The Creative Edge - 2018Bringing renowned thought-leaders on creativity and innovation to inspire our own work as artists, educators, and leaders each year since 2010. Our ninth speaker in this series is ROBERT DUKE.

TUESDAY, MARCH 20, 2018, 10 AM - IRVINE BARCLAY THEATRE

ROBERT DUKE is one of the world’s foremost experts on the human learning process. A former studio musician and public school music teacher, Dr. Duke has lectured on “Why Students Don’t Learn What We Think We Teach” and “Music Learning Through Multiple Lenses.” (His Creative Edge topic will be announced soon.) He holds multiple distinctions at the University of Texas at Austin: the Marlene and Morton Meyerson Centennial Professor and Head of Music and Human Learning, University of Texas System Distinguished Teaching Professor, Elizabeth Shatto Massey Distinguished Fellow in Teacher Education, and Director of the Center for Music Learning, as well as a clinical professor in UT’s Dell Medical School. Dr. Duke is also director of the psychology of learning program at the Colburn Conservatory of Music in Los Angeles. His research on human learning and behavior spans multiple disciplines, including motor skill learning, cognitive psychology, and neuroscience.

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Past Speakers Have Included:

Juan Felipe Herrera Charles Limb Sarah Lewis John Maeda U.S. Poet Laureate “Your Brain on Improv” “The Rise: Creativity, “Redesigning Leadership”

2017 2016 The Gift of Failure and 2014 the Search for Mastery” 2015

Tom Kelley Randy Nelson Sir Ken Robinson Daniel H. Pink “The Art of Innovation” “Learning and Working “Launch a Creative “Innovation, Education

2013 In the Collaborative Age” Revolution” & the Changing World of Work” 2012 2011 2010

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