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Contains 103 Results:
Gaza on the Ground, 2010-04-06
File — Container: Shelf 30, Box: 91, Folder: 13
Identifier: 30.91.13
Abstract
Presented by Mohammad OmerPalestinian journalist Mohammed Omer was born in 1984 and was raised in the Rafah refugee camp at the southern end of Gaza near the border with Egypt. In 2008 this independent journalist and photographer became the youngest journalist ever to be awarded the Martha Gelhorn Prize for Journalism. He was cited as the "voice of the voiceless" and his reporting was described as a "humane record of the injustice imposed on a community forgotten by much of the...
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Event: 2010-04-06
Amiri Baraka, Living Legend, 2010-04-08
File — Container: Shelf 30, Box: 91, Folder: 14
Identifier: 30.91.14
Abstract
with Amiri BarakaAmiri Baraka was born Everett LeRoi Jones in 1934 in Newark, NJ. After leaving Howard University and the Air Force, he moved to the Lower East Side of Manhattan in 1957 and co-edited the avant-garde literary magazine Yugen and founded Totem Press, which first published works by Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, and others.He published his first volume of poetry, Preface to a Twenty-Volume Suicide Note, in 1961. Blues People: Negro Music in White America...
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Event: 2010-04-08
Encountering the Jewish Future , 2010-04-29
File — Container: Shelf 30, Box: 91, Folder: 15
Identifier: 30.91.15
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with Marc Ellis, Director
The Center for Jewish Studies, Baylor UniversityInfluenced by the Jewish ethical tradition and the dissonance of Jewish life after the Holocaust, with other Jews of Conscience, Professor Marc H. Ellis has sought to rescue the Jewish ethical tradition in the face of the demands of the 20th and now 21st Century. Professor Marc H. Ellis was born in North Miami Beach, Florida in 1952. He earned B.A. and M.A. degrees magna cum laude and Phi Beta...
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Event: 2010-04-29
A Voice for Peaceful Coexistence in the Middle East , 2010-05-03
File — Container: Shelf 30, Box: 91, Folder: 16
Identifier: 30.91.16
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with Dr. Mustapha Barghouti, Palestinian nationalist, a humanitarian, and a physician.Dr. Mustafa Barghouthi is a Palestinian nationalist, a humanitarian and a physician, who is nicknamed “the Alternative.” He is perceived by many Palestinians as the only viable alternative candidate and leader to both Hamas and the PLO. As a secular and democratic politician who has adamantly fought against the corruption that has engulfed the operations of the PLO in the West Bank, he has...
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Event: 2010-05-03
A Zen meditation on transforming ordinary life , 2010-05-08
File — Container: Shelf 30, Box: 91, Folder: 17
Identifier: 30.91.17
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with Karen Maezen Miller, Author and Zen Buddhist PriestAuthor and Zen Buddhist priest Karen Maezen Miller will present a program centering on creating inner peace to manifest outer peace. Her program will include a wisdom talk and instruction in a short period of seated meditation. Karen Maezen Miller is a sensei, or teacher, at the Hazy Moon Zen center in Los Angeles and a dharma holder in the Japanese Soto Zen lineage of the late Taizan Maezumi Roshi, one of the foremost Zen...
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Event: 2010-05-08
Three Rabbis Respond: Encountering the Jewish Future , 2010-05-13
File — Container: Shelf 30, Box: 91, Folder: 18
Identifier: 30.91.18
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Presented by Marc Ellis, participants in the panel: Rabbi Berry Gelman, United Orthodox Synagogues of Houston, Rabbi Steve Morgan, Congregation Beth Yeshuren, and Rabbi Roy A. Walter, Congregation Emanu El, and moderators: Gregory Kaplan and Anna Smith Fine Assistant Professor of Jewish Studies, Rice University
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Event: 2010-05-13
Song Salon: Fragments from Augustine the Saint , 2010-05-20 - 2010-05-21
File — Container: Shelf 30, Box: 91, Folder: 19
Identifier: 30.91.19
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with Kenneth Gayle, Tenor, Lauren Anderson, Dancer, William B. Parsons, Professor, Rice University Religious Studies Department
Presented by Divas World ProductionsThe chamber opera, Fragments from Augustine the Saint, depicts St. Augustine’s philosophical and spiritual musings – his “dark night of the soul” and inner transformation. This mystical journey in song and movement draws its texts from nine of Augustine’s major writings. Saint Augustine of Hippo lived during a time of...
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Event: 2010-05-20 - 2010-05-21
Compassion: The Key to Peace? , 2010-06-06 - 2010-06-27
File — Container: Shelf 30, Box: 91, Folder: 20
Identifier: 30.91.20
Abstract
The Reverend Betty Adam, Resident Canon Theologian of Christ Church Cathedral and representative of the Magdalen Community, will facilitate this series exploring compassion as an indispensable ingredient global peace.
Discussion and Reflection
Series Co-Sponsored by the Rothko Chapel and the Magdalen Community
Facilitated by The Reverend Betty AdamThe Rothko Chapel and the Magdalen Community present a series of reflections and dialogues on compassion throughout the...
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Event: 2010-06-06 - 2010-06-27
Environmental Care in Islamic Teachings , 2010-08-03
File — Container: Shelf 30, Box: 91, Folder: 21
Identifier: 30.91.21
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with Imam Muhammad N HaqImam Muhammad N Haq explores the key values of environmental care present in Islamic teachings and addresses the cultural and spiritual framing of the ethics of environmental care. Presenting an overview of Islamic cosmology and the call to stewardship, Imam N Haq elevates human obligations under Islamic law to protect the land, water, forests, and animals. Islamic teachings on preservation and protecting nature can complement secular approaches to...
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Event: 2010-08-03
Fall Programs , 2010
File — Container: Shelf 30, Box: 91, Folder: 22
Identifier: 30.91.22
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Contains materials related to public programs during the time period, except for Awards and Colloquia which have separate series.
Dates:
Event: 2010