| Location: Wiseman Student Center, Room 102 Contact Name: Dr. Benjamin Arah Phone Number: (301) 860-3600 Email: barah@bowiestate.edu Event Website (Please enter a relevant website for the event if applicable) Description:
The conference will address the contemporary relevance of Dr. King's life and thought, including his vision of a beloved community, the role of philosophy and religion in his praxis, his critique of militarism and materialism, and his commitment to social and economic justice. Emphasis is placed on the issues of social and economic justice, the continued struggle with racism and xenophobia, the ongoing Arab Spring in the Middle East, the nebulous war on terror, ethics of nonviolence, politics of resistance, the technological revolution, globalization, gender equality, and other relevant topics. HOTEL INFORMATION:
The official conference hotel is the Comfort Inn Conference Center, 4500 Crain Highway, Bowie, MD 20716. The Group Contract ID is 1113353. A room with a King bed or two double beds is $105.30 + 11% tax ($116.88). Call (301-464-0089) to make your reservations. |
In October 2008, Nikki E. Owens, a junior at Bowie State University, received a Milton Pericles Darden III Memorial Scholarship from the Scott Lee Foundation during its First Annual Nicole Lynette Scott Lee Memorial Scholarship Awards Reception. 
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When Kristin Evans was a Bowie State University graduate student pursuing a master’s degree in organizational communications, she knew that she wanted a career in teaching communications at the college level. “I always knew that I wanted to get my PhD,” she says. “I decided to get my master’s degree first, because I wasn’t sure what area of communications I wanted to focus on.”