Business, Behavioral & Social Sciences

Academic Forum Series

This initiative is designed to expose our learning community to unique commentary and research perspectives through specialized lectures and question-answer sessions.

All Academic Forums are free to faculty and students. Audience size and scope will vary with each scheduled event. For additional information please contact the West Campus Division of Business, Behavioral & Social Sciences at (407) 582-1203.

Upcoming Events

Date Speaker/Topic Location Time
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Previous Presentations

Date Speaker/Topic
February, 2008 Anna Scolaro, Inventor from Orlando
July, 2007 Marika Pek, Hungarian Author
November, 2006 Orange County Mayor Richard Crotty, State and Local Government
September, 2005 Dr. Walid Phares, FUTURE JIHAD: Can we win the war on terror?
March, 2005 John "Chuck" Chalberg, Professor of History
Normandale (Minnesota) Community College
"Branch Rickey Characterization"
October, 2004 John Stossel, ABC News Correspondent: Enemies of Liberty
October, 2003 Thomas Patterson 
Bradlee Professor of Government and the Press
Harvard University
"The Vanishing Voter:  Civic Participation in a Time of Uncertainty"
February, 2003 Ronald Hatzenbuehler, Professor of History
Idaho State University
"Thomas Jefferson and 'All Men Are Created Equal'"
March, 2002 John "Chuck" Chalberg, Professor of History
Normandale (Minnesota) Community College
"Theodore Roosevelt Characterization"
April, 2001 Gary Mormino, Professor of of History 
University of South Florida 
"The Big Bang: Orlando and Miami, 1950-2000"
April, 2000 George Herring, Professor of History
University of Kentucky
"Vietnam, The War That Never Seems to Go Away" 
Additional Writings by George Herring
June, 1999  Co-Sponsored with the African-American Cultural Society   
Ivan Van Sertima, Professor of African Studies
Rutgers University
"The African Presence in Early America"
April, 1999 Alter Williams, Economics Professor, George Mason University
March, 1999 Walter LaFeber, Noll Professor of History 
Cornell University
"We Already Live in the 21st Century: Technology, Globalization and Sports"
February, 1999 Co-Sponsored with the African-American Cultural Society
Homer Hartage, Orange County Commissioner
"Local Public Policy Issues"
February, 1999 Ginger LaCroix
"Storytelling on the Pioneer Period in Oklahoma" 
February, 1998 John "Chuck" Chalberg, Professor of History
Normandale (Minnesota) Community College
"Theodore Roosevelt Characterization"
January, 1998 Lynn Casmier-Paz, Professor of English
University of Central Florida
"Implications of the Film Amistad and Research on Slave Narratives"
March, 1997 Curtis Austin, Professor of History
University of Central Florida
"The African-American Experience During the Second World War"

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