Washington, DC
December 7-8, 2010
Washington, DC
December 7-8, 2010
At Thursday’s TEDxWomen, a wide range of amazing women, and a few good men, will speak onstage in New York and Los Angeles. And you can take part wherever you are, by joining in a range of amazing events and happenings.
Attend a TEDxWomen watch party. All over the world, amazing TEDx organizers have been planning events around the livestream, and they are just waiting for smart, engaged people like you to join in the conversation. While the main focus of TEDxEwhaWomen, in Seoul, South Korea, will be watching the TEDxWomen livestream, the event will also highlight local voices. The program will also be made available in Korean.
In Amsterdam, TEDxAmsterdamWomen will convene at the Van Gogh Museum. The diverse program of speakers include Kelly Cutrone, founder of PR firm People’s Revolution, and terrorism expert Jessica Stern.
At TEDxDupontCircle in Washington, D.C., live performances will introduce and punctuate speakers from the TEDxWomen livestream.
You can watch the TEDxWomen livestream. It starts at 11am Eastern and runs through to 9:30pm. Here’s a TEDxWomen schedule >>
And follow our Twitter feed, #TEDxWomen, where bloggers, activists, media personalities, and others will be adding their voices to the chorus.
On December 1st, TEDxWomen will take place at the Paley Centers in both New York and LA.
Simultaneously, over 110 TEDxWomen events will be hosted by TEDx event Organizers in communities all around the world, including China, The Netherlands, Israel, Pakistan, Romania, South Africa, Lebanon and the United States. Besides watching the webcast of TEDxWomen, some of these events will incorporate local speakers, bringing local flavor to the global conversation:
TEDxBFUWomen — an event in Beijing, China — will host outstanding female speakers that include professors of biology and business, as well as student leaders.
In its second year after hosting an event around TEDWomen, TEDxAmsterdamWomen — held at the Van Gogh Museum — will highlight Dutch thinkers and doers.
At TEDxCrestmoorParkWomen in Denver, Colorado, will feature local women and their amazing stories.
TEDxDirahWomen in Saudi Arabia will feature women speakers from the region including a biologist and a library director.
Find more events on the TEDxWomen website »
Learn more about organizers of these TEDxWomen events »
On December 1st, TEDxWomen will happen simultaneously at the Paley Centers in both New York and LA.
Around the world, over 100 TEDx communities will share the livestream, and some will host local speakers. Find a local TEDxWomen event near you!
With session themes of resilience, relationships and rebirth — and ending with “reimagine” — the event will focus on how women and girls are shaping our shared future:
Resilience
Hosted by Pat Mitchell, this session will explore how women regroup, rebound and rebuild after experiencing setbacks or loss. TEDGlobal speaker Tan Le and journalist Barbara Walters will speak, as well as Lamis Zein, the first Lebanese woman qualified to conduct demolitions of cluster submunitions.
More on Tan Le from the TEDxWomen blog »
More on Lamis Zein from the TEDxWomen blog »
Relationships
Trevor Neilson is the cofounder of the Global Philanthropy Group and will host a session that explores “the ties that bind us.” Other speakers include author Rachel Simmons and Jennifer Siebel Newsom, whose film Miss Representation focuses on how women are represented in popular media.
More on Rachel Simmons from the TEDxWomen blog »
More on Jennifer Seibel Newson from the TEDxWomen blog »
Rebirth
With a talk from cultural anthropologist Mary Catherine Bateson and a performance from TED Fellow Iyeoka Ivie Okoawo, this session will focus on health, longevity and untapped potential. Hosted by Jane Fonda.
More on Mary Catherine Bateson from the TEDxWomen blog »
Reimagine
A session on how women and girls imagine a better life and make vision a reality, hosted by journalist Lisa Ling. Three young women — Shree Bose, Naomi Shah and Lauren Hodge — will take the stage. They were the winners in their age category of the 2011 Google Science Fair. Webby Award founder Tiffany Shlain will speak, and the session will end with an interview with Gloria Steinem.
More on Tiffany Shlain on the TEDxWomen blog »
Visit the TEDxWomen website for the full list of speakers.
Cross-posted from the TEDx Tumblr: Last year’s TEDWomen conference has inspired an ambitious TEDx event: TEDxWomen, a one-day bi-coastal event held in NY and LA on December 1, independently organized and hosted by Pat Mitchell and The Paley Center for Media.
Speakers including Barbara Walters, singer-songwriter Morley, Dr. Mehmet Oz, Jane Fonda, Gloria Steinem and documentarion Jennifer Siebel Newsom will convene under the theme “The Conversation Continues.”
You can bring this global conversation local by hosting a TEDx viewing event around TEDxWomen in your own community.
Last year, 117 TEDx events in 46 countries — including the United States, Colombia, Singapore, South Africa and Brazil — were planned around the TEDWomen webcast. Speakers at these local events included a pair of Dutch opera singers, an Olympic silver medalist and a Disney-trained animator from the UAE.
This year, be a part of this ongoing conversation around the future of women and girls — host a TEDx event around TEDxWomen. Learn more >>
Keep up with the latest TEDxWomen news on the TEDxWomen website, Facebook page and Twitter.
Photo from TEDxOttawa, Ottawa, Canada
This morning, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, president of Liberia, was named one of three winners of the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize, in honor of her work promoting nonviolent change. Her co-awardees are peace activist Leymah Gbowee, also of Liberia, and Tawakul Karman, who works for democracy in Yemen.
Just before last year’s TEDWomen conference, co-host Pat Mitchell sat down with Sirleaf for an intimate Q&A. In this 3-minute video, she talks about some of the leadership challenges a woman faces — and her unofficial sobriquet: Liberia’s “Iron Lady” …
Watch Pat Mitchell’s full 22-minute interview with Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, from the Paley Center for Media‘s website.
(Pat Mitchell will be hosting this year’s TEDxWomen, a one-day event on Dec. 1, at the Paley Centers for Media in New York and LA — and streaming live to TEDx events around the globe.)
Wangari Maathai, the first African woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize, died yesterday, September 25, at the age of 71. A former member of the Kenyan parliament, Maathai combined not only peaceful community-based activism and forest-conservation efforts, but also government transparency and women’s rights, all in one game-changing project called the Green Belt Movement, which has planted more than 40 million trees in Kenya and abroad.
Join us in honoring her memory in the words of these two TED speakers who’ve spoken of Maathai as an example of courage in action:
“They call [Maathai] the tree lady, but she’s more than the tree lady … When she was planting those trees, I don’t think most people understand that, at the same time, she was using the action of getting people together to plant those trees to talk about how to overcome the authoritarian government in her country.”
– from Jody Williams’ TEDTalk
“[Maathai] talks with the women, and explains that the land is barren because they have cut and sold the trees. She gets the women to plant new trees and water them, drop by drop. In a matter of five or six years, they have a forest, the soil is enriched, and the village is saved.”
– from Isabel Allende’s TEDTalk
TV executive Lauren Zalaznick thinks deeply about pop television. Sharing results of a bold study that tracks attitudes against TV ratings over five decades, she makes a case that television reflects who we truly are — in ways we might not have expected. (Recorded at TEDWomen, December 2010, in Washington, DC. Duration: 13:12.)
Watch Lauren Zalaznick’s talk on TED.com, where you can download it, rate it, comment on it and find other talks and performances from our archive of 1,000+ TEDTalks.
Buddhist roshi Joan Halifax works with people at the last stage of life (in hospice and on death row). She shares what she’s learned about compassion in the face of death and dying, and a deep insight into the nature of empathy. (Recorded at TEDWomen, December 2010, in Washington, DC. Duration: 13:19.)
Watch Joan Halifax’s talk on TED.com, where you can download it, rate it, comment on it and find other talks and performances from our archive of 1,000+ TEDTalks.
Phyllis Rodriguez and Aicha el-Wafi have a powerful friendship born of unthinkable loss. Rodriguez’ son was killed in the World Trade Center attacks on September 11, 2001; el-Wafi’s son Zacarias Moussaoui was convicted of a role in those attacks and is serving a life sentence. In hoping to find peace, these two moms have come to understand and respect one another. (Recorded at TEDWomen, December 2010, in Washington, DC. Duration: 9:54)
Watch Phyllis Rodriguez and Aicha el-Wafi’s talk on TED.com, where you can download it, rate it, comment on it and find other talks and performances from our archive of 900+ TEDTalks.
Activist Caroline Casey tells the story of her extraordinary life, starting with a revelation (no spoilers). In a talk that challenges perceptions, Casey asks us all to move beyond the limits we may think we have. (Recorded at TEDWomen, December 2010, in Washington, DC. Duration: 15:34)
Watch Caroline Casey’s talk on TED.com where you can download it, rate it, comment on it and find other talks and performances from our archive of 900+ TEDTalks.
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