lecture series

November 2008 Trace Foundation Lecture Series

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• Read more about Minority Language in Today's Global Society lecture series

Trace Foundation Lecture Series Program

Trace Foundation has launched a lecture series program to examine various topics related to development in culture, education, healthcare, and rural development from a global perspective, with a special comparative focus on communities in western China. Each lecture series will focus on a different topic, such as minority language, development models, land use, cultural preservation, tourism and local communities, education, gender awareness, indigenous medical knowledge, interethnic community bridge building, and more. Each topical series will be comprised of several lecture events held at regular intervals that will bring together speakers from diverse national and disciplinary backgrounds to examine and share experiences on the selected issues at hand. The lectures are free and open to the public. A series publication will be produced and distributed.

Trace Foundation has been working with communities in western China for 15 years, funding and implementing projects in cooperation with local counterparts and individuals in culture, education, healthcare, and rural development. In launching this lecture series, the Foundation aims to create a forum for exchange and discussion between specialists from diverse regional, disciplinary, and professional backgrounds. It is the hope of the Foundation that such a forum will lead to greater insights, cooperation, and new activities in the work of all those involved.

The lecture series program was launched in November 2008 with a series focusing on language entitled Minority Language in Today's Global Society because it is such an important topic in our own work, in the world, and also to coincide with the UN-declared International Year of Languages in 2008.