Pune Seminar “In Search of Gandhi's India: Teaching and Learning Non-Violence in a Globalized World"
Gandhi National Memorial Society organized for Fulbright-Hays visitors a seminar on Gandhiji titled "In Search of Gandhi's India: Teaching and Learning Non-Violence in a Globalized World." This seminar brought 14 US college, university and high-school teachers to India for five weeks.
The seminar was held on 28th July 2008 at Gandhi National Memorial Society, Aga khan Palace, Nagar Road, Pune. The US teachers first took a Tour of Aga Khan Palace.
Next Shobhana Ranade,welcomed the guests. A Lecture titled "Swaraj and Poetics: Gandhi and the South Asian Literary Imagination," was delivered by Dilip Chitre, poet, translator and winner of the national Sahitya Academy Award.
Post lunch, a Lecture on "Islam and Non-Violence," was delivered by Dr. Asghar Ali Engineer, Islam scholar and founder of Center for the Study of Secularism and Society Mumbai.
The seminar ended with "The Ultimate Goal of Life: Non-Violence," by Kalicharan Rauta,Retired Professor of Philosophy, University of Pune
The seminar was held on 28th July 2008 at Gandhi National Memorial Society, Aga khan Palace, Nagar Road, Pune. The US teachers first took a Tour of Aga Khan Palace.
Next Shobhana Ranade,welcomed the guests. A Lecture titled "Swaraj and Poetics: Gandhi and the South Asian Literary Imagination," was delivered by Dilip Chitre, poet, translator and winner of the national Sahitya Academy Award.
Post lunch, a Lecture on "Islam and Non-Violence," was delivered by Dr. Asghar Ali Engineer, Islam scholar and founder of Center for the Study of Secularism and Society Mumbai.
The seminar ended with "The Ultimate Goal of Life: Non-Violence," by Kalicharan Rauta,Retired Professor of Philosophy, University of Pune
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