Previous Events
11/05/09
Janet Larsen
Director of Research, Earth Policy Institute
Date November 5, 2009Sponsors UCF Global Perspectives Office in a partnership with the National Conference of Editorial Writers, The Anil and Chitra Deshpande India Program Endowed Fund, Lawrence J. Chastang and the Chastang Foundation, C.T. Hsu and Associates, CPH Engineers, Inc., LarsonAllen L.L.P., OCI Associates Inc., UCF Student Government Association, UCF College of Business Administration, UCF Nicholson School of Communication, UCF Diplomacy Program, UCF Middle Eastern Studies Program, UCF Terrorism Studies Program, UCF Political Science Department, UCF International Services Center, UCF LIFE, Global Connections Foundation and other partners
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Classroom discussions and community meetings; a co-curricular component of the UCF General Education Program Unifying Theme: "The Environment and Global Climate Change"; a feature of the 2009-2010 university-wide theme of "The Environment, Energy and National/Global Security"
11/05/09
Joan Johnson-Freese
Chair, National Security Decision Making Department, U.S. Naval War College
Date November 5, 2009Sponsors UCF Global Perspectives Office in a partnership with the National Conference of Editorial Writers, The Anil and Chitra Deshpande India Program Endowed Fund, Lawrence J. Chastang and the Chastang Foundation, C.T. Hsu and Associates, CPH Engineers, Inc., LarsonAllen L.L.P., OCI Associates Inc., UCF Student Government Association, UCF College of Business Administration, UCF Nicholson School of Communication, UCF Diplomacy Program, UCF Middle Eastern Studies Program, UCF Terrorism Studies Program, UCF Political Science Department, UCF International Services Center, UCF LIFE, Global Connections Foundation and other partners
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Classroom discussions and community meetings; a co-curricular component of the UCF General Education Program Unifying Theme: "The Environment and Global Climate Change"; a feature of the 2009-2010 university-wide theme of "The Environment, Energy and National/Global Security"
11/05/09
Vice Admiral (Ret.) Lee Gunn
President, Institute for Public Research, The CNA Corporation, and President, American Security Project
Sponsors UCF Global Perspectives Office in a partnership with the National Conference of Editorial Writers, The Anil and Chitra Deshpande India Program Endowed Fund, Lawrence J. Chastang and the Chastang Foundation, C.T. Hsu and Associates, CPH Engineers, Inc., LarsonAllen L.L.P., OCI Associates Inc., UCF Student Government Association, UCF College of Business Administration, UCF Nicholson School of Communication, UCF Diplomacy Program, UCF Middle Eastern Studies Program, UCF Terrorism Studies Program, UCF Political Science Department, UCF International Services Center, UCF LIFE, Global Connections Foundation and other partners
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Classroom discussions and community meetings; a co-curricular component of the UCF General Education Program Unifying Theme: "The Environment and Global Climate Change"; a feature of the 2009-2010 university-wide theme of "The Environment, Energy and National/Global Security"
11/04/09
Dr. Alan Zelicoff
Author of Microbe: Are We Ready for the Next Plague? and former Senior Scientist, Center for National Security and Arms Control, Sandia National Laboratories
Date November 4, 2009Topic Microbe: Are We Ready for the Next Plague?
Sponsors UCF Global Perspectives Office, Orlando Area Committee on Foreign Relations, Lawrence J. Chastang and the Chastang Foundation, and the Global Connections Foundation
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Classroom discussions and community meetings
10/29/09
America and Iran: Current Problems, Future Prospects
(a regional forum, sponsored by Rollins College in a partnership with the Thomas P. Johnson Distinguished Visiting Scholars Program, the International Affairs Program of the Hamilton Holt School, UCF Global Perspectives Office and the Global Connections Foundation)
Date October 29, 2009, 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.Location Rollins College, Bush Auditorium
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Topic America and Iran: Current Problems, Future Prospects
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Invited Speakers – William Beeman, Professor of Anthropology, University of Minnesota, and author of The Great Satan vs. the Mad Mullahs: How the United States and Iran Demonize Each Other; Ambassador Ulric Haynes, former U.S. Ambassador to Algeria who played key role in securing the release of the U.S. hostages from Iran; Alex Vatanka, Senior Middle East Analyst, IHS Jane's, Washington, D.C.
10/27/09
Women and Leadership in the Evolving 21st Century World: Breaking Barriers
(a national forum, sponsored by the UCF Global Perspectives Office in a partnership with Lt. Gen. (Ret.) Jay Garner, Lawrence J. Chastang and the Chastang Foundation, UCF Diplomacy Program, UCF LIFE, UCF Political Science Department, UCF Women's Research Center, UCF Women's Studies Program, Global Connections Foundation and others)
Date October 27, 2009, 2:00 p.m. to 4:15 p.m.Location UCF Student Union, Cape Florida Ballroom
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Topic Women and Leadership in the Evolving 21st Century World: Breaking Barriers
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Invited Speakers - Robin Buckelew, director of the Applied Sensors, Guidance and Electronics Directorate, AMRDEC; Ambassador Harriet Elam-Thomas, Director, UCF Diplomacy Program and former U.S. Ambassador to Senegal; Lt. Gen. (ret) Claudia Kennedy; Mary Rawlinson, Editor, International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics; The Honorable Winnie Sharp, retired from the 5th District Court of Appeals
10/22/09 President Abdul Kalam
Former President of India
Date October 22, 2009, 4:15 p.m. to 5:15 p.m.Location UCF Student Union, Pegasus Ballroom
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Topic Technology for Global Transformation
Sponsors UCF Department of Mechanical, Materials and Aerospace Engineering, UCF College of Engineering and Computer Science, UCF Global Perspectives Office, The India Program at UCF, UCF Office of Diversity Initiatives, UCF Political Science Department and the Global Connections Foundation
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10/20/09
Sheryl WuDunn
Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and co-author of Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide
Date October 20, 2009, 3:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.Location Fairwinds Alumni Center, Grand Ballroom, UCF
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Topic China’s Transformation
Sponsors UCF Global Perspectives Office, UCF China-Taiwan Cross-Strait Program, UCF Political Science Department, UCF International Services Center, UCF Women's Studies Program, UCF Women's Research Center, C.T. Hsu and Associates, UCF LIFE and the Global Connections Foundation
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Classroom discussions and community meetings; a feature of 2009-2010 university-wide theme of "Covering the World: Journalists Speak"
10/15/09 Micheline Slattery
Human rights activist, and former slave in Haiti and the United States
Date October 15, 2009, 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.Location UCF Student Union, Key West Ballroom
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Topic 21st Century Slavery: Living Proof
Sponsors UCF Global Perspectives Office, UCF Political Science Department, UCF International Services Center, UCF Women's Studies Program, Lawrence J. Chastang and the Chastang Foundation, UCF LIFE and the Global Connections Foundation
More Information Classroom discussions and community meetings; a feature of the 2009-2010 university-wide theme of "Slavery's Resurgence"
10/12/09
Anya Kamenetz
Generation Debt and Yahoo! Finance Expert
Date October 12, 2009Sponsors The Lou Frey Institute of Politics and Government at UCF, in a partnership with Lowndes, Drosdick, Doster, Kantor & Reed, P.A.; the UCF Global Perspectives Office; the UCF Department of Political Science; the Global Connections Foundation; and others
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