TEDxBaltimore fans who left Morgan State University last month wanting another fix will get some fresh words next month. Johns Hopkins’ student-run TEDx event is back for another year on March 7.
The event will be held at Mudd Hall on the university’s Homewood Campus. This year’s theme is “Next Gen: TBD.” The talks, which will mostly be given by people affiliated with the university, will focus on new ideas to improve the future in areas that are reviving — like classical music and art museums, and new frontiers in areas like neurology and world water distribution.
The idea is that the people giving the talks will help determine that new future, hence the TBD.
Here’s the lineup of speakers, with descriptions from JHU Hub:
- Doreen Bolger, director of the Baltimore Museum of Art, who will likely talk about the developments at the museum and the Baltimore art scene.
- Fred Bronstein, dean of Johns Hopkins Peabody Institute, who will discuss the future of classical music.
- Kellogg Schwab, director of the Johns Hopkins Water Institute and a professor in the Department of Environmental Health Sciences at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, who will talk about the transportation of potable water worldwide.
- John Krakauer, a Johns Hopkins neurologist who will discuss new ways to rehabilitate stroke patients.
- Kelly Peeler, founder and CEO of NextGenVest, who will talk about her company, which aims to teach young people to be financially literate.
- Mario Macis, a Carey Business School economist who will talk about using economic incentives for organ donations.
- Astha Berry, a Johns Hopkins freshman, who won a student competition to speak at the event; she will talk about the “absolute value” of words or how the connotations that society places on words might change over time and across regions.
