Lectures

Gain new insight and perspective on life with ASP’s diverse speakers brought to campus. You can hear the story of an attempted suicide survivor, environmentalists, sex therapists, and many other interesting world renowned speakers.

Upcoming ASP Lecture Events

"Trouble Online: Campus Computing and the Law" with C.L. Lindsay
Tuesday September 25 at 7:00PM in Person Theatre

Your Facebook pages can come back to haunt you! Find out about online plagiarism and intellectual property rights. Do you know that your Facebook pages can be utilized by employers or the college administration? C.L. Lindsay will be speaking about how posting pictures of underage drinking and illegal use of drugs on the Internet can result in very serious disciplinary actions such as getting thrown out of college! Additionally, he will speak about the the dangers and frightening possibilities of online stalking. He has appeared on national television, radio and has been reatured in countless regional and national publications, including US News & World Reports, The chronical of Higher Education, The Chicago Tribune and The Washington Post and much more. FREE

Career Boot Camp with Marc Marcuse
Tuesday October 2 at 7:00PM in the Cooperage

Since graduating from UCLA with a degree in psychobiology, Marc Marcuse’s life has taken some unexpected turns- he’s attended medical school, worked at Microsft during the dotcom boom, designed theme park technologies for Disney Imagineering, was famous for appearing on the NBC Show Average Joe, and took those experiences to create his own talent agency in 2004. In this fascinating discussion, Marc talks about how a college major doesn’t need to define your career path and how to find out the future directions you really wish to take. This is not just another motivational lecture Marc imparts specific insider tricks that you can use now so you can get your career running as soon as you leave college! FREE

Van Jones: Green Economy Pioneer and Human Rights Activist
Tuesday, November 13 at 7:30PM at the Green Music Center

Van Jones is president and co-founder of Rebuild the Dream, a platform for bottom-up, people-powered innovations to help fix the U.S. economy. Van has a 20-year of track record as a successful, innovative and award-winning social entrepreneur. He is the co-founder of three other, thriving nonprofit organizations: the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, Color of Change, and Green For All. A Yale-educated attorney, Van worked as the green jobs advisor to the Obama White House in 2009. There, he helped run the inter-agency process that oversaw $80 billion in green energy recovery spending. He is the author of a New York Times best seller, The Green Collar Economy, the definitive book on green jobs. His latest publication “Rebuild the Dream” is a provocative book that elevates the conversation for rebuilding Dr. King's Dream for all Americans in the 21st Century. Tickets available soon.

Dr. Elaine Leeder: Understanding the Misunderstood: A Life of Work and Ideas for the Future
Monday, December 3rd at 6pm in the Cooperage

Dr. Elaine Leeder, will speak about her 50 years of working with victims and perpetrators of domestic violence, prisoners, mentally ill and others who are often marginalized by society.