Post Tagged with: "Becoming Human"

NOTE: Date changes: Chop Puja and Skeleton dance is now Tuesday, March 8. The lecture on Buddhism & a Course in Happiness is Wednesday, March 9. The Comparative Religions Club and Gawande Organization at Ohio University are sponsoring a visit from Tibetan Monks from Labrang Tashi Kyil Monastery in Dehradun, India. […]

The Gawande Speaker Series and the Becoming Human Theme Present “Epic Fail?: Comparing Myths, Monsters, and Metaphors Across Cultures,” an interdisciplinary roundtable discussion with Dr. Shubha Pathak of American University, on Thursday, March 12, at 7 p.m. in Ellis 111. This event is free and open to the public. Pathak […]

The Gawande Lecture Series presents Dr. Wendy Doniger on “Blasphemy and Censorship in India, Past and Present” on Monday Nov. 3, at 7 p.m. in the Baker Center Theater. Doniger’s talk is the third in the Gawande Lecture Series, a biannual series of lectures by distinguished scholars of Indian philosophy and […]

Courses and more information at the Becoming Human website. The phrase “Becoming Human” conjures up fragmentary images of primate prehistory in which our evolutionary ancestors made axe heads out of chipped flint and stared at cave walls transfixed by the shadows cast from their smoldering fires. But reflecting on ancestral […]