{"id":30646,"date":"2014-11-06T14:59:07","date_gmt":"2014-11-06T19:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=30646"},"modified":"2014-11-06T14:59:07","modified_gmt":"2014-11-06T19:59:07","slug":"brocku-talks-ready-to-inspire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2014\/11\/brocku-talks-ready-to-inspire\/","title":{"rendered":"BrockU Talks ready to inspire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"highslide\" onclick=\"return vz.expand(this)\" href=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/inspiration.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-30648\" title=\"I love this life!\" src=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/inspiration-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"I love this life!\" width=\"504\" height=\"283\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>BrockU Talks, the student-run mini-conference aimed at motivating and sparking change, is back.<\/p>\n<p>The successful symposium lets speakers share their passions to a crowd eager to listen and ready to be inspired.<\/p>\n<p>This year&#8217;s BrockU Talks will build from last year&#8217;s inaugural event, with 10 speakers (all Brock students or alumni) and groups from across campus setting up tables for a clubs\/service fair after the speakers have finished.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"highslide\" onclick=\"return vz.expand(this)\" href=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/brocktalks1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-30652\" title=\"brocktalks1\" src=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/brocktalks1-300x277.jpg\" alt=\"brocktalks1\" width=\"300\" height=\"277\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Speaker topics include the importance and uniqueness of viewing religion from a secular point of view, the re-evaluation of the reasons we choose to do things, and political philosophy and the importance of having minorities represented in government.<\/p>\n<p>This combination of ideas and intriguing mindsets is what BrockU Talks was created for &#8211; to converse about passions and their power.<\/p>\n<p>BrockU Talks will be held Nov. 19 from 5 p.m.-8 p.m. in Pond Inlet. Admission is free and light refreshments will be served to those in attendance.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For more information:<\/strong><br \/>\nWebsite: <a href=\"http:\/\/experiencebu.brocku.ca\/organization\/brocktalks\" target=\"_blank\">experiencebu.brocku.ca\/organization\/brocktalks<\/a><br \/>\nFacebook: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/BrockUTalks\" target=\"_blank\">\/BrockUTalks<\/a><br \/>\nTwitter: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BrockUTalks\" target=\"_blank\">@BrockUTalks<\/a><br \/>\nEmail: <a href=\"mailto:BrockUTalks@gmail.com\" target=\"_blank\">BrockUTalks@gmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BrockU Talks, the student-run mini-conference aimed at motivating and sparking change, is back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30648,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,1],"tags":[2532,1830,2534,161,1664,2533,227],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30646"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30646"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30654,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30646\/revisions\/30654"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}