Jan Willis

Professor of Religion

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Presentations and Lectures

Upcoming Lectures/Events:

1. March 28-30 th, 2008. “How to Become a Bodhisattva.” Weekend meditation workshop. Barre Center for Buddhist Studies (BCBS) Barre, MA.

Lectures and Presentations in 2007:

1. February 7, 2007. Gave lecture on “Waging Peace” at Cambridge Insight Meditation Center, Cambridge, MA.

2. May 21, 2007. Talk on my memoir, Choate Rosemary Hall, Wallingford, Ct.

3. September 6-9, 2007. Weekend of talks and lectures on Buddhism. GarDolma Ling, Dayton, Ohio.

4. September 23, 2007. “Who, then, is my Neighbor?: The Ethics of Interrelatedness.” Cornell University Vespers Homily. Ithaca, NY.

5. September 24, 2007. Lecture, “Mandala: Building a Sacred World” at Cornell University, Ithaca, NY.

6. October 9 th. Swope Endowed Lecture, University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA.

7. December, 2007. Guest Speaker, teacher and participant at the 5 th Annual Symposium on Buddhist Studies, Kathmandu University, Centre for Buddhist Studies, Kathmandu, Nepal.


Lectures and Presentations in 2006:

1. Lecture, “’Until you are what you ought to be’”; Remembering King, Rekindling Hope.” Yale University, Davenport College Master’s Tea, New Haven, Ct., January 16, 2006.

2. Lecture, “The Courage to Choose Peace,” Mercersberg Academy, Mercersberg, PA. January 20, 2006.

3. Lecture, “Waging Peace; Socially Engaged Activism,” Insight Meditation Community of Washington (D. C.), February 22, 2006

4. Sermon/Discussion, “A Baptist-Buddhist Reflects on Peace,” UU Society of East Manchester, Ct., February 26, 2006.

5. Lecture, “Dreams of Shangri-la; Tibetan Society, Myth and Reality,” SUNY- Buffalo, March 29, 2006.

6. Discussion leader: EAST Studies Majors’ Seminar Presenter, Wesleyan University, Freeman Center, April 4, 2006.

7. Lecture, “My Spiritual Journey,” Milton Academy, Boston, MA., April 19, 2006.

8. Lecture/discussion, “A Baptist-Buddhist Life,” Wesleyan, Buddhist House, April 11, 2006.

9. Weekend Workshop, “Women and the Feminine in Buddhism,” at Barre Center for Buddhist Studies, Barre, MA., September 22-24, 2006.

10. Convocation lecture: “The Ethics of Interrelatedness,” The Goodspeed Lectureship, Denison College, Granville, Ohio, October 3, 2006.


 

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