Flash at UVA

Club Description

Flash Seminars is the brainchild of 2011 graduate Laura Nelson, who sought to engage in learning outside of the classroom. Her idea created an intellectual community here at UVA, where students from diverse backgrounds connected with professors of equally diverse fields in an intimate setting, ranging from a small classroom to Lawn Pavilions and Carr’s Hill. Now, we are reimagined as just Flash! This means that we won’t just aim to do seminars, we hope to expand to include other forms of creative learning, such as Flash Yoga on the Lawn, Flash Art Exhibits where we display student artworks in a pop-up space on Grounds, and even Flash Music where we can work groups like Bluegrass to have a pop-up space where there can be forum for hearing and learning music from and with your peers. For Flash Seminars and other variations, the time, place, and location is always different, offering a sense of newness within the program to encourage students to feel excited for the launch of new seminars. The mission of Flash is to meet students who also hold a love for intellectual curiosity. There are not many spaces at UVA where we can meet people from completely different backgrounds or fields of study anymore. By expanding to becoming just Flash, we will directly help with President Ryan’s 2030 Plan by doing exactly what it hopes for in one of its micro goals: “The best learning experiences—whether inside or outside of the classroom, on Grounds or off—create a sense of discovery.”