Previous Events
11/18/09
John Brandt
CEO, PMI Group and former Editor-in-Chief/Publisher of IndustryWeek
Date November 18, 2009Sponsors UCF Global Perspectives Office, UCF Political Science Department, UCF LIFE, and the Global Connections Foundation
11/16/09 Ron Soodalter
Abolitionist, co-author (with Kevin Bales) of The Slave Next Door: Human Trafficking and Slavery in America Today and Board Member, Abraham Lincoln Institute
Date November 16, 2009, 8:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m.Location UCF Student Union, Pegasus Ballroom
Access Advance Registration Required
Sponsors UCF International Services Center, UCF Global Perspectives Office, UCF Political Science Department, UCF LIFE, the Global Connections Foundation and others
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A special presentation for the International Week Breakfast Kickoff Event; classroom discussions and community meetings; a feature of the 2009-2010 university-wide theme of "Slavery's Resurgence"
11/05/09
Climate Change and National/Global Security
(an international global issues conference, sponsored by the 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 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)
Date November 5, 2009, 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.Location UCF Student Union, Pegasus Ballroom
Access Advance Registration Required
Topic "Climate Change and National/Global Security"
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Invited Speakers – James Jay Carafano, Assistant Director, Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Institute for International Studies, The Heritage Foundation; Joan Johnson-Freese, Chair, National Security Decision Making Department, U.S. Naval War College; Janet Larsen, Director of Research, Earth Policy Institute; William Powers, World Policy Institute. 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
James Jay Carafano
Assistant Director, Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Institute for International Studies, The Heritage Foundation, and author of Private Sector, Public Wars: Contractors in Combat - Afghanistan, Iraq, and Future Conflicts
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
William Powers
Senior Fellow, World Policy Institute and author of The Soft World
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
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
Access Open Forum
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.
