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IRC 27th Annual Awards Banquet
Tuesday, August 17, 2010
Reception 6:00 p.m.
Dinner and Program 7:00 p.m.
Westin Crown Center
1 Pershing Road, KCMO
Keynote Address: "The End of the War on Terror"
Dr. Reza Aslan, an internationally acclaimed writer and scholar of religions, will receive the Distinguished Service Award for Inernational Statesmanship. Reza Aslan has degrees in Religions from Santa Clara University, Harvard University, and the University of California, Santa Barbara, as well as a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Iowa, where he was named the Truman Capote Fellow in Fiction. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Los Angeles Institute for the Humanities, and the Pacific Council on International Policy. He serves on the board of directors of the Ploughshares Fund, which gives grants for peace and security issues, Abraham's Vision, an interfaith peace organization, and PEN USA, which champions the rights of writers under siege around the world.
Aslan's first book is the international bestseller, No god but God: The Origins, Evolution, and Future of Islam, which has been translated into thirteen languages, and named one of the 100 most important books of the last decade. He is also the author of How to Win a Cosmic War (published in paperback as Beyond Fundamentalism: Confronting Religious Extremism in a Globalized Age), and editor of an upcoming anthology from Norton titled Tablet & Pen: Literary Landscapes from the Modern Middle East. Born in Iran, he now lives in Los Angeles where he is Associate Professor of Creative Writing at the University of California, Riverside.
IRC will present the Award for Contributions to International Commerce & Community Service to Seaboard Corporation. Seaboard is a $3.3 billion international commodity trading and milling company based in Merriam, Kansas. Seaboard operates in ten African countries and in 17 countries in the Caribbean basin and South America. Seaboard Corporation has gone beyond its role as an owner and employer to become a true community partner in the locations where it does business. Seaboard built a maternity clinic in Matadi, Democratic Republic of Congo, in 2006, and, since the recent earthquake in Haiti, has opened its port there for relief supplies.
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Presenting Sponsor Table $5,000
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4 tickets for Private Reception with General Petraeus
Sponsor Table $2,500
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Two tickets for Private Reception with General Petraeus
Table Host $1,000
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Individual Seating $100 per person
Individual Seating + Reception Ticket $350 per person
Additional Tickets for Private Reception $250
Must attend dinner to purchase reception tickets - contact IRC for more details
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Special thanks to our Presenting Sponsors!
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And thank you to our sponsors!
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Cyprienne Simchowitz &
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IRC is pleased to announce that DR. REZA ASLAN will receive the Distinguished Service Award for International Statesmanship at our Awards Banquet.
Because of his unexpected and immediate re-assignment as Commander of U.S. forces in Afghanistan, General David Petraeus has regretfully withdrawn from our Awards Banquet on August 17.
  Dr. Reza Aslan, an internationally acclaimed writer and scholar of religions, is a contributing editor at the Daily Beast (thedailybeast.com). Reza Aslan has degrees in Religions from Santa Clara University, Harvard University, and the University of California, Santa Barbara, as well as a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Iowa, where he was named the Truman Capote Fellow in Fiction. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Los Angeles Institute for the Humanities, and the Pacific Council on International Policy. He serves on the board of directors of the Ploughshares Fund, which gives grants for peace and security issues, Abraham's Vision, an interfaith peace organization, and PEN USA, which champions the rights of writers under siege around the world. Aslan's first book is the International Bestseller, No god but God: The Origins, Evolution, and Future of Islam, which has been translated into thirteen languages, and named one of the 100 most important books of the last decade. He is also the author of How to Win a Cosmic War (published in paperback as Beyond Fundamentalism: Confronting Religious Extremism in a Globalized Age), and editor of an upcoming anthology from Norton titled Tablet & Pen: Literary Landscapes from the Modern Middle East. Aslan is President and CEO of Aslan Media Inc, whose holdings include BoomGen Studios, a mini-motion picture and media company focused entirely on entertainment about the Greater Middle East and its Diaspora communities. Born in Iran, he now lives in Los Angeles where he is Associate Professor of Creative Writing at the University of California, Riverside.
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