Read Center for International and Intercultural Education
Is Social Media the Future of Dating?
Last Wednesday, February 12, 2020, we held a Cultural Dialogue celebrating the month of love at Read Room (200), White Hall, with a focus on social media's influence on intercultural dating. Higher Education Administration intern Esther Sijuwade, from Nigeria, facilitated the program. The pane…
A Letter from India: CIIE Board Member David Dix Visits ILEP-KSU Alumni in India
Last week, CIIE received messages from Mr. David Dix, one of CIIE Board Members, who is now on a three-week trip in India with his wife, Janet. David and his wife are there to visit with three former visiting scholars from the US Department of State’s International Leaders in Education Program (ILEP…
IN A FLASH: Visiting From Turkey
A visiting scholar from Turkey came to Kent State to speak about culturally diverse themes in picture books for young readers.
IN A FLASH: A Kent State Summer in Florence
This summer, students in Kent State University's School of Art had an opportunity to study in Italy through the university's Florence Summer Institute program.
Keeping the Memory of May 4 Alive
A group of Kent State University professors recently returned from a visit to the commemoration of the Gwangju Uprising at Chonnam National University in Gwangju, South Korea, feeling inspired for the meaningful connections they made to the May 4, 1970, shootings at Kent State.
Solutions for Challenges Around the World, Presented at Kent State
International Fulbright scholars studying at Kent State presented their plans addressing vital issues in their home countries.
The Place for Peace in Internationalization
Read Center Director Amanda Johnson, Ph.D., speaks at international education summit with esteemed guests like Ecuador's president in the audience
Fulbright Program Brings International Students to Kent State
Kent State University is hosting 39 international graduate students for the Fulbright Pre-Academic Program, a monthlong immersion in American higher education and culture.
Kent State-Sponsored Peace Conference Unites Delegates from Across the Globe
Delegates attending Peace Education in an Era of Crisis spent three days learning from each other and from the example of the Rwandan people on how to create lasting peace. The conference, which took place July 11-13 in Kigali, Rwanda, was sponsored by Kent State University’s School of Peace and Conflict Studies, Kent State’s Gerald H. Read Center for International and Intercultural Education, the University of Rwanda’s Centre for Conflict Management, and the Aegis Trust, a nonprofit organization dedicated to ending genocide and other atrocities in the world.
National Expert on Peace and Conflict Studies Says Time Was Right for Kent State Peace Conference
Barbara J. Wien, a senior professorial lecturer in the School of International Service at American University in Washington, D.C., where she teaches alternatives to war and violence, was fresh out of college when she made her first visit to what was then, Kent State University’s Center for Peaceful Change. She was both a keynote workshop presenter and an active participant in the Kent State-sponsored conference, “Peace Education in an Era of Crisis,” which took place July 11-13 in Kigali.