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Akbar Ahmed, Ibn Khaldun Chair of Islamic Studies, American University,
Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution, and
former High Commissioner of Pakistan to Great Britain
Spotlight on Religion in the Middle East
Co-sponsored by Contact and the Department of Religion
27 November 2007

M. S. Nagaraja Rao, former director general, Archaeological Survey of India
The On-Going Preservation and Protection
of the UNESCO World Heritage Site at Hampi (Vijayanagar)
Sponsored by the International Education Office
8 November 2007

Donald R. Davis, Jr., University of Wisconsin, Madison
Matrilineal Adoption, Inheritance Law, and Rites for the Dead
among Hindus in Medieval Kerala
Sponsored by the University Lecture Series, the Department of Religion, and the Cultural Studies Colloquium
9 May 2006

Walter Andersen, Johns Hopkins University, School of Advanced International Studies
Hinduism in Politics: A New Charter for India?
Sponsored by the University Lecture Series and the Department of Religion
14 May 2003

Gary Tubb, Columbia University
The Truth Which Is Every Day Seen:
Science and Worldviews in Jaisingh's Astronomy
24 February 2003

Gananath Obeyesekere, Princeton University
Prophets of Theosophy:
The Spiritual Journeys of Madame Blavatsky and Colonel Olcott
The Root Lecture for 2001-2002
28 November 2001
Relevant link: Blavatsky Archives

Cynthia Atherton, Middlebury College
Flowers, Full Moons, & Festivals:
Celebrating Krishna through the Seasons in Vrindaban, India  
29 May 2001

Ainslie Embree, Columbia University 
India in the Contemporary World
21 March 2000