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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">Please publicize the 2018 Asia Council Faculty Development Workshop on your campus. The workshop this year is called Islam In Asia: Faith, Ethnicity, and Conflict. This workshop addresses topics critical to understanding
the current conflicts in Asia. </p>
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<li><span style="font-size: 10pt;"></span><span style="font-size: 10pt;">The Geographic & Ethnic Landscape of Islam in Asia </span><br>
</li><li><span style="font-size: 10pt;"></span><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Origins of Islam: What Does the Koran Say?</span><br>
</li><li><span style="font-size: 10pt;"></span><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Islam in Island Southeast Asia:
</span>Patters<span style="font-size: 10pt;"> of Conversions, Beliefs, </span>and<span style="font-size: 10pt;"> Controversies </span><br>
</li><li><span style="font-size: 10pt;"></span><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Buddhist Thailand’s Muslim Minority – Issues of Religion and National Integrity </span><br>
</li><li><span style="font-size: 10pt;"></span><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Uyghur Religiosity and the Chinese State </span><br>
</li><li><span style="font-size: 10pt;"></span><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Islam in South Asia: Critical Regional Issues </span><br>
</li><li><span style="font-size: 10pt;"></span><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Roundtable Discussion: The Rohingya of Myanmar/Burma: A Contemporary Religious & Ethnic Tragedy</span><br>
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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">The registration link is on the attached flyer. The workshop will be on GSU's Perimeter College Clarkston Campus. Please forward to your faculty listserv. </p>
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<div style="font-family:Tahoma; font-size:13px">David Starling
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