Conference: Social and Cultural Change in the Gulf

The Division of Business, Accounting and Economics at the American University of Kuwait hosts the 2nd Kuwait Liberal Arts Conference: Social and Cultural Change in the Gulf to be held at AUK on May 15 - 16, 2007.

Since the goal of the Division of Business, Accounting and Economics is to provide liberal arts and pre-professional education for undergraduate students that is grounded in scholarly excellence and to offer students the knowledge, understanding, analytical tools, and communication skills they need to become perceptive, reflective, and intellectually self-conscious citizens in a diverse and rapidly changing world, this conference brings together a larger and more diverse community of researchers and practitioners to advance the state of liberal arts education in the Gulf and to consider the social and cultural changes within this context. The conference runs two concurrent tracks over the two days plus a keynote speaker each day. The program consists of a presentation of 22 full scholarly papers and 1 full scale panel discussion. These are selected from a large number of submissions from all over the region.

For more details, contact Ms. Amal Hadeed ahadeed@auk.edu.kw or by telephone 802040 Extension 545.