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The 23rd annual Land & Sea Lecture Series, featuring University of Delaware faculty, will continue on two more Fridays, March 21 and March 28, in Lewes and Milford.
The free series is sponsored by the Office of Alumni and University Relations. Sessions will meet at 10 a.m. at the Virden Center on the University of Delaware (UD) Hugh R. Sharp Campus at 700 Pilottown Road in Lewes and at 1:30 p.m. in the public meeting room of the Milford Public Library at 11 S.E. Front St., Milford.
Former CNN world affairs correspondent Ralph Begleiter, the Edward & Elizabeth Goodman Rosenberg Professor of Communication at UD, will speak Friday, March 21, on “The Politics of Headscarves: Adventure in Turkey.”
Begleiter led a group of UD students on a first-ever study abroad program to Turkey in January. Students and faculty spent a month amid the mosques and headscarves of Turkey, which is 98 percent Muslim, and discovered that religion and politics do mix, despite that nation’s secular government.
The lecture series will conclude on Friday, March 28, with a presentation by Ed Ratledge, director of UD’s Center of Applied Demography and Survey Research, on “Current and Future Demographic and Economic Trends in Delaware with an Emphasis on Sussex County.” Ratledge is the expert people call when they need the latest state numbers regarding growth, housing, the economy, employment rates and shifts in political affiliation.
For information, contact the University’s southern Delaware offices at 855-1620 or 302-735-8200.
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