10/14/2012 @ 1:00 pm – Response by Fr. Thomas Keating and Br. David Steindl-Rast     Tenzin Gyatso, the XIVth Dalai Lama, is a moral figure and spiritual leader revered worldwide. He was born to a farming family on July 6, 1935 in a small village called Taktser in northeastern Tibet. He was recognized, in accordance with Tibetan tradition, at […]

10/13/2012 @ 3:00 pm – Event is free and open to public. Your generosity helps bring such high calibre programs to public. If you would like to support the work of The Center, please make a tax deductible contribution.     Brother David Steindl-Rast, O.S.B. was born in 1926 in Vienna, Austria. He studied art, anthropology, and psychology, receiving a […]

10/12/2012 @ 7:00 pm – Event is free and open to public. Your generosity helps bring such high calibre programs to public. If you would like to support the work of The Center, please make a tax deductible contribution.     Chade-Meng Tan (Meng) is a Google pioneer, an award-winning engineer, a New York Times bestselling author, a thought leader, […]

10/11/2012 @ 7:00 pm – Event is free and open to public. Your generosity helps bring such high calibre programs to public. If you would like to support the work of The Center, please make a tax deductible contribution.     Kentaro ToyamaKentaro Toyama (www.kentarotoyama.org) is a researcher in the School of Information at the University of California, Berkeley. He […]

07/02/2012 @ All Day – By Invitation Only. Enrollment Closed.  

05/01/2012 @ 4:30 pm – Director, Institute on the Environment (IonE), University of Minnesota Board of Advisors, The Dalai Lama Center for Ethics at MIT 12th Annual Henry W. Kendall Memorial Lecture   Jonathan Foley is the director of the Institute on the Environment (IonE) at the University of the Minnesota, where he is a professor and McKnight Presidential Chair […]

04/04/2012 @ 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm –   Shirin Ebadi is a lawyer, human rights activist, and the recipient of the 2003 Nobel Peace Prize for her work defending the rights of women and children in Iran, and advocating an interpretation of Islam which is compatible with democracy and human rights. She is the first Iranian and Muslim woman to receive the […]

03/09/2012 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm – George Barbastathis, Ian HutchinsonModerated by Dr. Ian Hutchinson [Open to General Public]     Rosalind PicardFounder and Director of the Affective Computing Research Group, MIT Media LaboratoryRosalind W. Picard is founder and director of the Affective Computing Research Group at the MIT Media Laboratory and co-director of the Things That Think Consortium, the largest industrial […]

03/01/2012 @ 7:00 pm –   Can mobile phones be used to improve rural healthcare?How do you design user interfaces for an illiterate migrant worker?What value is video technology to a farmer earning $1 a day?Interventionist projects in “information and communication technology for development” (ICT4D) seek to answer these kinds of questions, but the excitement has also generated excessive hype […]