Tuesday, October 30, 2007
Time TBA
Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society
1625 Eastover Dr
Jackson, MS 39211

As part of the Phi Theta Kappa’s year long program of lectures and workshops, Gold, Gods, and Glory: The Global Dynamics of Power, Ansary will deliver a lecture on the history of Afghanistan and the state of the country and region after the Taliban.  The lecture will be delivered by closed circuit television to 300 colleges around the country.

If you grow up in an Islamic country, world history has a different shape. This lecture series, originally sponsored by the Osher Institute of Lifelong Learning and delicered at various venues around the San Frnacisco Bay Area, was broadcast over six weeks by KALW radio: Ansary gives a glimpse of the last 14 centuries from an Islamocentric point of view. Seeing modernity as the latest chapter in this “other” narrative helps illuminate the conflict now straining the planet and may even point toward a way out. The lectures may be dowloaded from www.kalw.org.