TEDx speaker deadline extended

11/15/2024

Good news for all of SUNY Cortland's many independent thinkers: the deadline for applying to speak at TEDx SUNY Cortland 2025 has been extended.

Faculty, staff, students and alumni now have until Monday, Nov. 25, to apply for the university's third-annual TEDx event.

The application is available online.

TEDx SUNY Cortland 2025 is scheduled for Friday, April 4, from 6 to 8 p.m. in Sperry Center, Room 205.

Its organizers have adopted the current theme of the university's Cultural and Intellectual Climate Committee's common read and event series: "Air."

No, that doesn't mean you need to be an atmospheric scientist. It means you are invited to explore the many invisible forces that affect our lives and share your thoughts with a global audience. The potential topics this theme lends itself to are as rich and varied as your imagination.

You can look at 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 spirituality or metaphysics. Or science. From microplastics and greenhouse gases to diseases and radio signals from space, unseen forces pose new mysteries that need to be solved. What comes out of thin air? Money? Great works of art? Artificial intelligence? Whatever your special interest is, it can probably be discussed through this framework.

You can learn more, apply to speak and view previous TEDx SUNY Cortland presenters on SUNY Cortland's website.