A former U.S. Ambassador to Portugal will present a lecture titled \u201cThe Disintegration of Civil Discourse in American Politics\u201d at 12:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 14 in Missouri Western State University\u2019s Blum Student Union Hoff Conference Rooms, 218-219. The talk is the second of the 2013-2014 Peace and Conflict Studies Speaker Series, sponsored by the Peace and Conflict Studies minor and the Missouri Western State University Foundation. It is free and open to the public.<\/p>\n
Allan J. Katz is the guest speaker. Katz was ambassador to Portugal from 2009 to 2013. A former city commissioner in Tallahassee, Fla., he has vast experience in politics and public debate. He is currently on the faculty at the University of Missouri-Kansas City.<\/p>\n
For more information, contact Joanne Katz, katz@missouriwestern.edu<\/a>, David Kratz Mathies, dmathies@missouriwestern.edu<\/a>, or Ed Taylor, etaylor8@missouriwestern.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n Missouri Western State University is a comprehensive regional university providing a blend of traditional liberal arts and professional degree programs. The university offers student-centered, high quality instruction that focuses on experience-based learning, community service, and state-of-the-art technology. Missouri Western is located in St. Joseph, Mo., and is committed to the educational, economic, cultural and social development of the region it serves. Visit <\/em>www.missouriwestern.edu<\/a><\/em>. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A former U.S. Ambassador to Portugal will present a lecture titled \u201cThe Disintegration of Civil Discourse in American Politics\u201d at 12:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 14 in Missouri Western State University\u2019s Blum Student Union Hoff Conference Rooms, 218-219. The talk is the second of the 2013-2014 Peace and Conflict Studies Speaker Series, sponsored by the Peace […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[48],"tags":[606],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1781"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1781"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7764,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1781\/revisions\/7764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}