On Thursday, Feb. 26, Lee University’s Department of Christian Ministries will host a forum on “Race and Ethnic Relations in America” featuring Dr. Timothy Eatman of Syracuse University. The forum will be held in the Jones Lecture Hall of the School of Religion and will last from 6-7:30 p.m.

“The goal of this forum is to start a conversation across racial and ethnic lines,” said Solomon. “Race relations can be like going to a foreign country—you need to speak the language. We want to help people understand each other’s languages.”

Eatman, assistant professor of higher education at Syracuse and educational sociologist, is Director of Research for Imagining America, an organization dedicated to fostering and advancing publicly engaged scholarship that draws on arts, humanities, and design. He is a Fellow with the Burton Blatt Institute at Syracuse and a Visiting Fellow at the New England Resource Center for Higher Education. Eatman is the 2010 recipient of the International Association for Research on Service Learning and Community Engagement’s Early Career Research Award.

Eatman will also speak in chapel earlier that day at 10:40 a.m. in the Conn Center.

Lee faculty Drs. Rolando Cuellar, Jerald Daffe, Thomas Doolittle, and Wayne Solomon will be hosting the event. Lee’s Evangelistic Singers will open the program.

This is a free, non-ticketed event and is open to the public. Refreshments will be provided. For more information, contact the Department of Christian Ministries at (423) 303-5111.