Date: 10/29/2007

This week and next San Jos?? State will host four prominent speakers on international issues:

C. Peter Magrath, former president of the University of Minnesota, the University of Missouri, and the National Association of State Universities and Land Grant Colleges, will deliver the first Dr. Peter C. Lee Memorial Lecture at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, October 30, in Engineering 189. Lee was an assistant professor of social work, associate vice president for faculty affairs, and SJSU's original Salzburg Fellow. He also helped forge SJSU's pioneering exchange programs with China and Taiwan. Magrath, Lee's friend and colleague, will discuss the urgent need for internationalized universities. Read more on Magrath. Read more on the event.

Charles Hopkins, a professor at York University, Canada, and an international expert in the field of environmental education, will speak at 6 p.m. Wednesday, October 31, in King 225/229. He will discuss education's role in building a more sustainable world. Read more about Hopkins. Read more about the event.

Judea Pearl, father of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, who was kidnapped and killed in Pakistan while investigating shoe bomber Richard Reid, will speak at 6 p.m. Wednesday, November 7, in Science Building 164. Pearl will be in San Jos?? to participate in Hillel of Silicon Valley's two-week event series, "Inside Global Terrorism: From Personal Impacts to World Responses." Admission is free and open to the public. Read more.

Salman Rushdie, the Indo-British novelist who penned "Midnight's Children" and "The Satanic Verses," will speak at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, November 8, in Morris Dailey Auditorium. When it was published in 1988, "The Satanic Verses" provoked violence in some Muslim countries, an execution threat from Iran and chilly relations between that country and Britain. Tickets are on sale now for the talk, which will be presented by SJSU's Center for Literary Arts and Associated Students. Read more.