Luther College Plans Huge Midwest Event – and You’re Invited!

October 28th, 2009 at 1:49 pm

I am currently working on putting together the Upper Midwest Global Poverty Conference along with the Luther ONE Campaign/Hunger Concerns Chapter. The conference will be held on Saturday, November 21, 2009 from 11-4pm at Luther College in the Franklin W. Olin building. Our keynote speaker is Roger Thurow, co-author of Enough: Why the World’s Poorest Starve in an Age of Plenty. The conference will also have professors from Luther College leading workshops.

A few of the workshops we have lined up already are as follows:

• International Sexual Violence by Jennifer Green, Ph.D.
• Population, Poverty, and the Environment: A Matter of Justice by Jim Martin-Shramm, Ph.D.
• Micro-lending by Brett Johnson, Ph.D.
• Millennium Development Goals by James Rhodes, Ph.D.
• Preaching and Poverty by Carl-Eric Gentes, MDIV
• Inter-Faith Dialogue and Peace by Paul Gardner, Ph.D.
• Poverty and Economic Possibilities by Steve Holland, Ph.D.

And more!

For more information about the conference and how to register visit the Luther ONE Chapter’s website.

-Steven Thai, Campus Outreach Ambassador for Iowa, Minnesota, North Dakota and South Dakota