Summer Rayne Oakes
Host, environmental expert and board adviser for the Discovery Channel’s Planet Green eco-lifestyle network

Date: September 9, 2008, 3:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Location: UCF Student Union, Pegasus Ballroom
Access: Open Access
Topic: We Can Kick Climate Change, One Step at a Time: An Expanding Role for Youth
Sponsors: UCF Global Perspectives Office, UCF Office of Undergraduate Studies, Lawrence J. Chastang and the Chastang Foundation, UCF Focus the Nation, UCF LIFE, UCF Political Science Department, UCF International Services Center and the Global Connections Foundation
More Information: A co-curricular component of the “UCF General Education Program Unifying Theme: The Environment and Global Climate Change"

Mira Kamdar
Author of Planet India: How the Fastest-Growing Democracy is Transforming America and the World.

Date: September 23, 2008 3:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Location: UCF Student Union, Cape Florida Ballroom
Access: Open Access
Topic: Risk and Reward in India's Booming Economy
Sponsors: UCF Global Perspectives Office, The India Program at UCF, Anil and Chitra Deshpande Foundation, Lawrence J. Chastang and the Chastang Foundation, UCF Political Science Department, UCF International Services Center, UCF LIFE and the Global Connections Foundation
More Information: A feature of the 2008-2009 university-wide theme of "The Age of India"

"The Africa Series"
(a lecture program, co-sponsored with UCF LIFE)

Date: September 23 & 30, and October 7 & 14, 2008, 11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Location: UCF Student Union, Pegasus Ballroom
Access: Limited access forum for UCF LIFE

Rob Gifford
NPR's China correspondent from 1999-2005, he now is NPR's London correspondent and the author of China Road: A Journey into the Future of a Rising Power

Date: October 2, 2008, 2:30 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Location: UCF Student Union, Cape Florida Ballroom
Access: Open Access
Topic: China Road: A Journey into the Future of a Rising Power
Sponsors: UCF Global Perspectives Office, Lawrence J. Chastang and the Chastang Foundation, C.T. Hsu and Associates, UCF Political Science Department, UCF LIFE and the Global Connections Foundation

Stephen Wayne
Professor and American Government Field Chair, Department of Government, Georgetown University, and author of The Road to the White House

Date: November 13, 2008
Topic: The Road to the White House 2008: Epilogue and Prospects for the New Administration
Sponsors: UCF Global Perspectives Office, Lawrence J. Chastang and the Chastang Foundation, Georgetown Club of Metro Orlando, UCF Political Science Department and the Global Connections Foundation