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WVU Festival of Ideas: Dr. Scott Tinker's Switch film screening, discussion set for March 19
March 14th, 2013What is the future energy? Dr. Scott W. Tinker tackles this question in his award-inning documentary, "Switch," which will screen at Morgantown's Metropolitan Theatre on March 19 at 6:30 p.m. Following the film, Tinker will be on hand to discuss his global, decade-long journey of seeking truth in a landscape of conflicting energy choices. -
WVU Festival of Ideas: Cory Booker, mayor of Newark, speaks Feb. 7
January 25th, 2013The Honorable Cory A. Booker, 42, mayor of Newark, N.J., will speak at West Virginia University on Feb. 7 as part of the David C. Hardesty Jr. Festival of Ideas. -
WVU's Festival of Ideas returns to focus on West Virginia's birth, Lincoln and Emancipation
January 11th, 2013West Virginia University's David C. Hardesty Jr. Festival of Ideas returns for the spring semester with Forest "Jack" Bowman, Jackson & Kelly emeritus professor of law at the WVU College of Law. He will speak on "The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln: Emancipation & West Virginia Statehood." -
WVU Festival of Ideas speaker to shine spotlight on gay rights
October 30th, 2012The next speaker in the West Virginia University 2012-13 David C. Hardesty Jr. Festival of Ideas lineup will focus on her path to accidental activism and the power of "Generation Equality." -
This week the West Virginia University David C. Hardesty Jr. Festival of Ideas will explore how we can have more years of better health in a discussion with Dr. David Agus, author of the No. 1 New York Times bestseller "The End of Illness."
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This year's Festival of Ideas to provoke thoughts on 'The end of Illness,' gay rights, energy
September 18th, 2012The speakers of West Virginia University's 2012-13 David C. Hardesty Jr. Festival of ideas have earned their stripes in the fields of medicine, politics, activism and science. -
WVU hosts screening of ambitious energy documentary
September 14th, 2012Switch explores the future of energy through the eyes of Scott Tinker, Ph.D., an internationally known geologist. The film will be shown at 7 p.m. Sept. 25, in the Gluck Theatre in the Mountainlair. -
General Electric CEO to kick off the year's Festival of Ideas
August 28th, 2012Jeffrey Immelt, Chairman and CEO of General Electric, will kick off the 2012-13 David C. Hardesty Jr. Festival of Ideas with his talk, "Globalization and the Lessons of Leadership," on Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2012 at 7:30 p.m. in the Lyell B. Clay Concert Theatre at the Creative Arts Center. -
Charles Best, founder of DonorsChoose.org, will speak on the West Virginia University campus as part of the David C. Hardesty Jr. Festival of Ideas on Tuesday, April 17, at 7:30 p.m. in the Mountainlair Ballrooms.
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Robert DiClerico is retiring from full-time teaching after 40 years of service to the University and will present "The Last Class" as the next event in the David C. Hardesty Jr. Festival of Ideas on April 10.
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'The revolution will be tweeted.' So was WVU's discussion of the Arab Spring. And 'Storifyed,' too
April 4th, 2012The Revolution was "Tweeted." The discussion of the tweeted revolution was "storifyed" -
Bloggers, online journalists reflect on the power of voice over fear at April 3 WVU panel
March 27th, 2012The WVU School of Journalism's Ogden Newspapers Seminar Series presents "The Revolution will be Tweeted: Social Media and Free Speech in the Middle East," a panel discussion with international bloggers, activists and entrepreneurs as part of the David C. Hardesty Jr. Festival of Ideas, at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 3, in the Mountainlair. -
The Revolution will be Tweeted. WVU journalism school hosting panel on social media and the Middle East
March 16th, 2012West Virginia University is bringing witnesses of the online revolution to campus to discuss the role of social media in spreading democracy movements in the Middle East and across the world. "The Revolution will be Tweeted: Social Media and Free Speech in the Middle East," a moderated panel discussion, includes international bloggers, activists and entrepreneurs as part of the David C. Hardesty Jr. Festival of Ideas. -
WVU to welcome TEDxWomen speaker and bestselling author Gayle Tzemach Lemmon at Festival of Ideas
March 9th, 2012Gayle Tzemach Lemmon is a major new voice on the role of female entrepreneurs in the developing world. Her book, "The Dressmaker of Khair Khana," is a crystallization of her view that women are the unsung heroes of war-torn regions and emerging markets alike. -
A frequent guest on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and The Colbert Report, Dr. Reza Aslan will visit West Virginia University as part of the David C. Hardesty Jr. Festival of Ideas. Aslan will speak at The Erickson Alumni Center on Tuesday, March 13, at 7:30 p.m.
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Festival of Ideas bringing the world to WVU this spring
February 8th, 2012Former U.S. Rep. Harold Ford Jr., author of the bestseller "More Davids than Goliaths," will kick off the remaining events in the 2011-2012 David C. Hardesty Jr. Festival of Ideas lecture series at West Virginia University. -
WVU basketball star Jerry West to discuss charmed, tormented life for Festival of Ideas
October 3rd, 2011WVU icon Jerry West will sit down and discuss with his alma mater what it was like when the sun shined on him and when its rays were absent from his life in an interview-style presentation with WVU Athletic Director Oliver Luck as part of the David C. Hardesty Jr. Festival of Ideas on Oct. 24 at 7:30 p.m. in the WVU Coliseum. -
WVU to host Pulitzer prize-winning author as part of the Festival of Ideas and DeLynn Lecture Series
September 13th, 2011Pulitzer-prize winning author, Siddhartha Mukherjee will discuss his book "The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer" at West Virginia University as part of the David C. Hardesty Jr. Festival of Ideas. -
C. Peter Magrath talk to launch WVU's land-grant celebration, Festival series.
September 7th, 2011Former Interim President C. Peter Mcgrath will kick off WVU's celebration of its land-grant status as part of the sesquicentennial anniversary of the 1862 Morrill Act that paved the way for WVU's founding. It also is the first of this year's David C. Hardesty Jr. Festival of Ideas lectures. -
Sci Fi magazine notes WVU's Isaac Asimov collection
March 24th, 2011The text of a speech by James Gunn presented at WVU's Festival of Ideas appears in the April/May 2011 edition of Asimov's Science Fiction magazine, a publication dedicated to science fiction and fantasy writing.
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