Based on his recently released, expanded edition of the award-winning Perception and Deception: A Mind-Opening Journey Across Cultures recently featured on C-Span's Book TV, Joe Lurie, Executive Director Emeritus, UC Berkeley International House, will present a spirited and insightful exploration of cross-cultural miscommunications in an increasingly globalized, polarizing world. With YouTube, tweets, refugees and fake news rapidly crossing cultures without context, Lurie shares a timely, intriguing and consequential array of intercultural encounters gone wrong because of cultural misperceptions across the globe, in the worlds of migration, religion, language, commerce and technology. David Lennon, former managing editor of the Financial Times, called Lurie's book “brilliant!” According to Lennon, the book offers: “Terrific and timely insights and tools for understanding culture clashes in a hyper-connecting world.” Book signing at the conclusion of the presentation.

Executive Director Emeritus of UC Berkeley's International House and former Peace Corps Volunteer, Joe Lurie is a cross-cultural communications teacher, trainer, and speaker. He's offered presentations for Google, LinkedIn, American Express, the Commonwealth Club and the World Affairs Council; and has lectured for Cal Discoveries in Europe, Africa, and Asia. He's taught for UC Berkeley, several Osher Institutes for Lifelong Learning and the Fromm Institute at USF; his work has been featured on NPR, PBS, KQED, KGO and in Harper's Magazine, The Mercury News and US News and World Report.