Knox is hosting a two-day event in collaboration with Augustana College to teach students what it means to be a global citizen.

The Global Learning Retreat on April 8 and 9 offers students the opportunity to reflect upon their own experiences in the context of our increasingly globalized world. Through the theme of "Navigating the Intersections," students will consider how culture, nationality, citizenship, race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, and other identities shape people's experiences around the world.

The event is designed to give students resources for continuing their awareness of social justice in the global context and explore ways to affect change as global citizens. The Global Learning Retreat offers shared personal experiences, facilitated workshops and reflections, intercultural communication, discussions with faculty and staff experts, and other activities.

April 8 is headlined by the 2016 Honnold Lecture by acclaimed author and scholar Dr. Reza Aslan. A professor of creative writing at the University of California-Riverside, Aslan is the author of Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth, a No. 1 New York Times best seller. It has been translated into 28 languages. His presentation, "Rethinking Religious Conflict: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam at Home and Abroad," will be in Harbach Theatre in the Ford Center for the Fine Arts at 7:30 p.m. The event is free and open to the public. A full list of April 8 events can be found on the Knox Events Calendar.

April 9 features a breakout session with 2016 Stellyes Distinguished Lecturer Hala Jadid Al Kash. Kash teaches courses on the media and Arabic language in Granada, Spain. She is a native of Syria and founder of Suriyat Sin Fronteras (Syrians without Borders), a group of women active in helping Syrians in refugee camps in Jordan. This semester she is teaching a course on "The Role of Social and Mass Media in Revolution and Change in the Arab World."

Other topics being presented on April 9 include the Catalan and Spanish struggle for co-existence, navigating the Israel-Palestine conflict by using archaeology, and Latin America's gay rights revolution. A full list of April 9 events can be found on the Knox Events Calendar.