
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Susan Trencher
An Age of Humanity
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