Vivekananda Conference Announcement

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Vivekananda Conference Announcement

 

Date :

Wed, 26 Feb 2003 00:05:01 +0000

 

Bal Ram Singh <bsingh

bsingh

Conference Announcement

Sat, 22 Feb 2003 17:20:35 -0500

 

Dear Colleagues and Friends,

 

Please take a note the following conference on Swami Vivekananda,

whose journey to America has played enormous role in bringing the

east and west together. We hope many of you will plan to attend and

contribute to the conference.

 

Regards,

 

Bal Ram Singh

 

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Conference Announcement

(http://www.umassd.edu/indic/vivekananda_voyuage.html)

 

The Center for Indic Studies at the University of Massachusetts

Dartmouth

(UMD) is pleased to announce a two-day conference on "Impact of Swami

Vivekananda's

Voyage to the West" on June 28 & 29 (Saturday & Sunday), 2003 at the

UMD campus.

 

This unique event will bring together academicians, monks of the

Ramakrishna order, students, and general public to discuss

thecontributions ofSwami Vivekananda to the West, and the relevance

of his teachings today and in the future.

 

General themes of the conference:

1. Western approach toward Indian spiritual traditions after Swami

Vivekananda

2. Applicability of Swami Vivekananda's message to contemporary world

3. Swami Vivekananda's interpretations of Hinduism

 

A panel discussion on "Swami Vivekananda: The next 100 years" will be

held on

June 29.

 

Confirmed speakers at the conference:

 

Swami Tyagananda, Ramakrishna Vedanta Society of Massachusetts, MA

 

Swami Atmarupananda, Vivekananda Ridgely Retreat, NY

 

Pravrajika Gayatriprana, Vedanta Society of Southern California,

Hollywood, CA

 

Prof. Carl Jackson, Professor of History, University of Texas at El

Paso, TX

 

Prof. Hal French, Professor of Religious Studies, University of South

Carolina

 

Prof. Anantanand Rambachan, Professor of Religion, St. Olaf College,

Minnesota

 

Dr. Jay Lakhani, Director, Vivekananda Centre, London, UK

 

Prof. Sitansu Chakravarti, School of Continuing Studies, University

of Toronto,

Canada

 

Prof. Rina Chakravarti, Department of South Asian Studies, University

of Toronto, Canada

 

Please mark the dates on your calendar. If you desire to submit a

paper on

any of the above-mentioned themes, please send an abstract (350 words

or less)

to ssengupta.

 

The Registration fees for the conference:

 

General: $40 per person for both days or $25 for each day.

Students: $25 for both days

 

Dinner coupon on June 28: $10 per person

 

The Conference will begin at 9:00 AM on June 28 (Saturday) and end at

4:00 PM

on June 29 (Sunday), 2003. For directions to conference venue,

please visit

the following link:

<http://explore.umassd.edu/directions.html>http://explore.umassd.edu/d

irections.html

 

 

For details please contact Prof. Sukalyan Sengupta [phone: (508) 999-

8470;

fax: (508) 999-8964; email: ssengupta]

 

 

 

Bal Ram Singh, Ph.D., Center for Indic Studies

University of Massachusetts Dartmouth

285 Old Westport Road

Dartmouth, MA 02747

 

Phone: 508-999-8588

Fax: 508-999-8451

Email: bsingh

 

Internet address: http://www.umassd.edu/indic