Dr. Oya Dursun-Ozkanca, Ph.D. is the Professor of Political Science and Endowed Chair of International Studies at Elizabethtown College. She is also Director of the Honors Program and Director, International Studies Minor at Elizabethtown. Publications: Turkey-West Relations: The Politics of Intra-alliance Opposition and The Nexus Between Security Sector Reform and Sustainable Development Goal-16: An Examination […]

Attorney Douglas S. Wortman is a ten-year veteran of U.S. Air Force Intelligence and has lived in Berks County for over 32 years since first arriving in 1990 to attend college at Kutztown University. He also studied overseas at the Diplomatic Academy of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. After earning his undergraduate degree, Doug […]

Dr. Kirwin Shaffer is Professor of Latin American Studies. He teaches courses on Latin American and Caribbean History, Latin American Studies, Global Terrorism, Tyranny and Freedom, Globalization, and Global Cinema. When not teaching, he continues research on transnational anarchism in the Americas.  He has published four books on anarchist politics and culture in Latin America: […]

James Garrett, a recent graduate of Penn State University, will be joined by Tabea Kuhlmann, a student at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany, to discuss the German-American relationship through the perspective of the transatlantic program Ambassadors in Sneakers. James and Tabea will use this intercultural exchange to highlight topics related to the two countries […]

Doug will be sharing his personal journey of his recent Trek through the Himalayas in Nepal.  This photo presentation will recount the journey of his 14-day Trek through the vast and beautiful Himalayas, the highest mountain range in the world.  This “once-in-a-lifetime” opportunity took him from Lukla to the Everest Base Camp, then across the […]

Today’s global environment is rife with uncertainty. Chief among them is concern over the future of the international order. To understand what these future challenges hold, Dr. Robert S. Hinck will share findings from his recently co-authored book, The Future of Global Competition: Ontological Security Narratives in Chinese, Iranian, Russian, and Venezuelan Media. During the […]

Dr. Spencer S. Stober is a Professor of Biology at Alvernia University, Reading, PA, where he taught Biology for 30 years. Since earning his doctorate at Temple University, with a specialization in Educational Leadership and Policy Studies, he teaches graduate courses in leadership and supervises dissertations. In 2005 he received Alvernia’s Christian R. & Mary […]