All presentations will begin at 3 p.m. in the Witherspoon Campus Cinema. All events in the series are free and open to the public.

Upcoming dates, guests and topics include:

• Monday, Oct. 7, and Tuesday, Oct. 8 – Pastor Leon Dorleans, executive director of Haiti Outreach Ministries, will discuss HOM’s efforts since the 2010 earthquake.

• Monday, Oct. 14 – Bishop Gene Robinson will present “God Believes In Love: Straight Talk About Gay Marriage.” Robinson is the first openly gay bishop in the Episcopal Church, an author and a civil rights advocate. His presentation will be sponsored by the N.C. State GLBT Center.

• Tuesday, Oct. 15 – University Scholars alumnus Elizabeth Long will present “Death by Dust? The Curious Case of the Disappearing Bee.” It will outline the risks posed to non-target organisms (such as honey bees) by the use of pesticides on a massive scale.

• Monday, Oct. 21, and Tuesday, Oct. 22 – Jay Erskine Leutze, the author of Stand Up That Mountain, will talk about the true story of one mountain community’s efforts to save treasured land from being destroyed.

• Monday, Oct. 28, and Tuesday, Oct. 29 – Broadway veteran Lisa Jolley (Hairspray) will bring her one-woman cabaret show to the Scholars Forum for an hour of music and comedy.

• Monday, Nov. 4, and Tuesday, Nov. 5 – Shane Harris is an award-winning journalist and the author of The Rise of America’s Surveillance State. He is currently senior writer at Foreign Policy magazine, where he covers intelligence, national security and cyber security. 

• Monday, Nov. 11, and Tuesday, Nov. 12 – During Hurricane Sandy, the replica tall ship HMS Bounty capsized off the coast of North Carolina. Journalist Matthew Shaer will reconstruct the ship’s final voyage and the investigation that followed.

• Monday, Nov. 18, and Tuesday, Nov. 19– Virtuoso violinist Jennifer Curtis will perform, blending classical with traditional music from around the world.

For more information, please visit scholars.dasa.ncsu.edu.