Human-rights lawyer and author Corban Addison will speak Thursday, Nov. 1, about abolishing modern slavery. His presentation will be at 3 p.m. in the Cape Florida Ballroom of the Student Union.<\/p>\n
The event, organized by the UCF Global Perspectives Office, is part of the 2012-2013 theme of \u201cThe Changing Face of Freedom in Today\u2019s Turbulent Times.\u201d The event is free and open to the public.<\/p>\n
Addison\u2019s novel, \u201cA Walk Across the Sun,\u201d is a fictional account that portrays the horrors and ills of modern-day slavery. To research the global trade in human beings, he journeyed to India, Europe and Washington, D.C. He spent time with experts and activists, and went to the brothels of Mumbai to meet trafficking victims firsthand so that he might tell their stories.<\/p>\n
\u201cI am haunted by the truth of slavery, because I have seen it with my own eyes,\u201d he said. \u201cI wrote A Walk Across the Sun<\/em> to bring that truth alive for people like me, people who might prefer to believe that slavery is dead, or at least confined to dark alleys in the developing world.\u201d<\/p>\n In addition to the Global Perspectives Office, sponsors and partners include The India Center at UCF, The India Group, Anil and Chitra Deshpande India Program Endowed Fund, UCF Human Trafficking Awareness Program, UCF Diplomacy Program, Orlando Area Committee on Foreign Relations, Lawrence J. Chastang and the Chastang Foundation, CliftonLarsonAllen, Restoring Human Wellness at UCF, UCF Women\u2019s Studies Program, UCF International Services Center, UCF Political Science Department, UCF LIFE, UCF Book Festival 2013 in association with the Morgridge International Reading Center and the Global Connections Foundation.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Human-rights lawyer and author Corban Addison will speak Thursday, Nov. 1, about abolishing modern slavery. His presentation will be at 3 p.m. in the Cape Florida Ballroom of the Student Union. The event, organized by the UCF Global Perspectives Office, is part of the 2012-2013 theme of \u201cThe Changing Face of Freedom in Today\u2019s Turbulent Times.\u201d The event is free…","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":42508,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"template-twocol.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"lazy_load_responsive_images_disabled":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":"","_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[8334,1973,2508],"tu_author":[],"class_list":["post-42505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opinions","tag-corban-addison","tag-global-perspectives","tag-john-bersia"],"yoast_head":"\n