Previous Events
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
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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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Classroom discussions and community meetings
10/12/09
New Generation. New Economy. New Opportunities?
(a national symposium sponsored by 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)
Date October 12, 2009, 9:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.Location UCF Student Union, Pegasus Ballroom
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Topic "New Generation. New Economy. New Opportunities?"
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Invited Speakers - Anya Kamenetz, author Generation Debt and Yahoo! Finance Expert; Congresswoman Suzanne Kosmas, Florida 24th District; Morley Winograd, Fellow, New Policy Institute, and others.
10/06/09
Bernard Finel
Senior Fellow and Director of Research on Counter-Terrorism and Defense Policy, The American Security Project (Washington, D.C.)
Date October 6, 2009Topic Global Terrorism: Current Trends
Sponsors UCF Global Perspectives Office, UCF Terrorism Studies Program, Institute for Transitional Democracy and International Security in Budapest, Hungary, Lawrence J. Chastang and the Chastang Foundation, UCF Political Science Department, UCF Criminal Justice and Legal Studies Department, UCF International Services Center, UCF LIFE, Global Connections Foundation and other partners
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Classroom discussions and community meetings
10/06/09
Sebastian Gorka
Assistant Professor of Irregular Warfare, National Defense University, Washington, D.C.
Date October 6, 2009Sponsors UCF Global Perspectives Office, UCF Terrorism Studies Program, Institute for Transitional Democracy and International Security in Budapest, Hungary, Lawrence J. Chastang and the Chastang Foundation, UCF Political Science Department, UCF Criminal Justice and Legal Studies Department, UCF International Services Center, UCF LIFE, Global Connections Foundation and other partners
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Classroom discussions and community meetings; a feature of the 2009-2010 university-wide theme of "Conflict and Conflict Resolution in the Middle East"
10/06/09
Jena Baker McNeill
Homeland Security Policy Analyst, The Heritage Foundation
Date October 6, 2009Sponsors UCF Global Perspectives Office, UCF Terrorism Studies Program, Institute for Transitional Democracy and International Security in Budapest, Hungary, Lawrence J. Chastang and the Chastang Foundation, UCF Political Science Department, UCF Criminal Justice and Legal Studies Department, UCF International Services Center, UCF LIFE, Global Connections Foundation and other partners
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Classroom discussions and community meetings; a feature of the 2009-2010 university-wide theme of "Conflict and Conflict Resolution in the Middle East"
10/06/09
Global Terrorism in 2009: Assessing the Changing Threat
(an international forum, sponsored by the UCF Global Perspectives Office, UCF Terrorism Studies Program, Institute for Transitional Democracy and International Security in Budapest, Hungary, Lawrence J. Chastang and the Chastang Foundation, UCF Political Science Department, UCF Criminal Justice and Legal Studies Department, UCF International Services Center, UCF LIFE, Global Connections Foundation and other partners)
Date October 6, 2009, 3:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.Location UCF Student Union, Pegasus Ballroom
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Topic Global Terrorism in 2009: Assessing the Changing Threat
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Invited speakers – Sebastian Gorka, National Defense University, and Founding Director, Institute for Transitional Democracy and International Security, Budapest, Hungary; Jena Baker McNeill, Homeland Security Policy Analyst, The Heritage Foundation; Stephen Sloan, Terrorism Studies Program, UCF; John Schindler, Professor, U.S. Naval War College, author of Unholy Terror: Bosnia, Al-Qa'ida, and the Rise of Global Jihad and former NSA Balkans expert; and others. A feature of the 2009-2010 university-wide theme of "Conflict and Conflict Resolution in the Middle East"
