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The mission of the Global Learning Center is to provide opportunities for learning about peoples and cultures of the world in order to promote a peaceful future.
Learning about Global Issues
Saturday, May 20th, 2023
First Unitarian Universalist Church
7202 E 21st St N, Wichita, KS
2:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Nuclear Energy: Part of the Climate Solution?
https://wichitastate.zoom.us/j/96817874888?pwd=NkhKRzFtcmJTUnBvMGhRcTJ1MmlFZz09
Password: 469797
Meeting ID: 968 1787 4888
Sunday, December 18, 2022
The [President Lyndon B.] Johnson Cult in Papua New Guinea as Political Theatre. A Dorothy K. Billings Memorial Lecture
Dr. Jens Kreinath
Sunday, September 18, 2022
Global Abortion Rights
Dr. Leslie Page
Sunday, August 21, 2022
Purpose of life and the need for knowledge - natural & human sciences from a Muslim perspective
Bassam Samarah
Sunday, May 15, 2022
Dispossessing Palestinians of their land: A structural violence
Dave Osborne
Sunday, April 24, 2022
Learning from our Neighbors: Questions and Insights from Newman University’s Guatemala Study and Serve Program
Sonia Bontrager
Sunday, March 27, 2022
Ukraine
Dr. Nabil AlTikriti and Dr. John Dreifort
watch recording
Sunday, February 20, 2022
Perception About Islam
SM Waliul Islam
Sunday, January 16, 2022
Annual meeting at 6:30 p.m.
Event at 7:00 p.m.
Gastropolitics and the Cultural Importance of Food in the Hispanic World
Dr. Rocio Del Aguila
Sunday, December 19, 2021 at 7:00 p.m
Climate Change
Kent Rowe and Holger Meyer
watch recording
Sunday, November 21, 2021
Endangered Environments
Bob Waltner
Saturday, October 2, 2021
Sickle Cell Anemia in the Democratic Republic of Congo
Sandra Fatuma
watch recording
Tuesday, June 1, 2021
A Pivotal Moment-Defying Israeli Fragmentation of Palestinians in East Jerusalem and Beyond
Dr. Deborah A. Gordon
Sunday, May 16, 2021
Traditional and Indigenous Medical and Environmental Knowledge and Why It Matters
Dr. Leslie Page
Sunday, April 18, 2021
The Covid-19 Pandemic Exposes
Fatal Health Inequalities
Meredeth Turshen and Annie Thebaud-Mony
Sunday, March 21, 2021
Brexit and Ireland
The Never-Ending Story
Zack Twamley
Sunday, Feb. 21, 2021
Competing For Global Talent
The Importance of Skilled Immigration
Masud Chand
Sunday, Dec. 20, 2020
"My Voice is Power"
Language, Empowerment, and Hip Hop
in Arusha, Tanzania
Rachael Sebastian
Sunday, Nov. 15, 2020
"International Restorative Justice"
Katelin Morey
In keeping with GLC policy this will be a Zoom event. Please see information below. glc.wichita@gmail.com
Sunday, Oct. 18, 2020
"Muslim - Jewish Relations"
Aziza Hasan
In keeping with GLC policy this will be a Zoom event. Please see information below. glc.wichita@gmail.com
Sunday, Jan. 19, 2020
"Bosnia and Herzegovina, 25 Years after the War"
Dr. Gretchen Eick and Michael Poage
Olive Tree Banquet Hall, 29th at Rock Rd. Please RSVP (316) 531-0026 or glc.wichita@gmail.com
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Sunday, Dec. 15, 2019
"Shared Sacred Sites in Israel and the West Bank (Palestine) - The Politics of Religious Heritage"
Dr. Jens Kreinath
Olive Tree Banquet Hall, 29th at Rock Rd. Please RSVP (316) 531-0026 or glc.wichita@gmail.com
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Sunday, Nov. 17th, 2019
"Coming to America, land of opportunity"
George Varga
Olive Tree Banquet Hall, 29th at Rock Rd. Please buy tickets by Oct. 9th
glc.wichita@gmail.com
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Saturday, Oct. 12th, 2019
"International War Crimes"
Abeer Hasan
Olive Tree Banquet Hall, 29th at Rock Rd. Please buy tickets by Oct. 9th
glc.wichita@gmail.com
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Sunday, Sept. 15, 2019
"The Impact of Brexit on the Future of Ireland and the United Kingdom"
Dr. Randy Bush
Olive Tree Banquet Hall, 29th at Rock Rd. Please RSVP (316) 531-0026 or glc.wichita@gmail.com
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Sunday, Apr. 28, 2019
"The Universality of Human Rights:
Political, Economic and Social"
Jim Phillips
Olive Tree Banquet Hall, 29th at Rock Rd. Please RSVP (316) 531-0026 or glc.wichita@gmail.com
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Sunday, Mar. 17, 2019
"Hearts and Minds - America in Afghanistan"
Jeff Leddy
Olive Tree Banquet Hall, 29th at Rock Rd. Please RSVP 316-684-1469 or jamesphillips21346@gmail.com
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Sunday, Feb. 17, 2019
"My Journey from Palestine to US"
Shafiq Hasan
Olive Tree Banquet Hall, 29th at Rock Rd. Please RSVP 316-684-1469 or jamesphillips21346@gmail.com
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GLC-cosponsored with Peace center:
Friday, Feb. 8, 2019 "Women Working for Peace in Korea"
Dr. Nan Kim, Women cross DMZ
WSU Rhatigan Student Center
Pike Room 266
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Sunday, January 20, 2019
Annual General Meeting
"Pilgrimage to Viet Nam: On Managing and Healing the Wounds of War"
Billie Knighton
Olive Tree Banquet Hall, 29th at Rock Rd. Please RSVP 316-684-1469 or jamesphillips21346@gmail.com
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2018
Sunday, December 9, 2018
"Water and Energy Usage Around the World."
Dr. Holger Meyer
Olive Tree Banquet Hall, 29th at Rock Rd. Please RSVP 316-684-1469 or jamesphillips21346@gmail.com
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Sunday, November 18, 2018
"The Global Peace/Stop Violence Academy (GPSVA)"
Dr. Akiiki Daisy Kabagarama
Olive Tree Banquet Hall, 29th at Rock Rd. Please RSVP 316-684-1469 or jamesphillips21346@gmail.com
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Saturday, October 20, 2018
73rd UNITED NATIONS ANNIVERSARY
BANQUET
"Women’s Health and Social Justice
at Home and Around the World"
Latanya Mapp Frett, Executive Director of Planned Parenthood Global
Olive Tree Banquet Hall, 29th at Rock Rd. Please RSVP 316-440-8292 or glc.wichita@gmail.com
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Sunday, September 16, 2018
"How Peace Activists Saved the World from
Nuclear War"
Dr. Lawrence Wittner, Emeritus Professor of History, State University of New York/Albany
Olive Tree Banquet Hall, 29th at Rock Rd. Please RSVP 316-684-1469 or jamesphillips21346@gmail.com
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Monday, September 17, 2018, 7:00 p.m
"The Corporatization
of Higher Education"
Dr. Lawrence Wittner, Emeritus Professor of History, State University of New York/Albany
Wichita State University Metroplex, Room 132 (Enter Door C), 29th at Oliver, not on the WSU main campus.
Please RSVP 316-684-1469 or jamesphillips21346@gmail.com
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Sunday, August 19, 2018
"What Islam and Sharia have to do with the United States"
Dr. Saqib Ahmed
Olive Tree Banquet Hall, 29th at Rock Rd. Please RSVP 316-684-1469 or jamesphillips21346@gmail.com
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Sunday, May 20, 2018
"U.S./El Salvador Sister Cities"
Pat Ciotti and others will present
Olive Tree Banquet Hall, 29th at Rock Rd. Please RSVP 316-684-1469 or jamesphillips21346@gmail.com
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Sunday, Apr. 22, 2018
"Women's Health & Family Planning around the World"
Dr. Leslie Page and Dr. Zhanna Pataky
Olive Tree Banquet Hall, 29th at Rock Rd. Please RSVP 316-684-1469 or jamesphillips21346@gmail.com
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Sunday, Mar. 18, 2018
"Global Learning in an Age of Myopic Nationalism"
by Dr. Daniel Wildcat
Olive Tree Banquet Hall, 29th at Rock Rd.
Please RSVP 316-684-1469 or jamesphillips21346@gmail.com
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Sunday, Feb. 18, 2018
"Kenya"
by David Kapten and Lillian Kapten
Olive Tree Banquet Hall, 29th at Rock Rd.
Please RSVP 316-737-2024 or glc.wichita@gmail.com
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Sunday, January 21, 2018
Annual General Meeting and
"Comparing Educational Systems and Experiences"
Olive Tree Banquet Hall, 29th at Rock Rd.
Please RSVP 316-684-1469 or dorothy.billings@wichita.edu
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2017
Sunday, December 10, 2017
"The work of the World Blind Union"
by Emily Schlenker
Olive Tree Banquet Hall, 29th at Rock Rd.Please RSVP to Emily Schlenker, 316-644-4227 or eschlenker@cox.net
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Sunday, November 19, 2017
"Ethiopia, 15th century to today: Portugal in the Orient and Prester John of Ethiopia and
The Ethiopian Empire"
by Dr. James Lewis and Yedu Hajigetu
Olive Tree Banquet Hall, 29th at Rock Rd.
Please RSVP to Yedu Hajigetu, 316-304-8725 or glc.wichita@gmail.com
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Saturday, October 21, 2017
"US Foreign Policy, Wars and Terrorism: ISIS abroad, Islamophobia at home"
by Phyllis Bennis
Santa Fe Trail Room, Rhatigan Student Center, Wichita State University
Please RSVP to Refika Sariönder, 316-670-3029 or glc.wichita@gmail.com.
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Sunday, September 24, 2017
"Cherish every banana you eat – there is a global crisis!"
with Dr. Melvin Epp
Lorraine Avenue Mennonite Church
Please RSVP to Holger Meyer, 316-347-3889 or glc.wichita@gmail.com.
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Sunday, August 20, 2017
"Understanding Islam"
with Michael Barton
Olive Tree Banquet Hall, 29th at Rock Rd.
Please RSVP to Manzoor Ali, 316-209-5725 or glc.wichita@gmail.com.
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Sunday, July 23, 2017
"Teaching and Living in Liberia"
with Lakshmi Kambampati
Olive Tree Banquet Hall, 29th at Rock Rd.
Please RSVP to Jim Phillips, 316-684-1469.
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List of all talks and dates (Aug'16-May'17)
Sunday, May 7, 2017
“Don't Forget
Saudi Arabia
Who are Wahhabi, Hashemite, Shia and Sunni? What is the relationship among those groups in today’s Saudi Arabia? Can we identify some historic strands of political development within the Arabian Peninsula? What is the economic situation in contemporary Saudi Arabia? How can we describe the U.S. and Saudi connection today? chers Mike Poage, Tom Moore and Jim Phillips will share their experiences teaching foreign-born students.
A panel of Saudi students and community members will address these issues and speak to how they affect their lives. Mike Poage, moderator.
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Elliott Johnston, BA, English,
MA, English Education
Sunday, April 9, 2017
“Educating
Resettler / Foreign
Born Students in
US Public Schools”
Speaker: Elliott Johnston, BA, English, MA, English Education, teaches freshman English at Fort Morgan High School in Fort Morgan, Colorado, where the student body is nearly nearly 70% non-white and represents more than a dozen nationalities. Mr. Johnston will explain how the “Story Project” is helping those students learn and adjust. He is a grandson of Global Learning Center founders
Howard and Jeanne Johnston. Following Johnston’s presentation, local teachers Michael Poage, Tom Moore
and Jim Phillips will share their experiences teaching foreign-born students.
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Sunday, March 12, 2017
“Indigenous Peoples’
Continuing Struggle”
Speaker: Dr. Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz is author or editor of twelve books, including winner of 2015 American Book Award:
An Indigenous People's History of the United States. Her first book, The Great Sioux Nation: An Oral History of the Sioux Nation and its Struggle for Sovereignty, was published in 1977 and was presented as the fundamental document at the first international conference on Indians of the Americas, held at the UN headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland.
February 19th
“The EU and the Refugee Crisis: Dis-integration or Re-invention”
Speaker:
Dr. Yonka Krasteva will discuss the growing refugee crisis in the EU. She is an American Studies scholar who has done extensive research of cultural encounters between East and West and has taught courses at universities in Europe, Turkey and the US. She is the author of The West and the American Dream: Studies in Contemporary American Literature.
January 22nd
Annual Mtng. + Panel with:
Marie Gillespie of "Friendship Force;" Khanh Nguyen, Ph.D, Chair,
Vietnamese Catholic Community;
Bob Carlson, businessman with
extensive dealings in Vietnam.
The panelists will discuss "Vietnam Today" ...its recent history, its economy, its contentious relationship with China and many other aspects of life in this ancient country that was once a US adversary.
Olive Tree Banquet Hall, on 29th just west of Rock Rd.
December 4th
Dr. Jens Kreinath
Gezi, Gülen, and the Failed Coup in Turkey
Contestations of Democracy during Times of Crisis
Olive Tree Banquet Hall, 29th near Rock Rd.
November 13th
panel with Ted J. Vlamis
International Trade Agreements
TPP, etc.
Olive Tree Banquet Hall, 29th near Rock Rd.
October 29th
Dr. Lisa Aubrey
Roots and Reconnection: International Decade for People of African Descent
Wichita State University Rhatigan Student Center Santa Fe Trail Room
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Karg Art
Dr. Schuyler Jones with Global Learning Center President Gretchen Eick.
Left to right, Dr. Jens Kreinath, Dr. Dorothy Billings, Dr. Schuyler Jones, Carla Burns, and Wakeelah Martinez.
Winner of the 2016 Howard & Jeanne Johnston Global Community Citizenship Award was Dr. Schuyler Jones who traveled the world many times over and continues to bring global cultures closer.
Dr. Schuyler Jones receiving Global Community Citizenship Award Oct. 29, 2016.
Winner of the 2015 Howard & Jeanne Johnston Global Community Citizenship Award was Rev. Sam Muyskens for his many years of determination to bring interfaith peace and understanding.
Rev. Sam Muyskens receiving Award 10/3/2015
Winners of the 2014 Howard & Jeanne Johnston Global Community Citizenship Award were: Dr. Deema DeSilva, Sister Ann Catherine Burger and Mary Harren.
Dr Deema DeSilva (front right)
Sister Ann Catherine Burger (left)
Mary Harren (left)
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