BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 METHOD:PUBLISH PRODID:-//Missouri State University/Calendar of Events//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Chicago BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Chicago BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 DTSTART:20070311T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU TZNAME:CDT END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 DTSTART:20071104T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU TZNAME:CST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:8558e35f-6af3-441d-8de4-2bf4fd8b007c.228226@calendar.missouristate.edu CREATED:20230628T210037Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230628T210037Z LOCATION: SUMMARY:Public Affairs Conference 2023 - Making Connections Across a Multi cultural World DESCRIPTION:Technology\, travel\, and international business have shrunk p hysical and social boundaries making the world more interconnected than e ver before.  In today’s world\, people from different cultures and backgr ounds interact frequently and on multiple levels. What does it mean to be interculturally competent now? If cultural competence is a key skill for navigating the future of both work and communications\, what tools or sk ills are needed to develop it?  If\, as research has shown\, happy and he althy relationships are key to maintaining mental\, physical\, and spirit ual health\, how can we benefit from more diverse relationships in a rich ly multicultural world? How can successful relationships be built across national\, political\, socio-economic\, religious\, and cultural differen ces? X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<html><head><title></title></head><body><p><s pan>Technology\, travel\, and international business have shrunk physical and social boundaries making the world more interconnected than ever bef ore.&nbsp\; In today’s world\, people from different cultures and backgro unds interact frequently and on multiple levels. What does it mean to be interculturally competent now? If cultural competence is a key skill for navigating the future of both work and communications\, what tools or ski lls are needed to develop it?&nbsp\; If\, as research has shown\, happy a nd healthy relationships are key to maintaining mental\, physical\, and s piritual health\, how can we benefit from more diverse relationships in a richly multicultural world? How can successful relationships be built ac ross national\, political\, socio-economic\, religious\, and cultural dif ferences?</span></p></body></html> DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20230927T153500 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230927T162500 SEQUENCE:0 URL:https://publicaffairs.missouristate.edu/2023/ CATEGORIES:Public,Alumni,Current Students,Faculty,Future Students,Staff END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR