Cultivating Emotional Balance
09/12/2009 @ 10:00 am – 5:00 pm – Saturday & Sunday, September 12 & 13, 2009 (10AM – 5PM) Registration Fee: $150.00(Free for MIT Students) Alan Wallace, Ph.D. a scholar and practitioner of Buddhism since 1970, has taught Buddhist theory and meditation throughout Europe and America since 1976. Having devoted fourteen years to training as a Tibetan Buddhist monk, ordained by H. H. […]
The Attention Revolution
09/11/2009 @ 6:00 pm – Speakers: Cilfford Saron and B. Alan Wallace [Open to General Public] Clifford Saron, Ph.D. is currently an Assistant Research Scientist at the Center for Mind and Brain at the University of California at Davis (http://mindbrain.ucdavis.edu), and faculty member of the UC Davis M.I.N.D. Institute. He received his Ph.D. in Neuroscience from the Albert Einstein […]
AHIMSA: A Tribute to Non-Violence & Humanity
04/30/2009 @ 5:30 pm – Through his operas, his symphonies, his compositions for his own ensemble, and his wide-ranging collaborations with artists ranging from Twyla Tharp to Allen Ginsberg, Woody Allen to David Bowie, Philip Glass has had an extraordinary and unprecedented impact upon the musical and intellectual life of his times. The operas Einstein on the Beach, Satyagraha Akhnaten […]
Ethics and Enlightened Leadership
04/30/2009 @ 2:00 pm – Thursday, April 30th 2009 @ 2:00PM Web Simulcast Venue (Overflow): Room 10-250 Talk is also available on MIT Cable.
Rethinking Human: The Emergence of Contemplative Neuroscience
04/29/2009 @ 7:00 pm – Speakers: Daniel Goleman Ph.D., Richard J. Davidson Ph.D. Event free and open to public. Daniel Goleman is an internationally known psychologist who lectures frequently to professional groups, business audiences, and on college campuses. Working as a science journalist, Goleman reported on the brain and behavioral sciences for The New York Times for many years. His […]
Contemplative Dimensions of Human Experience
04/28/2009 @ 7:00 pm – Event free and open to public. Fr. Thomas Keating, O.C.S.O. (born 1923) is a Trappist monk (Order of Cistercians of the Strict Observance) and priest. He was born in New York City, and attended Deerfield Academy, Yale University, and Fordham University, graduating in December 1943. He is a founder of the Centering Prayer movement and […]
Exile: The Wealth of Humanity
04/27/2009 @ 7:00 pm – Event free and open to public. Born in Mauritania, raised in Mali, trained as filmmaker in the Soviet Union and residing in France and Ethiopia, Abderrahmane Sissako will be Abramowitz Artist-in-Residence at MIT from April 19-May 2, 2009. While at MIT, Sissako will be investigating economic violence in Africa. Sissako’s films meditate on Africa’s position […]
The Case Against Perfection
04/27/2009 @ 7:00 pm – Michael J. Sandel is the Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of Government at Harvard University, where he has taught political philosophy since 1980. He is the author of Liberalism and the Limits of Justice (Cambridge University Press, 1982, 2nd edition, 1998), Democracy’s Discontent: America in Search of a Public Philosophy (Harvard University Press, […]
Learning to See in the Dark: The Roots of Ethical Resistance
04/24/2009 @ 6:00 pm – Event free and open to public. Carol Gilligan is an ethicist and psychologist currently appointed as a University Professor at the New York University. She received an A.B. in English literature from Swarthmore College, a masters degree in clinical psychology from Radcliffe College and a Ph.D. in social psychology from Harvard University. Her landmark […]
