Calendar

The Radcliffe Institute events calendar includes a full listing of lectures, conferences, exhibits, and other events. Unless otherwise noted, events are free and open to the public.

Freedom and a Burmese Buddhist

Physician and independent writer Ma Thida
RI '10 will present this year's Rama S. Mehta Lecture on November 16, 2009.

Ma Thida describes life under military dictatorship in Myanmar, formerly known as Burma. Using examples from her experiences as a medical doctor and a journalist, she discusses health care and the media under the current regime. She ponders the difficulties of living a free and just life based on Buddhist principles within this society, and describes how Buddhist practice saved her life while imprisoned. Could it be true, as she was told by her prison guard, that she was freer as a political prisoner than he was as her jailer?

The Cultural Impact of the Book of Revelation

Elaine Pagels, Harrington Spear Paine Foundation Professor of Religion at Princeton University, will deliver the first talk of this year's Dean's Lecture Series on December 3, 2009.

In this lecture, Elaine Pagels places the book of Revelation in historical context and discusses who wrote it and under what circumstances, and why it was included in the New Testament collection. She also sketches the book’s enormous cultural impact in art, religion, and politics over two thousand years.

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