Asia
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Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 14 Collections and/or Records:
A Force More Powerful, a Century of Non-Violent Conflict , 2000-04-29 - 2000-04-30
File — Shelf 27, Box: 82, Folder: 62
Identifier: 27.82.62
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Film screening: “A Force More Powerful, a Century of Non-Violent Conflict”Houston Première of a new feature length documentary focusing on the activists who undertook non-violent change in British-ruled India, “Jim Crow” Southern USA, and apartheid South Africa.Rev. James Lawson, Methodist Minister from California who started the movement in the United States, was present for the film presentation.Place: Rice Media CenterParticipants The Rev....
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Event: 2000-04-29 - 2000-04-30
A Seminar on religions of Asia: Buddhism, Hinduism, Islam, Religions of China and Japan, 1988-04-09 - 1988-04-10
File — Shelf 27, Box: 80, Folder: 14
Identifier: 27.80.14
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Asia Society of Houston
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Event: 1988-04-09 - 1988-04-10
An Evening of Classical Indian Music, 2010-12-05
File — Shelf 30, Box: 92, Folder: 15
Identifier: 30.92.15
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Contains materials related to public programs during the time period, except for Awards and Colloquia which have separate series.
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Event: 2010-12-05
Burma: The World’s Least Known Humanitarian Crisis , 2007-10-11
File — Shelf 29, Box: 88, Folder: 31
Identifier: 29.88.31
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Presented by Jennifer Quigley
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Event: 2007-10-11
Classical Indian Music, 2008-12-05
File — Shelf 29, Box: 89, Folder: 54
Identifier: 29.89.54
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David and Chandrakantha Courtney
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Event: 2008-12-05
Clearing Context in U.S. – China Relations, 2005-11-14
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Peter Trubowitz
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Event: 2005-11-14
Gandhi’s Legacy: Gandhi and the Aesthetics of Nonviolence, 2014-10 - 2015-02
File — Shelf 31, Box: 95, Folder: 13
Identifier: 31.95.13
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: 2014-10 - 2015-02
Human Rights in Pakistan and the War of Ideas in Islam , 2008-03-06
File — Shelf 29, Box: 89, Folder: 15
Identifier: 29.89.15
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Husain Haqqani’s Thursday, March 6th Lecture To Be RescheduledDue to the current political situation in Pakistan, Husain Haqqani has had to cancel his lecture, “Human Rights in Pakistan and the War of Ideas in Islam,” scheduled for this Thursday, March 6 at 7:30. Haqqani sent us this message: “…I would have loved to come and deliver the talk at the Rothko Chapel, however, due to the changing situation in Pakistan I have had to travel to Pakistan in an emergency. I...
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Event: 2008-03-06
In a Moss Garden: Sounds of Japan, 2018-04-10
File — Shelf 32, Box: 241, Folder: 18
Identifier: 32.241.18
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In a Moss Garden: The Sounds of Japan
Performances by John Lane, Marty Regan, and Yoko Reikano Kimura
Pay What You Can, suggested value $20This program juxtaposed aspects of traditional Japanese musical aesthetics through the medium of newly composed works for Japanese instruments and percussion. The works on the program reflected several elements of Japanese culture including Zen Buddhism, haiku and tanka poetry, and the annual celebration of cherry blossoms. Hanami is the word...
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Event: 2018-04-10
Monkey King: Journey to the West, 2011-06-04
File — Shelf 30, Box: 93, Folder: 10
Identifier: 30.93.10
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Special Programs Workshop with Diane Wolkstein, storyteller.This special program for members features storyteller Diane Wolkstein who with movement, story, and the accompaniment of multi-instrumentalist, Jeff Greene, will relate the great Chinese epic Journey to the West, in which the Monkey King and the Tang Priest travel from China to India to obtain the Buddhist scriptures.Written by Wu Cheng'En in the sixteenth century and based on the historical Buddhist monk...
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Event: 2011-06-04