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2016 Delta Symposium to focus on Cultural Heritage

KASU | By Johnathan Reaves

Published March 21, 2016 at 9:59 AM CDT

The 22nd Delta Symposium takes place April 13th through the 16th at Arkansas State University, with the Saturday afternoon events taking place at CWL Park in Jonesboro. The theme for this year's symposium is "Representing Cultural Heritage". KASU's Johnathan Reaves talks with the symposium's chairman Dr. Gregory Hansen about this event. Listen to the full interview by clicking the button.

You can view the entire Delta Symposium schedule here.

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Johnathan Reaves

Johnathan Reaves is the News Director for KASU Public Radio. As part of an Air Force Family, he moved to Arkansas from Minot, North Dakota in 1986. He was first bitten by the radio bug after he graduated from Gosnell High School in 1992. While working on his undergraduate degree, he worked at KOSE, a small 1,000 watt AM commercial station in Osceola, Arkansas. Upon graduation from Arkansas State University in 1996 with a degree in Radio-Television Broadcast News, he decided that he wanted to stay in radio news. He moved to Stuttgart, Arkansas and worked for East Arkansas Broadcasters as news director and was there for 16 years.

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