[Bilimsel Haber] “The Past and Present of the American Board/SEV institutions in Turkey.” 25 Subat 2009 Kadir Has Ü

[Gonul Pultar]

The 2008-2009 Culture and the Arts Lecture Series at Kadir Has 
University, sponsored by the Department of American Culture and 
Literature, welcomes Kenneth Frank, who will be speaking on “The Past 
and Present of the American Board/SEV institutions in Turkey.”**

 

Ken Frank and his wife Betty are the joint General Secretaries of 
the American Board in Istanbul, Turkey. They have been educational 
missionaries for 32 years and have worked in Turkey since 1982. They 
partner with Turkish colleagues to manage the American Board schools in 
Üsküdar, Ýzmir, and Tarsus, and the American hospital in Gaziantep. They 
are also involved in Muslim-Christian dialogue, ecumenical relations, 
and social service projects.

 

Ken was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, USA, and raised in San Bruno, 
California.  He received a Master of Arts in religion from the Claremont 
School of Theology in 1994 and a BS in chemistry from Harvey Mudd 
College in Claremont, California, in 1968. Together with Adil Özdemir he 
is the co-author of /Visible Islam in Modern Turkey/ (2000).

 

                            Lecture Time: 4:00 pm

                            Reception: 5:30 pm

                            Date: Wednesday, February 25, 2009

                            Place: Fener Lecture Hall

                            Kadir Has University

                            Cibali Campus