REIMAGINE EDUCATION CONFERENCE: SPEAKERS CONFIRMED!
THE CONCERT-LECTURE: CULTIVATING MUSICAL CURIOSITY WITH EMANUELE FERRARI
The 2017 Reimagine Education conference will take place in Philadelphia on the 4-5 December. It will unite thought-leaders from across the educational landscape, including those from industry, academia, and government. We’re very excited to be able to announce the confirmation of three speakers who will be sharing their experience and insights with our global audience this winter.
Read on to find out more about them…
Bill Deresiewicz
American author, essayist, and literary critic
William Deresiewicz is an award-winning essayist and critic, a frequent college speaker, and the best-selling author of Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life. He is also the author of A Jane Austen Education, How Six Novels Taught me About Love, Friendship, and the Things that Really Matter (Penguin Press, 2011). His All Points blog appeared on the American Scholar website from March 2011 to September 2013.
His criticism directed at a popular audience appears in The Nation, The American Scholar, The New Republic, The New York Times, The Atlantic, and Harper’s. He taught English at Yale and Columbia before becoming a full-time writer in 2008. His upcoming work will focus on the transformation of the arts and arts careers in the new economy.
He will be speaking at Reimagine Education on the role of the educator in the twenty-first century, drawing together insights from his time at America’s elite universities, material from Excellent Sheep, and observations from his upcoming tome.
Rebecca Winthrop
Center for Universal Education
Dr. Winthrop is the Director of the Center for Universal Education at the Brookings Institute. She works to promote equitable learning issues for young people in developing countries. She advises governments, international institutions, foundations, and corporations on education and development issues, and provides guidance to a number of important education policy actors.
Prior to joining Brookings in June 2009, Dr. Winthrop spent 15 years working in the field of education for displaced and migrant communities, most recently as the head of education for the International Rescue Committee. There she was responsible for the organizations’ education work in over 20 conflict-affected countries. She has been actively involved in developing global policy for the education in emergencies field, especially around the development of global minimum standards for education in emergencies, the United Nations humanitarian reform process for education, and the evidence base for understanding education’s role in fomenting or mitigating conflict.
Geoffrey Garrett
The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
Geoffrey Garrett became Dean of the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania in July, 2014. He also serves as Reliance Professor of Management and Private Enterprise, and Professor of Management.
Named one of Australia’s “Top 50 Most Influential People in Education 2012” and a highly cited political economist, Dr. Garrett has held continuing academic appointments at Oxford, Stanford and Yale universities. He is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Social Sciences, a Trustee of the Asia Foundation in San Francisco, a Member of the New York-based Council on Foreign Relations, and he serves on the Editorial Board of Global Policy.