OPEN hosts Dr. Charles King as Aresty Speaker for 2017 St. Petersburg Conference on World Affairs
The 2017 St. Petersburg Conference on World Affairs, hosted and co-sponsored by USF St. Peterburg and OPEN, included Charles King, an Aresty Distinguished Speaker. Charles King is Professor of International Affairs and Government at Georgetown University....
OPEN and USF College of Marine Sciences host explorer David Mearns as Aresty Speaker
David Mearns, a USF alumni and the founder of Blue Water Recoveries – a commercial company that locates and researches historic deep-sea shipwrecks across the globe – is the Aresty Distinguished Speaker in a lecture co-hosted by OPEN and USF o...
OPEN and St. Petersburg College host Pulitzer Journalist Hedrick Smith for conversation on Populist Revolution
Pentagon Papers Hedrick Smith, Pulitzer Prize-winner whose 1971 expose’ of the Pentagon Papers altered America’s role in the Vietnam War and whose 2013 book presaged the populist movement that helped Donald Trump win the U.S. presidency, visited USF...
OPEN and Et Cultura Festival Team up for Next Level Cultural Showcase
CONNECTING, SHOWCASING AND ENGAGING TO SUPPORT ST. PETE’s BRILLIANT FUTURE Inaugurating Year Two of its partnership, the OPEN Aresty Speakers program and online platform pairs with the ET CULTURA arts, film and music festival to connect St. Petersbu...
Geoffrey Canada, founder of Harlem Childrens Zone, keynotes OPEN’s Rad Schools
Geoffrey Canada is the keynote Aresty Speaker at this year’s Et Cultura Festival. His participation is a highlight of the launch of the Radical Schools theme within the OPEN online environment. OPEN’s Radical Schools brings thought lea...
Dr. T. Colin Campbell and Nelson Campbell of PlantPure Nation to be Aresty Speakers for Live Well Theme Launch
The Campbells – father T. Colin, scientist and writer and son Nelson, social entrepreneur executive and documentarian – lead a lineup of distinguished diet experts who together inaugurate the LIVE WELL theme at Et Cultura’s 2017 festiv...
Michael Sturtz of Stanford Keynotes the Launch of OPEN’s Future City Theme at Et Cultura
Michael Sturtz is not your ordinary architect of the future. His unconventional and successful career path has put him at the forefront of innovation for decades – past and future. Michael is a sculptor, teacher, designer and facilitator of creative...
Jeff Goodell Keynotes iCAR Conference: Rising Seas, Sinking Cities, Planning for Community Resilience
Jeff Goodell, Rolling Stone contributing editor and acclaimed author of the Water Will Come, Cool the Planet, and Big Coal is the Aresty Speaker at the 3rd Annual iCAR Conference. ICAR – Initiative on Coastal Adaptation and Resilience – t...
Will Allen, founder of Growing Power, hosted as Aresty Speaker in SEEDs Theme at Et Cultura
Will Allen has simple goals: to grow food, to grow minds, and to grow community. And he is changing lives in the process. Mr. Allen – the author of The Good Food Revolution: Growing Healthy Food, People and Communities is using farming as a way to...
Ambassador Thomas Pickering the Aresty Keynote at 2018 St. Pete Conference on World Affairs
Thomas Pickering, Career Ambassador with over forty years of service to the U.S., headlined the St. Petersburg Conference on World Affairs annual gathering held on the USF St. Petersburg campus February 20th through Friday February 23rd. In an active sche...
