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Gandhi Grandson Featured at Nonviolence Conference
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio -- The grandson of Mohandas Gandhi is the keynote speaker at the upcoming "Searching for a Nonviolent Future" conference at Youngstown State University. Arun Gandhi, executive director of the Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence, will deliver his talk, "Why the Gandhi/King Dream Remains Unfulfilled," at 4:30 p.m. Nov. 6 in the Chestnut Room of YSU's Kilcawley Center.The free conference begins 7 p.m. Nov. 1, in the Gallery of Kilcawley Center with a poetry reading by Honoree Jeffers, an English professor at the University of Oklahoma and a nationally-known poet. The program continues at 11 am. Nov. 5, in the Bliss Recital Hall on the YSU campus when Isaiah Jackson, music director of the Youngstown Symphony Orchestra, will give a presentation on music inspired by Martin Luther King Jr.At 8 p.m., the WYSU-FM Folk Festival Concert features Kenny Eldridge & the Jesus Celebration Singers in Kilcawley's Chestnut Room.The bulk of the conference takes place Nov. 6 and features an array of sessions, including presentations on "Gandhi and King" by Victor Wan-Tatah, YSU professor of philosophy and religious studies; "What can you say Yes to when you say No to war" by Mel Duncan, executive director of the Nonviolent Peaceforce; "Women in the Civil Rights Movement" by Sarah Brown-Clark, clerk of the Municipal Court of Youngstown; "Marching with Martin Luther King Jr." by the Rev. Lonnie Simon and the Rev. Jim Ray; and "Reflections on Nonviolent Challenges to Militarism at Home and Abroad" by Kathy Kelly, director of Voices in the Wilderness.These presentations will be held in the Ohio and Chestnut rooms of Kilcawley Center.The conference, sponsored by YSU Women's Studies, the James Dale Ethics Center and WYSU-FM, is open to the public. See a full list of topics, speakers, times and locations: www.wysu.org"