Where Is Creativity?

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Thursday, 08 Sep 2005 at 8:00 pm – Sun Room, Memorial Union

Center for Excellence in the Arts and Humanities presents Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, author of FIow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience and Finding Flow: The Psychology of Engagement with Everyday Life and the C.S. and D.J Davidson Professor of Psychology at the Peter F. Drucker Graduate School of Management at Claremont Graduate College.
This lecture was made possible in part by the generosity of F. Wendell Miller, who left his entire estate jointly to Iowa State University and the University of Iowa. Mr. Miller, who died in 1995 at age 97, was born in Altoona, Illinois, grew up in Rockwell City, graduated from Grinnell College and Harvard Law School and practiced law in Des Moines and Chicago before returning to Rockwell City to manage his family's farm holdings and to practice law. His will helped to establish the F. Wendell Miller Trust, the annual earnings on which, in part, helped to support this activity.

Cosponsored By:
  • Center for Excellence in the Arts & Humanities
  • College of Business
  • College of Human Sciences
  • College of LAS
  • College of LAS Miller Funds
  • Committee on Lectures
  • Dept. of Sociology
  • Human Development and Family Studies
  • Pappajohn Center for Entrepeneurship
  • Psychology

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