Roz Hussin, CEHS instructional design technology specialist, will deliver a public lecture at 6:15 p.m., Oct. 10 at the Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center. The lecture, titled “Acquiring Cultural Competency and Advocating Diversity Inclusion through Martial and Media Arts,” will provide insight into the history, philosophy, and controversy of the topic. A free screening of the film, “Bruce Lee, A Warrior’s Journey,” will follow the lecture, along with a facilitated Q&A session. The event is jointly hosted by the Lied Center for Performing Arts, Confucius Institute and OLLI, in conjunction with the October Month-Long Celebration of Chinese Martial Arts and the 2018 Chinese Film Festival.
Roz Hussin is a practitioner and instructor of martial arts. She is also a “Third Culture Kid” (TCK), having been raised in London, with mixed ethnic heritage of post-colonial-Malaysian, postwar-adopted-Chinese and refugee-immigrant-Indonesian. She is a third generation academic, having grown up shadowing and living in the shadow of her late father, a renowned international scientist. She is a globetrotter, having lived, worked and traveled in over a dozen countries across Asia, Africa, America and the Middle East. A graduate of Cornell University and the University of Malaya, Hussin is an architect by profession, with dual qualifications in curriculum, instructional design and technology. She briefly studied film and theater design as an undergraduate minor.
This event is geared for audiences interested in multiculturalism, intercultural exchange, diversity advocacy, media arts, martial arts and for anyone who would enjoy an evening of film and reflection.
More details at: https://go.unl.edu/yev0