SPRING 2026 SEMINARS (COLOR CODED BY SEMINAR TYPE)
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Sign-in begins at 6:30, Seminars begin at 7:00
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week #1 TUESDAY 2026-02-03 CROSSTRACK SEMINAR (Science & Humanities) SOPHOMORES ONLY UNF 50/1202 "Sophomore Orientation & Mingle" Joe Berg Seminars Staff
week #2 THURSDAY 2026-02-12 CROSSTRACK SEMINAR UNF 50/1202 "Joe Berg Seminars History, Info, and Mingle" Joe Berg Seminars Staff
week #3 TUESDAY 2026-02-17 BONUS SEMINAR at UNF Arena 11852 UNF Drive Jacksonville, FL 32224 World Affairs Council of Jacksonville Global Issues Evening "Society in Focus" David Brooks Contributing Writer, The Atlantic Fellow, Yale Jackson School of Public Affairs
week #3 THURSDAY 2026-02-19 CROSSTRACK SEMINAR UNF 50/1202 "Returning Our World's Oceans to Balance and Abundance" Chris Fischer Founder, OCEARCH Explorer-in-Residence, JU
week #4 TUESDAY 2026-02-24 CROSSTRACK SEMINAR UNF 50/1202 "One Joe Berg Alum’s Story: What Will Your Story Be?" MARK MURPHY Joe Berg Alumnus Founder, UVLaw Patents LLC
week #5 THURSDAY 2026-03-05 CROSSTRACK SEMINAR UNF 50/1202 "Blueprint for Success: A roadmap for prioritizing and optimizing community well-being" Kristin Murray Engagement & Marketing Lead, Blue Zones Project Jacksonville
week #6 TUESDAY 2026-03-10 NO SEMINAR	week #6 THURSDAY 2026-03-12 NO SEMINAR
week #7 TUESDAY 2026-03-17 NO SEMINAR	week #7 THURSDAY 2026-03-19 NO SEMINAR
week #8 TUESDAY 2026-03-24 SCIENCE SEMINAR UNF 50/1202 "Exploring reduced dimensional effects on the critical behavior in spin-glass materials" Tom Pekarek Terry Presidential Professor Department of Physics and Astronomy, UNF	week #8 THURSDAY 2026-03-26 NO SEMINAR
week #9 TUESDAY 2026-03-31 CROSSTRACK SEMINAR UNF 50/1202 "The Medicalization of Human Distress" JENNIFER SPAULDING-GIVENS Associate Professor of Social Work Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Social Work, UNF
week #10 TUESDAY 2026-04-07 NO SEMINAR	week #10 THURSDAY 2026-04-09 NO SEMINAR
week #11 THURSDAY 2026-04-16 CROSSTRACK SEMINAR UNF 50/1202 "Case Notes & Novels: Interpreting Illness Across Nineteenth-Century Archives" CHARLOTTE ALCON Visiting Instructor Department of English, UNF
week #12 TUeSDAY 2026-04-21 CROSSTRACK SEMINAR UNF 50/1202 "Entrepreneurship" MARTIN LUYTJES Associate Director, Blackstone Launchpad Coggin College of Business, UNF
week #13 THURSDAY 2026-04-30 CROSSTRACK SEMINAR UNF 50/1202 "Navigation, Culture, and the Methuselah Civilization" John Anderson Executive Director, The Joe Berg Seminars Associate Lecturer Emeritus, Department of Physics and Astronomy, UNF
week #14 TUESDAY 2026-05-05 CROSSTRACK SEMINAR UNF 50/1202 "The Equation They Never Teach You In School: Unlocking Your True Value & Impact" Al Emerick Keynote Speaker on Human Value Positivity Junkie Creator of ValueMapping® and The ValueEquation®
week #15 TUESDAY 2026-05-12 CROSSTRACK SEMINAR UNF 50/1202 "Forensic Nursing" Sandra Shapiro Assistant Professor, Nursing Brooks College of Health, UNF