Fall Speakers Forum

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For over 40 years, Western Piedmont Community College has hosted a Speakers Forum that explores a variety of timely topics. From peace in the Middle East to cyberculture and new media, speakers have led discussions of current events during the forums. Here is a collection of programs from earlier events.

2018: The Science of
the Human Genome

2017: Navigating the
First Amendment

2016: Healthy People
Healthy Places –
Local & Global Solutions

2015: Immigrant Journeys:
Faces & Facts
of Immigration

2014: The Living Earth –
Our Inheritance and
Our Legacy

2013: Women and Girls:
Struggle and Strength

2012: Nations in Transition:
Citizens in Action

2011: Cyberculture And
The New Media

2010: Transforming Lives

2009: Food For Thought

2008: Of the People,
By the People,
For the People

2007: Energy:
Fueling Our Future

2006: Crossing Borders:
Immigrants In America

2005: Apollo & Beyond:
America’s Race to Space

2004: The Presidency

2003: Opening Doors:
Education In the
21st Century

2002: Women:
A Global Perspective

2001: Burke County:
Global Community

2000: Election 2000:
The Choice Is Yours

A Tradition Continues…Timely Topics
Keep WPCC Series Alive

1999: Millennia:
Know the Past,
Imagine the Future

1998: Violent Children An American Crisis

1997: “The In ternet:
Access to Anything?”

1997: Africa
Faces The Future

1996: Jury On Trial

1996: Election ’96

1995: Defendant vs.
Victim Rights

1995: Neighbor
Against Neighbor

1994: Equality &
Freedom In America

1994: Medicine: Ethics
& Technology

1993: Twenty Years
After Watergate

1993: Legacy of the Sixties

1992: The Power
of the Polls

1991: The Environment:
What On Earth Can We Do

1991: The Bill of Rights

1990: The Challenge Of
World Peace In the 90’s

1989: China’s Struggle
Toward Democracy

1988: Election ’88

1987: The Living Constitution

1986: Immigrant & Refugee:
The Newest Americans

1985: Crisis In Central America

1982: How to Achieve
Peace in the Middle East