100 Swifties of all eras gathered at North Central College (NCC) for TayTalks. The night of faculty presentations and student performances centered around the cultural impact of singer-songwriter Taylor Swift.
“We are at Wentz Concert Hall, the fine arts center at North Central College, and we’re here to celebrate TayTalks,” said Jennifer Smith, event coordinator and Chair of English at NCC. “We have ten speakers… eight full presentations.”
A celebration of Taylor Swift in Naperville
Each faculty presenter connected their unique discipline to an aspect of the pop star’s career.
“We’ve got a professor of mathematics who’s going to be talking about the principles of beauty in the natural world,” said Smith. “We’ve got a professor from sports management who’ll be talking about (Swift’s) economic influence on the NFL… I’m most interested in hearing how different disciplines come to understand her influence, how they use her to make sense of their own ways of looking at the world.”…