CHICAGO: Oakton Community College Global Studies Program, in partnership with Gandhi Memorial Trust Fund (GMTF), has slated a two-day Peace Conference to celebrate Global Legacies of Non-Violence especially as related to lives and principles of Mahatma Gandhi to Martin Luther King, JR.The conference will be held on April 17 & 18 at the Ray Hartstein Campus of Oakton Community College, 7701 N. Lincoln Avenue, Illinois.

The topic of the conference is: In Search of Gandhi's India: Teaching and Learning Non-Violence in a Globalized World. According to Catherine Schuster, Coordinator of the Studies, a number of Indian speakers from USA and one from India will participate in the program. She also announced that the Oakton received the Fulbright Hays grant to fund 14-faculty members from all over Illinois to go to India for five weeks study tour.

She added that OCC will be starting a course on Hindi soon. GMTF has lobbied for these activities and had presentation at the board meeting throughout last year that has paid off. Dr Clalyborne Carson, Professor of History, Stanford University will be the Keynote Speaker. Dr Clayborne Carson has devoted his professional life to the study of Martin Luther King, Jr., and the movements King inspired.

Since receiving his doctorate from UCLA in 1975, Dr Carson has taught at Stanford University, where he is now Professor of History and founding director of the Martin Luther King, Jr., Research and Education Institute.