Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Gandhi, King, VT

FROM GANDHI, TO DR. KING, TO VIRGINIA TECH:
The Global Legacy of Martin Luther King in the 21st Century

Tuesday, 5 April 2011, 7:00om - 8:30pm
Commonwealth Ballroom in Squires


The ASPECT/PGG Speaker Series is proud to present the Ut Prosim Month Keynote Speaker Dr. Clayborne Carson, internationally renowned scholar and founding director of the MLK Research and Education Institute at Stanford University. Dr. Carson will give a powerful talk tracing the legacy of Gandhi and MLK through the twentieth century and up to the tragedy at Virginia Tech in 2007. This presentation has been collaboratively envisioned by graduate students in conversation with Dr. Carson as a unique opportunity to place the history of Virginia Tech within the context of over a century of critical thought on violence and its alternatives in the modern world.

Please direct questions or requests for promotional materials to Jordan Hill at jordanrh@vt.edu with your contact information.

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