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Thorne Anderson, Assistant Professor, Photojournalism & Multimedia, Frank W. and Sue Mayborn School of Journalism, University of North Texas
Great Conversations 2013
UNT Honors College Presents:
A Green Light to Great Conversations
Great Conversations is a unique event benefiting the Honors College at the University of North Texas. This engaging program brings together individuals of accomplishment and skill to facilitate conversations on important, diverse and stimulating topics, ranging from the intellectual to the lighthearted.
The event is scheduled for February 26, 2013 in the Apogee Stadium Clubroom at UNT (1251 S. Bonnie Brae Denton, TX 76207). Check-in for guests begins at 6:00pm. The event begins at 6:30 p.m. Guests will be invited to begin conversations with the expert of their choice following a superb dinner. Tickets are $65.00.
Proceeds from the event will directly benefit Honors College students by supporting insightful and exciting programming, as well as scholarships for Honors College students.
Please join us for an evening of fascinating people, interesting ideas and Great Conversations!
IMPORTANT: Some tables have sold out. Real time ticket info available through the Buy tickets link.
Please bring your e-ticket to Great Conversations 2013!
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Table 1 - War Through a Lens: Every Picture Tells a Story
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Table 2 - Everything sports!
Dave Barnett, Sportscaster
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Table 3 - GOING FOR IT...Putting it all on the line for a dream and a vision!
Executive Chef Blythe Beck, UNT Alumna and Former Celebrity Chef of Oxygen's The Naughty Chef.
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Table 4 - From Soap Operas, DocuDramas to Reality Television - Television Today
Dr. Bon Blossman, Big Rich Texas, Style Network and UNT professor of Biology
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Table 5 - How Music Enhances Drama
Music Underscoring for Film, TV, and Theater productions is used extensively to add a deeper perspective emotionally, to create an historical context, or an ethnic or stylistic flavor. Discover how to listen to music more keenly and why you experience certain emotions when you hear different types of music.
Richard DeRosa, Director of Jazz Composition/Arranging Studies, UNT Jazz Department
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Table 6 - Leaving War, Finding Peace -- Helping returning veterans with the trials of coming home
Jacob Farnsworth, M.S.; UNT Department of Psychology
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Table 7 - Unavailable
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Table 8 - Leadership in today’s world and why we need it more than ever.
Bob Gose, Retired from a career in creating and applying advanced technologies
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Table 9 - Amazing Women of the Wild West – a discussion of women enshrined in the Cowgirl Hall of Fame
Dr. M. Jean Greenlaw, Professor Emeritus, UNT
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Table 10 - Grandparents Raising Grandchildren: Is the Glass Half Full or Half Empty?
Dr. Bert Hayslip Jr. , Dept .of Psychology UNT
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Table 11 - "Laissez Le Bon Temps Roulet": People, Food and Traditions of Southwest Louisiana
Jerry Holbert, PhD, CFRE Executive Director, UNT Foundation, Inc.
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Table 12 - The End?-- Near-Death Experiences, Deathbed Visions, and After-Death Communication
Dr. Jan Holden, Professor, Counseling Program Chair, Department of Counseling and Higher Education College of Education University of North Texas
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Table 13 - “Fight the Bite” Mosquitoes Ecology, and WNV in the Metroplex
Dr. James Kennedy, Mosquito Wrangler Department of Biological Sciences University of North Texas
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Table 14 - Strategic Communications: Beyond Informing, How Can You Relate Emotionally?
Stan Levenson, APR CEO & Co-founder of Levenson & Hill Advertising and Levenson & Brinker Public Relations
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Table 15 - A Life Among Humans: Stories from a long career as a journalist, and a guy
Tim Madigan, Author and Columnist for Fort Worth Star telegram
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Table 16 - Leadership: How to build the “team concept” in any organization
Dan McCarney, Head Football Coach, North Texas Athletics
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Table 17 - Money and Politics: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly.
Eddie L. Meaders, J.D., M.A.Principal Lecturer Undergraduate Academic Advisor
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Table 18 - They're Driving Me Crazy - A Parent's Guide to Sanity
Dr. Smita Mehta, Department of Educational Psychology
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Table 19 - My Fifteen Minutes of Fame with Chet Baker and "Fergie" (Duchess of York)
Dr. Morgan continues his intriguing reminiscences of notable personalities encountered as director of HSPVA's renowned jazz program, 1976 - 1999
Dr. Robert Morgan, Director of Jazz Studies Emeritus, High School for Performing and Visual Arts, Houston, Texas
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Table 20 - Style Within Reach-Fashion Styling and Trends on a Budget
Lindsay Olivarez, Fashion Stylist - Last Call by Neiman Marcus, Neiman Marcus Group Creative Services
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Table 21 - Mystery and Mayhem: Finding inspiration for writing in everyday life and the stories around us
Melissa Bourbon Ramirez, Author of Lola Cruz mysteries
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Table 22 - DOWNTON ABBEY --The PBS series, its history, relevance, art and new chapters
Dr. Don Staples, Professor Emeritus of Film & Television
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Table 23 - Caught Between the Two Worlds: Iran in the Modern Culture.
Abbas Tashakori, Professor and Chair of Dept. of Educational Psychology
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Table 24 - Traveling in Europe
LeRoy Theriot, Professor of Chemistry, UNT
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Table 25 - Letters to Alice: Birth of the Kleberg-King Ranch Dynasty—Victorian Love Letters from Robert Kleberg to Alice King
Frances B. Vick, Retired UNT Press Director, and Author
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Table 26 - Real life CSI
Mike Weldon, Board Certified Forensic Document Examiner
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Table 27 - Four Star Sommelier: A Tale of Food Pairings, Industry Gossip and a Rare Bottle or Two
Ian Whitcomb, Certified Sommelier at Rick's Chophouse
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Table 28 - LITERARY WITCHCRAFT: Transforming inchoate thoughts and ideas into the literature of truth
George Getschow, Writer-in-Residence & Director, The Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Conference