One of the world's leading authorities on modern and contemporary Latin American art, Giunta provided a compelling lecture about the recurring themes in the art of South America – violence, memory, and scars from the past.
—David Kirkpatrick, University of Minnesota Because it's no longer about you, you no longer have to (try to) give a compelling lecture about meiosis that holds the attention of a room full of 18-year-olds who have electronic devices and aren't afraid to use them.
Cars as "supercomputers" certainly sounded more compelling than past lectures on the wonders of the internet-of-things, an idea that always seemed just a little too loose.
And it elucidates such general phenomena as medieval monasticism; the character and influence of Franciscan literature down to Christopher Columbus; and the visual arts as a dimension of literary traditions". In 1980 Fleming took over the Chaucer course, treating the 100 or so students who sign up each semester to his compelling style of lecturing.
However, what has made these lectures so compelling is not just Gawande's broad intellectual compass (he studied philosophy, politics and economics at Oxford and worked for Bill Clinton before training as a surgeon) but his gift for storytelling.
Like them, he has conjured up a past infinitely more compelling than the college-lecture version: one rife with noble rhetoric (which Flashman derides), gunfire (which Flashman flees), and damsels in distress (where Flashman leaves them).
In the Salonen, Paige Morgan was an efficient oboe soloist, but this work, which exuded whiffs of Debussy's "Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun" and his Orientalism from its opening statement, was more discursive and less compelling, like a long college lecture.
You will not only learn how to become an effective instructor in your day-to-day teaching roles (e.g., how to write a compelling syllabus, deliver a powerful lecture, lead an engaging discussion section, build an inclusive classroom, juggle with teaching logistics, make best use of technology, campus resources etc).; you will also discover that teaching is - above all a deeply personal process.
Another role gesture could have played is to draw attention to the lecture simply through compelling movement.
Light Industry, an enterprising film-and-electronic-art space in Brooklyn, has assembled a compelling program for the occasion, with lectures on the experimental filmmakers Stan VanDerBeek and Stan Brakhage, and screenings of work by Jaime Davidovich, George Kuchar and Luther Price, an underappreciated artist also showing at Participant Inc.
