Torrance Lecture Series
Introduction
The E. Paul Torrance Lecture, sponsored by the College of Education’s Torrance Center for Creativity and Talent Development, annually brings scholars and creative artists to UGA to discuss issues related to creativity. It was established in 1985 to honor Torrance, a native Georgian and pioneer in research on the identification and development of creative potential.Torrance Lectures So Far
- 2025 | Teresa Amabile: A Labor of Love: Insights from a Creativity Research Program (video) , Lecture Summary (PDF)
- 2024 | Nigel Osborne: A New Era for Music and Art in Service of Community Healing (video) , Lecture Summary (PDF)
- 2023 | Portia K. Maultsby: Community, Culture, & Black Musical Creativity (video) , Lecture Summary (PDF)
- 2022 | Angus Fletcher: Why are Children More Creative than Computer AI - Until They Go to School? (video) , Lecture Summary (PDF)
- 2021 | Paul Silvia: Ordinary Creativity in Everyday Life: What Our Quirky Hobbies, Projects, and Passions Reveal About Human Creativity (video) , Lecture Summary (PDF)
- 2020 | Kyna Leski: From Field (video) , Lecture Summary (PDF)
- 2019 | Michael Mumford: Creative Thinking: Processes, Strategies, Skills and Errors (video)
- 2018 | Didi Dunphy: Art is a Verb, So Let’s Do It (video)
- 2017 | Punya Mishra: From the Swampy Lowlands of Practice to Unbearable Lightness of Theory: Navigating Creativity, Technology, and Teaching (video)
- 2016 | Scott Barry Kaufman
- 2015
- 2014 | Branford Marsalis
- 2013 | Keith Sawyer
- 2012 | Dr. Kyung Hee Kim: The Creativity Crisis (video)
- 2011 | Dr. Mark Beeman: Insight in the Brain: The Cognitive and Neural Bases of ‘Eureka!’
- 2008 | C. June Maker
- 2007 | Joseph S. Renzulli
- 2006 | Robert Alan Black (video)
- 2006
- Mark Runco: Innovative Teaching: Implications of Creativity Research
- Mark Runco: The Academic Climate and Setting for Creativity and Innovation
- 2005 | Dean Keith Simonton: Diversifying Experiences & Creative Development (video)