Campus Engagement Events

Civic Engagement/ Spring 2012

Women’s Studies program

(Some dates might change, please send me an email if you want an event added)

January

·      Date Jan. 18 (5:00- 7:30 PM)

Event 39th Roe v Wade Anniversary Celebration,

Partner Planned Parenthood of Orlando

Location The First Unitarian Church of Orlando.

Topic The theme this year is "The Importance of Choice."

·      Date Jan 17 and 19 (6:00 PM)

Event Celebration Movie nights and dialogue “The Help”

Access Open Forum

Partner Rollins College, Lucy Cross Center for Women

Topic Civil Rights

·      Date January 19, 2012, (3:00 p.m. to 4:30 PM)

Event Rachel Louise Snyder

Partner Global Perspective
Location UCF Student Union, Cape Florida Ballroom
Access Open Forum
Topic Globalization: Manufacturing, Sweatshops, Development/aid Work, & Ethical Consumerism

February

·      Date February 2, 2012, (10:00 a.m. to 11:00 AM)

Event Farah Pandith

Partner Global Perspective
Location UCF Student Union, Cape Florida Ballroom
Access Open Forum
Topic U.S. Engagement with Muslims Around the World

·      Date February 2, 2012, (3:00 p.m. to 4:30 PM)

Event Tina Rosenberg

Partner Global Perspective
Location UCF Student Union, Garden Key Room
Access Open Forum
Topic How Peer Pressure Can Transform the World

·      Date February 6, 2012 (10:30-11:20)

Event Panel “From bell hooks to the present: Black Women in Feminism”

Partner Black History Month and Women’s Studies

Location BHC 131

Access Open Forum

Topic Black women in American Feminism

·      Date February 24, 2012 (10:30-11:20)

Event Panel “Why Can’t a Women Earn as much as a man?”

Partner Black History Month and Women’s Studies

Location BHC 131

Access Open Forum

Topic Equal Pay for Black Women

March

·      Date March 27, 2012

Event UCF Community Summit on Environment and Global Climate Change  2012.

Partner Global Perspective
Location UCF Student Union, Cape Florida Ballroom
Access Open Forum
Topic UCF Community Summit on Environment and Global Climate Change 2012

·      Date March 27, 2012, (3:00 p.m. to 4:30 PM)

Event Alexandra Cousteau

Partner Global Perspective
Location UCF Student Union, Cape Florida Ballroom
Access Open Forum
Topic Saving the Planet

·      Date March 31, 2012 (8:00-4:00 PM)

Event Women to Women III Conference,

Partner Farmworker Association of Florida,

Location St. Francis of Assisi Church, Apopka, FL.

Topic Education, violence against women, financial freedom and general wellness

Access Free, pre-registration as volunteer (See Dr. Santana for more information)

April

·      Date April 12, 2012

Event Sarah Lacy
Topic Brilliant, Crazy, Cocky: How the Top 1% of Entrepreneurs Profit from Global Chaos

Location TBA

Partner Global Perspective

·      Date April 12, 2012

Event Ayesha Khanna

Partner Global Perspective

Location TBA
Topic The Hybrid Age: Our Transition to the Post-Information Era