Post Tagged with: "Gawande Lecture"

Dr. Gurinder Singh Mann gives a lecture titled “Sikhs of North America” on Tuesday, Nov. 15, at 7 p.m. in Ellis 111. Singh Mann is the Director of the Global Institute of Sikh Studies. The event is sponsored by the OHIO Comparative Religion Club, the Gawande Lecture Series, the History […]

War and Peace Studies and the Gawande Speaker Series are hosting a talk by Sumit Ganguly on “Conflict Unending: Explaining the Indo-Pakistan Rivalry” on Oct. 17 at 6 p.m. at Porter 104. Ganguly is the Rabindranath Tagore Chair in Indian Cultures and Civilizations and director of the Center on American […]

  Dr. David Haberman of Indiana University examines the worship of Mount Govardhan, a sacred hill in north-central India, in the Fall 2016 Gawande Lecture in Indian Philosophy and Religion. Haberman, Professor of Religious Studies at University, delivers “Anthropomorphic Techniques in the Worship of Mount Govardhan” on Monday, Sept. 20, at […]

The Gawande Lecture Series presents Dr. Francis X. Clooney on “Faith and Doubt in the Bhagavad Gita” on Thursday, March 31, at 7 p.m. in Ellis 106. The lecture is centered on the cross-culturally applicable religious dimensions of Arjuna and Krishna’s famous battlefield dialogue from the Mahabharata. Clooney is Parkman Professor […]

The Gawande Lecture Series present Professor Stephanie Jamison (UCLA) on “Adulterous Woman to Be Eaten by Dogs: Women and Law in Ancient India” on Thursday, Nov. 12 at 7:30 p.m. in Ellis 214. The series is co-sponsored by Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and the Center for Law, Justice, & […]

The Gawande Speaker Series and the Becoming Human Theme Present “Epic Fail?: Comparing Myths, Monsters, and Metaphors Across Cultures,” an interdisciplinary roundtable discussion with Dr. Shubha Pathak of American University, on Thursday, March 12, at 7 p.m. in Ellis 111. This event is free and open to the public. Pathak […]

The Gawande Lecture Series presents Dr. Wendy Doniger on “Blasphemy and Censorship in India, Past and Present” on Monday Nov. 3, at 7 p.m. in the Baker Center Theater. Doniger’s talk is the third in the Gawande Lecture Series, a biannual series of lectures by distinguished scholars of Indian philosophy and […]