Leadership Lecture Series Donna Brazile Women in American Politics: Are We There Yet? Co-Sponsored by the Mimi Cunningham Speaker Series Endowment of the Department of Communication Studies and Women’s Studies and Resource Center
Monday, Sept. 30, 2013 7 p.m. Burney Center $10 General public Free to UNCW Students and Faculty/Staff Ranked in the Washingtonian as one of the top 100 most powerful women, veteran political strategist Donna Brazile has worked on every presidential campaign from 1976 to 2000, and was the first African-American to manage a presidential campaign. Brazile is an adjunct professor at Georgetown University, author, syndicated columnist and political commentator on CNN, ABC and NPR. Brazile brings her original perspective to American politics, race relations, women in politics and diversity.
Daniel Pauly Fisheries and Global Warming Impacts on Marine Ecosystems UNCW Synergy Common Reading Keynote Co-Sponsored by Center for Marine Sciences, University College, College of Arts & Sciences, Cameron School of Business and Department of Biology
Monday, Nov. 11, 2013 7 p.m. Burney Center $10 General public Free to UNCW Students and Faculty/Staff Arguably the world’s most well-known fisheries scientist, Daniel Pauly is certainly the most prolific and widely cited. Described as an “iconoclastic global thinker,” Pauly received international attention for his development of FishBase, an encyclopedia of more than 30,000 fish species, and Ecopath, an ecosystems modeling program. Pauly brings his global perspective and passion for conservation to fisheries, striving to promote a healthier ocean and consequently, a better planet.
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Jose Antonio Vargas Define American Co-Sponsored by Centro Hispano and Honors College
Monday, Feb. 24, 2014 7 p.m. Burney Center $10 General public Free to UNCW Students and Faculty/Staff Jose Antonio Vargas is a Pulitzer-Prize winning writer, former lecturer at Georgetown University and an undocumented immigrant. An acclaimed journalist for over a decade, writing for some of the most prestigious publications in the country, Vargas’s personal story competes with some of his most captivating pieces. At 16, he discovered he was an undocumented immigrant and, despite his immense success as a journalist, Vargas kept his immigration status a secret until recently. Today, Vargas seeks to elevate the conversation about immigration and challenge notions of what defines “American.”