International Speaker Series
The International Speaker Series is the flagship event of the Institute for Global Enterprise in Indiana. Throughout the year we offer a number of high-impact lectures presented with a broad range of topics related to international business; all designed to interest and inspire.
The series features guest speakers from the business world both local and abroad. Our objective is to provide our community with the opportunity to learn directly from experts in the field of global enterprise and entrepreneurship. Each year the International Speaker Series attracts audiences that include an impressive cross-section of students, educators, administrators, political officials, civic leaders and business executives from all sectors.
Presentations are free and open to the public.
International Speaker Series 2010 - 2011
The University of Evansville International Speaker Series
and Evansville's Celebration of Diversity Distinguished Lecture Series
present a Community Event
Finding Your Splendid Sun: A Cultural Conversation to Communal Empowerment
Inspired by Khaled Hosseini's book A Thousand Splendid Suns
Saturday, October 9, 2010
Ridgway University Center, Room 251
1:00 - 3:30 p.m.
Registration is required, but admission is free.
Register: www.uealumnionline.com/splendidsun or call (812) 488-2455
The University of Evansville International Speaker Series
and Evansville's Celebration of Diversity Distinguished Lecture Series
present
A Conversation with Khaled Hosseini
Author of the Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns
Thursday, October 21, 2010
The Centre
7:00 p.m.
Admission is free and no ticket is required
Khaled Hosseini was born in Kabul, Afghanistan, in 1965. His father was a diplomat with the Afghan Foreign Ministry and his mother taught Farsi and History at a large high school in Kabul. In 1976, the Afghan Foreign Ministry relocated the Hosseini family to Paris. They were ready to return to Kabul in 1980, but by then Afghanistan had already witnessed a bloody communist coup and the invasion of the Soviet army. The Hosseinis sought and were granted political asylum in the United States. In September of 1980, Hosseini's family moved to San Jose, California. Hosseini graduated from high school in 1984 and enrolled at Santa Clara University where he earned a bachelor's degree in Biology in 1988. The following year, he entered the University of California-San Diego's School of Medicine, where he earned a Medical Degree in 1993. He completed his residency at Cedars-Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles. Hosseini was a practicing internist between 1996 and 2004.
While in medical practice, Hosseini began writing his first novel, The Kite Runner, in March of 2001. In 2003, The Kite Runner, was published and has since become an international bestseller, published in 48 countries. In 2006 he was named a goodwill envoy to UNHCR, the United Nations Refugee Agency. His second novel, A Thousand Splendid Suns was published in May of 2007. Currently, A Thousand Splendid Suns is published in 40 countries. Khaled has been working to provide humanitarian assistance in Afghanistan through The Khaled Hosseini Foundation. The concept for The Khaled Hosseini Foundation was inspired by a trip to Afghanistan Khaled made in 2007 with the UNHCR. He lives in northern California.
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