Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture

Festival of Ideas Tackles Equity, Entrepreneurship in Dallas

by | May 1, 2017
The Dallas Festival of Ideas celebrates ideas that are designed to "ignite, unite, and energize the people of Dallas to help build the city of the future."
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Panel Tackles Entrepreneurship
at Festival of Ideas Forum
by | Mar 20, 2017
The emphasis of the panel’s discussion will be on training and access to minority communities.
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Big Ideas Emerge at Dallas Festival
by | Feb 23, 2016
There was no shortage of big ideas at this year's Festival of Ideas. The second annual event, held over two days at Dallas' Fair Park, was buzzing with excitement and creativity.
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How Dallas May Give Form to Innovation in Education
by | Feb 10, 2016
Written in 1985, the essays in "Imagining Dallas" evoked images of the city’s formation and evolution, its good ol’ myths as well as possible futures for the ever-aspirational Dallas, Texas. Leaders from a variety of disciplines, including Wick Allison, James Pratt, Robert Sardello, and Dr. Gail Thomas, contributed to the thoughtful book but it is the great educator Dr. Louise Cowan’s chapter that informed my perception of Dallas with a new civic sense of education and responsibility.
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