Thursday, January 29, 2015, MG 2001. 7.p.m. Tracking Crises in the Middle East: Is Peace Possible?
This is a panel of nine students – Ingrid Roettgen, Caitlyn Bess, Sean Lynn, Trent Hoover, Molly Turner, Lauren Hennenfent, Erin Nyquist, Lillianna Burrow, Aaron Gershman – who studied in the Middle East in the Summer of 2014.
Dr. Mark Appold, a Biblical scholar who has lived and taught on most of Earth’s continents, has taken Truman students to the Middle East every summer for over a decade, encouraging them to immerse themselves in ancient cultures by visiting heritage sites, and helping them to see Israel, the West Bank, Jordan, and other countries as they are today. Nine of his students from the 2014 trip will each present a brief, tightly focused account of an area researched and explored –accounts of checkpoints, healthcare, media coverage, the Knesset, college life, natural resource distribution, attitudes toward the peace process, US aid, and ISIS. The students will take questions from one another and the audience.