On October 17, 2013, the Buddhist Ministry Colloquium hosted the talk "Caste Politics in the Ambedkar Buddhist Movement." Christopher Queen, Lecturer at Harvard Extension, and Dr. Gail Omvedt, author of 'Ambedkar: Towards an Enlightened India' (Penguin...
On November 13, 2013, Jacquelyn Williamson spoke about her research on the ancient Egyptian queen Nefertiti. Williamson is a visiting scholar at the University of California, Berkeley, and a WSRP Research Associate and Visiting Lecturer on Women's Studies...
Professor N.T. Wright spoke about his book Paul and the Faithfulness of God at Harvard Divinity School on November 15, 2013. Wright is the Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity at the University of St. Andrews' School of Divinity. Full Video...
On November 21, 2013, the Buddhist Ministry at Harvard Divinity School hosted a talk about Buddhist peacemaking. Christopher Queen, Lecturer at the Harvard University Extension, introduced the main speaker, Paula Green, Professor at the School for...
On December 4, 2013, Gary Anderson, Hesburgh Professor of Catholic Theology at the University of Notre Dame, spoke about the concept of charity in Jewish and Christian thought.
Dean Hempton, joined two other Harvard scholars and President Drew Faust in London to offer local alumni insights into what personal fulfillment means in a discussion called “The Examined Life.”
When Joshua Leach was an undergraduate at the University of Chicago, he volunteered as area coordinator of an Amnesty International student group in Illinois. While serving in that role, one of his responsibilities included preparing a newsletter that was...
On January 16, 2014, Cornelia Cannon Holden was the latest alumni guest invited to speak to students, alumni, and friends as part of the Divinity Dialogues series. Holden, who is the CEO, Mindful Warrior and Director, Core Leadership Portal at The...
On December 5, 2013, 12 Harvard students sat in a conference room in a Tucson, Arizona, courthouse with the city's public defender. "So," the public defender said, "you just came from watching 70 brown people shackled and tried for being economic refugees...