Giving Freedom a World Voice

In recognition of the 40th anniversary of the death of Martin Luther King Jr.,

The Humanities Council of Washington DC

presents

"Giving Freedom a World Voice"

Dates: November 16th to 21st 2008

RSVP: 202 387 8391

Visit: www.wdchumanities.org

925, U Street NW
Washington DC 20001

Living in Harmony with the Earth - October 12th 2008

“A Silver Jubilee Celebration Event”

hosted by

the Zoroastrian Center of Metropolitan Chicago.

Time: Sunday October 12, 2008, 2:00pm – 6:00pm

Venue: Zoroastrian Center of Metropolitan Chicago,
Arbab Rustom Guiv Dar-e-Mehr,
8615 Meadowbrook Drive, Burr Ridge, IL 60527

Who: All are Welcome. This is a FREE event.

The Zoroastrian community cordially invites you to attend a forum,
Living in Harmony with the Earth.

A lunch will be generously provided and a special pre-event ceremony is open for your observance. This is a great opportunity for us to learn more about the Zoroastrian community and how their tradition embodies the wisdom of Living in Harmony with the Earth.


This event is part of the series of Community Celebrations and Forums, initiated by the Council for a Parliament of the World’s Religions (CPWR) to cultivate interreligious understanding in the religiously and ethnically diverse metropolitan Chicago area.

CPWR will present updated information about the upcoming 2009 Parliament event in Melbourne, Australia during the program. Please share the attached invitation with your family, friends, neighbors and colleagues. All are welcome!


To RSVP or for any further questions,
please contact: RSVP@parliamentofreligions.org,
Emily Chou (312) 629-2990 ext. 244



Emily Chou
Council for a Parliament of the World's Religions
70 East Lake St. Ste. 205Chicago, IL 60601USA
http://www.parliamentofreligions.org

Tel:1-312-629-2990 ext.244
Fax:1-312-629-2991

Symposium: Middle East Garden Traditions - April 27-28 2007

SYMPOSIUM
SYMPOSIUM
SYMPOSIUM
The Middle East Garden Traditions:
Unity and Diversity Question,
Methods and Resources in a Multicultural Perspective

April 27-28, 2007
Meyer Auditorium
Sackler/Freer Galley
Smithsonian Institution
National Mall, Washington DC

The symposium will discuss the long lasting history of interlinked garden traditions in the Middle East, since Roman times, and in the Islamic world up to the present. It will highlight cultural continuities, variations and differences between gardens from the Atlantic Ocean to the Indian plains.

Archaeologists and historians from the Mediterranean and Islamic worlds, Europe and the US, will bring together new sources for richly documented studies of gardens in India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran, the Ottoman world, Judea, Morocco and Moorish Spain. They will explore how conflicting influences operated, the form of cultural reception of gardens in religious and mystical societies, the political uses of gardens, and new directions of archaeological research. This conference will bring together new information and surprising results from the last fifteen years of research, at a remove from the clichés of Orientalism.
Program
Registration Form (PDF, 110 KB)


The symposium is cosponsored by Dumbarton Oaks and the Freer and Sackler Galleries.

Paid registration through Dumbarton Oaks is required.
To register, visit the Dumbarton Oaks Web site.

For more information:
please call Alison Maffry at 202- 339-6460
or email MaffryA@doaks.org.


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