Additional Conference Participation and Responsibilities
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Mirabai Festival Board, “Mirabai: Hindu Saint for a Global World.”
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, UCLA, Terrace Theatre.
October 3-6, 2002.
- Organizing Committee, “Celebrating Mahavira’s Teachings: The Lessons
of Ahimsa and Anekanta
for Contemporary.” California
State Polytechnic University, Pomona, January
19-20, 2002.
- Presider, “Mahagurus and Their Movements in a Global Context.”
American Academy of Religion,
Denver, Colorado, November 17-20, 2001.
- Convenor, Spiritual Practice:
A Hindu-Catholic Dialogue, LMU, November 3, 2001.
- Respondent, “Hindu Ethics,” American Academy of Religion, Nashville,
Tennesee, November 18-21, 2000.
- Convenor, Social Service and Spirituality: A Hindu-Roman
Catholic Dialogue, LMU, November 11, 2000.
- Coordinator, “Interreligious Perspectives on Yoga,”
Southern California Seminar on South Asia, LMU and
UCLA, October 27-28, 2000.
- Convenor, Women and Spirituality: A Hindu-Roman Catholic
Dialogue, October
23, 1999, LMU
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Coordinator, Ecology Conference, May15, 1998, LMU
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Convenor, "Jainism and Ecology Conference," Center for the Study of World
Religions, Harvard University, July 10-12, 1998.
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Co-Convenor, "Hinduism and Ecology Conference," Center for the Study of
World Religions, Harvard University, October 2-5, 1997
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Coordinator, "International Seminar on the Yoga Tradition," Southern California
Seminar on South Asia, Loyola Marymount University, March 15, 1997.
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Chair, "Religious Dimensions of Ecological Concern in South Asia," American
Academy of Religion, Annual Meeting, November 20, 1994.
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Panelist, "Robert Neville's Theology: Basis for Interfaith Dialogue?,"
American Academy of Religion, Annual Meeting, November 21, 1994.
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Chair, "The Comparative Theology Project," Theology/Religious Studies Conference
of the American Jesuit Colleges and Universities, November 18, 1994.
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Respondent, "Buddhist Notions of Health and Healing, Death and Dying" by
Raoul Birnbaum at "Religon, Medicine, and Healing: Traditional and Modern
Perspectives" conference at U.C.L.A., April 16th, 1994.
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Chair, Jainism Section, IXth World Sanskrit Conference, Sydney, Australia,
January 10-16, 1994.
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Respondent to paper by Ewert Cousins, "Bearers of the Wisdom Tradition:
Jesuit Colleges and Universities and the Global Challenge;" Participant,
"Responses of Jesuit Religious Studies/Theology Departments to the Environmental
Crisis" at the Theology/Religious Studies Conference of the American Jesuit
Colleges and Universities annual meeting, November 19 and 20, 1993, Washington,
D.C.
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Chair, "Defining the Christian Person," The Marymount Institute for Faith,
Culture and the Arts conference entitled "Crisis of Cultures and the Birth
of Faith," Loyola Marymount University, September 25 & 26, 1993 (also
served on organizing committee)
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Workshop Participant, "The College Core Curriculum in the Ecozoic Era,"
College Theology Society, Saint Mary's College, Moraga, California, June
1-3, 1993.
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Member, Organizing Committee, East Meets West Conference, Long Beach California,
April 8-10, 1993.
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Workshop Presentation, "Spiritual Practices and the Politics of Ecological
Survival," Working Group on Buddhist-Christian Dialogue and Ecology, Fourth
International Buddhist-Christian Dialogue Conference, Boston University,
July 30 - August 3, 1992
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Chairperson, "Ahis_ and Interreligious Dialogue" at the Fourth International
Congress of Ved_nta, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, April 2-5, 1992.
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Chairperson, "Hindu Temples in North America," Joint Panel of the Religion
in South Asia and North American Religions Sections, American Academy of
Religion annual meeting, Kansas City, 1991
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Director, 1991 Casassa Conference, LMU: "Ecological Prospects, Theory and
Practice"
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Director, 1990 Casassa Conference, LMU: "Jesuit Education in World Perspective"
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Chairperson, "Roots of Tantra," Co-sponsored by the Southern California
South Asia Seminar and the Western Conference of the Association for Asian
Studies, October, 1989
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Convener, World Religions Section, College Theology Society, 1988-90
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Co-Coordinator, "World Religions in the Theology Curriculum," College Theology
Society Teaching Workshop, LMU, May, 1988
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Coordinator, "The Mah_bh_rata: Performance and Interpretation," Conference,
South Asian Seminar, UCLA, October, 1987
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Participant, "Objectivity and Values in Jesuit Higher Education," Fairfield
University, June, 1987
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Respondent to paper by John Hick entitled "The Buddha's Undetermined Questions
and the Truth Claims of Different Religions," Southern California Philosophy
of Religion Society, Claremont, May, 1987
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Chairperson, Panel on Passage to India, American Philosophical Association,
Pacific Division, Los Angeles, March, 1986
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Participant, the VIth World Sanskrit Conference, University of Pennsylvania,
October, 1984
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Coordinator, IASWR Conference on Nonviolence in World Religious Traditions,
SUNY Stony Brook, May, 1984
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Discussant, Conference on Interreligious Dialogue and World Peace, United
Nations, New York, March, 1984
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Coordinator, "Religious Experience and Scientific Paradigms: An Interdisciplinary
Conference," IASWR and Center for Religious Studies, SUNY Stony Brook,
May, 1982
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Chairperson, Panel on Humanistic Perspectives, World Conference on Religions
and Man, Cochin, Kerala, India, November, 1981
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Coordinator, "Conference on S_khya-Yoga," IASWR, April, 1981
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