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Tag: Center for Peace and Transcultural Communication

KNPE quartet visits University of Tetova for global conference on sport sciences

June 13, 2018 Mark McGowan enewsletter, KNPE, KNPE alumni eNewsletter

More than 80 years after NIU first opened as the Northern Illinois State Normal School in 1899, faculty in Physical Education began to embrace a new way of thinking. “Our Department of Kinesiology and Physical Education, and our peers across the country,

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Global problems, community praxis: April 19 conference set to explore world conflict, peace

March 29, 2018 Mark McGowan CAHE, enewsletter, ETRA, KNPE, LEPF

Scholars from NIU and Macedonia will convene Thursday, April 19, in DeKalb to discuss local, national and international approaches to peace and transcultural communication. “Global Problems and Community Praxis” is the second annual conference – but the first in the United States

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NIU to give honorary doctorate to Tetovo’s ‘rector of the people’

November 22, 2017 Mark McGowan enewsletter, LEPF

NIU will confer an honorary doctorate degree this fall to Vullnet Ameti, a man who demonstrated his belief in education as a human right by helping to establish the only Albanian university in Macedonia. The rector of the University of Tetovo will

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NIU professors explore peace, policy at Macedonia conference

February 21, 2017 Mark McGowan enewsletter, LEPF

Still energized by the Center for Peace and Transcultural Communication’s first-ever international conference, held in Macedonia, organizers already are gearing up for this fall’s second installment in DeKalb. NIU and the State University of Tetovo are partners in the center, which was

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Bridging oceans

September 20, 2016 Mark McGowan Alumni eNewsletter, enewsletter

NIU joins Macedonian university in promoting peace Deep and influential thinkers from around the world will convene this December in Macedonia at the State University of Tetovo’s Center for Peace and Transcultural Communication. As they share their ideas on the impact of

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