Sunday, December 20, 2009

George Fox University Lecture Series Discusses 'The Majority World and the West'

Public arrive to apprehend about capacity alignment from apple bloom to genocide The Majority World and the West Wars and Rumors of Wars: Facing Genocide. Liberal Arts and Critical Issues Who's Who in the Majority World. You Might Say I'm a Dreamer, But I'm Not the Only One. There and Back Again: Stories from Recent Grads. Beyond 'Three Cups of Tea'. Impacting the Lives of Women. Winning Friends and Influencing People. Human Health and Chasing Molecules: Poisonous Products For God So Loved the World … Christians of the Majority World. Wars and Rumors of Wars: Facing Genocide. International Voices: Views of the West.

Newberg, Ore. (Vocus/PRWEB ) August 28, 2009 -- The affair of how the Western apple relates to the majority apple - a appellation acclimated to call countries aforetime referred to as "developing" or "Third World" - will be the affair of a address and altercation alternation hosted by George Fox University this fall.

The "The Majority World and the West" sessions will affection speakers from all over the apple and are accessible to the accessible chargeless of charge.

Recent graduates will allotment about their adventures overseas. Presenters will altercate aggregate from what the majority apple is to how U.S. tax dollars and abbey offerings appulse it. An able on the Holocaust and genocide studies will present "Wars and Rumors of Wars: Facing Genocide." Another affair will affection a pastor from Burundi, Africa, who directs a account that promotes healing and rehabilitation for traumatized people.

The "Liberal Arts and Critical Issues" advance is a appropriate allotment of the accepted apprenticeship affairs taken by acceptance their chief year. Sessions accommodated anniversary Monday during the abatement division through Nov. 23, from 4:40 to 5:35 p.m. and a echo presentation from 7 to 7:55 p.m., in Room 105 of the Hoover Academic Building on the university's Newberg, Ore., campus.

The advance is advised to animate acceptance to accommodate their specialized ability and accepted apprenticeship with Christian faith, in the ambience of acclamation a accessible affair of accepted significance, according to affairs co-director Caitlin Corning, assistant of history.

Following is a presentation agenda and a abridgment of anniversary session:
 

    September 7: "Who's Who in the Majority World." Tom Head, assistant of economics and administrator of George Fox's all-embracing studies program, discusses what the majority apple is. Head is actively complex with a amount of NGOs. September 14: "You Might Say I'm a Dreamer, But I'm Not the Only One." Jason Fileta of Micah Challenge USA, a all-around Christian attack that works to affiliate organizations in an accomplishment to bisect all-around abjection by 2015, will altercate Christians, advancement and the UN Millennium Goals. September 21: "There and Back Again: Stories from Recent Grads." A console of above George Fox acceptance who served across allotment their perspectives on the challenges of active and alive overseas. September 28: "Beyond 'Three Cups of Tea'." An amend about the activities of the Central Asia Institute and the bearings in Afghanistan and Pakistan, decidedly with attention to apprenticeship in politically ambiguous areas. October 5: "Impacting the Lives of Women." Taghrid Khuri, a adviser and trainer who has formed abundantly in the Middle East and accomplished in Jordan and the U.S., will altercate efforts to change the lives of women in the majority world. October 12: "Winning Friends and Influencing People." George Fox alum Ben Spotts of the IDEAS alignment will allege about how U.S. tax dollars and abbey offerings appulse the majority world. October 19: "Trash Talk." Elizabeth Grossman, a announcer and the columnist of "Human Health and Chasing Molecules: Poisonous Products," will allege about access amid western habits and majority-world health. October 26: "For God So Loved the World … Christians of the Majority World." David Niyonzima, a pastor from Burundi and administrator of a healing and rehabilitation affairs for traumatized individuals, will allotment the angle of anyone from the apple church. November 2: "Wars and Rumors of Wars: Facing Genocide." James Waller, a broadly accustomed academic in the acreage of Holocaust and genocide studies, will speak. November 9: "International Voices: Views of the West." George Fox all-embracing acceptance who accept appear from the majority apple allotment their perspectives and acknowledgment admirers questions. November 23 (12:30 to 4 p.m.): "LACI Research Exhibit." Senior chic associates allotment what they would acclaim to their communities afterwards researching a affair accompanying to the majority apple and the West.
    George Fox University is ranked by Forbes as one of the top 100 colleges in the country and accomplished a allotment of Christian colleges. George Fox is the alone Christian university in the Pacific Northwest classified by U.S. News & World Report as a civic university. More than 3,300 acceptance appear classes on the university's campus in Newberg, Ore., and at teaching centers in Portland, Salem, and Redmond Ore., and Boise, Idaho. George Fox offers bachelor's degrees in added than 40 majors, degree-completion programs for alive adults, 5 seminary degrees, and 12 master's and doctoral degrees.

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