Drawing Outstanding Speakers to the Campus Community
The CIIE is committed to bringing renowned figures to Kent State University, as part of its mission to promote international and intercultural education.
Drawing Outstanding Speakers to the Campus Community
The CIIE is committed to bringing renowned figures to Kent State University, as part of its mission to promote international and intercultural education.
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Through its Gerald H. Read Distinguished Lecturer Series the Center has sponsored visits by a bevy of outstanding personalities including scholars, domestic and international government leaders, writers, humanitarians and musicians as well as educators. The Read Distinguished Lecture Series this year offers world-class variety. The on-going Brown Bag Series offers insightful lunch-time seminars on international and intercultural topics.
"Village Voices in Your Own Back Yard" is the theme for the 2007-08 academic year's Gerald H. Read Distinguished Lecture Series. This series, an outgrowth of last year's Village Voice theme, focuses on the issues of immigration and migrant workers in a year long comprehensive, interactive way with lectures, documentary films, and public forums on the topics. We are pleased to collaborate with the University Teacher Conference at Kent State University in the kick-off lecture lecture of the series, "The Road Most Traveled--a Photographs of Migration "by Pulitzer Prize Winning photojournalist, Don Bartletti of the LA Times. Second semester the lecture will feature KSU's own photojournalist, Gary Harwood and English professor, David Hassler, with their presentation, "Growing Season and its Educational Implications"
CIIE also sponsors research conferences and hosted in May 2005, the Fourth Biennial International Conference of the International Academy for Intercultural Research and the inaugural conference of the Euphrates Tigris Initiative for Cooperation.