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Montana high school students visit Angkor Wat in Cambodia as a part of the Mansfield Center's AYLP Cambodia program.

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Fight for Hope and Freedom: Human Trafficking, Montana and the World

April 15-17 the Maureen and Mike Mansfield Center at the University of Montana will host its 2014 Mansfield Conference, "Fight for Hope and Freedom: Human Trafficking, Montana and the World." As many as 27 million people worldwide are believed to be entrapped in modern day slavery. This conference will draw together leading experts, activists and community members to promote awareness and discuss what can be done to fight this international crisis.

Speaker sessions, workshops and documentary viewings are free and open to the public, and registration is open now.

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Apostles of Reason: The Crisis of Authority in American Evangelicalism

with Molly Worthen, Assistant Professor of History, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill

This event will be a conversation with Dr. Worthen about her important new book on American evangelicalism. She will discuss the intellectual civil war within American evangelicalism, the back-story to the rise of the Christian Right.

March 11, 2014 at 11:30 am in the University Center, room 330

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Ethics & Public Affairs 2014 Lecture Series

The Mansfield Center and the Program in American Democracy and Citizenship announces the 2014 Ethics and Public Affairs Lecture Series: "Our Unraveling Democracy? Consulting the Past to Understand the Present."

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Economic Empowerment Program

For the third year, the Mansfield Center is honored to host the Professional Fellows Program of the U.S. Department of State. This program seeks to empower mid-level professionals from Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, and Vietnam with concrete skills they can use to generate economic growth in their own countries and to provide U.S. participants with valuable cross-cultural and business communication knowledge.

We are still seeking U.S. participants to serve as Fellowship Coordinators and Host Families for EEP 2014!

The Future of Health Care in America: Balancing individual rights with social responsibility March 19-21, 2013

Mansfield Conference Videos

At the heart of America’s long-standing debate about health and health care is a fundamental tension between individual rights and social responsibilities. Over the course of the 2013 Mansfield Conference, leading national and local thinkers discussed a variety of topics where the tension between the individual and society comes into greater focus—for example, in the areas of medical insurance, Medicare and Medicaid, vaccination programs, obesity, and end-of-life care.

Watch the videos from this spring's 2013 Mansfield Conference: The Future of Health Care in America.

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AYLP Cambodia

Sponsored by the U.S. Department of State, AYLP Cambodia 2014 engages 20 Montana high school students and two high school teachers on an all-expense paid study of Cambodia focused on leadership development and community service. The centerpiece of AYLP is a month-long exchange in Cambodia Summer 2014.

The Mansfield Center is pleased to announce the 2014 AYLP Participants! Learn more.

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The Maureen and Mike Mansfield Center at The University of Montana promotes better understanding of Asia, U.S. relations with Asia, and ethics in public affairs in the spirit of Senator Mike Mansfield (1903-2001) and his wife and life partner Maureen Hayes Mansfield. The Center houses programs that focus on the peoples and cultures of modern Asia and ethics in public affairs, the core interests and hallmarks of Senator Mansfield's career.