The University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business is pleased to welcome Daniel Pink, author of New York Times best-sellers A Whole New Mind, Drive, and To Sell is Human, to speak at Hill Auditorium. During his presentation, “The Mind of the Future: How to Survive an Outsourced, Automated Age,” Pink will discuss the shift from the information age to the conceptual age and how to prepare for the future world of work. Pink was named one of the top 10 business thinkers in the world by Thinkers50, and his TED Talk on the science of motivation is one of the most-watched of all time with more than 19 million views.
Doors open at 6:00pm. This event is free and open to the public.
Hill Auditorium, 825 N. University Ave. Free. michiganrosspr@umich.edu
Traverse City writer Robert Downes, an entertaining veteran speaker who has written 3 adventure-travel books, presents a video-illustrated talk on the historical research behind his new novel Windigo Moon: A Novel of Native America. Signing.
7-8:30 p.m., AADL Westgate Branch West Side Room, Westgate shopping center, 2503 Jackson. Free. 327-8301.
Talk by this Peabody- and Emmy-winning international journalist and broadcaster, former global correspondent for ABC News and NBC News, who was the only American network correspondent to cover the communist takeover of Saigon and who reported from Beijing on Tiananmen Square. The program begins with lunch.
11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m., Michigan Union Ballroom. $45 (members, free). jill@thefairchilds.net, 417-0816.
Helen Fox is Lecturer Emerita in RC Social Theory and Practice.
Ann Evans Larimore is Professor Emerita, Geography and Women’s Studies, RC Social Theory and Practice.
Frederick Peters is Lecturer in RC Arts and Ideas in the Humanities Program
Martin Walsh, Lecturer and Program Head, RC Drama,
Charlie Bright, Former Director of the RC, Professor Emeritus, RC Social Theory and Practice Program, Peter Ferran, Professor Emeritus, Rochester Institute of Technology, Head, RC Drama Program 1973-1983
Henry Greenspan, Lecturer, RC Social Theory and Practice; Faculty Scholar Integrative Medicine; Faculty Fellow, Mellon Faculty Institute on Arts Academic Integration; RC Academic Advisor
David Turnley, RC ’77, Associate Professor, Photography, Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography, 1990
Janet Hegman Shier, Lecturer and Head, RC Intensive German Program, RC Academic Advisor and RC Deutsches Theater Alumni
