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Upcoming
Lectures
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* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
The Department
of Religion
Presents a lecture by Dr. Jan Willis
"Buddhism, Non-violence and the Rev. Dr. King"
Jan Willis (BA and MA in Philosophy, Cornell University; PhD in Indic and Buddhist Studies, Columbia University) is Professor of Religion at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut. Dr. Willis has studies with Tibetan Buddhists in India, Nepal, Switzerland and the US for four decades, and has tuaght courses in Buddhism for thirty-four years. She has published a number of books and articles on various topics in Buddhism, i.e., Buddhist meditation, hagiography, women and Buddhism, and Buddhism and race. Her most recent book was her memoir, Dreaming Me: An African American Women's Spiritual Journey (Riverhead, 2001).
In December of 2000, Time magazine named Willis one of six “spiritual innovators for the new millennium.” In 2003, she was a recipient of Wesleyan University’s Binswanger Prize for Excellence in Teaching. In September of 2005, Newsweek magazine’s “Spirituality in America” issue included a profile of her and, in its May 2007 edition, Ebony magazine named Willis one of its “Power 150” most influential African Americans.
Her memoir will be re-issued by Wisdom Publications in the Fall of 2008 as
Dreaming Me: Black, Baptist and Buddhist, One Woman’s Spiritual
Journey.
April 16, 2008, 4:00 PM
Room 213 Sanford Hall